A qualified Finance professional with over 16 years of commercial and managerial experience across Bakery Chain, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Fit out and Retail sectors.
Comes with a proven track record in managing P&L’s, improving bottom line profits and has implemented strategies that focused on margin growth. Has a proven track record in costing, budgeting, feasibility studies, scenario planning and financial modeling.
Has real passion is to business partner with commercial entities to enhance, develop and secure long term growth, stability and profitability. Strong roots within finance and supporting cost effective procurement strategies.
Has a unique ability to deduce commercial and operational information, which places him in a strategic position to turn around a business, understand its internal pressures and improve the overall profitability.
Self-motivated, highly agile and can adapt to rapid changing landscapes, with the ability to excel in a fast moving and goal-orientated environment. Demonstrates flexibility and has the ability to deal with ambiguity. A key cornerstone of his success is his ability to communicate, influence and build trust across multiple stakeholder groups.
Takes a holistic approach to his management style and is able to evoke a culture of intellectual curiosity and continuous learning to stimulate his team.
· Directed and supervised all financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management, ensuring strict adherence to regulatory standards and achieving a remarkable accuracy.
· Spearheaded a cross-functional team to implement cost-cutting initiatives, significantly improving operational efficiency throughout the organization.
· Successfully negotiated and secured Rs. 200 million in financing from a prominent financial institution to support business expansion strategies, resulting in an impressive 30% increase in revenue during the subsequent fiscal year.
· Optimized cash flow management and effectively managed funds for investments as part of treasury management responsibilities.
• Implementing MIS reporting in co-ordination with stakeholders.
• Identification of risk issues to the Audit department.
• Ensuring compliance with all accounting and reporting requirements, prescribed by relevant regulatory bodies, at all levels of operation.
• Review product costing and margin analysis.
• Segment reporting.
• Feasibility and sensitivity analysis on future projects.
• Risk Analysis of value chain of the business and ways to improve margins.
• Discount management.
• Business partnering with marketing / sales operations on special pricing and discounts offers.
• Contract management.
• ROI / KPI reviews and effectiveness of market campaigns, and product launches.
• Weekly / Monthly sales forecast review to understand the movement on sales.
• Analyze actual vs budget variance and summarize underlying drivers of variances as well as relevance to operations for regional HOD cost center.
• Treasury Management.
• Payable Management.
• Inventory and Production Planning.
• Sales Target Planning
Achievements:
• Reduction of cost of goods by 7%.
• Rationalize and minimize the discard of finished goods by 4%.
• Reduction in operational loss / theft by 6%.
• Revenue growth by 15%.
• Devising and executing strategic and tactical financial action plans focused on improving financial performance, established long-term business growth.
• Educating the Senior Management team in identifying business risks, reducing and streamlining overhead expenses, strengthening services, gross profit margins, overhauling and improved operating processes and IT systems.
• Ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting; identifying trends, and reporting on the company’s overall financial position. Preparing and reviewing cost accounting activities.
• Managing treasury by optimizing cash flow and manage funds for investment.
• Business risk analysis with revenue mix.
• Revenue Cycle Management.
• Responsible for the preparation of the financial statement and month-end report pack, monthly management accounting, and financial analysis and provided commercial commentaries on data and variances.
• Responsible for the annual budgeting and forecasting process devised the capital budget and rolled out ad hoc feasibility models for projects.
• Contract negotiation with internal and external stakeholders.
• Dealing with financial institutions for funds rising.
• Preparation of the company’s VAT returns. Ensuring that all VAT accounts are fully reconciled each month / quarter and any differences investigated and swiftly resolved.
• Heading the procurement process and negotiation.
• Inventory Management.
Key Projects:
• Implementing commercial frameworks that allocated and managed insurance billings and the recovery cycle, which optimizes cash flow.
• Rolled out cost control initiatives and revamped the procurement sign off process, leveraged relationships to secure better prices and better commercial terms.
• Implemented IT infrastructure (Oracle ERP) for timely and accurate information which reduce the risk of revenue loss.
• Preparation and accumulation of information related to formulation of budget.
• Preparation basis for annual budgets.
• Cross departmental meeting and making them understand the requirement and importance of budget.
• Preparation basis for allocating cost related to respective cost center.
• Feasibility study and project analysis, forecasting long term plan.
• Identification of error or issue relating to wrong posting of revenue and expenses in GL.
• Critically review the ERP operating procedure and guide IT team and end user for correction of data input.
