Experience as Audit Trainee

• Employer

• From

  28 November 2005

• To

  27 May 2009

• Detail

  BDO is serving international clients with a local presence in 110 countries for delivering quality audit, taxation, consultancy and corporate secretarial services.
  
  Below are the details of experience in the various departments of the BDO Pakistan over a period of 3.5 years.
  
  AUDIT & BUSINESS ASSURANCE
  Working experience with clients was very dynamic and versatile which includes statutory audits, and financial & management reviews. I handled jobs as a job in charge, which include from planning stage to final reporting stage. Also assisted clients in preparing their financial statements of various clients included but not limited to the following sectors:
  • Services sector
  • Public/listed sector
  • Manufacturing sector
  • Foreign exchange sector
  
  CONSULTANCY ASSIGNMENTS
  I have also worked in the Consultancy Department in which I have taken part in the Development of following manuals for some organizations:
  • Internal Controls Manual
  • Accounting and Finance Manual
  OTHER ASSIGNMENTS
  • Half yearly reviews of Listed Companies
  • Preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements of various organizations
  
  

Experience as Manager Compliance and Quality Assurance

• Employer

• From

  05 March 2018

• To

  31 March 2020

• Detail

  DONOR COMPLIANCE AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
   Develop compliance and quality assurance checklists for all functions of the organizations based on donor requirements and guidelines, statute and Nai Zindagi’s policies and procedures.
   Develop and disseminate donor/statutory deadlines and follow up with relevant departments for timely submission of information to external bodies
   Perform routine compliance and quality assurance reviews of policies, processes and practices of all organizational functions (Program components, Finance, Admin, HR, Procurement) and 31 field offices including Partner Organizations as per defined controls
   Conduct detailed and thorough compliance review of organizational assets and expenses (including physical check and reconciliation of asset and inventory records); recommend efficient utilization and administration of assets and expenses in compliance with organization’s internal policies and donor guidelines.
   Prepare comprehensive reports of all review and follow up on observations
   Monitor budget implementation and variance arising at functional level; provide technical backstopping to finance department to ensure budget compliance across all functions.
   Review organization’s financial reports to be submitted to Donor and other key documents including MLs (Management Letter) submitted by the Local Fund Agent (LFA) i.e. UNOPS on behalf of The Global Fund and follow up the observations for compliance of all organizational functions accordingly.
   Monitor functions of Partner Organizations, review their core activities to ensure compliance with defined quality assurance protocols and policies of The Global Fund and Nai Zindagi.
   Performing and monitoring quality assurance training programs and build capacity of functions enabling them to perform in accordance with the expected quality protocols.
   Periodically review policies, manuals etc. of all organizational functions; provide guidance for any updates/changes if required by or donor.
   Perform other duties as assigned by the Executive Director.
  
  STATUTORY COMPLIANCE
   Coordination with Economic Affair Division (EAD) for timely submission of documents and information in compliance with the MOU signed between EAD and Nai Zindagi
   Focal Person for coordination with Pakistan Center for Philanthropy (PCP) for renewal of NPO Certification to obtain tax free status
   Coordination with Govt of Punjab - Home Department for timely filing of documents and information in compliance with the NOC
   Ensuring timely filing of annual members list and tax returns and audited accounts of organization as per requirements of Socities Registration Act 1860 and Income Tax Ordinance 2001 respectively.
  

