Ahmed Ali

Financial Analyst

Consulting Mastered • Fulltime

Apr 2023 - Aug 2026 • 3 yrs 4 mos

* Manage the **full accounting cycle**, including recording journal entries, maintaining general ledgers, preparing trial balances, and supporting month-end and year-end closing activities. * Handle **accounts payable and accounts receivable**, including invoice processing, payment recording, customer collections, and vendor reconciliation. * Perform **bank and account reconciliations** and investigate discrepancies between accounting records and supporting documentation. * Prepare and maintain **profit & loss statements, balance sheets, cash-flow statements, and other financial reports**. * Support **budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting** to assist in financial decision-making. * Develop and maintain **financial models** for budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, profitability analysis, and business planning. * Perform **financial analysis**, including revenue, cost, margin, profitability, working capital, and cash-flow analysis. * Analyze historical financial data and operating assumptions to identify trends, risks, cost drivers, and opportunities for improvement. * Prepare **monthly financial reports and management dashboards** using Excel and other analytical tools. * Maintain accurate accounting records and ensure transactions are properly classified, supported, and reconciled. * Assist with **cash-flow forecasting and working-capital management** by monitoring receivables, payables, and expected cash movements. * Review financial data for accuracy and identify unusual transactions, variances, and potential control weaknesses. * Prepare financial schedules and supporting documentation for **audit, management review, and financial reporting** purposes. * Work with business and finance teams to collect financial information, validate assumptions, and improve the quality of financial analysis. * Develop and maintain advanced **Excel-based financial models, reporting templates, and analyt

External Auditor

Clarkson Hyde Global • Fulltime

Mar 2022 - May 2023 • 1 yr 2 mos

* Planned and executed external audit engagements in accordance with applicable auditing standards and firm methodologies. * Performed audit procedures across key financial statement areas, including **cash and bank, accounts receivable, accounts payable, revenue, expenses, fixed assets, inventory, and equity**. * Obtained and evaluated audit evidence through **vouching, verification, inspection, analytical procedures, confirmations, and substantive testing**. * Tested financial transactions and account balances against supporting documentation to assess **accuracy, completeness, occurrence, and validity**. * Performed **bank reconciliations and cash testing**, including verification of outstanding items and investigation of reconciling differences. * Conducted **accounts receivable and payable testing**, including aging analysis, subsequent receipts/payments, invoice verification, and supplier/customer reconciliations. * Performed **revenue and expense testing** by examining invoices, contracts, receipts, payment records, and other supporting documents. * Assisted with **inventory observations and physical verification**, including reconciliation of physical quantities with accounting records. * Tested **fixed assets**, including additions, disposals, depreciation calculations, and supporting documentation. * Performed **cut-off testing** to ensure transactions were recorded in the appropriate accounting period. * Conducted **analytical review procedures** by comparing current-period financial information with prior periods, budgets, and expectations and investigating significant variances. * Prepared and maintained **audit working papers**, lead schedules, audit evidence, testing sheets, and supporting documentation in accordance with audit methodology. * Assisted in the preparation and review of **financial statement disclosures and supporting schedules**. * Identified control deficiencies, accounting discrepancies, unusual transactions.