SHAMAILA SHAHEEN
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Summary
Highly skilled Accountant with over 9 years of professional accomplishments at managerial level. Extensive experience of reporting, bookkeeping and accounting software’s. Possess strong skills in streamlining financial procedures, improving operational efficiency and enhancing financial systems. Demonstrated ability to provide strategic financial guidance and leadership, resulting in significant cost savings and improved fiscal performance in previous roles. Confident in abilities to manage complex financial projects while ensuring compliance with all regulations.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Coordinator
Muslim Aid
06.2021 - 04.2022
- Financial reporting of all ongoing projects including annual planning of budgets
- Delivered exceptional compliance and effective results, ensuring adherence to regulations set by Muslim Aid
- Successfully completed external/internal audits, reports, field office team trainings, and cash-flows forecasts
- Foster effective communication and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
- Rendered a keen eye for details to prepare bank and balance sheet reconciliation statements at month-end/closing; updated month/year-end closure in the system, performed annual audits for year-end of cash counts
- Managed all information in the fixed asset registers
- Effectively completed monthly/annual verification of fixed assets
- Handled monthly payroll, payments, receipts, fund requests, filing income/sales tax returns and all daily transactions of petty cash
- Led the procurement committee as a chairperson.
Finance Manager
AWAZ Foundation
03.2019 - 06.2021
- Financial management of all the grants, including donor reporting
- Handled project accounts as per organizational accounting and financial policies
- Including verifying all kinds of payments and receipts vouchers and put forward to the chief executive for approval
- Reconciled the balance sheet accounts and matched the trial balance sheet with account books
- Effectively processed advances and prepayments with updating all on month end closing
- Filed monthly sales and income tax returns
- Successfully completed monthly payroll
- Liaison with top management and all other stakeholders in providing the financial information.
Finance officer
Rutgers
01.2017 - 11.2018
- Ensured service delivery with Rutgers financial management & accounting procedures, also addressed bank issues
- Assisted Finance Manager in managing all financial tasks and in administrative aspects of financial management
- Collection of cash, reconciling cash book & cash account and reporting any surplus and shortfall in the cash
- Performed the TA/DA calculation & processing, also made the project cash flows for fund requests to the country office
- Ensured financial record keeping in hard files of all projects and oversaw the taxation deduction of taxes
- Effectively reconciled the balance sheet items on monthly basis.
Finance Assistant
Rutgers Pakistan
07.2016 - 12.2016
- Managed Cash bank and treasury, reconciled bank, maintained, and processed staff payroll, and forecasted cash needs
- Ensured financial monitoring and reporting, and asset verification, also facilitated the internal and external audits
- Performed month/year-end closing, reviewed, and consolidated the field financial information
- Strategized and allocated the expenditure, made payments review and disbursement, accounts receivable, and payables
- Maintained personal accounts, Bank correspondence, taxation, and filing monthly tax statements/annual returns.
Internal Audit & Compliance Officer
Hashoo Foundation
01.2014 - 07.2016
- Assisted in the development of audit plans including compliance with policies, plans, procedures, laws, and regulations
- Reviewed the policies of different departments and updated the policies where required
- A contentious monitoring and provided inputs for the improvements of the internal controls
- Ensured the accuracy of transactions, records, and reports
- Facilitated the collection of data and information for Audit and Compliance reviews
- Maintained an audit planning and history log, including findings and recommendations
- Prepared comprehensive written audit reports, including recommendations for corrective action or system improvements (including risk management) in the overall functioning of HF and /or specific programs, departments, units, or regions, including the audit observations' follow-ups
- Highlighted potential risks and deficiencies to senior management.
Finance Assistant
Hashoo Foundation Pakistan
09.2011 - 10.2013
- Maintained and updated all financial transactions in the system, supported staff & partners about financial procedures and strengthening their capacity, as well as posted all vouchers cash/bank receipts, payments, credit, and journal vouchers
- Supported the preparation of the external /internal and donor audits, the annual budget process of the project, and the country office, monitoring cash flow and all bank-related correspondence
- Leveraged a keen insight to produce periodic financial reporting with appropriate analysis and commentary.
Education
ACCA Affiliate -
ACCA Global
United Kingdom01.2024
Chartered Management Accountant -
Institute of Cost and Management Accountants
Islamabad, Pakistan01.2013
Master's business administration -
Arid Agriculture University
Rawalpindi, Pakistan01.2009
Bachelor's commerce -
Punjab University
Lahore, Pakistan01.2006
Skills
- Financial Reporting
- Accounts management
- Audit & Compliance
- Month and Year End Closures
- Reconciliations of balance sheet accounts
- Taxation
- Cash & Bank Management
- Payroll
- Bank reconciliations
- Bookkeeping
- Payments
- Bank Management
- Financial Audits
- Knowledge of GAAP
- Strong analytical skills
- IT Skills: MS Word,Outlook,PowerPoint,Excel
- Accounting Software: Exact Global,MIS,QuickBooks,Fund easy
Affiliations
Fellow Member, Institution of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan under membership number F-2624
Accomplishments
- Utilized deep accounting and finance knowledge to assist in generating financial reports
- Delivered sterling support to the head office in performing internal & external audits to ensure the accuracy and completeness of records
- Shifted accounting data from Fund Easy and MIS to QuickBooks and parallel operation of both accounting software
- Managed and trained 40 partner organizations under Malala Education Fund
- Maintained personal accounts, Bank correspondence, taxation, and filing monthly tax statements/annual returns
Professionaldevelopments
- Completed 05 days of training on "Procurement Audit"
- 16 hours of CPD workshop on "Oracle e-business Suit- General Ledger"
- 06 hours of CPD workshop on "Withholding Taxes"
Languages
- English
- Urdu
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Finance Coordinator
Muslim Aid
06.2021 - 04.2022
Finance Manager
AWAZ Foundation
03.2019 - 06.2021
Finance officer
Rutgers
01.2017 - 11.2018
Finance Assistant
Rutgers Pakistan
07.2016 - 12.2016
Internal Audit & Compliance Officer
Hashoo Foundation
01.2014 - 07.2016
Finance Assistant
Hashoo Foundation Pakistan
09.2011 - 10.2013
ACCA Affiliate -
ACCA Global
Chartered Management Accountant -
Institute of Cost and Management Accountants
Master's business administration -
Arid Agriculture University
Bachelor's commerce -
Punjab University
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