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RIZWAN AKBAR
ACCA (UK) Member, ICAEW(Finalist)
ADDRESS: RIYADH
RESIDENCE PERMITS:
Transferable IQAMA
Valid KSA Driving Licence
TELEPHONE: 00966 59 38 25 27 4
EMAIL:
rizwanakbar.acca@gmail.com
Skype :RIZWAN AKBAR ACCA
LINGUISTICS
English (Fluent)
Urdu (Native)
DOB: 20-Jun-1981
NATIONALITY: Pakistani
GENDER: Male
MARITAL STATUS: Single
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Financial Analysis
Financial Reporting
Strategic Planning
Project Mgt
Forecasting
Budgeting
Cost Control
PERSONAL SKILLS
Decision making
Result Oriented Approach
Sound Analytical Ability
Effective Leadership trait
HOBBIES
Fruit Gardening
Playing Cricket
RERERENCES
will be available on demand
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Aspire to work in an energizing corporate environment that could give me a
varied professional exposure matching with my academic competence. Aim
to become a Vital Success Factor of a Forward Looking Organization.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
Chartered Certified Accountant (Member)
ICAEW (Finalist)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (OCT 08 – Present)
Financial Accounting Consultant - Detail Experience sheet is also attached
Assistant Financial Controller at Al-Essa Group (May’2015-Present)
Assistant Financial Controller at Ultra Chemicals (DEC’13-MAR’15)
Audit Supervisor at Hasnain Ali chartered accountants (JUN’10 – NOV’13)
Accounts Supervisor at Olympia Textile mills LTD (OCT’08 to MAY’10)
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Excellent understanding/practical experience of local and
international accounting and auditing practices,
Sound knowledge of internal controls and compliance.
Ability to motivate and lead others in a project team environment.
COMPUTER SKILLS
ERP-Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains ( GP )
ERP-Tally
QuickBooks
Microsoft Office
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Graduation – Bachelor of Commerce
(University of the Punjab, Pakistan)
H.S.S.C - Intermediate
(Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Gujranwala, Pakistan)
S.S.C- Matriculation
(Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Gujranwala, Pakistan)
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Detailed Experience Sheet
Assistant Financial controller (May’15-Current)
The Alessa group was founded by Hamad Abdullah Alessa in 1935. Today Alessa group is known as the Alessa Industries
Company (AIC). Alessa is an integrated group in the business. It include distributing appliances, electronics and
manufacturing refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and air handling units, as well as contracting and installation of
personnel and commercial air conditioners and air handling units. The international department in Alessa supplies the
Middle East and Africa markets with a full range of air conditioners and other products, such as chest freezers,
refrigerators. AIC has exclusive brand distributorships and manufacturing brand under licence, marketing, service divisions
and R&D.
Assist in Planning & organizing financial accounting and reporting activities including treasury services, budgeting,
forecasting, financial analysis & Evolution, and financial information system.
Assist in developing and implementing the finance strategy to supports the corporate and business planning
Financial Accounting & Management Reporting
Prepare, Analyze & Interoperate financial statements including Detailed Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Statement, & other
accounting reports in accordance with defined policies & procedures and applicable accounting standard under local GAAP.
Assist and guide the accountants in preparing the financial statement.
Preparation of management reports (monthly, quarterly, etc.) from source data with evaluation of company performance &
project with financial highlights showing the progress towards company's goals.
Develop the effective and efficient internal control system to smoothly & appropriately run the departments of organization
& enhance the company performance.
Provide the training to junior- and mid-level corporate accountants & manage the team of specialists to provide an effective
financial management service to different divisions.
Budgeting, Forecasting, Cost Controlling & Financial Management.
Prepare yearly & quarterly budget pertaining to functional areas, with cooperation of departmental heads.
Oversee operating budgets and exercise controls to ensure expenditures do not exceed budgetary limits.
Evaluation of actual performance of company against approved Budget & project progress against budgeted cost sheet &
investigates the reasons for the variances & Report significance matters.