Experience as Compliance and Finance Officer

• Employer

• From

  14 July 2016

• To

  28 February 2018

• Detail

  The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) is an international non-governmental organization, working in the area of migration and refugee assistance. My activities as “Compliance and Finance Officer” are as follows:
  • Verifying project expenses and review compliances with internal policies, donor guidelines and laws in country
  • Monitoring budget and variances
  • Conduct visits to Basic Health Units (BHUs) and other project locations
  • Physical counts of medicine, reviewing records of receipt and consumption, reconciliation with HMIS and investigating and resolving discrepancies
  • Building capacity of staff regarding organization policies and donor guidelines highlighting deviations so that project is implemented in efficient and effective manner and in compliance with organization policies and donor guidelines
  • Assets count and recommendations for efficient and effective general administration of BHUs including review of records of assets register, supplies, log books etc.
  • Reporting on a regular basis on the progress of implementation, and assisting these components in establishing methods to improve efficiency and quality of services, and to reduce the vulnerability to fraud, abuse, and waste.
  • Review the financial reports submitted by the partner and all supporting documents to ensure compliance with the project and donors’ requirements.
  • Provide feedback to the partner on their financial reports.
  • Ensure that the partner’s budgets and expenditures are in line with their agreed upon budgets and strategic plans.
  • Identify/Improve the financial reporting capacity of the partner.
  • Provide support to and work closely with the partner to ensure a quality and timely submission of the periodic financial reports
  • Assess the existing internal controls of the partner and provide support and guidance where needed.
  • Keep track of requests for payments and disbursements made to partner
  • Regular financial monitoring of partner NGOs, verifying expenses along with review of internal controls and project progress implementation
  • Preparation of monitoring reports having deficiencies and recommendations
  • Follow up of observations and reporting on status of compliance
  • Seeks to ensure that all appropriate employees and management of partner are knowledgeable of, and comply with, standards operating procedures of the donor.
  • Assist Coordinator and Finance Head investigating and acting on matters related to compliance, including the flexibility to design and coordinate internal investigations (e.g., responding to reports of financial problems, or suspected violations) and any resulting corrective actions.
  • Assist in developing policies and programs that encourage to report suspected fraud and other improprieties without fear of retaliation
  • External Audits of the project and partner.
  

Experience as Manager Accounts

• Employer

• From

  01 June 2020

• To

  30 September 2015

• Detail

  FINANCIAL REPORTING
  • Preparation of Financial Statements
  • Preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements
  • Preparation of Periodic financial reports to Donors
  
  BUDGETS
  • Preparation and Monitoring Budgets
  • Preparation of variance analysis reports
  
  AUDITS
  • External and internal audit coordination of projects and organization
  • Follow-up of internal and external audit observations
  
  RECONCILIATIONS
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Advances reconciliations
  • Reconciling books of accounts with audited accounts
  
  FIXED ASSETS AND INVENTORY
  • Preparation of fixed assets and inventory records
  • Reconciliation of assets and inventory records
  • Physical counts
  
  REVIEWS/SUPERVISION/MONITORING
  • Review books of accounts and propose adjusting entries
  • Inventory management
  • Fixed assets records
  • Review of procurement Manual
  • Directing and supervising work of subordinate staff
  • Financial monitoring of Sub recipients / partner NGOs and field offices
  • Ensure adherence of organization to policies and procedure and donor guidelines
  
  MANUALS/ FORMATS
  • Development of Job Descriptions of finance staff
  • Development of format of many registers and records
  • Development of Standard Operating Procedures/ (SOPs)/ Finance Manual
  • Development of Financial Administration of Sub recipient’s Manual
  • Development of Stock Control Manual
  
  TRAININGS DELIVERED
  • Training of the finance staff for record/book keeping and accounting
  
  COORDINATION
  • Coordination with field offices in respect of budget transfer and bills verifications
  • Statutory bodies, donors, auditors etc.
  

Experience as Manager Internal Audit

• Employer

• From

  15 June 2009

• To

  31 May 2014

• Detail

  INTERNAL AUDIT
  Worked as “Manager” in internal audit department of Nai Zindagi and performed projects’ internal audit and internal audit of organization as a whole encompassing all the departments i.e. finance, program, procurement, warehouse, MIS under THE GLOBAL FUND PROJECT HIV ROUND 9. Highlights are as follows:
  • Managing internal audit function
  • Quarterly financial monitoring of partner NGOs
  • Development of Auditors TORs
  • Evaluation for firms for selection as internal auditor
  • Preparation of Financial monitoring report
  • Development of Internal audit policies and procedures
  • Development of audit programs and procedure to audit specific units or functions
  • Auditing adherence of organization to policies and procedure
  • Conducting internal audits of finance, procurement, administration and program department
  • Review financial reports submitted to Donors and financial statements
  • Directing and supervising work of assigned staff, implementation and operation of compliance program
  • Perform requested reviews of projects and centers
  • External audit coordination of Nai Zindagi and partners
  • Preparing internal audit reports
  • Follow-up of internal and external audit observations