MALIK PESNANI
WORK EXPERIANCE
MalShahz Accountants (Full time Accountancy Practice, since Apr 2015, incorporated in Sept 2005)
DSJ Partners LLP (Merged name since April 2012) Dec 1999 to Mar 2015
JASSENS CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS (until Mar-2012)
London, UK
A Chartered Accountancy Firm (Registered Auditors in the UK) with core businesses in Audit, Tax and Statutory Accounts for the preparation of small and medium sized organisations. My responsibilities included working simultaneously on over 50 clients that included well renowned Property Developers, Refurbishment Contractors, IT Consultants, Recruitment Agencies, various Retail Outlets, various Hotels, various medium size Restaurants, Bathroom Supplier and Wholesaler, Real Estate Agents, Storage Business, Nurseries, various nursing homes and working with number of clients who are self employed.
Assignments & Responsibilities:
-Assisting various medium size companies’ audits, attending, closing and finalizing meetings.
-Preparing final accounts for small and medium size companies for submission to companies’ house and computing corporation tax returns for the IXBRL online submission to Inland Revenue.
-Book-keeping on Excel and Sage Accounting Software.
-Preparing accounts for self-employed and partnership clients and submitting their annual tax returns.
-Preparing VAT returns and preparing management accounts for various clients regular basis.
-Running monthly payroll, sub-contractors returns and submitting year end returns.
-Setting up accounting systems and accounts department for new client and current upgrading businesses.
-Meetings with HMRC inspector for client VAT and PAYE visits
-Keeping records for Firm’s Joint Monitory Unit visit and being part of visit and meetings.
Details of work done on major clients in the last 15 years:
Industry: Property Developers and Construction Contractors
-Helping Acquisition Director and Construction Director in various daily tasks whilst on site.
-Preparing Budgets and Cash flow requirements, bank loan drawdown request for various projects at different level of constructions.
-Checking valuation certificates prepared by Construction Director and keeping record of retentions.
-Authorizing Invoices in Sage MMS (line 200) Accounting software on chart of Account specially prepared for the client’s accounting needs.
-Calculating depreciations and capital allowances and submitting NRL returns for number of companies
-Preparing BACS payments for Finance Director’s authorization and making payments.
-Checking bank interest charged, loan draw downs, reconciling banks and inter company accounts.
-Preparing monthly management accounts for management and bank submission.
-Preparing monthly sub-contractors payments and tax deduction summary for submitting returns to Inland Revenue.
-Preparing VAT Returns, running payroll and annual returns.
-Preparing year end accounts for submission to companies’ house.
-Preparing analytical reviews and audit schedules.
Industry: Recruitment Agency and IT Consultants:
-Setting up customers, setting up employees depending on their contract. .i.e. either under PAYE scheme as employee or as Limited company.
-Setting up charge rate and pay rates for each type of job and contracts.
-Running weekly invoicing and payroll, running the BACS system for payments.
-Entering the Sales and Cost of sales data into accounting software called Sage line 50, entering other overhead expenses, reconciling all the control accounts for the preparation of monthly management accounts.
-Converting different currency accounts into local currency and booking the exchange gain or loss on a monthly basis.
-Preparing all the required schedules for audit purpose.
Industry: Retail and wholesale clients
-Setting up stock codes, establishing cost of sales, calculating the unit cost, setting up point of sale for different range of items, calculating the selling price, setting up POS for minimum stock quantity, re-order level and PO system using software called Retail IT.
-For another storage business client setting up POS called Space Manager, entering units and their prices, other ancillary stock item, establishing daily routines at store level.
-Visiting for monthly and yearly stock take.
-Setting up and maintaining fixed assets register.
-Setting up Client accounting system in Sage Line 50 for few clients and for chain business clients in MMS which cater for multiple stores.
-Creating Chart of accounts and other necessary database.
-Liaising with suppliers and banks.
-Preparing detailed sales journal from various reports from POS.
-Running Customer BACS collection twice a week using software called Aztech BACS storage business customer registered for DD.
-Running payroll, and making payments to staff via BACS, authorizing invoices entered by other staff and preparing payments to supplier for approval and making payments using software called Aztech BACS, reconciling banks, sales and purchase control accounts, preparing VAT returns on normal basis and on partial exemption basis for storage clients, reconciling Parent Company Account, preparing Monthly management accounts for various cost centre after passing all the necessary journals for prepayments and accruals.
-Preparing year end payroll returns, P11ds and final accounts for the submission to companies’ house and to Inland Revenue, calculating tax liability and submitting corporation tax returns.
-Preparing budgets and forecast for various business for cash flow planning, loan approvals and for management.
-Preparing various KPI reports using ODBC link and various Pivot tables, auto refresh and macros.