MOHAMMED FADIL RASHEED
Suva,Fiji
Summary
Accomplished Group Financial Officer at HLB Mann Judd (Fiji), adept in financial reporting and tax planning, with a proven track record in enhancing company operations through creative solutions and effective project management. Excelled in coaching teams towards achieving strategic goals, demonstrating exceptional leadership and public speaking skills.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Approved Advisor
Business Assistance Fiji (BLP)
01.2025 - Current
- Assist MSME’s with BLP’s grant programs
- Prepare business plan for the client along with cash flow and other required documents
- Review subsidy proposal, monitor jobs, prepare deliverables and send invoice for payment
Group Financial Officer
HLB Mann Judd (Fiji)
03.2023 - Current
- Oversee and manage day to day operation of the administration team
- Review monthly reports, postings and adhoc tasks, provide relevant solutions to arising problems
- Prepare Year End financials for all entities within HLB Group
- Prepare year end financials for Directors and Partners of HLB Fiji
- Administer payroll for management clients
- Prepare payroll for HLB Mann Judd (Fiji)
- Assist respective directors with office management
- Provide advisory services to new and existing clients
- Provide accounting software training and support to clients
- Assist HLB group entities with bank funding and other related matters
- Assist clients with bank funding
- Provide suggestion on tax planning for HLB Group entities
- Deal with client’s legal matters pertaining to businesses
- Provide clients and investors with advisory services on taxation, financial reporting, payroll and investment requirements in Fiji
- Manage staff within Admin team and provide advisory support to other staff when needed
- Review compliance for all entities under HLB
- Provide the board of directors with timely reporting
- Prepare budgets as per Directors’ specification
- Monitor ongoing audits and ensure each job is completed within the timeframe
- Monitor WIP, Invoicing, Timesheets and debtors for HLB Employees
- Manage cash flow for the HLB Group and ensure timely payment is done to suppliers
- Assist with quote requests from clients
- Attend to various meetings and seminars with HLB Management Team
- Meet new potential clients and advertise our services
- Advise board of directors and the management on the new software’s out on the market
- Attend to general client query requests
Acting Accountant
Cheshire Investments Pte Limited
01.2022 - 03.2023
- Assist the director with daily business transactions
- Provide monthly management reports to the director and the bank, maintain cashbook, ensure payments do not run overbudget, monitor its rental income on monthly basis, provide cash flow to the bank upon request
Senior Administration Accountant
HLB Mann Judd (Fiji)
01.2021 - 02.2023
- Processing payroll for Suva, Nadi and Labasa office
- Staff attendance and record keeping
- Performing monthly debtors and creditors reconciliation
- Monitor staff contracts and other human resources associated letters
- Monitor daily posting of receipts and payments into the system
- Assisting directors, partners and banks with specialized reports
- Monitoring daily posting of external clients trust account
- Review monthly financial and assist junior staff with rectifying errors before forwarding the financials to the director, project manager and the partners of HLB Mann Judd (Fiji)
- Assist HR department with implementing new policies
- Work with the HLB Melbourne team with their invoicing on xero
- Oversee daily work of the administration department, assist with their queries
- Oversee loan accounts to ensure all loan repayment is met before their due dates
- Assisting bank in providing cash flow statements for HLB and its subsidiaries
- Recruitment and training of new staff who join the administration or internal accounts team and provide review to the directors and partners
- Prepare partners tax returns annually and lodging the same to FRCS
- Monitor HLB and all its subsidiaries are tax compliant, and no tax payments are accrued
- Monitor statement of tax account to ensure that credits are available for the current financial period’s income tax
Intern
HLB Mann Judd (Fiji)
01.2020 - 12.2020
- Monthly bank reconciliations for HLB Mann Judd and its multiple subsidiaries
- Cash Audits for small audit clients
- Inventory adjustments after conducting stock takes
- Preparing creditor payments
- Lodging month end returns and preparing payment for the same (FNPF, VAT, FBT, PAYE, WHT, CPT)
- Reconciling statement of tax account for various subsidiary
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting, Information Systems
Fiji National University
01.2019
Fiji Year 13 Certificate Examination -
Kamil Muslim College
01.2016
Fiji Year 12 Certificate Examination -
Kamil Muslim College
01.2015
Skills
- Financial Reporting
- Tax Planning & Lodgments
- Payroll
- Bank Lending
- Book keeping
- Month End Filings
- Registrar of Companies
- Accounting Software Setup
- Training
- Presentation on Accounting
- Coaching and mentoring
- Creative solutions
- Forecasting and projections
- Presentations and public speaking
- Project management
Hobbies and Interests
- Reading crime thriller and suspense books
- Watching movies and dramas
- Listening to songs
- Swimming
- Scuba diving
- Kayaking
- Paddle boarding
- Cycling
- Hiking
- Browsing on social media
- Driving
- Playing and watching soccer
- Shopping
- Travelling to new places
Other Added Responsibilities
- Member of the HLB Leadership Team
- Member of the organizing committee
- Presented Keynote on Trust Audit Requirements at Ministry of Lands & Mineral Resources Workshop
- Assistant Manager – Suva Branch
- Xero Advisor – Corporate
Certification
- Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Information Systems)
Accomplishments
- Suggested Microsoft SharePoint usage within HLB to reduce the stress load on servers, and save on a large amount of expenditure on server maintenance in the future. This idea was approved and put in place across the Fiji offices.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Approved Advisor
Business Assistance Fiji (BLP)
01.2025 - Current
Group Financial Officer
HLB Mann Judd (Fiji)
03.2023 - Current
Acting Accountant
Cheshire Investments Pte Limited
01.2022 - 03.2023
Senior Administration Accountant
HLB Mann Judd (Fiji)
01.2021 - 02.2023
Intern
HLB Mann Judd (Fiji)
01.2020 - 12.2020
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting, Information Systems
Fiji National University
Fiji Year 13 Certificate Examination -
Kamil Muslim College
Fiji Year 12 Certificate Examination -
Kamil Muslim College
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