Sales Management
Resume:
Saim Iqbal
Burlington, ON. Tel: 647-***-****
Email: ****.*****@*****.***
Profile:
Detail-oriented Financial Analyst with six years progressive
finance/accounting background and hands-on experience in quantitative /
statistical analysis, budgeting, accounting, financial reporting,
forecasting, compliance, financial systems and process improvement.
Provide robust modeling and reporting to facilitate executive-level
decision making.
Strong analytical skills; support business operations through analysis of
key performance indicators and trends.
Consensus-driven communicator; liaise across various business units and
promote organizational success.
Learner who rapidly adapt to new technologies and possess expertise with
broad range of business intelligence and finance/accounting systems.
Achiever with strong sense of responsibility; successfully lead and
completed multiple business initiatives/projects in efficient manner and
posses excellent track record of meeting deadlines.
Professional Experience:
1 July'09- To Date Financial Analyst,
Internal & External Reporting (Contract)
Johnson's & Johnson's Medical Companies Canada Inc., Canada.
Responsibilities
Creating and updating Daily Sales & Sales Order Reports & weekly E-Room
sales submissions.
Analyzing, Reconciling & posting Journal Entries for Rebates & Warranties.
Sales & balance sheet Reconciliation in ERP.
Creating & submitting Monthly Net Trade Sales Report (Internal & External)
Bravo Corporate HQ submission files & validate data integrity.
Monthly and quarterly sales analysis and graphs for the Board of Directors.
Create Price & Squeeze Report for variance analysis.
Ensure Data Integrity Manage, balance & reconcile four Cognos systems
(cubes).
Create Nexus Reports, Sales by minor line & province & Strive (corporate)
submission files.
GP & systems GP report against Latest BP & Original Estimates, explain
variances.
Balance JDE income statement to Cognos income statement & Create franchise
P&L's.
Sales, local income & systems income report by CC & SC Units at product
level.
Create BPI Report (Rush & service level BPI reports) & New Products Report.
Create Business plan submission on quarterly basis after ensuring data
validation in Cognos.
Liaise with IT team to develop efficient Financial Systems Tools and logic
to aid business partners.
Ensure SOX Compliance & perform test on a regular basis to ensure
compliance.
Creating & maintaining submission files, Cognos reports & Excel templates.
Address & resolve Ariba (SAP) batch issues.
Achievements
Automated & restructured the Daily Sales Reports to ensure data integrity &
timely delivery.
Successfully initiated & completed the Item Master correction & reporting
system changes to align corporate hierarchy in less than due time.
Identified and investigated major discrepancies in Financial system,
partnered to develop resolution according to accounting standards and
performed thorough testing to ensure data accuracy and effective SOX
implementation.
Successfully initiated & completed the Balance Sheet integration into
Cognos.
Analyzed multiple financial systems process flow and partnered with IT to
streamline process to drive efficiencies in systems.
Designated Cognos and JDE OneWorld super user.
Automating processes reduced Business Plan and Quarterly Actual's
submission time by 24%.
Cognos System administrator ensuring maintenance: Accounts, Cost Centers,
Allocations, Extracts & File process & scheduling back up's.
Created documentation and configuration tables for excel, Cognos & SAP
sourced files.
By streamlining required tasks and eliminating non value add processes
reduced time input by 32% for month end closing and savings of 300+hours
annualized.
Created multi system checks to ensure data integrity and ease of access to
useful information for multiple business partners specifically during
Business Plan & Forecasts.
2 June'08- June'09
Consultant, Financial Reporting
(Contract)
Toyota Canada Inc., Canada.
Responsibilities
Financial Analysis & Reporting for Industrial Equipment Division (IED) of
TCI.
Margin Analysis for IED Trucks, Parts & Warranty.
Monthly account analysis to keep a better track and control on expense and
revenues.
Full cycle General Ledger maintenance and journal entry preparation and
finalization.
Financial statement and ratio analysis with financial operational &
quantitative modeling.
Ensure accurate financial operations (e.g. AR, AP, COS) reporting in Lawson
Modules.
Maintain and provide monthly analysis of GL Accounts for 7 departments.
Ad hoc analysis as required by the senior management.
Achievements
Developed management tools to measure and analyze financial and operational
information (e.g., financial ratio's, key performance indicators, and
management reports).
Assisted with Budgeting, Forecasting and development of Budget Matrix for
timely Budget preparation in a secure manner to replace BI Tool.
Assisted Departments & Line of Business's with development of effective
Cost/Expense Control, Performance Management and Sales Enhancement
Strategies for achieving short & long term objective.
Developed MS Excel based Macro to assist accurate & timely inventory
reporting, balance sheet reconciliation & planning, fast and accurate data
processing into Lawson (ERP).
