-  Manage and supervise day-to-day accounting operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, and financial reporting.
-  Ensure adherence to UK accounting standards, regulations, and statutory requirements.
-  Invoicing to various London councils on behalf of client (Apex Housing Solutions, UK). Devising strategies to recover monies in a timely manner.
-  Managing invoice discounting and running finance arrangements with Barclays UK on behalf of client.
-  Prepared, Monitored and analyzed financial data to identify trends, variances, and areas for improvement & optimization of processes.
-  Preparation of VAT returns on a periodic basis.
-  Preparation of budgets, financial plans, and cash flow projections.
-  Exercised hands-on approach to maintain books of Accounts, periodic closing, and management reporting.
-  Lead and mentor a team of accountants, providing guidance, support, and training. Assign and delegate tasks, set performance objectives, and conduct regular performance evaluations.
-  Managed Customer relationships, aging analysis, and resolution of reconciliation issues.
-  Steered efforts towards managing the risk identification & control development, deployment, and evaluation of internal controls.
-  Submission & preparation of accurate quarterly and annual withholding statements, Advance Tax & Annual statuary tax returns as per tax Laws, responding to legal notices and inquiries by tax department of Pakistan.
- Submission of statuary returns and statements with relevant registrar of companies (SECP)

Utilize acute finance and accounting domain knowledge to manage the financial Budgeting & Bidding for potential and ongoing Program, also perform external financial & internal management reporting & decision-making assistance to management.
Key Contributions:

Ensured corporate compliance of companies’ regulatory authority as well as with the Taxation laws in Pakistan.
Exercised hands-on approach to maintain books of Accounts, manage bank position and funds for business running.
Steered efforts towards managing the risk identification & control development, deployment and evaluation of internal controls.
Provided complete analytical support to external auditors’ team and stakeholders conducting annual financial audit of company.
Ensured the security, relevancy and applicability of accounting software, supervised & supported subordinates in classifying expenses into appropriate account head and entering into accounting software.
Assisted subordinates for maintaining records related to book keeping, expenses, funds, partnership ventures; prepared monthly accounting report and reporting to Country Director and Global Office in precise and timely manner.
Trained all staff in finance matters as appropriate so that there is uniformity of understanding within the organization in terms of Budgeting, Forecasting, Fund Requests, Compliance, Internal Audits etc.
Provide Capacity Building training to Accounting personnel of Partners, ensure timely recording of all accounting transactions in General Ledger, also monitor and verify the Partner Organization’s account etc.

Built collaborative rapport with the ERP Development team, Finance & Supply chain department, ensure strict withholding income taxes and sales tax compliance and filed timely tax returns.
Key Contributions:

Maintained and monitored cash controls, managed bank positions/funds as well as prepare bank reconciliation for all bank accounts
Formulated payable budget and posted accruals, performed suppliers and customer reconciliation and ageing analysis.
Rendered a keen eye for details to identify risk and developed controls, also deployed and evaluated internal controls.
Generated consumption reports, monthly closure of books and facilitated the process of annual financial audits.

Efficiently streamlined and supervised complex payables pre-audit. function and delivered advice to assure maximum payback to the entity or process under review, also prepared payable budget and posting accruals accordingly.
Key Contributions:

Developed, deployed and monitored SOPs for accounts payable & receivables also manage large team by planning, executing, and completing stages of audit engagement planning based on understanding of the entity and assessment of business-related risks.
Facilitated in conducting annual financial audit, organized suppliers and customers reconciliations & aging analysis. Generated audit reports to assess risk factors and identify high-risk areas within the organization.
Managed suppliers and customers ageing analysis, established great rapport and professional relationship with clients and staff members, designed procedures, schedules, priorities, and programs to accomplish audit objectives and goals.

Served as a key member of deployment for Oracle R12, conducted payables pre-audit, also performed regional expenses variance analysis.
Key Contributions:

Participated in development of policies, deployment and monitoring of these policies also defined procedures for inventory management (inventory budgeting, inventory movement planning, inventory returns management and funds budgeting.
Served as a resource in all efforts to reconcile the branches collection as well as operational bank accounts as well as ensured fixed assets management (physical tagging, categorizing, charging depreciation, maintaining fixed assets registers).