Preparing the CAPEX budget alongside control spending for effective ROI & ROA and preparation of financial justifications for
the CAPEX budget.
Analyze current cash flows and predict future trends & cash flow projections for financial planning.
Liaises with company banks for the Arrangement of Funds & Credit Facility in terms of loan, Letter of Credit, bank Guarantee,
Performance bound & other banking transactions.
Monitor the liquidity in banks accounts on daily basis, & mange the Daily working capital & liquidity planning.
Arranging new sources of finance ,
Ensure Monthly closing of accounts confirming that all Accrual, prepayment, bank reconciliations, all adjusting entries, have
been done accurately.
Ensure that day to day financial records & Transactions are maintained in compliance with Group policies & procedures &
internal control system.
Supervise & audit the accounting transactions to ensure the proper general accounting.
Ensure the timely Processing of payroll with funds arrangement.
Ensure that all records in connection with inventories have been updated.
Ensures that customers are invoiced timely to efficiently manage the working capital.
Ensures that discounts offered to customers & debtors are in line with financial policies of company.
Ensures that collection from debtor have been posted in the appropriate accounts to update the debtors
Ensures the monthly reconciliations of accounts receivable & accounts payables.
Liaising with External Auditor for the statuary audit of Companies.
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Assistant Financial controller (Dec’13-Mar’15)
Ultra Chemicals LLC is a globally active company with Headquarters in Missouri USA. In Pakistan Ultra Construction
Chemicals Pvt. Ltd” working as a Division of Ultra Chemicals LLC USA. It deals in all kinds of Construction Chemicals.
During ultra-chemicals I did the following tasks:
Prepare, Analyze & Interoperate financial statements including Detailed Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Statement, & other
accounting reports in accordance with defined policies & procedures and applicable accounting standard under local GAAP.
Experience of corporate planning process as well as conducting balance sheet reviews and reviewing general ledger account
reconciliations on periodic basis.
Strong Analytical skills which assists the Financial Controller in the preparation of Financial Statements(Statement of
Comprehensive Income, Financial Position, Cash Flows, Changes in Equity), Budgets, Variance Analysis for Financial
Implications and Cost Cutting Recommendations.
Assist in preparing feasibility of new products and investments
Financial Accounting & Management Reporting.
Fixed Assets: Responsible for the resolution of all the fixed asset’s issues in SAP and also supervising the monthly reporting
and daily transactions
Management reporting to Head office in United States of America (USA).
Proactively carrying out value-added analyses on financial and operational data e.g. monitoring and evaluating KPIs such as
inventory days, receivable days etc.
Maintaining good working relationships with other functions i.e. sales, marketing, production, supply chain etc. and
presenting financial perspective to non-finance people.
Trade receivables: Supervising all the transaction related to customers including CN/DN, provisions, aging analysis &
incentive verification.
Develop the effective and efficient internal control system to smoothly & appropriately run the departments of organization
& enhance the company performance.
Assist and guide the divisional accountants in preparing the financial statement.
Oversee operating budgets and exercise controls to ensure expenditures do not exceed budgetary limits.
Evaluation of actual performance of company against approved Budget & project progress against budgeted cost sheet &
investigates the reasons for the variances & Report significance matters.
Analyze current cash flows and predict future trends & cash flow projections for financial planning.
Liaises with company banks for the Arrangement of Funds & Credit Facility in terms of loan, Letter of Credit, bank Guarantee,
Performance bound & other banking transactions.
Monitor the liquidity in banks accounts on daily basis, & mange the Daily working capital & liquidity planning.
Ensure Monthly closing of accounts confirming that all Accrual, prepayment, bank reconciliations, all adjusting entries, have
been done accurately.
Ensure that day to day financial records & Transactions are maintained in compliance with Group policies & procedures &
internal control system.
Supervise & audit the accounting transactions to ensure the proper general accounting.
Ensure that all records in connection with inventories have been updated.
Ensures that sales are invoiced timely to efficiently manage the working capital.
Ensures that discounts offered to customers & debtors are in line with financial policies of company.
