MUHAMMAD ARSHAD Dubai, United Arab Emirates

m_arshad4you@hotmail.com

+971-50-8541086

Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

Career Objective

To grow in a progressive organization as finance professional where the blend of my 11

years’ experience and enhanced educational skills can help in achieving the goals of the company. I would

like to exploit my potential and sense of obligation for the benefit of the organization.

Experience

May, 2014 – to date RIXOS BAB AL BAHR HOTEL

Al Marjan Island RAK, United Arab Emirates

Revenue Auditor

Responsibilities:

- Responsibilities include analyzing the night audit work for accuracy and completeness, verifying allowances and miscellaneous postings for proper authorization and coding and preparing the daily sales journals and reports. Researching and resolving all discrepancies that is revenue related and developing procedures to eliminate such discrepancies.

- On a daily basis, verify that the daily-created Opera night audit spool files are working correctly and closely audit the trial balance. Verify that there are no control sums for Guest Ledger, City Ledger and Deposit Ledger. Report any discrepancies to the Assistant Controller and investigate the differences.

- Sort and file all back up received in the night audit file/box from night receptionist. Read the night handover log and action if applicable. Liaise closely with night audit and review night audit work daily for accuracy.

- Work closely with Front Office (FO) and Food & Beverage (F&B) to ensure postings are accurate and any discrepancies are resolved in a timely manner.

- Make sure that Daily Revenue Report (DRR) is ready for management by 08:00 AM.

- Review all rebates and allowances and ensure they are properly authorized and to report all deviations from prevailing policies and procedures.

- Verification of sales from Rooms, Food and Beverage and other Operational Departments and rectify any discrepancies.

- Ensure timely preparation and distribution of daily revenue and statistics report.

- Post all transactions in the revenue and allowance journal and any adjustments after sales receipts are confirmed.

- Verification of all Food and Beverage discounted checks are justified, properly recorded into POS system and to prepare utilization report for Management.

-Reconciling the Emiri Decree (Tourism Dirhams Fee) on daily basis for the government and sending to Accounts

Payable every month for the payment process

Jul, 2009 – Apr, 2014 QASR AL SARAB DESERT RESORT Liwa Desert, Abu Dhabi. United Arab Emirates

(Pre-Opening) Income Auditor (Supervisor)

Jan, 2008 – Apr, 2009 ANGSANA HOTEL & SUITES Dubai. United Arab Emirates

(Pre-Opening)Income Auditor

Responsibilities:

- Reporting to the Financial Controller - Communicating with the heads of department on matters related to Income Audit

- Revenue balancing of all interface revenue to Opera (PMS) - Ensure that Night Auditor has provided all the closed day reports generated from PMS and POS. - Verification of Night Audit Reports Paid Outs, Refunds, Rebates, Official/Personal Telephone Calls. - Verification of Officer’s, Entertainment and other Discounts Checks. - Sequential Control & Verification of Banquet Event Order. - Sequential Control & Verification of manual miscellaneous vouchers. - Verification of all A/R Payments postings with bank statement. - Reconcile the entire credits amount in bank and posting bank JV’s. - Audit the daily cash summary of General Cashier and posting General Cashier JV. - Checking the Daily Revenues and posting all the income related JV to Sun System. - Preparing service charge and Tips for the staff and sending to pay roll officer for distribution. - Reconciling and preparing documents for Municipality fees and sending to accounts payable for payment and input the data online. - Conduct spot checks on all the House Bank (Float Cash). - Preparing of all monthly income reports. - Conduct Trainings for the F&B and F/O cashiers according to the requirements of Finance. - Maintain all the income records in proper manner for future external and internal audits.

- Dealing with Auditors for the income audit, A/R and General Cashier related queries. - Review rate variance report in order to ensure the correct rate is applied and taking action if any discrepancy recoded in the rate codes. - Review all the packages linked to the rate codes has the correct split of the revenues. - Handling internal and external auditor’s query related to income audit/General Cashier/A/R. - Handling guest credit card disputes with bank as well as with guest directly. - Checking all the cc refund documents according to the hotel cc refund policy before approving. - Handling the government audit for the tourism/Municipality fee related queries. - Maintain the proper documents storage for the audit backup’s requirements. - Assisting the Chief accountant for the month closing and financial reporting as well as Budgeting and Forecasting.

May, 2006 – Dec, 2007 JUMEIRAH BEACH HOTEL

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Finance Assistant (Night Auditor)

Responsibilities:

- Checking all front office and food and beverage cashiers transactions through micros and Fidelio reports. - Balancing and Verifications of the Micros 8700(F&B Outlets Point of Sale System) and Fidelio Reports.

- Balancing the Credit Card Postings and the Purchases for the day. - Making the Food and Beverage, Daily Revenue and other Reports for the Management review daily. - Balancing and Checking the Inter-Property reports concerned with other SBU’s - Verification of Revenue and Non-Revenue Reports through Accounting Codes. - Verification of rebates makes for the room, food and beverage and other heads. - Spot Checks and float count of Food and Beverage and Front Office Cashiers. - City Ledger checking and handling into the Credit Department. - Training new Recruits. - Preparing the Daily Revenue Report for the management review.

Jun, 2004 – Apr, 2006 JUMEIRAH BEACH CLUB Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Outlet Cashier

Night Audit Reliever (6 Months)

Responsibilities:

- Worked on Micros-Pos System - Handling Customer Bills.

- Settling customer Bills in different mode of payments. - Handling Credit card Machines, Visa, Master and Amex. - Handling all Discount Checks and submitting to Night Auditor. - Dropping all complimentary checks to Cost Audit Department. - Submitting void checks to night auditor as well as cost audit dept. - Updating daily log book in finance department. - At the end of operation, verifying all credit card reports and cash with Micros report. - Dropping cash sales in front of front office witness in safe Box. - End of the operation submitting all reports to the night auditor. - Dropping the cash float in security office in safe box. - Reliving the night auditor on his day off and annual vacation for the night audit tasks.

Education

Passing Year: 2001 Intermediate in Arts (F.A)Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Pakistan

Matriculation – Science Passing Year: 1999

Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Pakistan

Languages {

Reading Writing Spoken

English Excellent Excellent Good

Urdu Excellent Excellent Excellent

Punjabi Excellent Excellent Excellent

Arabic Excellent Average below Average

Hobbies {

o Foosball (Hand-Ball Game) o Listening Music o Cricket o Surfing Internet.

Trainings

1) General Accountant (3 Months Training)

2) Accounts Receivable (2 Months Training)

3) General Cashier (2 Months Training)

4) Accounts payable (1 Month Training)

Computer Application Knowledge

Sun Accounting Systems (Micros Fidelio Financials.

Experienced and thorough Configuration Knowledge of Opera (PMS)

Experienced and thorough Configuration Knowledge of Micros 9700 (EMC)

Baron Applications (Membership Accounting System.

TMS Call Accounting System (Telephone Accounting System

Internet Surfing, Browsing E-Mail.

Microsoft Office – Ms-Excel, World & Outlook

Personal Details:

Father’s Name : Roshan Din Date of Birth : 06th April, 1981 Nationality : Pakistani Religion : Islam Marital status : Married Passport # : BM1919141 UAE Driving License : Light Vehicle

References

-References will be furnished upon request.