Usman Mahmood
Bergen
Summary
Dynamic finance professional with expertise in accounting, finance, and cash management, ready to contribute to a medium or large-sized organization. Proven ability to drive financial objectives through strategic planning and meticulous execution. Committed to delivering timely and accurate financial insights that support organizational growth and stability. Eager to leverage analytical skills and industry knowledge to enhance financial performance and operational efficiency.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Restaurant Manager
ISushi As
Bergen, Norway
04.2022 - Current
- Function as deputy to the department manager and support in daily operations.
- Be operational on the floor and help the team deliver high quality and good service.
- Contribute to training and motivation of employees.
- Participate in the follow-up of routines, cleaning, staffing, and customer service.
- Assist with local marketing and visibility in the local community.
- Work both days, evenings and weekends as needed.
Kitchen Helper & Cashier
Burger King AS
Bergen, Norway
01.2022 - 04.2022
- Prepare food following specifications during or before unit operations.
- Measure all food items and portion them accurately. Adhere to all quality standards, portion sizes, policies and procedures, and department rules.
- Ensure all foods are properly prepared in a timely manner and to specifications.
- Develop and ensure professional working relationships with guests and colleagues.
- Improve quality of guest service by rotating station seating.
- Handle cash correctly and responsibly.
General Accountant
AL-BABTAIN LEBLANC TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
05.2019 - 08.2021
- Preparation of in-house month-end financial statements - Income statement (actual vs. budget), balance sheet, cash flow to ensure sufficient cash availability to run the on-going telecom site's construction.
- Preparing monthly W.I.P Report, ensuring its accurately matching with General Ledger, ensuring revenue and costs are properly allocated to the respective accounts, by supervising accounting entries.
- Preparation and filing of VAT return by second week of every month.
- Checking sales & supplier invoices, expenses, bank payments, transfers, receipts and petty cash disbursements.
- Preparing, overseeing and managing interim quarter & annual audit engagements, guaranteeing timely audit closure.
- Preparation of monthly, quarterly, annual reporting, including group consolidations, intra-company transactions, off-setting payables vs. receivables, and passing necessary journal entries to ensure month, quarter, and year end reconciliations.
- Disbursement of cash floats to project teams, and project employees, in accordance with their expense claims.
- Maintenance of cash levels all the time; reconciliation of cash at the end of day, week, month, quarter and year.
- Making wire transfers online to local & international suppliers, stakeholders, and project teams.
- Liaison with Commercial Banks for issuance of Letter of Credits, Letter of Guarantees, and other banking related correspondence.
- Lead the Accounting software transformation from Sage Peachtree to Oracle E-Business Suite.
- Responsible for creating chart of accounts.
- Lead the liaison between implementation team, finance team, with projects and SCM.
- Managed to maintain both software packages side by side for one year, until complete transfer became 100% accurately successful.
General Accountant & Cashier
Alkaff Clinics & Subsidiaries
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
11.2017 - 04.2019
- Design, developed & implemented revenue calculation, pricing, costing model and doctor's professional fees policies.
- Prepare monthly revenue, costing & professional fees calculations, rolling cash flow, salaries.
- Prepare and maintain up-to-date GL/Ledger, vendor, customers' profiling and ageing.
- Prepare intra-company accounts and maintain the complete accounting cycle of 1 clinic & 3 subsidiaries - Preparation of consolidated Financials, VAT, and GOSI reports monthly, quarterly, and annually.
- Managing financial transactions of patients at the reception, using cash, debit, and credit cards.
- Counting, reconciling cash receipts and payments daily, monthly, and quarterly and annually.
- Maintaining cash threshold levels in all denominations, to use for petty cash expenses.
- Preparation of audit requirements and full cycle consolidated audit completion of the 4 subsidiaries.
- Relationship building & liaison with insurance companies, clinic consumable vendors, medical supplies companies.
- Check customers' credit and approve sales invoices.
