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Waqas ul Hassan

Accounts, finance & audit professional w

United Arab Emirates

Work Experience

  • Senior Project AccountantFull Time

    RAK Hospitality Holding LLC

    May 2017 - Present -8 yrs, 1 month

    United Arab Emirates

    • Job Details: Book keeping, banking transaction and passing journal vouchers for accurate financial recording  Exercise of control over GL functions. This includes but is not limited to monthly, quarterly and annual closing. Ensured closure of books within agreed corporate timetable and accuracy of reporting with minimal material adjustments.  Preparation of management and financial accounts. Support to business on financial reporting matters with a view to manage audit risks, IFRS compliance  Project budgeting and reporting. Take the lead in the preparation and consolidation of annual budgets and regular forecast update.  Project expense management, forming budget variations, developing reasons for variance. This resulted in increased efficiency by 25% and also reduced costs by 10%.  Bank reconciliation, cash and bank management. Regular and accurate maintenance of reconciliations resulted in 0% errors in last 03 months.  Payroll Management, ensuring timely preparation of payroll with relevant income tax and/or other deductions and overtime calculation  Inventory management: recording, accounting and utilization record. As a result, missing inventory items are reduced to 3% of total inventory cost.  Correspondence with branch offices for project performance.  Assist in the development of strategic plans for operational activity. Implement and manage operational plans. Attrition rate was not more than 3%.  Keeping up with procurement policies and ensuring timely arrangement of documentation and all relevant requirements  Developing funds requirement / expense allocation  Payables management/ invoice processing  Develop customized reports to be presented to higher management and support fellow departments  Developing and ensuring internal control document and process.  Ensuring controls stand with the smooth and transparent function of activities, devising new ones to replace error by 100%.  Examine business processes to manage the audit risk and address internal control issues, if any. Identify process issues, if any, arising from reviews, identify audit / control risks and setting right with stakeholders’ involvement.  Query handling and monitoring.  Evaluating procedures and Individuals performance to suit departmental & organizational goals  Dealing with staff; assisting team to achieve efficiency, effectiveness and accuracy
  • Senior Manager Finance & AccountsFull Time

    Akbar Associates Group of Companies

    Feb 2012 - May 2017 -5 yrs, 3 months

    Pakistan , Islamabad

    • Job Details: Slashed payroll & administration cost by negotiating, maintaining and monitoring contracts. This helped in achieving reduction in costs by 20%. Conducting sub-recipient monitoring of contracted partners; and provide oversight to program and fiscal audits.  Responsible for financial planning, monitoring, reporting and the development of policies, systems and processes across the organization. Increased organizational efficiency by 5%, hence 20% more profits for the year.  Handle entire financial and cost accounting role, i.e. accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, treasury, forecasting and budgeting.  Managing organizational cash flow and forecasting and oversight of all bank accounts and investment vehicles to maintain adequate working capital requirements  Prepare Group Treasury Report, Exceptions Report, Cost centre Report and any other adhoc reporting requirements of Senior Management.  Achieved 95% accuracy of financial transactions by ensure accurate calculation of all debt service obligations and posting of monthly accruals. Monthly reconciliation of Interest, fees and loan balances.  Ensure the smooth and adequate flow of information within the company to facilitate other business operations along with managing schedules and deadlines  Ensuring that the company's relevant risks identified by the company's Risk Management are incorporated into the internal audit plan, internal audit execution and working papers. Hence, risks were mitigated to 2%.  Produced clean & unqualified audit reports for consecutive 05 years for the external audit conducted by GT (One of Big4).  Maintaining LCs for import of oil equipment from China, Singapore, Cameroon  Book Keeping, Bank Reconciliations done regularly resulted in 100% accurate information with 0% margin of error.  Cash and Bank management. Increased the cash cycle by 60days  Monthly and quarterly management reporting  Accurate payroll processing with salaries disbursement not later than 5th of every month.  Performance analysis reports with variance studies resulted in increased performance by 10%.  Analysis of accounts receivables/accounts payables aging. Aging was reduced by 30% in terms of number of days.  Supervise Accounts staff in their respective accounting functions.  Complete analysis, projections and reporting as required by the CFO, CEO, Directors  Filing statutory returns to SECP and FBR.  Annual statutory audit and compliance with local statutory requirements.  Formation of annual financial statements as per IFRS.  To play a proactive role in reviewing accounting policies, systems and reporting requirements on regular basis as well as recommend changes for improvement  Clear unaccounted entries with AP in current period and identify issues in unaccounted transaction  Arrange Auditor’s certificate as per various departments requirements  Support business forecast processes  Ensure all contracts are included in accounting for tax issues and credit limits  Ensure timely payment of customers by day 60th after invoice submission in accounts.  Interface with a number of functional teams within and outside to develop controls and implement them in processes and standards to sustain and continuously improve the internal control environments  Maintain the appropriate internal controls documentation to help ensure controls are operating effectively, including annual review of key controls on the site internal control processes  Provide monthly analysis and accrual recommendations and supporting information associated with outstanding invoices and services performed, on both capital and expense items - work closely with Senior Accountant to coordinate period end accruals to maximize accounting accuracy  Ensure balance sheet integrity (BSI) through summary account status reports against the RV2 (reconciled, verified, validated) standard  Provide weekly fixed cost reports to management for monthly financial estimation purposes and to inform management in a timely manner of potential overspend against budget  Generate invoices for option premiums, executed options and swaps, review for accuracy and email to customers after prices are published and interfaced to the financial settlement system  Allocation of incoming payments including Direct Debit allocation  Dealing with returned funds, deductions and other differences
  • Manager Finance & AccountsFull Time

    Personforce Consulting Private Limited

    Dec 2010 - Dec 2011 -1 yr

    Pakistan , Islamabad

    • Job Details: Accurate presentation of financial information in financial statements  Analysis of accounts receivables/accounts payables aging & monitoring with sales.  Monthly E-filling of Taxation  Cash and Bank management and cash in and out flows monitoring  Inventory management  Supervise the general ledger group to ensure all financial reporting deadlines are met.  Ensure the monthly and quarterly Bank Compliance activities are performed in a timely and accurate manner.  Supports budget and forecasting activities.  Work with the Controller to ensure a clean and timely year end statutory audit  Assist in development and implementation of new procedures and features to enhance the workflow of the department.  Provide training to new and existing staff as needed.  Handle personnel issues relating to staff conflicts, absenteeism, performance issues, etc.  Work with each direct report to establish goals and objectives for each year and monitor and advise on the progress to enhance the professional development of staff.
  • Audit SeniorFull Time

    Grant Thornton International

    Sep 2006 - Dec 2010 -4 yrs, 3 months

    Pakistan , Islamabad

    • Job Details:Completed various assignments
  • Education

    • B Com in Commerce & Accounts

      The University Of Faisalabad

      Jan 2002 - Jan 2005 - 3 yr

    • High School - Other

      IMCB

      Jan 2002 

    Skills

    • Financial Reporting
    • Forecasting
    • Management Reporting
    • Payroll Management
    • Payables Management
    • Budgeting & Controlling
    • Bank Reconciliations
    • Financial Planning
    • GAAP
    • IFRS
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    Languages

    • Urdu

      Fluent
    • English

      Advanced
    • Punjabi

      Intermediate
    • Arabic

      Beginner
    • French

      Beginner

    Training & Certifications

    • ACCA

      ACCA·2017
    • Attended various training courses conducted by Grant Thornton (Prominently those relating to GT audit methodology, developments in the IFRSs, Presentation Skills Training Course)

      GT·2010
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