Mr. Muhammad Safdar, FCA

Fellow Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan.

He did Masters of Commerce from University of Punjab in 1997. He worked as a partner in Muhammad Safdar and Co. Chartered Accountant and Javaid Jalal Amjad and Co. Chartered Accountants. He has rich experience of handling a large number of national and international consultancy assignments.

Core Competence

The avenues explored to provide services to clients are:

• Financial advisory
• Tax planning and compliance services
• Feasibility studies
• Corporate restructuring
• Capital structure advisory
• Audit and assurance services

Professional Experience

• From October, 2009 to date working as partner with Maqbool Haroon Shahid Safdar and Co, chartered accountants.
• From May, 2006 to September 2009 managing his Consultancy business named Muhammad Safder and Co., Chartered Accountant.
• April 2004 to May, 2006 Worked as partner in Javaid Jalal Amjad and Co., Chartered Accountants.
• March 1999 to March 2004 Worked as trainee with Javaid Jalal Amjad and Co. Chartered Accountants with one year working as manager of the firm.

Olive Group of Industries

Member Executive Committee - Board
December 2005 to date

In addition to his consultancy business, he Worked as an appointed Board Member for the group responsibilities includes:

• Leading the finance and accounting department
• Corporate planning
• Investments
• Member of executive committee for new projects
• Representation in International meetings of Dunkin Donuts - USA

Laldin Group of Industries

Member Executive Committee
June 2007 to date

Working with the group as a member of the executive committee which leads the financial, operating and business issues for the group.

ERP Implementation Projects

He also worked as Functional Consultant for Visual Sparks Technologies (Private) Limited for ERP implementation projects. The ERP includes the following customized developed modules:

• Human Resource Management and Payroll
• Purchasing and Inventory
• Revenue
• Imports and Export Shipment
• Executive Information System

The implementations are conducted for following companies.

• Reko PharmaKal (Pvt.) Limited
• Kentax Sargro (Pvt.) Limited

Industrial Exposure

• Feasibility study and transaction advisory services for 25 MW
• Kano Power station- Nigeria.
• Rizz Investcorp Limited- Kuwait, transaction advisory, business planning and capital restructuring services.

Corporate Trainer

From 2005-2007 worked as head of training to provide training to staff of different corporate entities in the following fields:

• Tax planning and compliance
• Tax audits and filing procedures
• In house sales tax audit
• Internal control and reporting structure

Publications

Budget briefing for Budget of Pakistan for financial year 2008-09.

Teaching Experience
University of Lahore-city campus
Visiting faculty since 2008.

University of South Asia (U.S.A.) - Visiting faculty member from 2007 to 2009 for the following subjects:

• Business accounting
• Taxation
• Auditing

Punjab College of Business Administration (P.C.B.A.)

• Visiting faculty member for business accounting 2008-2009.