Daina Saimon,CMA
Karachi,Pakistan
Summary
To leverage strong financial analysis, budgeting, and leadership skills in the role of Assistant Manager of Finance, to optimize financial operations, drive cost efficiency, and support strategic decision-making. Aspire to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, ensuring the organization's financial health and contributing to its growth and profitability. Personal details
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Manager-Accounts
Zindagi Trust
04.2022 - Current
- Prepare detailed Financial Reports outlining allocation and utilization of donated funds.
- Proficiently oversee payroll management for cost centers with focus on accuracy and efficiency.
- Establish effective communication channels with local banks to address administrative issues and enhance services about short-term and long-term investments, as well as profit rate optimization
- Effectively managed 25 weekly payments and improve process cycle time by 50%.
- Draft revenue and yearly fundraising budgets, as well as specific donor budgets, for accounting year
- Monitor company's financial and accounting performance in accordance with budget, and highlighted reasons for deviations and variances
- Management Information reports such as Cash Flow, Interim Profit, Loss Statements, Balance Sheet, Ratios, etc
- Ensure sufficient funds are available to meet working capital and investment requirements
- Leveraged data and analytics to make informed decisions and drive business improvements.
Assistant Manager-Accounts
Rehmpack (Pvt) Ltd
06.2021 - 11.2021
- Manage & oversee daily operations of accounting Including Aging Receivables & Payables
- Prepare liquidity reports cash flows & bank positions.
- Monitor and analyze working capital to ensure liquidity.
- Manage daily Payments.
- Manage and present proposals to enable team to deliver tasks
- Streamlined Operations and Prioritized tasks allowing company to increase weekly receivables by 10%.
Accounts & Finance Officer
Zindagi Trust
08.2020 - 06.2021
- Prepare Expense reports for EAD.
- Process weekly 25 to 30 payments.
- Prepared Bi-monthly Bank reconciliations of 7 banks.
- Handled Income tax
- Prepare monthly Profit & Loss Statements
- Prepared monthly Profit & Loss Statement.
- Monitored and record financial transactions according to each cost Centre
- Monitored and record donations.
- Prepared Quarterly Reports and presentations.
- Prepared and submitted detailed reports regarding assignments and ongoing investigations.
Finance Officer
Falcon Security (Pvt.) Ltd
05.2015 - 11.2019
- Performed month-end accounting activities such as reconciliations and journal entries
- Monitored expenditures, analyse revenues, determine variances, and report same to management.
- Maintained accurate accounts including cash, prepaid, accounts payable, receivables, and accrued expenses
- Liaison with Internal and external Auditors
- Handle compliances from FBR including Income Tax, Sales Tax & e-filling.
- Checked payroll, vendor payments, commissions and other accounting disbursements for accuracy and compliance.
- Prepared cash flow projections, cost analysis and monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
- Streamlined financial processes for increased efficiency and accuracy in reporting.
Assistant Accountant
Magnum Management Solutions (Pvt.) Ltd
07.2011 - 10.2014
- Improved financial accuracy by conducting thorough account reconciliations and adjusting journal entries.
- Assist in compliance-oriented duties such as Group Insurance, Gratuity, EOBI, and Tax
- Bank Reconciliations
- Streamlined Purchase orders of each departments and managed Office Supplies and vendor payments.
- Compiled general ledger entries on short schedule with 100% accuracy.
- Tracked funds, prepared deposits and reconciled accounts.
- Provided journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
- Facilitated month-end and year-end closing processed to support accuracy and completeness of financial reports.
- Checked general ledger entries to increase accuracy, prevent significant errors and identify adjustments.
- Reduced 100 weekly invoice processing time with efficient data entry and verification of accounts payable transactions.
- Monitored bank account activity regularly, identifying potential errors or fraudulent transactions for swift resolution.
Accountant
Shezada Security Services (Pvt.) Ltd
05.2008 - 07.2011
- Diminished outstanding debts by analysing accounts for issues.
- Collected and reported monthly expense variances and explanations.
- Tracked funds, prepared deposits and reconciled accounts.
- Provided journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
- Prepared working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings.
- Gathered financial information, prepared documents, and closed books.
- Completed daily cash functions like account tracking, payroll and wage allocations, budgeting, donating, and cash, and banking reconciliations.
- Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy.
Education
Certified Management Accountant -
Institute of Management Accountant
Montvale04.2024
Public Finance Accountant -
Pakistan Institute of Public Finance Accountants
Sindh,Pakistan01.2011
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance
Degree College
06.2004
Skills
- Data integrity
- Task Delegation
- Operations Management
- Workload Management
- Budgeting and finance
- Analytical Thinking
- Self Motivation
- Professionalism
- MS Office
- Written Communication
- Adaptability
- Continuous Improvement
- Attention to Detail
Volunteer
2022 - Present Treasurer IMA-USA,Pakistan Chapter http://www.imanet.org./
Courses
Aug 2023 Revenue Management
A Two Hour Course-FROM-IMA-USA
Aug 2023 U.S. GAAP vs. IFRS: Non-financial Assets
A Two hour Course from IMA-USA
Aug 2023 Finding Trends with AI
A two hour course from IMA-USA
Aug 2023 Mapping Sales
A TWO Hour Course from IMA-USA
Mar 2024 Create Charts and Dashboard-Microsoft Excel
Create Charts and Dashboard-Microsoft Excel from Coursera
Timeline
Assistant Manager-Accounts
Zindagi Trust
04.2022 - Current
Assistant Manager-Accounts
Rehmpack (Pvt) Ltd
06.2021 - 11.2021
Accounts & Finance Officer
Zindagi Trust
08.2020 - 06.2021
Finance Officer
Falcon Security (Pvt.) Ltd
05.2015 - 11.2019
Assistant Accountant
Magnum Management Solutions (Pvt.) Ltd
07.2011 - 10.2014
Accountant
Shezada Security Services (Pvt.) Ltd
05.2008 - 07.2011
Certified Management Accountant -
Institute of Management Accountant
Public Finance Accountant -
Pakistan Institute of Public Finance Accountants
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance
Degree College
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