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Bookkeeper

Location:

Toronto, ON, M4P 1K2, Canada

Posted:

March 19, 2017

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ABDUL NASIR

*** ******** ****** ****, #* Rear Toronto, ON M4P 1K2

Over 30 years group financial accounting and bookkeeping experience in varied industry area including

full cycle accounting, month end and year end consolidated reports, balance sheet reconciliation, fixed

asset maintenance, budgeting and forecasting, payroll tax, cash flow reporting and variance analysis.

Summary of Qualifications

Progressive experience preparing and providing financial information and improving IS in a large and

medium corporate environment, specializing in areas of tax issues, and regulatory requirements

Strong knowledge of accounting principles and practices, Canada Revenue Agency Regulatory

requirements, and analysis of business needs combined with the ability to support corporate initiatives

and organizational structures

Highly motivated and dedicated individual with strong analytical, mathematical, problemsolving,

results and taskoriented, deadline oriented and time management skills

Maintained mainframe fiscal accounting system, identified, analyzed and resolved accounting

discrepancies, as they arose

Designed accounting structure in charting of accounts for new products, testing all new accounting

structures before being implemented into the chart of accounts and resolve all problems with the

programmers

Conferred effectively with system specialists and programmers to correct system accounting problems

as they arose

Experience in all phases of accounting as well as excellent communication, interpersonal and team

work skills achieved by working in a customer service environment

Core Competencies

Financial Forecasting

Managed all preparatory work that went into the production of Companys budget forecasting

Collaborated with budget administrators, making sure projected expenses were provided on time for

budget preparation

Planned, organized, set priorities and developed strategies for quarterend and yearend reporting in

order to meet tight deadlines by obtaining information and estimates under very tight time constraints

Financial Statement Preparation

Prepared financial statements, corporate tax returns, and regulatory reports by utilizing data in the

final adjusted trial balance

Collaborated with external auditors at quarterend and yearend to explain processes and adjustments,

including all relevant reconciliations to substantiate the numbers in the financial statements and

regulatory reports

Worked with auditors from OSFI and Revenue Canada during periodic audits to explain processes and

reconciliations to support the numbers filed with those authorities

Financial Computer Skills

ABDUL NASIR

254 Eglinton Avenue East, #2 Rear Toronto, ON M4P 1K2

CDI ACCPAC(DOS), AS400, MAS90, JD Edwards, Oracle, QuickBooks Premier, Simply

Accounting, Lotus 123, Ceridian Payroll, Crystal Reports, MS Office Suite: Word, Excel and Internet

Supervisory

Supervised, trained, manage and provide guidance to employees on an ongoing basis, evaluated their

performance and recommend areas of improvement

Education

CMA Preprofessional (Completed all to 4 level and 1 of fifth level) Toronto, ON

CGA Professional Program (Completed all to 4th level and 1of fifth level) Toronto, ON

Life Insurance Accounting Course, Life Institute of Canada Toronto, ON

Bachelor of Arts (Economics) Carleton University Ottawa, ON

Accounting Diploma (2 year) Algonquin College Ottawa, ON

GCE O Level (England) Guyana, SA

College of Preceptors (England) Guyana, SA

W o r k E x pe r i e n c e

Bookkeeper (Exploration Accounting) Dec 2004 Jul 2013

Marrelli Support Services Inc. Toronto, ON

Process all aspects of the accounting cycle to the adjusted trial balance

Processes of cash receipts and cash disbursements, accounts payable and receivable, vendor payments

and vendor analysis, bank reconciliations, account reconciliations and analysis, analysis of finance

raised in the capital open markets for flow through project expenditures for the purpose of the

calculation of X.ii.6 tax

Complete and post all the adjusting entries to trial balance and close books at quarterend and yearend

for financial statement preparation

Liaise with external auditors at quarterend and yearend audit, provide backup documents, account

reconciliation and analysis, responding to audit queries, and provide information to substantiate final

numbers

Liaise with clients, providing information on cash flow position, analysis and reconciliation of

accounts to help clients to make day to day decisions.

Accounting Analyst (Contract) Jul 2002 Jul 2003

ABDUL NASIR

254 Eglinton Avenue East, #2 Rear Toronto, ON M4P 1K2

Sun Life Financial Clarica Waterloo, ON

Solely responsible for the conversion of the Chart of Accounts from JD Edwards system to mirror the

Sun Life Chart of Values

Facilitate the feeding of Clarica financial information to SLF Galaxy System for the purpose of

Financial and Statutory reporting

Maintain and enhance the flow of financial information by completing mapping changes

Reconciled the daily feeds from the JD Edwards system to Galaxy by monitoring and reconciled

various integrity reports to make sure there were no errors before and after transfer of data

Work on quarterly OSFI conversion so yearly statutory reporting can be completed more efficiently

and on a timely basis

Senior Accountant / Financial Analyst Mar Oct 2001

Concord Transportation Inc. Concord, ON

Reconciled and analyzed major bank accounts, liaised with banks personnel, identify discrepancies

and implement corrective action

Assisted with monthend closings, complete monthly journal entries, post and update general ledger

and complete analysis of financial statements

Reviewed, analyzed, and balance financial statements and budgets with source data

Senior Accountant (Contract) Aug 2000 Mar 2001

Southam Inc. (Newspaper and Magazine) North York, ON

Reconciled and analyzed various complex major bank accounts, identify variances and discrepancies

and took corrective action

Prepared remittance for payroll benefits, allocate and remit benefits and taxes to relevant authorities,

and reconciled payroll accounts

Journalize payroll activities and benefits monthly to update general ledger

Senior Accountant (Contract) Feb Aug 2000

Tigertel Services Inc. (Telecommunications) Etobicoke, ON

Prepared daily cash flow reports, coordinate and prepared weekly cash forecasting for decision

making purposes by senior management

Reconciled and analyzed all bank accounts for the parent company, and main bank accounts for all

subsidiary companies

Organize and complete monthend closings and journalize all monthly transactions and adjustments

ABDUL NASIR

254 Eglinton Avenue East, #2 Rear Toronto, ON M4P 1K2

Prepared yearend working papers file for external auditors and senior management

Financial Analyst (Contract) Jul Oct 1999

Manulife Financial, Affinity Market Section North York, ON

Prepared and analyzed budgets and various sales reports for variances in key market sectors

components

Financial Accountant Nov 1979 May 1999

North Union Life Insurance Company (Currently BMO Insurance) Toronto, ON

Worked in various progressive positions within this organization mainly involving the

preparation, analysis, review and verification of all financial statements, head-office

consolidation reports package for the Canadian entity operation, statutory reports, and

corporate tax filings.

Implementation of a new enhanced, upgraded IT system to provide reliable accounting

information for preparation of financial statements and statutory reports in a timely and

efficient manner under very tight time constraints.

Tested current accounting system structures to make sure that there was smooth

integration of accounting for new products implementation.

Liaise with external and Revenue Canada auditors providing reconciliation, analyses,

documentation, and explanation of procedures.

Supervised, trained and motivate accounting team to enhance performance.

References Available Upon Request

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