Ahmad Zafi
GL Accountant
Shah Alam,Selangor
Summary
Experienced finance professional prepared for role in general ledger accounting. Adept in managing account reconciliations, financial reporting, and compliance. Strong focus on team collaboration and delivering consistent results. Known for reliability, adaptability, and keen eye for accuracy and efficiency.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
Work History
GL ACCOUNTANT
INFOSYS LIMITED (Rehired From Hasbro)
Petaling Jaya, Selangor
06.2024 - Current
- Contributed as part of the initial team responsible for setting up accounting operations for Pulse Asia (D2C business model) in the APAC region.
- Identify expenses that wrongly charge the cost center and perform reclassification
- Provided journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
- Ensured timely financial reporting by adhering to strict deadlines and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Provide comments to KPMG pack balance sheet schedule commentary
- Support on providing audit request data for statistical audit and tax
- Supported budget preparation and forecasting activities, providing accurate data for informed decision making.
- Enhanced financial accuracy by meticulously reconciling balance sheet accounts and resolving discrepancies.
- Collaborated closely with other departments to resolve any discrepancies or issues related to intercompany transactions quickly and efficiently.
GL ACCOUNTANT
HASBRO TOY(M) SDN. BHD.
Petaling Jaya, Selangor
02.2023 - 05.2024
- Contributed as part of the initial team responsible for setting up accounting operations for Pulse Asia (D2C business model) in the APAC region.
- Identify expenses that wrongly charge the cost center and perform reclassification
- Provided journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
- Ensured timely financial reporting by adhering to strict deadlines and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Provide comments to KPMG pack balance sheet schedule commentary
- Support on providing audit request data for statistical audit and tax
- Supported budget preparation and forecasting activities, providing accurate data for informed decision making.
- Enhanced financial accuracy by meticulously reconciling balance sheet accounts and resolving discrepancies.
- Collaborated closely with other departments to resolve any discrepancies or issues related to intercompany transactions quickly and efficiently.
SENIOR EXECUTIVE, RTR
ELECTROLUX COE AP AC
Shah Alam, Selangor
02.2019 - 08.2022
- Acting as point of contact (operation) for Indonesia Region on a General Ledger matter:
- Fixed Asset Management
- Creating FA ID for new acquisition asset
- Execute disposal
- Run monthly depreciation
- Prepare monthly FA reconciliation
- Ad hoc request regarding FA
- Post Leasing asset journal
- Inventory Management
- Execute Stock Adjustment (IP type)
- CARDEX adjustment
- Prepare monthly Inventory reconciliation
- Run weekly Inventory integrity report
- Obsolete Stock Provision (OBS)
- Prepare working file for OBS additional provision on monthly basis
- Gap analysis between OBS vs Inventory Report and Unprinted Invoices Report
- Post additional OBS provision journal
- Treasury and Cash management
- Post transfer fund journal
- Run monthly bank revaluation
- Month end closing
- Run monthly AP revaluation
- Post tax related journals (Stamp meterai, VAT, PPH)
- Post PPV & SVA journals
- Prepare and post prepayment journal
- Prepare and post Payroll journals
- Run monthly allocation
- Advertising and Promotion
- Vouch supporting documents for A&P accrual
- Summarize monthly A&P accrual and post the accrual journal
- Warranty provision
- Prepare working file for Warranty additional provision on monthly basis
- Post additional Warranty provision journal
- Prepare Balance Sheet Reconciliation with commentary analysis
- Attend Company Secretary matters (for 6months)
RECORD TO REPORT ACCOUNTS EXECUTIVE
VINDA MALAYSIA
Shah Alam, Selangor
05.2016 - 09.2018
- Pricing (Interco pricing)
- Update inter-company working file every quarter once received Agreed Price SKU list from Product Controlling Team