• Help IT team for improvement and putting controls in ERP.
• Cross checking of department revenues with GL and highlight if there is any difference.
• Provide details for the basis of allocation to accounts team.
• Working on department wise revenue and cost.
• Working on costing on the services offered by organization.
• Identification of those revenues which are not rendered yet offered by organization.
• Preparation of department wise management accounts.
• Feasibility working on various projects
Key Achievements:
• Handling around half a billion marketing portfolio.
• Heading marketing nationally.
• Heading project nationally.
• Looking after around 73 outlet’s operation nationally.
• Heading department with around 40 team members.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Project Operation:
• Project execution of retail outlet
• Visit new locations for outlet to see the business feasibility of the location and preparing comprehensive report for management approval.
• Feasibility study and project analysis, forecasting long term plan.
• All legal agreement with landlords for outlet.
• Dealing with Govt authorities.
• Working with Architect for designing and construction of outlet.
• Marketing / Branding:
• Marketing plan and execution with agencies for ATL and BTL activities.
• Identification of sites for outdoor branding.
• Working with Print media.
• Plan and execute marketing and branding across nationwide with agencies.
• Assist G.M retail for smooth execution of campaign.
• Procurement & Operation:
• Negotiation with vendors for accessories and new development.
• To cater the requirements of all department related to procurement.
• Look after the retail operation and resolve all issues related to outlet operations.
• Working with service providers to provide service nationally.
• Identification and negotiation with vendors for OFM items.
Key Achievements:
• Successfully implemented MRP in ERP.
• Implemented Costing and Production module in ERP.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Forecast cash flow positions, related borrowing needs, and available funds for investment.
• Ensure that sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements.
• Engage in ongoing cost reduction analyses in all areas of the company.
• Review the performance of competitors and report on key issues to management
• Interpret the company's financial results to management and recommend improvement activities
• Review company bottlenecks and recommend changes to improve the overall level of company throughput
• Participate in target costing activities to create products that meeting predetermined price goals.
• Assist in the determination of product pricing in relation to features offered and competitor pricing.
• Compile key business metrics and report on them to management
• Manage the capital budgeting process, based on constraint analysis and discounted cash flow analysis
• Creating and reviewing the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems.
• Reporting on margins by product and division.
• Feasibility study and project analysis, forecasting long term plan.
• Analyze and update cost of each product, variance analysis.
• Monitoring of daily transaction and allocation in GL.
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly accounts.
• Negotiation with banks for L.C opening and credit facility.
• Monitoring and working on KPIs.
• Formulating budgets and conducting variance analysis.
• Segment Reporting.
• Working for monthly and yearly material requirements according to production plan.
• Performing cost accumulation tasks as a member of the target costing group; and accumulating and applying overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles.
• Taking measure for controlling inventories.
• Feasibility study and project analysis, forecasting long term plan.
• Analyze and update cost of each product, variance analysis.
• Maintains fixed asset registers including capitalization of new development projects, transfers, disposals and of fixed assets.
• Formulating budgets and conducting variance analysis.
• Segment Reporting.
• Working for monthly and yearly material requirements according to production plan.
• Implemented Costing, Landed Cost and Fixed Assets module in ERP system.
• Designing and implementing systems to ensure smooth functioning of finance as well as accounting operations across the organization.
Key Achievements:
• Implementation & Execution of ERP (Oracle) At Atlas Engineering Ltd.
• Play effective part in reduction of labor cost by providing labor efficiency analysis.
• Effectively & efficiently supervised & completed two years annual audit of Public Ltd.
Key Responsibilities:
• Hands on working on General Ledger.
• Analysis of ratios on monthly basis.
• Monitor and review of inventory transactions in business application to ensure accurate
• Meeting with banks with Manager to cope with the Company’s working capital requirement.
• Monitor Bank service charges and import payments.
• To assist in preparation & finalization of monthly, half yearly, & annual accounts of the Company according to ISA, IFRS.
• Perform the variance.
• Reconciliation Statement of Cost Accounts with Financial Accounts.
• Prepare budget, revenue, expenses, invoices and other accounting documents.
• Liaison with internal and external auditors on all aspects of fixed asset accounting, income accounting and inventory accounting.
• Analyzes and reconciles all fixed asset accounts.
• Maintain computerized fixed assets register keeping all transactions up to date.
• Provision of financial information to support decision making within the business.
• Maintaining Accounting Records
• Recording of Purchase invoices
• Recording of Petty expenses.
• Bank reconciliation.