Selected as member IFRS implementation team providing up to date
consultation & recommendations to the team, Data Integrity & SOX Compliance
team.
Received certificate of achievement for effective demonstration &
presentation of Toyota Business Practices.
Developed and maintained monthly, quarterly & annual Audit Reports.
3 Feb'08- May'08
Financial Analyst
(Contract)
CFM Corporation, Canada.
Responsibilities
Full cycle General Ledger maintenance and journal entry preparation and
finalization.
GL audit report maintenance & record keeping.
Financial statement and ratio analysis with financial operational &
quantitative modeling.
Prepare Bank reconciliations, inter-company invoice and transactions.
Prepare Foreign exchange revaluations and maintain inter currency
transaction records.
Assistance with Balance Sheet preparation & consolidation and asset
valuation.
Achievements
Created asset valuation & feasibility reports during the acquisition of the
business.
Developed excel based tools to measure financial information to provide
reports in accurately & timely.
Assisted with developing and maintaining investor relations and treasury
operations
Analyzed economic, financial & technical indicators.
Created asset evaluation and depreciation schedules with capital continuity
reports which were not maintained previously.
Created various templates & procedures to improve rigor and speed in
accurate processing of critical information.
4 May'07- Dec'07 Accounting &
Administrative Clerk, IT Department
(Contract)
FNF Canada, Canada.
Responsibilities
Helped with managing and organizing IT asset database, forms and
receivable/payable transactions.
Recording and scheduling the payable and receivable accounts, Track and
record internal expenses, prepare IT Budget Reconciliation and reports on
monthly basis.
Matching, Batching, Coding and entering the invoices and creating
Debit/Credit Memo's.
Assist with Budgeting decisions, prepare IT Asset Depreciation Schedules
and prepare Variance Analysis.
Achievements
Managed and organized the IT department accounts receivable & payable.
Developed and maintained IT asset database and inventory.
Created forms and Instructions to ease the internal management processes
and work-flow.
Prepare audit reports for internal and external audit. Created inventory
reports on monthly basis for faster and easier asset management.
Provided timely, efficient and reliable Financial reports and Account
Analysis.
Sept '06- May '07
Accounting Assistant
Zinam Consulting Inc., Canada
Responsibilities
Manage & Record transactions into Sub ledger &General Ledger and prepare
account summary on weekly basis.
Maintain & Organize Accounts Receivable & Payable Records, Schedule
Payments, Invoice Records, Purchase Records and Prepare Account &
Expense Reports on weekly basis.
Prepare Cash In/Out flow statements, Bank reconciliation, Budget
Reconciliation & assist with Budgeting and Sales/Cash Forecasting.
Prepare Project feasibility reports.
Achievements
Efficiently provided support to the Management based on financial reports
for effective and timely strategic decisions.
Selected as a member of advisory team.
EDUCATION:
Actively pursuing towards CMA Designation (Certified Management Accountant)
Aug'07- Dec'07 Taxation for Canadian Business
Management Accounting
Financial Management
Quantitative Methods for Financial Statements
University of Toronto, Canada.
May'07- Aug'07 Advanced Financial Accounting
Advanced Management Accounting
Management Information Systems
University of Toronto, Canada.
2001-2005 Bachelors of Business Administration Honors
Imperial College of Business Studies,
Pakistan.
Major: Business Management and Finance.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
|MS Office 2003/07/XP (Expert Power Point |Cognos (Expert User) |
|and Excel) |Hyperion (EssBase & Pillar) |
|MS Access (Advanced User) |MS SharePoint |
|Lawson Systems 5.1 |JD Edwards OneWorld (Advanced |
|SAP |User) |
| |Sage AccPac |
|Oracle PeopleSoft |Mainframe Systems (Legacy) |
|SSA Global Baan IV C & Baan LN |MS QuickBooks |
|SQL Queries (Basic) |Basic VBA Programming |
|Crystal Reports |Simply Accounting |
|Lotus Notes & MS Outlook |Network Security & Group Policies |
|Adobe Illustrator 10.0 |Windows OS (98, 2000, ME, XP Pro) |
5 ACHIEVEMENTS:
Certificate of Achievement, Business Practices Toyota Canada Inc., Toronto,
ON.
Member Advisory Committee IFRS 7, Toyota Canada Inc., Toronto, ON.
Secretary Finance, Student Council Imperial College of Business Studies,
Lahore.
General Secretary, Imperial College of Business Studies, Lahore.
President Debates, La Salle College, 2001-2002.
President Student Council, La Salle College 2001-2002.
Organized various fund raising activities in College and University.
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