- Maintaining inter-company price by quarterly in SAP system
- Attend any query on inter-co pricing matter such as comparison of the SKU price on each quarter
- Run VFX3 function (blocked billing list) to check any blocked document/invoice due to pricing error
- Fixed Asset Management
- Receive and check invoices from Purchasing Dept
- Invoice will be rejected if completeness of invoice does not adhere
- Coding the invoice (GL account, cost center)
- Key in invoice in SAP system
- Create new asset ID in SAP system
- Amend information to existing asset ID (IO no., location, serial number) when needed
- Create Internal Order (IO) to be capped with asset ID
- Purpose for reporting and controlling of capital expenditure made by department
- Run monthly depreciation
- Depreciation analysis
- Reconciliation Asset Management balances with GL balances
- Asset tagging
- Monthly follow up with Technical Manager on Asset under Construction (AUC) project
- AUC will be re-categorized to Asset Account when project is completed
- Ensure accuracy of asset category and depreciation rate for the AUC transferred
- And monitor the capital budget against the requisition
- Quarterly and Year-end CAPEX reporting
- Adjustment journals when necessary
- Cash flow reporting for asset purchases
- Reporting
- Prepare monthly, quarterly & yearly input file (P&L & Balance Sheet) for SCA Thailand and uploading to AARO System (Consolidation reporting)
- Prepare monthly, quarterly & yearly input file (P&L & Balance Sheet) for SCA Malaysia and uploading to AARO System (Consolidation reporting)
- Run section & foreign exchange allocation
- Run BOC allocation & adjustment
- Monthly tax computation for SCA Malaysia
- Update monthly Balance Sheet
- Thread Pants report – reporting on adult diapers sales to SCA Europe
- Involve in preparing supporting for yearly tax compliance such as movement of accruals
- Submission of International Investment Position (IIP) report for Bank Negara
- OPEX analysis
- Treasury (as a backup)
- Attend Treasury daily operation such as updating current bank account balance in Treasury File
- Perform Repo for the surplus cash in bank
- Hedging – monitor foreign exchange rate for purpose of payment to vendor
- Apply soft loan (BN/PN) for financing operation
- Update Customer Service Department & Credit Controller Department on incoming payment by customer before they release the order
COMMERCIAL CONTROLLING EXECUTIVE
SCA HYGIENE MALAYSIA
08.2014 - 05.2016
- Pricing
- Checking Price Form submitted by Sales Dept
- Before updating into SAP system
- Incomplete form with be rejected
- Maintaining product price in SAP system (list price, customer price & staff price)
- Roll over current price to next year
- Maintaining customer price list in excel format
- File is updated every week to reflect changes in SAP system
- Purpose to analyze customer price vs list price, easier reference without request reposts from SAP when needed
- Rebate
- Receive and check new rebate agreement form submitted by Sales Dept
- (completeness of form)
- Create new rebate agreement in SAP system
- Modify existing rebate agreement (accrual %, condition, period)
- Provide monthly accrual
- Monitor rebate claim from customer submitted by Sales Dept
- Customer's claim that runs at higher rate than accrual, will be highlighted to Manager
- Attend query on rebate report by Manager and Sales Dept
- Roll over current year rebate agreement to next year
- Prepare monthly rebate summary and claim details report
- Logistic accrual
- Analyze logistic expenses under Commercial Division
- Provide monthly accrual
- Liaising with Warehouse team on logistic issue (updates on latest logistic rate)
- COSY Allocation
- Purpose: to allocate variance in P&L Business Warehouse System (BW) against P&L SAP system
- Prepare the workings before allocation being uploaded into COSY workbook
- Reconcile between BW and SAP System after all allocation been made
- Customer & SKU reports
- Two types of report: a) Customer Centric Report b) SKU Report
- These reports were prepared after COSY allocation successfully executed
- Main purpose is to analyze profitability at customer and SKU level
