Accountant / Senior Accountant

Mehtab Asghar Zain (ACCA)

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mobile/Whatsapp: +(966-**-***-****

Email: ***************@*******.***

Skype: mehtabasgharzain

Visa Status: Transferable Iqama

Ability to Join: Immediately

To engage in a career that will allow for progress in terms of expertise, socio-economic development, and innovation through exposure to new ideas for professional growth, as well as growth of the company.

I have around 5 years of experience in accountancy profession. I qualified ACCA (UK based) exams in 2011 and started my career with an audit firm in Pakistan. Besides getting professional experience I continued my professional education and took ACA exams held under ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants In England & Wales). I got ACCA membership in 2014.While working with audit firm I worked in the book keeping and internal audit department of the firm. I also took little part in statutory audits in shape of year end stock counts & cash counts for listed & non listed companies. In March 2015 I moved to Saudi Arabia and since then I am working as accountant in Saudi Emirates Fraternity Co. Ltd. trading in electronics & home appliances.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION:

ACCA Member

ACA (UK) Finalist

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND;

LEVEL

YEAR

SUBJECT

BOARD/UNIVERSITY

MARKS

DIVISION

B.COM

2008

COMMERCE

PUNJAB UNIVERSITY

972

1ST

1.Zahid Jamil & Co. Chartered Accountants (Pakistan)

March 2011 – 2014 (3.5 Years)

Position: Internee (March 2011 – September 2014)

2.Saudi Emirates Fraternity Co. LTD. (Nikai Group, Saudi Arabia)

March 2015 – Present (2 Years)

Position: Accountant

1.My work experience as internee is as follows (March 2011 – September 2014) ;

I worked in the management consultancy department of the firm. During the period I worked on different assignments covering the below areas

1.Internal Audit Assignments

2.ERP Assignments

3.Book Keeping Assignments (Data Entry)

Areas

Expertise

Internal Audit

I have carried out internal audit and internal control assignments of various clients. The related experience includes:

Study of accounting & internal control system of the entity and make recommendations to the management for its improvements.

Maintenance of internal control systems

Preparation of monthly and annual financial statements in MS Excel

Checking the accuracy and authorization of documents.

Checking and approving all types of payment vouchers on daily basis.

Preparation of proposed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for approval by management.

Checking compliance of SOPs approved by the management.

Preparation of monthly internal audit reports for management.

Supervising monthly stock-taking of inventory

Managing client requirements and entertaining requests

Reviewing ageing reports of creditors/debtors to ensure that the payments are paid/received within the credit period agreed in the contract and to report thereon.

Reviewing forecast of funds to ensure payment to/from creditors/debtors is paid/collected within the credit period agreed or to arrange the necessary finance in time and to report thereon

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

I have had a life cycle implementation experience of customized “Enterprise Wide System” (ES) software including business process re-engineering and system development. I was involved in:

Obtaining understanding of the business processes through meetings with the client

Performing business process mapping with ES system and business process re-engineering and conducting GAP analysis thereof

Conceiving design of ES system and complete documentation of ES system conceived including redesigning of chart of account, user interfaces and reports

Configuring the ES system in accordance with the clients’ business processes

Providing user trainings of ES modules

Implementing the ES modules

Acting as liaison between technical staff and system users for reports development

Coordinating with the technical and support personnel for solving client system related and configuration problems

I was involved in the implementation of the following modules of ES at clients:

Material Resource Planning

Purchases & Payables

Receivables

Fixed Assets

Inventory module

Human Resource

Significant Audits:

During my time as an internal auditor, I have gained valuable business experience in the Textile & Garments (Yarn to export), manufacturing, rice industry and different Non-profit organizations. Outlined below are descriptions of some of major assignments for which I was allocated the role from audit junior to supervisor.

