A detail oriented finance professional with extensive industry knowledge comprising of costing, financial & management reporting, budgeting & forecasting, project finance and financial planning & analysis. Proven ability to combine vision, financial knowledge and strong business understanding to contribute to companies’ success and ultimate achievement of goals in terms of realizable profit.
Area of Expertise
1. Budgeting & Forecasting
2. Management & Financial Reporting
3. Feasibility Analysis
4. Financial Planning & Analysis
5. Product Level Profitability Analysis
6. Team building and leadership
7. Strong financial and analytical skills
8. Product pricing and economic fluctuation impact calculation
9. Price negotiations with vendors in cost pressures
Preparing long term business plans to determine long term financing needs of new projects, their capex and manpower. Offering financial consultancy to cater bottlenecks,
Prepared annual budgets, tracked and scheduled expenditures, monthly reporting on variances from the budget along with reasons,
Advising the CFO on the pricing proposals or recovery methods for products and services offered to group companies,
Highlighting factors for deviations in the monthly profit to the management via monthly profit reconciliation statement,
Supervising payables of 6 out of 8 regions of the company,
Liaising with internal & external auditors, bankers and SECP,
Regional Cash flow planning and forecasting on monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
Managing working capital through devising policies for receivables and payables.
Preparing feasibility studies and supporting implementation of new projects,
Assistance to financial controller in development of monthly profit projections based on updated production plan and supply chain procurement strategy,
Product level profitability analysis along with detailed reasoning and commentaries,
Sharing MIS for impact of economic indicators, scenario planning, inventory aging, and trend analysis of overhead expenditures as well as monitoring material cost per model,
Setting price for all regular and special models in coordination with marketing and sales department.
Product costing using activity based costing of more than 100 in-house products relating to 7 models in 10 production shops,
Preparing budget and setting standard KPIs in coordination with relevant departments.
Comparison of actual vs. standard KPIs, identification of reasons for variances and initiating corrective action in coordination with production and supply chain teams,
Leading price negotiations with contractors (for expansion projects) and vendors (for cost pressures), &
Working capital management through devising stock levels.
Plan and execute internal audit processes and procedures,
Review of overall company financial records and reports for accuracy and potential inefficiencies and suggested mitigation controls,
Ensured that the company follows an accounting system that is compliant with national and state regulations,
Prepared evidence-based audit reports containing observations drawn, impact of identified risk and recommendations for enhancement of controls,
Verified existence of company assets and assure proper safeguards are in place to protect them from all kind of losses,
Conducted compliance follow-ups to assess the implementation of audit recommendations.