Syed Usama Bin Waqar is the Financial Controller at Lambert Electromec. Lambert Electromec Limited is a leading EPC company in Africa, with a specialty in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering & Construction. Lambert specializes in executing complex Oil & Gas, Buildings and Power infrastructure projects that require the highest level of technical know-how.
Syed Usama is a certified Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP). He also has a degree of MA (Economics) from the University of Karachi.
In his current role, Syed Usama is responsible for all accounting, audit, tax and compliance matters of designated group companies, for the preparation of monthly management reporting and quarterly budgeting, supervision of tax and corporate compliance team, and treasury management.
In his last role Syed Usama was the Manager Financial Advisory and Outsourcing at Arthur Lawrence where he was responsible for monthly budgeting and reporting of US based clients and ensuring treasury management and taking charge of day to day operations.
Syed Usama has also worked at EY Ford Rhodes, a member firm of Ernst & Young Global.
He worked there as Assistant Manager in the Global Compliance and Reporting (GCR) Department,wherein he was responsible for all accounting, audit, tax and compliance matters of two designated companies; preparation of monthly management reporting and quarterly budgeting; supervision of tax and corporate compliance team; and quarterly group consolidation and coordination with auditors. Syed Usama was also awarded with the opportunity of working for EY Dubai for five months which strengthened his technical knowledge along with business understanding.
He is a performance-driven individual with 8 years of experience and exceptional people and financial management skills. He seeks to bring skills, knowledge and herculean victories to the corporate family which provides unrivalled opportunities and learning environment to succeed and realize his full potential.
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