Areas

Clients

Operations

Internal Audit

Government & Semi-Government Organisations

Pakistan Textiles Exporters Association

Verification of Rebate Cases

Faisalabad Dry Port Trust

Management of Trust Assets

Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers Association (North Zone)

Management of Export Doc.

WAPDA (Water & Power Development Authority Pakistan) Employee Corporate Hosing Society Gujranwala

Marriage hall, College, Hospital and revenue from society

Profit oriented organization

Kay & Emms (Pvt) Ltd

Garments from knitting to export

Ideal Rice Mills (Pvt) Ltd.

From paddy to export

Pagel Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd.

Construction Chemicals

Aalaa Processing (Pvt) Ltd.

Fabric processing

Amil Exports (Pvt) Ltd

Socks from knitting to export

Shangrila Oil & Distributions

Oil Distributor

Diamond Distributors

Walls Ice Cream Distributor

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Pagel Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd.

Construction Chemical Manufacturer

Selecto Mobiles

Mobile Phone Wholesaler & Retailer Chain

Tile Select

Ceramics Retail Chain

Book Keeping(Data Entry)

Participating in annual budgets.

Preparation of monthly, semi-annual, annual financial statements

Ensuring data entry is done within the timescales and deadlines agreed by management with the clients to close books of accounts in a timely manner and Financial statements can be compiled and finalized.

Incorporating the necessary accruals and provisions to close the books of accounts.

Inquiring of management in case of unusual transactions and collecting management representations on that.

Notifying the control weaknesses during the data entry and making recommendations to the management to improve the internal control system.

Preparation of payables and receivables reconciliations.

Preparation of Bank Reconciliation Statements.

Preparation of weekly, monthly & year end bank reconciliations

Handling banking transactions.

Handling petty cash

2.My Work experience as Accountant in Saudi Emirates Fraternity Co. is as follows;

Accountant

Participating in annual budgets.

Shipments costing

Preparation of monthly, semi-annual, annual financial statements

Preparation of monthly bank reconciliations

Preparation of inter-company reconciliations

Preparing monthly reconciliations of employee's accounts and proposing the deductions from the payroll.

Preparing collection targets as per customers ageing reports.

Daily Analysis of actual sales & collection against budgeted and target figures and reporting to senior management.

Handling all the banking activities and ensuring that all the cheques are collected timely, deposited into the bank and entered in the system.

Ensuring that amount collected is accurately bifurcated between the branches as per the detail provided by the customers and outstanding invoices are properly matched.

Calculating rebates based on monthly sales and ensuring that net of rebates sales are excluded and that necessary provisions are made in the books of accounts.

Keeping record of customer's securities and replacement of securities to ensure validity or for consideration of enhancement in credit limits.

Handling credit insurance work, ensuring that all the defaulted invoices are reported timely to insurance company and filing claim documents and fulfilling insurance company's requirements.

Reconciling shipments quantity with the GRN and making necessary adjustments for short receiving or damaged items.

Handling banking transactions and ensuring all the post dated cheques are deposited on their respective dates and that the cash is deposited in the bank same day.

Handling accounts payables and arranging payment for suppliers

Conducting scrap count on monthly basis.

Ensuring the accuracy of prices in sales returns and ensuring all the sales returns are incorporated in the system.

Conducting invoice audit on monthly basis to ensure all invoices are properly acknowledged by the customers either by stamping on the invoice or by providing GRN for the same.

Handling petty cash

Accounting Package & Software’s

Skill Level

Standardized & Bespoke Oracle Modules

SAGE X 3

Excellent

Intermediate, Receiving Training

FoxPro

Excellent

Microsoft Word (VLookup, Pivot Table)

Excellent

Microsoft Excel

Excellent

Microsoft Power Point

Excellent

Nationality

Pakistani

D.O.B

3rd March 1988

Marital Status

Driving License

Married

Saudi Arabia / Pakistan

Languages

I have very good command over verbal and written communication in English. I can understand some Arabic but I am a beginner in terms of speaking.

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