- Ensure customers pay on time and chase any overdue invoices.
Accountant
Emcan Business Technology
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
12.2012 - 10.2017
- Prepare monthly management accounting information and finalize monthly, quarterly & year-end financial statements. (Income statement, balance sheet actual vs. budgeted).
- Preparation of Aging Analysis, Rolling Cash Flow Management, Accruals, Payroll, Payables, Receivables Reconciliation.
- Monthly revenue and cost and month end closing.
- Assist the Credit Team to ensure the accuracy of all charges and credits to the various accounts.
- Loan scheduling and rescheduling in accordance with funds requirement.
- Handling banking jobs, which include Opening, issuance, settlement of LGs, LCs, ODs.
- Petty cash handling, disbursement of cash for projects and administrative tasks.
- Closing issued advance cash with the expenses on monthly basis.
- Replenishment & reconciliation of cash in local and foreign currencies for daily use.
- Follow up on all overdue accounts.
- Managing inventory using latest stock control methods.
- Presentation of financial records to Auditor & fulfillment of their queries.
- Preparing and presenting board resolutions/minutes of meetings/presentations for Financial performance and budgets on quarterly and yearly basis.
Warehouse Planning & Reporting Executive (MIS)
WARID TELECOM
Lahore, Pakistan
05.2011 - 10.2012
- Preparation of daily, weekly, and monthly stock in/out flow reports within agreed KPI.
- Daily Reconciliation of inventory in all warehouses (6) nationwide.
- Putting GRNs in company's ERP.
- Conducting monthly, quarterly, yearly audits of stocks i.e., Sims and scratch cards in warehouses.
- Complete interaction with the vendors about Inventory and other queries.
- Monitoring of Re-order level of Telco & Non-Telco inventory.
- Verifying Reports prepared at Central Warehouse and all regions regarding Telco & Non-Telco items.
- Liaison with the Auditors, Region's, and Central Warehouse's staff, Commercial, Sales and Dispatch teams.
- Helped manager in the recruitment of key departmental posts and ensure the best practices are followed as per recruitment's KPIs.
Education
Masters - Finance
Masters in business administration
PakistanBachelors -
Bachelors in Commence
PakistanSkills
- FS
- Cashflow
- Budgets
- AR
- AP
- GL
- Project-Based Accounting
- Inventory Management
- Invoicing
- Banking Relations
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Advance level of Excel
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with team of [Number] in the development of [Project name].
- Achieved [Result] by introducing [Software] for [Type] tasks.
- Achieved [Result] through effectively helping with [Task].
- Supervised team of [Number] staff members.
- Documented and resolved [Issue] which led to [Results].
- Achieved [Result] by completing [Task] with accuracy and efficiency.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
Erp And Computer Skills
- Microsoft Excel (Advance user)
- Microsoft Word
- PowerPoint
- Project
- FOCUS RT
- Microsoft Dynamics AX
- Sage Peachtree
- Oracle EBS (Expert in AR, AP, Projects, Cash management, Asset Management, Sales Order management)
Future Aspirations
- Learning Python, Alteryx, Microsoft Power BI, SQL, and data analytics.
- Preparing for Norwegian tax and accounting law exam.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Norwegian
Limited Working
Urdu
Native or Bilingual
Arabic
Professional Working
Timeline
Assistant Restaurant Manager
ISushi As
04.2022 - Current
Kitchen Helper & Cashier
Burger King AS
01.2022 - 04.2022
General Accountant
AL-BABTAIN LEBLANC TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM
05.2019 - 08.2021
General Accountant & Cashier
Alkaff Clinics & Subsidiaries
11.2017 - 04.2019
Accountant
Emcan Business Technology
12.2012 - 10.2017
Warehouse Planning & Reporting Executive (MIS)
WARID TELECOM
05.2011 - 10.2012
Bachelors -
Bachelors in Commence
Masters - Finance
Masters in business administration