Ensures the monthly reconciliations of accounts receivable & accounts payables.
Liaising with External Auditor for the statuary audit of Companies.
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Audit Supervisor ( June’10 to Nov’13)
I worked as an Audit Supervisor in Hasnain Ali Chartered Accountants (HAC) and performed following tasks:
Conducted statutory audit and assurance assignments in accordance with the requirements of Firm Audit Methodology and various
pronouncements (including IFRS and ISA) and directives issued by national and international regulatory bodies, which included planning,
organizing, controlling, and reviewing the entire job.
Prepared stand alone and group consolidated Financial Statements.
Preparation of management letters to the clients highlighting weaknesses in controls
Review of work performed by Associates.
Preparation of Audit Plan and allocation of responsibilities to different team members.
Coordinating with Audit Manager for critical and technical areas. Addressing and resolving significant accounting and auditing
issues arose.
Identifying weaknesses / critical risks faced by organizations, addressing and discussing mitigating factors and giving final
suggestions to improve internal control system.
Obtaining an understanding of accounting and internal control system. Assessing the control risk at preliminary stage.
Coordinating with Senior Supervisor for audit plan.
Conducted detailed Financial Statement Analysis to devise the risk based audit strategies.
Obtaining sufficient appropriate audit evidence through substantive and analytical procedures and physical stock counts.
Analyzed the impacts of economic and business environment on business by using different models e.g. PESTEL & SWOT.
Commercial Accountant on Secondment from HAC (Jun’10 to Aug’11)
Pepsi Cola International Pakistan
Managing and working on the following
Performing self-assessment of key controls.
Preparation of monthly channel P&L with sales analysis for Strategic level decision making
Month end reporting and account reconciliations.
Monitoring sales/ supply chain teams queries (distributors/transporters claims).
Processing of claims by distributors and other suppliers.
Updating price lists and reviews of credit limits given to distributors.
Reporting on days in inventory of distributors and credit risk assessment review.
Price lists updation.
Recording of supplier invoices and customer receipts
Bank entries – receipts and allocation.
Accounts supervisor at Olympia Textile Mills LTD ( Oct’08 to May’10)
Compile financial information and prepares journal entries to produce accrual and cash based monthly financial statements
supporting schedules
Analyze financial information detailing assets, liabilities and capital and prepares balance sheet, profit and loss statement and
other reports to summarize & interpret current and projected company financial position for all internal external clients
Perform cash management duties, including wire transfers/check requests, deposit review, draws, reconciliation, cash
projections, monitoring cash accounts receivable balances
Review accounts payable, including invoices, contracts vouchers for accuracy
Ensure timely payments of real estate taxes, mortgages, and utilities
Monitor compliance with company procedures
Make recommendations regarding the accounting of reserves, assets, and costs, and improving the organizations accounting
operation
Coordinate year-end tax audit activities with third party preparer
Coordinate budget process with management staff
Review monthly tenant billings and rent rolls to make sure accuracy timeline.
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Other Skills
Financial Statements Analysis and Interpretation: During my practical experience tenure I have been able to understand the
significance of various account balances in measuring the position and performance of the enterprises and interpret the financial
statements for the purposes of stakeholders, lenders and government agencies. Further this training helped in Financial Statement
Analysis through preliminary and final analytics to perform variance analysis at different stages of audit
Moreover, I was involved in the following major assignments ranging from full scope statutory audits
and Non audit assignments during my stay at above audit firms etc.:
External Audit & Other Clients
Manufacturing:-
Pepsi Cola International Pakistan
Olympia Synthetics Pvt Ltd
Pattoki Sugar Mills
Baba Farid Sugar Mills
Ammar Textiles Pvt Ltd
Sarrah Textiles Pvt Ltd
Ellcot Spinning Mills Limited
Nagina Cotton Mills Limited
Prosperity Weaving Mills Limited
Royal Leather Pvt Ltd
Services:-
Citi Logistics Pvt Ltd
Regal Star Pvt Ltd
Smile Max Multimedia Pvt Ltd