TO:
The Hiring Manager
FROM: Naveed
Paracha
Job Ref: position in your company.
Dear
Sir/ Madam,
I am interested in pursuing an opportunity with your esteemed company, I believe that my education, skill-set, and experience makes me a suitable asset to your organization. I am a highly organized and self-driven individual, passionate about developing my career in the field of Accounting and finance. My commitment can be gauged from the fact that I am an accredited holder of an MBA in Accounting and Finance coupled with on-going ACCA Level 2 and a BSC in applied Accounting and Finance from London School of Economics and Political science. Possessing more than 8 years of work experience in diverse sectors with multiple companies in financial role. I have gained an extensive insight within this field. My key accounting and financial competencies include, but are not limited to, maintaining financial records, managing budgets, risk assessments.
I am an accomplished communicator, with excellent organizational, decision making, and time management skills and have a proven track record of consistently meeting and regularly surpassing demanding performance goals.
I have attached my resume for your review and would be thankful for an opportunity to meet with you in the near future to further discuss my application. Sincerely,
Naveed Paracha
t:
N avee d Paracha
Senior Accountant / Risk Management Specialist
CO N TACT
Buheirah Cornish, Sharjah.
United Arab Emirates, Post: 85241 DXB
t: +971-**-***-**** e: *************@*****.**.**
PORTFOLIO
MBA in Finance and Accounts.
Scored 80% from Himalayan University
BSc Applied Accounting and Finance
London School Of Economics And Political Science
ACCA (Association of Certified Chartered Accountants) Completed 8 papers (On-going)
Accountant
• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Establish tables of accounts, and assign entries to proper accounts.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Develop, implement, modify and document record keeping and accounting systems, making use of current cost saving technology while setting up internal control procedures.
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
• Reviews accounts payables and weekly check runs.
• Review receivables to minimize risk exposure and to ensure payments are received as per the contractual agreement.
• Assist with internal and assisting with external audit, as per the regulations. Credit Control/ Accounts Receivable.
• Responsible for collecting all receivables outstanding from the debtors by effectively managing a portfolio assigned to ensure the DSO is in line with company’s targets.
• Worked directly with Clients to develop a sustained relationship and to ensure continued satisfaction, thus, generating future profits.
• Provide a competent, courteous, efficient & proactive after sales customer service to showcase and enhance company’s goodwill, while ensuring that customers strictly adhere to the credit terms prescribed while managing sales for the company.
• Managed and issued documents such as invoices, SOAs and other statements/ reports.
• Identify problems, recommend remedies & ensure timely follow up to resolve the problems & issues thus ensuring premium after sales customer service and achieve positive outcomes.
• Creating Invoices and ensuring they are delivered within the time frame in line with the credit policies. EXPERTISE &
NEXT CH ALLENGE
Naveed Paracha
Senior Accountant / Risk Management Specialist
EDUCATION
RAH shipping and
Logistics
Aug 2013 - July 2018
Transguard Group
Feb 2011 - July 2013
Credit Controller
• To Build and maintain an accurate monthly collections report., bad debts/Reserves across U.A.E
• Hold meetings with Account Managers and Project Managers to discuss issues pertaining to unpaid invoices and resolve issues, gather info to update LOG fine accordingly highlighting meeting minutes, dispute results and actions required.
• Deal with all relevant issues with agreements, required amendments to contracts, handled clients commissions and With-holding tax while managing commercial aspect of the company ensuring impeccable service is being provided and has been delivered in stipulated time period as per the contracts and meeting project managers to conduct risk assessment.
• Handling Bank guarantee's and Letters of credit.
• Create an early warning system to alert all relevant parties of debt on risk as per RESERVE/Provisions status prior to stopping any services being provided.
• Maintain and ensure all legal commercial licenses and certificates are valid for creating Vendor accounts Online.
• Ensuring bad debt provisions do not exceed financial targets set by the department.
• Resolve all relevant issues directly with the clients and ensure smooth cash flow/ operating cash is always maintained.
• Managing all legal aspects of decision making related to bounce-cheques, court cases and negotiations. KONE Middle East
Dec 2018- Current
Specialize in finding loophole in the system and implementing new policies and procedures for a smooth work flow be it with contracts or financial data.
Looking forward to gain further insight in finance where theory links with practical experience.