Adnan Azam, Accountant

PKF Antares

Jan 2023 – Present

Canada

Accounting and Taxation Associate

Assist accountants and auditors with administrative, accounting, and bookkeeping functions including: • Reconciling accounts payable ledgers with bank statements and other records of cash inflows and outflows • Preparing reports for management about financial performance, trends, or risks • Preparing financial statements and tax returns • Preparing and maintaining records of financial transactions in an organization’s accounting system • Preparing and submitting paperwork to comply with federal and state tax laws and regulations • Preparing budgets and forecasts for future expenses • Reviewing financial statements and recommending adjustments to management • Preparing financial reports such as budgets and forecasts for future expenses

Bottom Line Accounting Solution

Oct 2021 – Dec 2022

Canada

SENIOR ACCOUNTING ANALYST - REMOTE

As an Accounting Analyst (remote) working with Canadian e-commerce clients and responsible to provide support in accounting and reporting functions including • maintain payroll reporting & reconciliation including payroll taxes, payroll analysis, benefit and provincial government remittances • recommend & implement process improvement initiatives, identifying areas of potential efficiency gains as well as perform ad-hoc analysis and investigations as required to support Finance reporting and decision making • key member of the monthly financial statement close process responsible for timely and accurate completion of journal entries, submission of financial results, supporting schedules and variance analysis. • develop business cases to support decision-making and support pricing decisions by creating innovative strategies for cost reduction • develop and maintain confidential, protected databases to monitor business performance, and provide management with insights into any risks or opportunities • coordinate requirements for efficient automated accounting to increase productivity and ensure verified information backups • control the completion of all scheduled balance sheet account reconciliations on a timely basis. This includes assessing balances for reasonableness and leading investigations and resolving issues identified through the reconciliation process. • support various projects by providing accounting requirements, participating in the process and system design and owning system testing for Finance. • providing support to a foreign subsidiary in terms of their VAT filing, processing payroll and process & pay vendor invoices • filing Sales Tax returns for both federal (GST/HST) and provincial (PST) • massaging and cleansing data including PayPal, TransferWise and bank statements for manual expense classification.

Crowe

May 2019 – Sep 2021

Pakistan

SENIOR AUDIT ASSOCIATE

I have also gained excellence in practical knowledge of accounting and auditing and experienced a diversity of statutory audits as well in compliance with regulation and agreed-upon procedures assignments of significant corporate clients in Pakistan comprising of publicly listed and unlisted, private and multinational organizations in line with IFRS and ISAs. During my stay at Crowe Hussain Chaudhury & Co Chartered Accountant, I have successfully performed the following responsibilities: • Planning and execution of engagements including responsibilities for conducting preliminary reviews, and review of work performed by other engagement team members before supervisor review. • Compilation of separate Financial Statements by the Applicable Financial Reporting Framework. Assignments: • Planning and executing the Review of the client’s compliance with the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) and applicable local laws requirements (Code of Corporate Governance Compliance, Free Float of shares Certificate Certifications required from PSX).

Crowe

Feb 2018 – May 2019

Pakistan

SENIOR CORPORATE ASSOCIATE

I have gained excellence in practical knowledge of advisory and compliance services about corporate laws and regulations as applicable in Pakistan. And also, I have worked in close coordination with regulatory bodies like SECP, FBR, LCCI, IPO, and CDC to meet compliance. During my stay at Corporate Department in Crowe Hussain Chaudhury & Co Chartered Accountant, I have successfully performed the following responsibilities. The list of services includes the following: • Company and other special legal body incorporation • Registration with various regulatory authorities • Corporate statutory and regulatory compliance and compliance services • Foreign and local NGOs and NPOs registrations • Providing complete corporate secretarial services inclusive of maintenance of the Company’s minutes and all other Company law procedures • Further issuance of capital, alteration in memorandum • Incorporation and registration of local and global companies

Adnan Azam

Accountant

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