Samir Ahmad, CA

Experience

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  Askari Leasing Ltd.

  Sept 1996 - Jun 1999

  Branch Manager (Acting)

  Held various roles in this company, I started as a Marketing and Credit Officer and was given additional responsibility of Acting Branch Manager in 1998.

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  Mayne Group Finance

  Jan 2002 - Jun 2004

  Reporting Analyst
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  Wesfarmers Insurance

  Jun 2004 - Apr 2010

  Systems Accountant

  I held various positions in this company, ranging from working as a Data Analyst, IT Business Analyst, Assistant Accountant and then finally as a Systems Accountant.

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  ANZ

  Aug 2010 - Apr 2012

  Finance Systems Specialist

  Key Achievements- Played a key role in streamlining the monthly data loads from PSGL to HFM. The process resulted in the provision of timely and accurate information to about 1000 users across 30 countries. This also resulted in a significant reduction of the effort required to prepare these communications. The new process took about 10 minutes to complete each time as opposed to 3 hours.- Significantly improved the PSGL reconciliation process of FTP (Funds Transfer Pricing) Accounts across the Trading bank and Esanda Business units. The new process resulted in reducing the processing time i.e. 15 minutes as opposed to about 4 hours. Show less

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  National Australia Bank

  Jul 2012 - Jun 2017

  Key Achievements- Using my advance skills in Excel, Helped the Group GST Team by analytical support to recover GST from ATO.- As the Performance unit's Business continuity coordinator, played a critical role in the smooth running of the bank's processes in a live event which involved technology breakdown.- Promoted a culture of continuous process improvement among the Finance Systems team members by utilizing Kaizen Methodology Key Achievements- Played a key role in outsourcing of the performance unit’s non-core functions to India and Philippines- Successfully supervised and trained offshore staff and helped them quickly get up to speed.- As a member of the Risk Forum, helped improve the team's understanding of operational risk and adoption of tools to keep track of Key Risk Indicators.- Participated in several high profile projects including a project to launch new mobile point of sale product. Key Achievements- Played a pioneering role in the implementation of the BlackLine System (A cloud-based system used for Reconciliation/attestation of Balance Sheet Accounts). Some of the responsibilities included gathering requirements, creating an interface between SAP/DRM and BlackLine System to generate the various files, preparing and demonstrating the new system to department heads in Finance.

  • Senior Analyst, Record To Account

    Aug 2015 - Jun 2017

  • Senior Analyst, Solutions Design Specialist

    Jul 2013 - Jul 2015

  • Systems Accounting Specialist

    Jul 2012 - Jun 2013
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  National University of Technology, Islamabad

  Dec 2018 - Feb 2019

  Deputy Director Finance/Deputy Treasurer
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  Askari General Insurance Company Limited

  Mar 2019 - Dec 2021

  Head of Health Insurance

  Oversee all day-to-day operations of the organisation’s health insurance business segment, including all underwriting and claims management, hospital, and client relationship management. Participate in Multi Billion Rupees Health Insurance projects, directly supervised a high-performing team, with direct responsibility of 40+ employees ensuring quality services throughout the country. Achievements- Improved payment processes (through automation and process improvement) of more than Rs. 1 billion/year in payment of claims, which translated into 70,000 Plus claim payments per year.- Improved Vendor reconciliation process of more than 200 active hospitals ensuring timely payments to them.- Achieved digitization by moving the claim processing to a 100% paperless environment thus saving the company millions of Rupees and making the whole process efficient and transparent.- Created reports using the power of cloud and end-user computing to calculate key loss ratio reports for up to four years of historical data.- Created several cutting edge Actuarial reports which greatly enhanced the departments capability to accurately price new risk Show less

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  Genius Accounting Solutions

  Jun 2022 - now

  Founder and CEO

  Genius Accounting Solutions is an innovative accounting and cloud computing company engaged in providing cutting-edge finance solutions to its customers. It only works with the best cloud computing companies in the world and as such our services are unmatched in all aspects. We have extensive experience with Xero, QBO and Amazon Web Services (AWS) which enables us to provide off the shelf solutions as well as helps us build server less customized web-applications for our customers. Our goal is to become a unique service specializing in the cloud-based finance solutions. The future is already here, and we want to help our customers take advantage of the latest technologies in computing. Our primary services include Bookkeeping, Financial Reporting, Taxation, Data Analytics and Project Management (Including System Implementation, finance application development and Automation).We are looking forward to welcoming you as our valued client. Show less

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  Exceleris Consulting Pty Ltd.

  Aug 2023 - now

  ERP Systems Consultant