IT SKILLS
MOHAMMED SOHEL QURESHI
Senior Accountant, Auditor & Financial Analyst.
Dubai
Summary
Dedicated Finance professional with a history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Language
Work History
Senior Accountant
Cargo Line Shipping Services LLC
DUBAI
11.2023 - Current
- Responsibility and authority: Overall responsibility to do take care of General Accountings, managing cash and cashflow, Manage the accounts (Receivables and Payables), Making financial statements and Reports
- Reconciled accounts and created documents for monthly closure procedures.
- Prepared monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
- Provided timely and accurate financial reporting to senior management, enabling informed decision-making based on reliable data.
- Identified and resolved unauthorized, unsafe, or ineffective practices.
- Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, procedures, and performance strategies as per the requirement of the application (Fresa)
- Stream lining the accounting process
- Assisting Finance Manger for month end and yearly closing of books and preparing reports.
- Prepared detailed financial statements for quarterly board meetings, providing clear insights into financial health.
- Completed year-end closing processes with controllers and external auditors.
- Analyzed financial statement discrepancies, identifying issues, and recommending corrective actions to prevent future occurrences.
- Managed quarterly and annual tax filings for the company, ensuring timely submissions and compliance with regulations.
- Contributed to hiring, training and development of accounting teams.
- Handled problematic customers and clients to assist subordinate employees and maintain excellent customer service.
- Established strong relationships with vendors to negotiate favorable payment terms that improved working capital management.
- Managing Banking work and providing required docs.
- Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.
- Kept up-to-date with tax changes and industry trends by participating in professional organizations, opportunities, and networks.
Senior Accountant and Assistant Finance manager
SK SHIPPING LINE LLC, AL AZEEZ SHIPPING SERVICES LLC
DUBAI
06.2020 - 10.2023
- Overall responsibility to do General Accountings, Job costing, managing cash and cashflow, Manage the accounts (Receivables and Payables), Making financial statements and to see the process is working as per SOP’s
- Updated general ledger with latest entries.
- Prepared monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
- Taking due care over the day-to-day transactions
- Job costing (checking each and every job cost for profitability of each job and rectifying errors in costing)
- Maintaining and managing total cash and petty cash
- Reviewed documents and accounts for discrepancies and resolved variances.
- Expedited payroll and invoicing by streamlining billing systems.
- Collecting payments from customers by cash, card and by cheques
- Taking due care of depositing cash and cheques on time to manage funds and cashflow
- Receivable and Payable Accounting to make sure the payments are received and paid as per the agreed credit terms with proper documentation and authorization
- Checking invoicing and costing and making sure the profitability and job closing is done as per the SOP’s
- Maintaining relation with customers for smooth working of operations and accounts
- Making projections and maintaining cashflow of the company
- Maintaining BRS for all the bank accounts
- Keeping close attention towards costing and profitability of the jobs
- Weekly reporting of job closers and profitability
- Monthly closing of general ledgers
- Reconciled balance sheets and streamlined best practices for balance sheet processes.
- Handled month-end and year-end end finances by managing and reporting fixed assets and other data.
- Partnered with auditors to track errors and add contributions to maintain accuracy.
- Reconciled accounts and created documents for monthly closure procedures.
- Maintaining relation with the customers and line/slot Managers for smooth functionality
- Quarterly VAT filing
- Making financial reports for Management for decision making
- Giving financial and market analysis to the management and helping in decision making regarding the investments in jobs as well as purchasing of containers.
Lead Associate, Accountant and Auditor
MAVENSMARK BOOK KEEPING AND ACCOUNTING FIRM
Dubai
03.2019 - 06.2020
- Overall responsible for managing the branch day to day working
- Accounting for clients by visiting their sites and helping them as per there requirements
- Documented cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses, and line of credit transactions.
- Completed daily cash functions like account tracking, payroll and wage allocations, budgeting, donating, and cash, and banking reconciliations.
- Reconciled accounts and reviewed expense data, net worth, and assets.
- Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.
- Maintaining stocks
- Auditing and preparing reports
- Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge on professional accounting standards to manage financial recordkeeping.
- Maintaining documents of clients for VAT filing
- Gathered financial information, prepared documents, and closed books.
- Filing VAT
- Filing VAT refunds and making sure that clients get there refunds
- VAT Registrations
- Waving off of the penalties on clients in different cases
- Communicating with FTA regarding client’s other legal issues
- Taking care of other legal issues.
- Researched technical tax issues to define tax effect or impact of certain tax positions.
Junior Credit Risk
TINUBU SQUARE
MUMBAI
05.2018 - 02.2019
- Over all responsible for Risk Underwriting of Credit Insurance proposals mainly assessing, setting and monitoring Credit limits for the buyers of the Insured and liaison with Risk Management Agencies and other external agencies
- Financial Analysis
- Reviewed and verified income, credit reports and employment histories for each claim
- Buyer Risk assessment
- Credit Limit Setting
- Credit limit Assessment
- Credit limit monitoring
- Credit Limit enhancement/reduction
- Risk Selection
- Managing risk accumulation
- Risk management overview (Policy level)
- Claims review (Policy level)
- Liaison with Risk Management Agencies
- Liaison with Reinsurer
- I had gone for training in Paris for risk underwriting and after that now, I have an approved Authority to provide credit limits up to INR 81 lacs.
