Bilal Haider

Career

1. Sharp Accountax, London — Now

   Since moving to the UK, he has worked as a client manager at a chartered accountancy practice, running a broad portfolio from preparation through review and filing, and as a Corporate Tax Advisor at a top-tier firm. He then founded Sharp Accountax.

   As Director, he leads the firm's technical and advisory practice and the team delivering accounting, tax and compliance work for SME and owner-managed businesses. He advises on corporate tax and group structuring, capital allowances, share schemes and EMI valuations, R&D relief, VAT (including property, partial exemption and ecommerce), personal tax, residence and domicile, and HMRC enquiries and disclosures. He also looks after groups with operations in several jurisdictions. He handles their international tax matters and liaises with overseas advisers and authorities so that UK and foreign obligations are managed together.

   He oversees the firm's accounting, payroll and VAT compliance services, and has deep systems expertise across Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, SAP and bespoke ERPs. He helps clients build finance processes and reporting that keep up as their businesses grow.

2. United States

   His US experience combines senior in-house finance roles with ongoing work for US clients. At PCM Inc, a NYSE-listed technology company in Seattle, he was Senior Financial Analyst for revenue on the company's Microsoft business. He classified and reported revenue across Microsoft licensing programmes (MPSA, Campus, Select Plus and Enterprise Agreement Subscriptions), forecast monthly revenue and margin in SAP, resolved vendor incentive variances, and reported to sales and finance leadership within the control environment of a US-listed company.

   He went on to serve as Senior Manager, Accounting and Finance, for a California financial services company. He led a team of six across the United States and Pakistan and was responsible for the full accounting cycle, cash flow management, corporate governance and internal audit. He also built financial and capital investment models to evaluate prospective investments.

   Through Sharp Accountax he continues to act for US businesses and cross-border entities. This covers bookkeeping and financial reporting, payroll, and federal and state compliance. He has prepared and filed IRS Forms W-2 and W-3, 1099 and 1096, 1095-C and 1094-C, and 941 and 940. He has also registered clients for state unemployment insurance (SUTA) and sales and use tax across several states, obtained seller's permits, set up state tax IDs on payroll platforms, and dealt directly with state revenue departments on enforcement matters and levies.

3. Canada

   From January 2017 to December 2023 he worked as a fractional Financial Controller with Adaptive Controllers, a Canadian finance practice, alongside his US roles. His clients included a large financial management company, where he handled its investments in ventures in the care and assisted living sector, and a business in the oil and gas sector. For more than four years he also ran the full-cycle accounting for a Saskatchewan-based national charitable organisation with lodges across Canada. That work covered GST/HST returns, payroll, annual filings with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and liaison with external auditors through each year-end.

4. Islamabad, Pakistan

   He began his career in Islamabad as Assistant Finance Manager at a leading pharmaceutical company. There he prepared statutory accounts, ran tax compliance and coordinated the year-end audit. He then joined Ernst & Young (EY) in audit and assurance, working on statutory audits of large corporate clients.