A Professional Accountant with overall 5 years of work experience in financial reporting, financial operations, internal controls and budgeting. Industry experience includes Oil and Gas (upstream) & Telecommunications.
• Responsible for all accounting transactions, system of book keeping, accounting and record control.
• Management of funds for Concessions and Operator for un-interrupted Joint Operations.
• Preparation of Joint Venture Budgets.
• Presentation of Budgets and Operating Committee Meetings.
• Preparation of Monthly Cost Statements.
• Preparation of Financial Statements of Concessions as per the JOA/AP of MOP.
• Preparation of periodic financial statements.
• Preparation & initiation of Cash Calls.
• Accounting of Company’s fixed assets.
• Annual statutory audit.
• Corporate taxation matters, Government levies i.e. Excise duty, Sales tax.
• Preparation and payment of salaries and allowances to employees.
• Train, check and evaluate the performance of department personnel.
• Develop internal control, accounting & procurement policies and procedures to cater the need of growing business operations.
• Insurance of company assets, Life insurance coverage & Medical Insurance for employees of the company.
• Preparation and submission of necessary reports to Government and other agencies (weekly/monthly reports, annual returns).
• External Reporting to various Government Institutions.
•Verification of Operational & Contractual Payments, Receipts & JVs.
•Supervising the books of accounts, and verifying all vouchers prior to posting in the ledgers, including period-end closing journal entries.
•Manage and support finance team in day to day accounting including entries in ledger and reconciliation of balances.
•Supervise the preparation of Bank Reconciliation Statements for 6 Bank Accounts on monthly basis.
•Liaison with bank for all bank transactions, bank related issues and correspondences.
•Preparation of Cost Statements, Cash Calls & Joint Venture Accounts of Baska North, Potwar South in accordance with Petroleum Concessions Agreement.
•Preparation of Annual Accounts in Accordance with IFRS.
•Preparation of Annual Budgets/AFEs/Circular Resolutions as per Proposed Work Program by Technical Department.
•Preparation of Presentations/Working Papers for the meetings of Baska North & Potwar South.
•Preparation and finalization of Payroll on monthly basis.
•Preparation of Time Sheets details for allocation of G & A.
•Preparation of Comparative Statements for financial evaluation of bids.
•Preparation and Maintenance of Fixed Assets Register, and updating it as and when assets are purchased.
•Dealing with vendors in order to negotiate the best prices for all procurement
•Finalization of Contracts with respect to the financial exposures to the Company
•Contribute to the development and maintenance of financial system and processes.
•Liaise with Internal/External Auditors and providing clear information for smooth and timely completion of the annual audits of JVs and Operator.
•Providing supervision and guidance to the team members relating to routine activities, including allocation of tasks.
• Dealing with contractual and non-contractual payments, budget-item allocation, monthly accruals, prepayments, booking other estimated costs with JVs for month end closings, maintaining QuickBooks & records for two Joint Ventures (Badin (IV) North & Badin (IV) South)
•Preparing monthly bank reconciliations of 4 bank accounts, Reporting on daily bank balances of 12 Accounts for treasury report.
•Preparation of monthly cost statements of 6 Blocks (Badin (IV) North, Badin (IV) South, Mirpur Mathelo, Kandra, Salam and Morocco) highlighting all the financial aspects of the concessions and well related costs.
•Preparation of monthly Cash-Calls for JV Partners on the basis of forecasts of expenses for the coming months.
•Preparation of annual budgets, monthly budgetary control reports and variances clarifications comparing the actual expenditure with approved budgets for in-house evaluation of expenses for the month/quarter and year end.
•Represented finance department in the bid opening committee for material procurement for upcoming projects of the company.
•Preparation of comparative statements for the procurement of material related to field development of Ayesha-1 and procurement of material for drilling activity.
•Verification of Gas Sales received from non-operated concessions.
•Preparation of final accounts for Badin (IV) North & Badin (IV) South concessions.
•Represent the company in the Operating Committee meetings held between the Joint Venture Partners chaired by the regulator.
•Assisting external auditors with audit queries.