This role requires supporting assigned projects across a specific Practice area providing project-based management accounting services across a specific group of projects within a practice area. Major responsibilities include:
·         Liaise with financial accounting and project teams to ensure project accounting records, including client invoicing and project data, are accurate & complete.
·         Monitor financial performance against budget and forecast providing financial analysis, informative commentary, and advice at project performance monitoring meetings,
·         Explaining & verifying variance on budgets & forecasts and ensuring all issues and risks are highlighted to Practice/Project Finance Manager and the Project Managers as appropriate.
·         Work with the relevant stakeholders (with support from the Project or Practice Finance Manager where necessary) in the preparation of budgets and forecasts, to agree timetable assumptions and strategic priorities. Produce project budgets and forecasts of sales, costs and cashflow working with project teams, the wider project finance team.
·         Support project audits required by clients and provide requested project financial information to the annual audit.
Monitor and advise project teams to ensure projects are compliant with client, statutory and internal control requirements.

The role encompasses agreement and settlement of intercompany accounts of different entities within ISMA region under the group. My responsibilities include:   
·          Interpretation of the transaction history of intercompany balances.
·          Preparing intercompany reconciliation to ensure accuracy of balances.
·          Revaluation of intercompany balances to calculate forex gain/loss.
·         Liaising with Treasury and other group entities.
·         Preparation of required documents like invoices and legal agreements.
·         Calculation of withholding tax and sales tax on foreign imported services as per applicable tax laws.
·         Liaison and coordination with different stakeholders including regional finance and management accounting teams, external tax advisors to settle the intercompany balance.
·         Preparation of balance sheet reconciliations. Liaison with entity finance manager to resolve the issues identified each month and ensure the accuracy and completeness of balances.

Under the overall supervision of the SNG Program Manager / Finance Manager, responsible for management of SNG project finance system in line with program processes and OPM protocols in ensuring compliance best practices and local practices. My responsibilities included:
·         Preparation of monthly forecasts for incidental expenditure. 
·         Review of regional offices forecasts and consolidation with main forecasts for submission to OPM finance.
·         Prepare and ensure all requisite payments on behalf the project made on time.
·         Paying all the taxes deducted or withheld to the tax authority within prescribed period.
·         Preparing, submitting, and depositing tax withheld statements within prescribed periods.
·         Ensure adequate documentation, correct coding of payments in all aspects, ensure required authorizations are obtained, all supporting evidence are attached in the cashbook.
·         Responsible for reviewing and finding out issues / errors / discrepancies in cashbooks of SNG Peshawar and SNG Lahore offices. Ensure that all documentation is complete in all aspects and that there are no inconsistencies.
·         Responsible for Monthly closing of accounts.
·         Preparation of monthly bank reconciliations.

·         Prepare the PESP 2 and 3 Inter Entity Trading (IET) invoice between PK to UK PMD codes.
·         Prepare the rolling cash flow forecast for DFID based on support from project technical and operation team along with analysis/monitoring of quarterly forecast submitted to DFID and comparison with actual invoice to ensure +/- 5% variance.
·         Prepare project forecast to support CFM in preparing annual Group Cash flow Budget.
·         Pre-audit the vendor payments and prepare payment summary for review.
·         Post transactions on to Deltek, initiate the approval flow.
·         Undertake tax deduction calculations and its payment to Government Tax Authority.
·         Updating PESP II and III tracker of invoices of consultants on monthly basis and meeting with Operations Manager to up- date list of joiners/leavers of consultants.
·         Process, post and manage petty cash.
·         Support on procurement and contracting to Operations Manager.
Contract invoicing to clients and rigorous follow up with Project management Implementation Unit (Government of Punjab) after submission of invoices. 

 Initially I joined as Grants Officer on 27 November 2017 and later was re designated as Assistant Grants Manager from May 2018.Responsiblities included:
·         Preparation of grantee invoices and reviewing grantee financial reports.
·          Coordinate with finance in the processing of monthly invoices.
·         Tracking grantee budget for variances against the allowable variances in line with the Sub-Grant Contract.
·         Preparation of contract amendments based on the quarterly reviews conducted by program and grants team of the grantees.
·         Maintain updated forecast, milestone tracker, due diligence and duty of care action plan for all grantees.
·         Consolidate grantee forecasts and highlight discrepancies to the Grant Manager.
·         Support Grants Manager in reviewing Grantee level procurements for compliance.

·         Coordination with grantees to ensure all quarterly audits are initialed in a timely manner and providing support in tracking and monitoring Grantee audit findings.
·         Support to grants and finance team for project level audits.

·  Overall planning of audits, understanding and co-developing expectations, designing audit strategies, supervision, review, and finalization of assurance engagements including preparation of quality deliverables, resolving audit queries and taking appropriate actions.
·  Co-ordination with engagement manager to define the extent of planned audit procedures and to update engagement progress.
· Carrying out specific financial audit of donor funded projects and give opinion on the financial report of project regarding maintenance of accounting record with generally accepted accounting records and internal controls involved.