Mujtaba Ahmed

Highly hardworking, motivated and dedicated student of ACCA, who wants to initiate his career in the field of accountancy and finance, I have the knowledge and skills of accounting, finance, IFRS standards, audit and ISAs as well as on the soft side strong interpersonal, intrapersonal, communication and presentation skills.

Senior Associate Finance - Lucky Cement Limited - Karachi

(2024-11)

Lucky Cement Limited is one of the largest cement production entities in Pakistan. It's listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. I am currently working in the investment department of Lucky Cement Limited which looks after Lucky Cement Limited's whole accounting process including budgeting, forecasting, taxation matters, treasury, receivables, and payables and reporting.

• Preparation of monthly provident fund.
• Preparation of month-end debit notes.
• Preparation of monthly per diem.
• Preparation of monthly payroll.
• Preparation costing, budgeting and forecasting reports.
• Preparation of monthly financial statements.
• Preparation of fund transfers.
• Analysis of financial statements.
• Liaison with internal and external auditors on audit matters.
• Preparation of financial models.
• Preparation of employee's income tax certificates.

Finance Trainee Officer - Magnus Investments Limited - Karachi

(2024-02 - 2024-08)

Magnus Investments Limited is a public non-listed entity with a diversified portfolio of retirement benefit plan funds tailored to both it's individual and corporate clients. Additionally, it also provides services of pension advice and post-employment planning to retirees.

• Hands-on experience of daily tasks of cash monitoring of bank balances of management and directors account.
• Hands-on experience in ERP related to payroll processing.
• Hands-on experience related to medical reimbursement of employees.
• Implementation of IFRS 9 Financial Instruments.
• Implementation of IAS 24 Related Party Disclosures.
• Implementation of IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers.
• Conducted bank reconciliations.
• Conducted provident fund reporting on a month-by-month basis.
• Conducted reconciliation of balances of courier charges through source documents.
• Aggregated data of journal ledger vouchers, BRVs and BPVs and compiled them.
• Drafted provisioning policy through examining and analyzing prior data and reaching a conclusion.
• Updated change of signatories of zakat letters and board resolutions and authorized them from senior management.
• Presented data to senior management in relation to schemes of insurance policies applicable on the entity's employees.
• Assisted in weekly portfolio reporting.
• Conducted a summary description of the Finance Act 2024 amendments.

ACCA Trainee - BDO Ebrahim & Co - Karachi

(2023-04 - 2023-08)

BDO is the 5th largest audit firm in the world, related to accounting, taxation, auditing, corporate law and risk and advisory to almost the entire corporate sector around the globe. The firm is specially tailored to hiring and retaining chartered accountancy (CA) and ACCA students. Deputed in Amreli Steel Limited/OMI Hospital in Internal Audit Department.

• Involved in daily task of ibft verification.
• Conducted audit trail in relation to finance department (billing audit, invoicing audit).
• Coordinated with CIA to ensure audit is conducted in a timely and structured manner.
• Continuous feedback with CIA in relation to audit recommendations and suggestions as agreed by management.
• Involved in extensive fieldwork in relation to steels rebars (finished goods audit), raw material audit and scrap audit.
• Responsible for preparing audit plan and policies at the start of the audit.
• Responsible for finalizing and reports documenting observations at the end of the audit trail.
• Conducted inventory count in OMI Hospital in relation to pharmacy, cath lab, operation room and central store.
• Liaison with the team in relation to OMI DHA clinic stock count.
• Coordination with the team report in relation to aggregating and finalizing the stock count final report and communicating observations.

Finance Trainee - JS Investments - Karachi

(2022-06 - 2022-08)

Worked at JS Investments (oldest private sector company in Pakistan) as a finance trainee in asset management side of accounts department. In this challenging role I got the opportunity to put my knowledge into practice and learn from trial and error. I demonstrated strong interpersonal, intrapersonal, communication, presentation and problem solving skills which helped me to adapt to the competitive environment of the corporate sector in Pakistan.

• Sequential pre-numbering of general ledger vouchers, receipt vouchers, payment vouchers, debit notes, credit notes and provident fund vouchers in a chronological order.
• Filling cheques and deposit slips in relation to payments and authorizing it from senior management through approved authorized signatories.
• Filling redemption forms in relation to redeeming funds into cash and authorizing it from senior management through approved authorized signatories.
• Filling transfer of funds forms in relation to transferring funds and authorizing it from senior management through approved authorized signatories.
• Updating NAV (Net Asset Value) on mutual funds portfolio on a daily basis.
• Hands-on experience on ERP software in relation to generating general ledger vouchers, receipt vouchers and payment vouchers.
• Preparing budgets of the current year in relation to IT and Admin CAPEX and OPEX activities.
• Conducting bank reconciliations through identifying discrepancies on general ledger voucher schedule and bank statements on MS Excel.
• Preparing proxy statements on MS Word and authorizing it from senior management through approved authorized signatories.
• Liaison with internal and external auditors.

O-levels - Pre-Engineering - General Certificate of Education

A-levels - Commerce - General Certificate of Education

AB: Accountant in business / BT: Business and Technology - Accountancy - ACCA

MA: Management Accounting - Accountancy - ACCA

FA: Financial Accounting - Accountancy - ACCA

LW: Corporate and Business Law - Accountancy - ACCA

PM: Performance Management - Accountancy - ACCA

TX: Taxation - Accountancy - ACCA

FR: Financial Reporting - Accountancy - ACCA

AA: Audit and Assurance - Accountancy - ACCA

FM: Financial Management - Accountancy - ACCA

SBR: Strategic Business Reporting - Accountancy - ACCA

SBL: Strategic Business Leader - Accountancy - ACCA (2026-09)

AFM: Advanced Financial Management - Accountancy - ACCA

ATX: Advanced Taxation - Accountancy - ACCA