Sales Executive and Market Analyst
KARVY STOCK BROKING LTD
MUMBAI
06.2017 - 07.2017
- Months as a part of, Responsibility and authority:
- To create clients for D-MAT account
- To analyse the stocks and the market and
- Made a project on ‘Retail Stock Broking’
- Directed sales support staff in administrative tasks to help sales reps close deals.
- Answered customer questions about products and services, helped locate merchandise, and promoted key items.
- Listened to customer needs and desires to identify and recommend optimal stocks.
- Engaged in friendly conversation with customer to better uncover individual needs.
Customer Service Representative
OYO ROOMS
MUMBAI
04.2016 - 09.2016
- Made Bookings for Guests / Customers.
- Provided primary customer support to internal and external customers.
- Updated account information to maintain customer records.
- Answered constant flow of customer calls with minimal wait times.
- Maintained customer satisfaction with forward-thinking strategies focused on addressing customer needs and resolving concerns.
- Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to supervisor.
- Participated in team meetings and training sessions to stay informed about product updates and changes.
- Handled customer inquiries and suggestions courteously and professionally.
- Clarified customer issues and determined root cause of problems to resolve service complaints.
- Convinced and retained Guests / Customers.
- Solved the Escalations of the Guests / Customers.
- Cross-trained and backed up other customer service managers.
- Enhanced productivity levels by anticipating needs and delivering outstanding support.
- Developed highly empathetic client relationships and earned reputation for exceeding service standard goals.
- Met customer call guidelines for service levels, handle time and productivity.
- Followed-through on all critical inter-departmental escalations to increase customer retention rates.
Article Assistant (1.5 YEARS OF INTERNSHIP)
Subhramanian & Co
MUMBAI
10.2014 - 03.2016
- To do accounting for clients
- To do tally entries (Data entry)
- To create financial working and finalization (Balance sheet and profit and loss accounts)
- Balanced and submitted financial reports for review and approval.
- Extracted and manipulated data using different softwares.
- Gained knowledge of accounting principles and standards and general business practices to evaluate financial data and transactions.
- Filing Sale Tax returns
- Filing Value Added Tax returns
- Filing for Ministry of Corporate Affairs and
- Other legal documentation
Education
PGHM / MBA - Finance
UMA KRISHNA SHETTY (UKS) INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
MUMBAI 06.2016 - 06.2018
B.Com - Finance
ANNA LEELA COLLAGE OF COMMERCE & ECONOMICS
MUMBAI 06.2011 - 06.2014
Finance
UNIVERCITY OF MUMBAI
MUMBAI 03.2009 - 03.2011
SSC -
AIR INDIA MODERN SCHOOL
MUMBAI 03.1999 - 04.2009
Computer Training Courses Under - undefined
Air India Modern School, The Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of India
General Management and Corporate Studies - undefined
The Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of India
Skills
IT SkillsProficient with MS Office Suite, e‐mail applications, net surfing, and web research
Delegation
Staff training/development
Recruitment
Problem-Solving
Attention to Detail
Relationship building
Interpersonal Communication
Self-Motivated
Accomplishments
Awarded with Best Performance award as Senior Accountant at SK SHIPPING LINE LLC.
Supervised team of 5 Accountants at SK SHIPPING LINE & AL AZEEZ SHIPPING SERVICES.
Software
MS OFFICE SUITE
TALLY ERP 9 & PRIME
CLIMAX SOFWARE FOR SHIPPING
FRESA
ZOHO
QUICK BOOKS etc, as per the companies requirement
Timeline
Senior Accountant
Cargo Line Shipping Services LLC
11.2023 - Current
Senior Accountant and Assistant Finance manager
SK SHIPPING LINE LLC, AL AZEEZ SHIPPING SERVICES LLC
06.2020 - 10.2023
Lead Associate, Accountant and Auditor
MAVENSMARK BOOK KEEPING AND ACCOUNTING FIRM
03.2019 - 06.2020
Junior Credit Risk
TINUBU SQUARE
05.2018 - 02.2019
Sales Executive and Market Analyst
KARVY STOCK BROKING LTD
06.2017 - 07.2017
PGHM / MBA - Finance
UMA KRISHNA SHETTY (UKS) INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
06.2016 - 06.2018
Customer Service Representative
OYO ROOMS
04.2016 - 09.2016
Article Assistant (1.5 YEARS OF INTERNSHIP)
Subhramanian & Co
10.2014 - 03.2016
B.Com - Finance
ANNA LEELA COLLAGE OF COMMERCE & ECONOMICS
06.2011 - 06.2014
Finance
UNIVERCITY OF MUMBAI
03.2009 - 03.2011
SSC -
AIR INDIA MODERN SCHOOL
03.1999 - 04.2009
Computer Training Courses Under - undefined
Air India Modern School, The Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of India
General Management and Corporate Studies - undefined
The Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of India