As a business professional with strong educational background and diverse experience in business and finance, I am confident of making a contribution to the growth of business in a challenging role. I have worked with three reputed accountancy firms and currently working as a Manager Taxation & Compliance at Arif & Associates.
I have advanced diploma in accounting and business from Association of chartered certified accountants (ACCA) and I also hold a BA degree from University of the Punjab with Sociology, Journalism and Urdu. I am enthusiastic, open-minded person and I am able to handle feedback and criticism on my performance. I also care about social justice, human rights and our home planet.
During my years at Arif & Associates, since 2018, I have held diverse roles in tax, compliance, audit, advisory, human resource and payroll departments and made it an important part of my professional growth to understand virtually every job within the firm. I started in Accounts department in February 2018, and am now working as Manager in Taxation & Compliance.I specifically helps in drafting of replies to tax notices, preparation of tax appeals, briefs on updates in tax and corporate laws. Along with this specific role, I am actively involved in management of the practice. I also help manage their human resource needs, social media accounts and content on their website. Besides, I love to write on diverse range of topics specially those related to management and taxation.
•Worked with various clients as an audit team member
•Complied with international audit standards and companies act 2017
•Performed tests of Internal controls
•Performed recalculations of reconciliations as part of substantive testing procedures
•Interacted with client personnel including accountants, directors, internal auditors and secretaries.
•Interacted with client banks, debtors and creditors to confirm balances
• Conducted internal and external debt reconciliations and developed debt analytics.
As a member of Internal audit team at our clients my responsibilities included • Monitoring and reporting inventory movement controls at finished goods warehouse and ASRS ( Automatic Storage and Retrieval System) at the client. •Month end closings , stocktakes and physical cash counts. • Traveling to various storage locations of the client to ensure effectiveness of audit. • Communication with seniors and client personnel regarding planning, performance and findings of the audit.