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE EXECUTIVE
SCA HYGIENE MALAYSIA
05.2012 - 07.2014
- Invoice (Sundry)
- Receive and check invoices from Purchasing Dept
- Invoice will be rejected if completeness of invoice does not adhere
- Coding the invoice (GL account, cost center)
- Key in and managed 400-500 invoices in SAP system every month
- Attend query from internal and vendor about invoice
- Reconciliation creditor's statement
- Re-class journal (GL account, cost center, prepayment)
- Provide accrual (medical, utilities, rental)
- OPEX analysis
- Petty Cash
- Assess and filter petty cash application before Manager approval
- Process approved petty cash application from associates (reimbursement & cash advance)
- Key in approved petty cash application in SAP system
- Follow up consistently with cash advance applicant to return balances in stipulated time
- Raise reimbursement when cash float reaches minimum level
- Reconcile petty cash balances with GL balances
- Fixed Asset Management
- Receive and check invoices from Purchasing Dept
- Invoice will be rejected if completeness of invoice does not adhere
- Coding the invoice (GL account, cost center)
- Key in invoice in SAP system
- Create new asset ID in SAP system
- Amend information to existing asset ID (IO no., location, serial number) when needed
- Create Internal Order (IO) to be capped with asset ID
- Purpose for reporting and controlling of capital expenditure made by department
- Run monthly depreciation
- Depreciation analysis
- Reconciliation Asset Management balances with GL balances
- Asset tagging
- Monthly follow up with Technical Manager on Asset under Construction (AUC) project
- AUC will be re-categorized to Asset Account when project is completed
- Ensure accuracy of asset category and depreciation rate for the AUC transferred
- Quarterly and Year-end CAPEX reporting
- Associate Expenses Claim
- Receive and check completeness of claim submission
- Process approximate 50 claims each month and make amendment to claims that not adhere to claim policy
- Educate and enforce associates the importance to adhere the claim policy
- Attend query from requester
- Ensure all claims uploaded to SAP system by 20th each month
- Provide accrual for claim received later than 20th of the month
- Reports
- Monthly consolidation package for MY12 (SCA Marketing) & SCA Singapore
- System used is AARO
- JV Booking-journal posting in AARO for adjustment
- Assist Assistant Manager in Budget & Forecast reports
- Ad-hoc reports (OPEX) as when required by Manager
GEA ASSISTANT MANAGER
CARREFOUR MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE
08.2010 - 01.2012
- E-procurement module
- Key-in Purchase Requisition Form & Direct Purchase Order (general expenses) submitted from HQ & Stores (as an Accounts Executive)
- Modify PO – description, cost center, GL account (as an Accounts Executive)
- Do PO receiving (as an Accounts Executive)
- Register new sundry vendor (as a GEA Assistant Manager)
- Assisting GEA Manager to check and approve created PO on daily basis (as a GEA Assistant Manager)
- Invoice
- Check and key-in 500-600 invoices in PeopleSoft system (as an Accounts Executive)
- Apply manual payment (as an Accounts Executive)
- Approve of pending voucher
- Void payment
- Reconciliation of creditor's statement (as an Accounts Executive)
- Reconciliation of accrual of accounts payable
- Analysis of OPEX during month end closing
- Raise re-class journals (GL account, prepayment, cost center) (as an Accounts Executive)
- Generate management report and accrual report from PeopleSoft System
- Attend query from internal and external on invoice
- Fixed Asset Management
- Run monthly depreciation in PeopleSoft System (as an Accounts Executive)
- Process of Asset Transaction Form (addition, transfer, re-categorize, disposal) (as an Accounts Executive)
- Depreciation analysis
- Reconciliation of Asset Clearing Account
- Reconciliation of AM vs GL Balances
- CAPEX report (as an Accounts Executive)
- Arrange and lead team in fixed asset inventory at Carrefour Malaysia and Singapore branches
- Other
