Md Rafiul Ahasan

- Managed a substantial amount of operational fund in multiple investment portfolio ensuring maximum rate of return while minimizing risk exposure

- Ensured company's optimum liquidity to meet the daily cash requirements through forecasting cash flows, payables, and receivables

- Responsible for weekly payments to various stakeholders including financial institutions, payroll and vendors

- Dealt with central bank regarding inward and outward foreign remittance of two major clients - Meta and Google

- Also, was responsible for subsequent reporting of central bank

- User of different banking platform including CITI, SCB, ABA, ANZ, HSBC, BCEL, etc

- And also worked as regional contact person to maintain bank accounts

- Prepare Consolidated Daily Cash Position for all Bangladesh & Southeast Asia subsidiaries using Kyriba

- Consolidate weekly cash Flow and payment proposal to analyze and approve weekly payments

- Prepare information for weekly payment reviews meeting with the Treasury team

- Consolidate monthly payment proposal to analyze current month cash position vs 3-month forecast

- Assist with the preparation of short and long-term cash flow budgets and forecast reports as required

- Review and approve all bank reconciliations and prepare master reconciliation report with required documentation (bank reconciliations properly signed with bank statements) according to SOX

- Review and approve Petty Cash reports, deposited funds, and Held Checks, prepare consolidation of monthly AP

- Responsible for the reconciliation of AP Module with G/L for Bangladesh & Southeast Asia subsidiaries

- Follow up and clean un-reconciled differences

- Closely works with the closing Team and Local AP Analyst to ensure invoices are properly reconciled and recorded in the system (Twitter, Google, Facebook, TikTok etc).

- Dealt national & international agent, buyer and shipper with financial aspects of freight forwarding business for export & import shipments.

- Some of the agents are C&A, Carrefour, Takko, Delmar, Clasquin and Sovereign which monthly average turnover are 2,500 TUES and 1,200 TONS respectively

- Worked with Credit Report, Sales Report, Profit & Loss Analysis, Budget and Forecast, Fund Management, Working Capital Management, Payment Analysis, Receivable Analysis and provided strategic financial & operational insights along with recommendations

- Have expertise in documentation of export-import business, Incoterms, FE Circular of BB, Foreign Transaction System for both PP & CC shipments

- Closely monitored foreign currency and negotiated with bank to make currency gain during inward and outward remittance for export & import shipments

- My profile consists of monthly average USD 400,000 inward and same amount of outward remittance

- Faced regular financial audit with ad hoc requirements including deposits, disbursement, reconciliations, SOP, TAX & VAT and other compliance issues

- Responsible for approving & reviewing general and operational expenses, keeping track and trend of these disbursements in P&L Report

- Record keeping, supervising payment and receivable adjustments, revenue and expense ledger maintaining, asset tracking in SAP.

- Managing credit through customer Valuation, making credit recovery plan, regular follow-up, aligning sales team with market credit, performing periodic market visit

- Ensured inventory accuracy and liquidation and maintained optimal inventory level at branch warehouse, responsible for real time Good Receipt, Reverse Logistics verification and controlling

- Worked with Credit Report, Sales Report, Monthly Physical Inventory Verification Report, Monthly Branch Report, Profit & Loss Report and provided strategic financial and operational insights along with recommendations

- Maintained relationship and day to day communications with different stakeholders including customer, bank, vendors and business partners

- Collaboration with all organizational departments including Supply Chain, Logistics, Operation, Sales, HR to proactively run the business operation and take financial decisions

- Worked with operating system like SAP and BIZOM to implement SOP, account receivables, payables & expense record keeping and verification, asset tracking etc.

- Worked with account receivable & payables and maintained VAT current account at MAPICS.

- Supported staff members in their daily tasks, reducing workload burden and allowing for increased focus on higher-priority assignments.