MUHAMMAD BILAL (MBA FINANCE)
Assistant Manager Finance at Apar Investments Group, Dubai, UAE
Email: [email protected]
Mobile +971-501479763
PERSONAL PROFILE
MBA Finance qualified with ten years of post-qualification Experience in Hospitality, Private Organization, Customer Service, Banking, Logistics and United Nation’s Projects. Currently working in UAE since last seven years and looking for a position, which will allow me to enhance my career in accountancy/finance.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Sep 2017 to till date: Working as Asst. Manager Finance, Apar Investments Group, Dubai UAE
• Managing the Financial operation Apar Investments Group (Group of nine sub companies, dealing in Restaurants, Travel & Tourism, Manpower supply and Facility Management)
• Preparing the financial reports for the reporting of sub companies and group
• Reviewing the financial postings of all group companies
• Preparing Financial and Operational Reports for group and sub companies
• Preparing Budget and Forecast
• Reliving Finance Manager during his vacation / absence
• Verifying the General Cashier’s Report, and Income JV’s
• Review supplier invoices, and General Ledger postings of expenses.
• Verifying supplier payments with supporting invoices, LPOs etc.
• Verifying expense reimbursement with supporting documents, and ensure that they are in accordance with the policies and procedures.
• Review payroll reports with supporting documents at the month end.
• Preparing the General Ledger Reconciliation for the Group.
• Reviewing the contracts with Suppliers.
• Preparing related party reconciliation.
• Approving Bank Reconciliation statement.
• Preparing, post and update standard journal vouchers and adjustment journal voucher entries at the month end.
• Reviewing general ledger at month end and analyses expenses and major variations from the budget.
• Preparing Cash Flow Report, outlet wise P&L for F&B outlets.
• Posting and verification deprecation for all companies
• Preparing feasibilities for upcoming projects
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Oct 2015 to Sep 17: Worked as Financial Accountant, Amwaj Rotana Dubai UAE
Main Responsivities
• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting of all expenses and revenues of the hotel
• Monitor and ensure that all balance sheet accounts are properly analyzed
• Preparing Financial and Operational Reports
• Supporting Director of Finance in preparing Budget and Forecast
• Reliving Assistant Director of Finance during his vacation / absence
• Handle other related tasks as assigned by Director of Finance
• Verifying the General Cashier’s Report, and Income JV.
• Reviewing supplier invoices, and General Ledger coding of expenses.
• Verifying supplier payments with supporting invoices, LPOs etc.
• Verifying expense reimbursement with supporting documents, and ensure that they are in accordance with the policies and procedures.
• Reviewing payroll reports with supporting documents at the month end.
• Preparing the General Ledger Reconciliation & Bank Reconciliation Statement.
• To follow up for the renewals of contracts expiring.
• To adjust entries to be prepared on the basis of General Ledger reconciliation.
• Preparing Bank Reconciliation Statement.
• To prepare, post and update standard journal vouchers and adjustment journal voucher entries at the month end.
• To review general ledger at month end, expenses analyses.
• To Cash Flow Report, transfer the P&L to retained earnings.
• Reconciliation of operating equipment and clearing of provisions.
• Maintaining NSO, TT, GSO and centralized IT accounts and distribution to sister Hotels
• Debtors & Creditors aging report to be reviewed
Preopening opening experience of Hili Rayhaan by Rotana from Jan 2014 to Sep 2015
Joined the Hotel during preopening stage and performing different jobs individually and coordinating /supporting other colleagues in the department and other departments as well.
• Member of preopening team and manage the setup of Opera, Micros and Sun System.
• Worked in all the section of the hotel during pre-opening stage:
➢ Financial Accountant: Relived Financial Accountant during his vacation and staff assistance period and completed the monthly closing successfully.
➢ General Cashier: Handle general cashier job with Income Audit work from Feb 2014 May 2014 during pre-opening period and provide the training to General Cashier as he was new in the hotel industry.
➢ Account Receivable: Provide assistance/trained to Account receivable during pre-opening period as she was new in the hotel industry and relived her during her vacation.
➢ Accounts Payable: Provide assistance/trained to Account Payable during pre-opening period as he was new in the hotel industry and relived her during his vacation.
➢ Paymaster: Handled the paymaster position from April 2014 to Sep 2014 and provide training the new paymaster as he was new in the hotel industry
➢ Credit Manager relived the Credit Manager during his vacation in 2014 and 2015.
