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Accounts & Finance Manager with hands-on experience managing multi-entity finance operations for Australian-based companies in regulated and inventory-driven environments. Expertise in financial reporting, budgeting, cash flow management, inventory control, tax compliance, financial analysis, and process improvement. Proven track record in strengthening financial controls, improving reporting accuracy, optimizing working capital, and supporting senior management with actionable financial insights and strategic decision-making.

Accounts & Finance Manager at CANNABIS WAREHOUSE GROUP (2024-01 – Present)

• Manage multi-entity accounting operations across the group, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and compliance across entities.
• Prepare consolidated financial reports, including P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow for management and stakeholders.
• Handle intercompany transactions, reconciliations, and eliminations, ensuring accurate group-level reporting.
• Lead month-end close process across entities, including journals, accruals, and variance analysis.
• Oversee inventory accounting and COGS across systems, ensuring accurate valuation and reconciliation at group level.
• Manage Australian tax compliance (BAS, PAYG, Superannuation, STP) & Income Tax Planning across entities with timely lodgements.
• Provide budget vs actual analysis and financial insights to support strategic decisions.
• Strengthen internal controls and reporting processes, improving data accuracy and audit readiness.
• Act as finance lead for system integrations, ensuring alignment of financial data across platforms (Xero – Accounting, Carton Cloud – IMS, Ordering Systems – Web Platform).
• Played a key role in ATO R&D Tax Incentive (RDTI) claim preparation, including financial analysis, cost allocation, and supporting documentation for innovative projects (AI development & hempcrete material research).

Accounts Associate (Ad-hoc Engagements) at UM & CO (CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS) (2023-04 – Present)

• Integrated Manager Accounting Software with the FBR Digital Invoicing Portal, strengthening real-time compliance and regulatory reporting.
• Supported multiple clients with income tax return preparation, monthly sales tax returns and Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) returns for individuals and private companies.
• Filed the corporate compliance filings with SECP, including submission of annual returns and financial statements.
• Managed accounting for a transportation services company (US operations), including financial statement preparation and driver payment calculations.
• Independently prepared standalone full sets of financial statements (including notes and disclosures) for private companies in Excel.
• Employee Benefit Deduction (EBD) Computation, led end-to-end computation of EBD for 100+ employees, including salary-based deductions and profit calculations, resulting in PKR 5.6M final settlement.
• Conducted physical verification of 9,800+ assets using Power Query (Excel) to consolidate multi-source data and structure inventory for depreciation and fixed asset register readiness.

AFC & CAF – Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) (2023)

Intermediate in Computer Science in Computer Science – Govt. Islamia College (2019 – 2021)