Customer Service Sales

ATIQ 'ATTICUS' GHAFFAR

**** ** ****** ****** #**, TUALATIN, OR 97062

503-***-****, 503-***-**** (cell)

*******@*******.***

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OBJECTIVE: To build a long term career in an auditing role, preferably

with an innovative company with a strong reputation and team working

environment. Strengths include adaptability to different work

environments, working to tight deadlines, attention to detail, and clear,

effective communication at all levels of the workforce.

CERTIFICATIONS: Intending to sit for the CPA exams Financial Reporting and

Regulation in August 2011, and Business Environment and Auditing in

November 2011.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

EMERITUS april

2010 - Jan 2011

Front Desk Manager

Tualatin, Oregon

. Managing customer service and front desk responsibilities while

supporting Sales & Marketing and the Business Office.

. Managing the lobby area, documenting new resident information and

recording marketing information.

. Assisting with accounts payable and accounts receivable, maintaining

resident and employee files and updating the maintenance logbook. Key

requirement: attention to detail.

accountemps April 2008 -

January 2009

Accountant

Dallas, Texas

. Responsible for preparing monthly financial reports such as cash flow

forecast, balance sheet and income statement for an oil-gas

engineering support company.

. Managed the day to day accounts which included knowledge of blends

manufacturing with job costing, inventory costing and financial

controls.

. Knowledge of export sales, letters of credit, bills of lading and

transfer of title assets for revenue recognition was gained on the

job.

. Software used to record information and generate reports was

QuickBooks Pro.

University of Texas at Dallas September

2006 -January 2007

Assistant Auditor (voluntary work for internal audit class project)

Dallas, Texas

. UTD Internal Audit Project evaluated internal controls over cash and

investments and provided reasonable assurance that these accounts were

presented fairly in the financial statements in accordance with GAAP.

. Researched and worked within statutory compliance requirements to

document internal controls over cash receipts transactions.

. Identified key business risks through the operations risk assessment

and resulting questionnaire. The assessment included both qualitative

brainstorming and financial trends and ratio analysis.

. Developed the audit program based on tests of controls, observation

and reperformance of procedures, reconciling subsidiary cash receipts

ledgers to general ledger balances, testing postings from the journals

to the ledgers and identifying significant or unusual items within

account balances.

. Test of controls performed for each of the key financial assertions;

occurrence, completeness, authorization, accuracy, cutoff and

classification of transactions.

. Documentation of results on PWC developed TeamMate software.

Return Logistics July 2005 -

December 2005

Section Supervisor (summer job prior to commencement of full time study)

Swindon, England

. Supervised the sorting of goods into various categories and ensured

the efficient transfer of goods for delivery by introducing a color

coded manifest system

. Improved the organizational layout of warehouse space to facilitate

inventory turnover.

BT Rolatruc December 2002 -

October 2004

Staff Accountant/Commercial Control Assistant

Warrington, England

. Prepared journal entries, general ledger account reconciliations,

month end closing for accruals.

. Determined cost of inventory based on standard costing of components.

Verified that cost variances were within reasonable limits.

. Assisted the Controller in the year end financial audit and closing

out the temporary accounts.

. Participated in the development of the materials, labor and overheads

operating budget by determining standard materials and labor costs for

the planned volume of sales, and identifying significant variances in

actual costs of budgeted items.

. Invoicing projections, reporting directly to the Board.

. Administered the sales force commission schemes and updated the Price

Manual.

SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE

Accounting Clerk position held between June 2001 and November 2002,

responsibilities included:

. Preparing monthly income statement and bank reconciliation.

. Recording of Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.

. Auditing differences between software sub-ledger accounts and General

Ledger at month end.

. Classifying accounts into various categories based on payment

schedules.

Quality Systems Designer for an automotive engineering company in January -

August 2000

. Researched and planned the implementation of ISO 9000 and initiated

quality review meetings.

Front Operations Supervisor for large department store, June -November

1999.

. Supervised front end cashier operations.

. Transferred cash into safe.

EDUCATION:

MS Accounting & Information Management

December 2007

University of Texas at Dallas

MBA Masters in Business Administration

March 2002

University of Aston, England

BS Materials Science

July 1998

University of Manchester, England

Upper 2nd Class (ranked in top 25th percentile)

SKILLS:

Microsoft Office. Fluent in Excel and PowerPoint. Excel includes

familiarity with pivot tables, vb lookups and scenario analysis.

RELEVANT TRAINING:

Attended an enterprise initiative 'Key skills in Industry', sponsored by

companies based in Coventry, England. Quality Management course in ISO9000

held by British Standards Association.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Internal Auditing Education Partnership (IAEP)

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