SUMMARY

Finance leader with an international background in Financial Planning & Analysis, Consolidated Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Forecasting and Strategic Planning.

Excellent problem solving and analytical skills. Detail Oriented.

Collaborate with C-level executives and all staff members.

Analyze and re-engineer business processes. Ability to adapt quickly, and adept at learning new software.

Member of SAP implementation team. Played a key role in the transformation of legacy system's Cost Center Accounting (CCA) and Income statements (COPA). Setup the value flow from cost center to income statement.

Proficient in use of SAP (FICO, COPA, CCA, PCA, SEM-BCS, BPS, BW, BI), COGNOS Power Play & MS Office, Modelling, KPIs, Dashboards, & Concur.

EXPERIENCE

In Job Transition 01/2017 – To date

Agfa Graphics Corporation, NJ USA ($ 400+ mio. NAFTA)

Corporate (Business Unit) Controller - US & Canada 06/2012 – 11/2016

Conducted Monthly Financials Results review meeting attended by Chief Financial Officer, Directors of Finance & Accounting, Financial Analysts, and Accounting Managers. During monthly close, reviewed the expenses, bad debts and Other COGS items, namely inventory write off, revaluations, inbound and out bound transport costs and duties and accrued as required per policy.

Provided Commentary and Analysis as part of the monthly close process for both U.S. and Canadian companies. Reviewed monthly trends as well as comparisons to budget to ensure the accuracy of financials prior to submission to Head Office in Belgium.

Worked with Operations/Logistics, Accounting, Service, & Manufacturing Controllers to make sure Annual Budgets, Rolling Forecast and analysis was completed as per Head office directions.

Responsible for Budgets and quarterly rolling Forecast preparation in conjunction with Departmental Heads and subsequent implementation in local SAP system after Board approval. In addition, managed creation and setup of expense assessments & distributions in SAP, including multiple step allocation of manufacturing expenses.

Established, monitored and reported interdependent USA, Canadian and Belgium (Head Office) transfer price relationships. Calculated and monitored the TP change impact on EBITDA versus agreed upon margins.

Prepared shared service agreements with affiliate companies and monitored inter-company invoicing.

Provided financial support and guidance to operational managers in terms of revenue, expense, and variances broken out by relevant dimensions such as products, markets, customers, sales channels.

Assisted in project specific assignments and provided ad-hoc financial reporting and analysis.

Used financial, operational and business judgment and analysis in order to analyze information and recommend meaningful corrective actions.

Reviewed and approved purchase orders and expense invoices. Ensured proper cost centers and accounts were used for accurate financial reporting. Reviewed manager approvals to ensure compliance to internal control and policies.

Agfa HealthCare Inc., Canada ($ 350+ mio. NAFTA)

Manager Financial Reporting (US & Canada) 04/2010 – 06/2012

Prepared and reported to head office income statements & primary expenses. Ensured compliance with head office requirements and responded to any subsequent queries.

Developed and enhanced complex financial models in MS Excel (financial statements, scenario and sensitivity analysis, cash flow analysis, budget creation and forecasting)

Administered Fixed Asset module configuration, maintenance, depreciation posting, and reporting.

Charging of inter-company services received and provided to affiliated companies.

Following move of Shared Service Departments to Canada, trained newly hired Canadian Accountants and Analysts in SAP Landscape, Navigation, Agfa’s Product Hierarchies, policies and reporting requirements.

Liaise with Business Units and interpret their requirement into financial numbers.

Provide information to external auditors from HQ systems for expenses, fixed assets, and Income Statements and assist in answering their queries by bridging different Local and Head Office SAP modules.

Agfa HealthCare Corp., NJ USA

Senior Financial Analyst / Specialist 04/2000 – 03/2010

Senior Accountant 06/1999 – 03/2000

Accountant III 11/1995 – 05/1999

Created monthly Local Contribution Margin reports for five business groups in NAFTA region with revenues in excess of one billion. Complemented these reports for management with analysis and commentary on major deviations against the budget.

Produced US and Canadian Income Statements, scorecards, key performance indicator and hierarchical cost center expense reports.

Developed and maintained complex internal allocation system for US business segments in SAP.

Created and maintained allocation keys for General and Administration expenses.

Created relationships between financial modules. Wrote descriptions of SAP navigation rules within these modules to allow financial controllers to understand the flow of information from cost centers to Income Statement and ultimately to contribution reports. Maintained & groomed master data.

Coordinated with financial controllers to insure all business financial budgets are accurately uploaded to SAP.

As part of SAP implementation team:

oAutomated Income Statement transmission to HQ.

oImproved the input of direct and indirect allocation keys. Reduced input time by 50%.

oCreated planning layouts for upload of budgets to CO-PA and Cost Center Accounting (CCA) modules.

Maintained Fixed Asset module. Responsible for reporting, creation of master data, development of new asset classes and troubleshooting.

Bayer Pharma, Pakistan

Manager Planning & Control 08/1988 - 06/1995

Assistant Manager Sales Administration 08/1985 - 08/1988

Coordinated the production of the annual budget (including R&D Phase IV Trials). Worked with CEO and managers to develop forecasts and perform analysis.

Evaluated and monitored budgets and forecasts providing actionable variance reports and analysis for management. Also conducted detailed profitability analysis of current and future products.

Analyzed, evaluated and made recommendations to senior management on the feasibility of capital investment projects including a major extension of the main production facility.

Worked closely with head of operations & toll manufacturer to develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and rates under various what if scenarios.

Coordinated and checked that all the requirements were complete before releasing payment to toll manufacturer.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA), IBA, Univ. of Karachi, Pakistan, 1985

MS Organic Chemistry, Univ. of Karachi, Pakistan, 1982

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