- Assisting Manager in implementation of accounting policies and procedure within GEA department
- Managing and offering guidance to 10 of team members when needed during month end
- Assisting Manager in coordinating additional task to team members during year end audit
- Attend ad-hoc task given and as when required by Manager
SENIOR ACCOUNTS OFFICER
SONY PRECISION ENGINEERING (M) SDN BHD
07.2008 - 07.2009
- Fixed Asset Management
- Register new asset
- Monitor and maintain database of 400-500 assets with construction in progress (CIP) status
- Disposal of asset
- Tagging new asset and conduct fixed asset physical audit
- Process Sanction Form for fixed asset purchase
- Posting fixed asset invoice into Oracle System
- Run DFF report (Fixed asset invoice report)
- Invoice
- Pull data from Purchasing System into Oracle System (AP)
- Post trade and non-trade invoices to Oracle System
- Upload manually Payment instruction (invoice) from Excel
- Send 200-300 payment advice to foreign vendor
- Sort and compile local trade vendor's invoice for payment
- Transmit payment for foreign vendor through ARIS
- Reconcile creditor's statement
- Maintain exchange rate (ARIS, Corporate, Daily) in Inpact System
Education
Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst -
CORPORATE FINANCE INSTITUTE(CFI)
Online 01.2024 - Current
Professional Master in Business Administration -
UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY OF MALAYSIA
Malaysia 01.2022 - 01.2024
Diploma in Accountancy -
UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY OF MARA
Malaysia 01.2000 - 01.2004
Pre-university in Accountancy -
UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY OF MARA
Malaysia 01.1999 - 06.1999
Skills
Detail-oriented, efficient, and organized professional with well-versed experience in accounting systems Problem-solving abilitiesBalance sheet analysisGeneral accountingFixed assets accountingGAAPAccruals and prepaymentsBank reconciliationsWell versed in Month-end closingMicrosoft officeTeamwork and collaboration Well versed in Month-end closing
Accomplishments
- Recipient of CEO Award for FY2021 at Electrolux Home Appliances Sdn. Bhd.
- Recipient of the 'Staff Recognition Award' twice at Electrolux Home Appliances Sdn. Bhd.
- Achieved 3rd place for 'Best Finance Staff' in 2017 at Vinda Malaysia..
- Analyzed the existing asset categories and identified 20-30 assets that were inaccurately categorized, resulting in a 20% reduction in depreciation expenses.
- Took the initiative to conduct depreciation analysis on ME+1
- Consistently educated the Purchasing Dept. on ensuring invoice completeness before submission, resulting in a 30% reduction in rejections.
- Compiled and executed the removal of 11,000 lines of irrelevant SKU prices.
- Collaborated closely with the Local Marketing Team (Indonesia) to identify and address under/over provision of A&P accruals.
- Successfully cleared an inventory backlog totaling IDR 5.85 million, spanning from 2012 to August 2021.
Offwork
Passionate in commodities and stock trading
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
GL ACCOUNTANT
INFOSYS LIMITED (Rehired From Hasbro)
06.2024 - Current
Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst -
CORPORATE FINANCE INSTITUTE(CFI)
01.2024 - Current
GL ACCOUNTANT
HASBRO TOY(M) SDN. BHD.
02.2023 - 05.2024
Professional Master in Business Administration -
UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY OF MALAYSIA
01.2022 - 01.2024
SENIOR EXECUTIVE, RTR
ELECTROLUX COE AP AC
02.2019 - 08.2022
RECORD TO REPORT ACCOUNTS EXECUTIVE
VINDA MALAYSIA
05.2016 - 09.2018
COMMERCIAL CONTROLLING EXECUTIVE
SCA HYGIENE MALAYSIA
08.2014 - 05.2016
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE EXECUTIVE
SCA HYGIENE MALAYSIA
05.2012 - 07.2014
GEA ASSISTANT MANAGER
CARREFOUR MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE
08.2010 - 01.2012
SENIOR ACCOUNTS OFFICER
SONY PRECISION ENGINEERING (M) SDN BHD
07.2008 - 07.2009
Diploma in Accountancy -
UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY OF MARA
01.2000 - 01.2004
Pre-university in Accountancy -
UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY OF MARA
01.1999 - 06.1999