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Jan 2015 till Sep 2015: Worked as Financial Accountant, Hili Rayhaan by Rotana
• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting of all expenses and revenues of the hotel
• Monitor and ensure that all balance sheet accounts are properly analyzed
• Handle other related tasks as assigned by Financial Controller
• To verify the General Cashier’s Report, and Income JV.
• To review supplier invoices, and General Ledger coding of expenses.
• To verify supplier payments with supporting invoices, LPOs etc.
• To verify expense reimbursement with supporting documents, and ensure that they are in accordance with the policies and procedures.
• To review payroll reports with supporting documents at the month end.
• To prepare the General Ledger Reconciliation & bank reconciliation statement.
• To follow up for the renewals of contracts expiring.
• To adjust entries to be prepared on the basis of General Ledger reconciliation.
• To prepare bank reconciliation statement.
• To prepare, post and update standard journal vouchers and adjustment journal voucher entries at the month end.
• To review general ledger at month end and analyses expenses and major variations from the budget.
• To Cash Flow Report, transfer the P&L to retained earnings.
• Reconciliation of operating equipment and clearing of provisions.
• Debtors & Creditors aging report to be reviewed
Jan 2011 – Dec 2014: Income Auditor, VILLA, Rihab Rotana and Hili Rayhaan by Rotana UAE.
• My basic responsibilities are to prepare Daily Revenue Report and revenue reconciliation.
• To review Rate Variance Report in order to ensure the correct rate is applied.
• To review Room Discrepancy Report in order to ensure correct occupancy.
• To forward necessary reports to the Financial Accountant, Director of Finance and General Manager for approval, after reviewing with supporting documents.
• To review the City Ledger and Credit Card Transfers of the day and pass the same to the accounts receivable.
• To audit the daily cash summary and update the General Cashier Report.
• To review front office Foreign Exchange rates on weekly basis.
• To verify Visa Cost and Visa officer’s expenses report.
• To verify travel agent commissions invoices.
• To conduct float counting of all house fund holders on weekly basis.
FEB 2009 – NOV 2010: Accountant, Regional Institute of Policy Research & Training,
Peshawar Pakistan
• Planning and budgeting
• Assisted Advisor to Govt, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 7th NFC Award
• Managed accounts and bank reconciliation
• Preparing the paper work and reporting to the Director Finance
June 2008 – Oct 2008: Assistant Auditor, A.Salam Jan & Co. Pakistan
• Auditing of client organization
o To check the compliance & conformance of company
o To check malpractices in vouchers of company
o To check authentication of vouchers of company & Stock/Inventory Audit
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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION / TRAINING
• IELTS
• Computer Software Course
• Computer Hardware Course
• Project Cycle Management & Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)
• Destination Leadership
: British Council Peshawar
: One Year Computer Course from C.L.S Institute
: Six Month Computer Hardware Course from (Sarhad Information Technology)
:Human Recourse Learning Centre Islamabad, Pakistan (4 Days training workshop)
: Destination Leadership training to develop Leadership Qualities from HR department Rihab Rotana
EDUCATION
• M. Phil in Finance(Final Semester)
• M.B.A (Finance 3.21 GPA)
• B.A
• F.A
• Metric
: Virtual University of Pakistan.
: S.U.I.T (Sarhad University of Information Technology)
: University of Peshawar
: G.H.S.S Tehkal Peshawar
: P.A.F Shaheen Camp School Peshawar
IT/COMPUTER SKILLS
• Accounting / Hotel Management
o Sun (Accounting System)
o Opera & Micros (Hotel Management)
o Bayan Payroll Management system
o SAP Business One
o QuickBooks (Accounting System)
o Ability to understand & work in specially designed software’s
• Programming
o SQL Server, GW Basic, C ++, FoxPro, MS Access, MS Visual Basic 6.0
• Computer Skills
o Micro Soft Windows.
o MS Words MS Excel MS Power Point MS Access MS Front Page
o Ms Internet Explorer Ms Outlook Express etc.
PERSONAL DETAIL
Name : Muhammad Bilal Father Name : Muhammad Aslam (Late)
Nationality : Pakistani Gender : Male
Languages : English, Urdu, Punjabi Passport No : AD3702012
Marital Status : Married Date of Birth : 14/ 10/ 1980
REFERENCE
1) Khalid Aziz
Chairman RIPOR (Peshawar, Pakistan)
Tel: +92 3459004161
2) Krishnan Govindan
Director Finance Villa, Rihab and Rimal Rotana Hotel, Dubai UAE.
Tel: +971 43216111
3) Montaser Saadeh
Hotel Manager Times Hotel Dubai, UAE
Tel: +971 50 641 8044