Manager Management

PROFILE

- Chartered accountant & CFA charter holder, result oriented and motivated

finance professional

- Experience in wide range of industries including banks/financial

institutions (Citibank), pharmaceuticals (GSK), CPG's, BIG 4 audit firm

(PWC)

- Specialist in month end/quarter end/year end closing process and

generating accurate financial reports

- Expert in management & financial accounting & reporting, consolidated

financial statements with disclosures, financial planning, financial

modeling, internal controls and process improvement

- Proficiency in consolidation accounting/principles and performing

consolidation procedures, adjustments, closing entries, elimination

entries and reconciliations

- Experienced IFRS professional with knowledge of US GAAPs

- Proficiency in performing diagnostic review of processes and

recommending and implementing reengineered process to increase controls

and efficiencies

- Strong interpersonal skills; specifically able to act as change agent,

facilitator and collaborator

- Expertise and working knowledge in JD Edwards, Hyperion, Oracle, Cognos

(BI Tool), MS office

- Accomplished people manager with ability to influence, motivate, coach

and gain commitment to actions and change

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Samba Financial Group (formerly Citibank) Jan

'08- June' 13

Manager- Financial Reporting

- Managing financial reporting unit, responsible for external reporting and

regulatory reporting

- Coordinate monthly, quarterly and annual financial close & reporting

processes, reviewing journal entries, monthly accruals, loans

provisioning, investments impairment and investigate & analyze variances

- Responsible for ensuring GL closure for month end. quarter end and year

end ensuring the reported GL numbers are accurate and review

reconciliations

- Responsible for monthly financial reporting, including generating

consolidated financial statements along with profit & loss statements

- Responsible for consolidation of subsidiaries and run period end

processes to ensure accuracy of consolidation adjustments, elimination

entries, closing entries, FX revaluation & reconciliations

- Prepare summary report analysis of subsidiaries balance sheet analysis

and carrying value of subsidiaries along with P&L analysis and brief

commentaries

- Perform integrity checks over consolidation processes and ensure

consolidated financial results are in compliance with IFRS and

adjustments are done for all non IFRS compliant transaction

- Review of monthly actual P&L along with estimates and analyze/investigate

for all variances and update rolling forecasts and highlight the key

issues to senior management

- Prepare and co-ordinate the internal management reporting packages

including monthly and quarterly management reporting package with brief

commentaries and analysis

- Preparation of quarterly & annual consolidated financial statements along

with disclosure in line with group and IFRS requirement and coordinating

for clearance of financial statement from external auditors

- Prepare financial presentations for board of directors, audit committee

and credit rating agencies

- Performed impact assessment of new /improvements in IFRS/IAS/local

central bank regulations and make management aware of these changes in

relation to income/balance sheet presentation

- Managed the Finance team and overall responsible for appropriate staffing

levels, optimize resource efficiency and balance workloads, recruitment

and developments of team member

Key Achievements:

- Developed/sustained and improved monthly, quarterly and annual processes

for reporting, ensured integrity and quality of information; identified

opportunities for continuous improvement in management reporting and in

the report production process thus resulted in improvement in overall

quality

- Streamlined the reporting of all International branches (London, Dubai &

Qatar) of the Bank including foreign subsidiary thus improving the

reporting timelines and standardizing the reports

- Implementation of Cognos (Business Intelligence Tool) and successfully

implemented Financial reporting modules resulting in reduction in

turnaround time in generating key financial reports

- Coordinated for implementation of financial reporting module in foreign

subsidiary and development of consolidation reporting thus reducing

reports generation from 7 to 4 days.

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Dec '04-

Dec '07

Assistant Manager- Financial Control and Process Improvement

Role encompass various tasks including supporting Finance Director in

development of strategic and operating plans, conduct decision analysis,

develop financial models for various business initiatives, sensitivity

analysis, monthly closing process including accruals and adjustment

entries, monthly and YTD management reports, variance analysis, managing

Risk Management process, conduct SarbOx review, and lead SAQ (Self

Assessment Questionnaire) exercise, responsible for accounts receivable

function and accounts payable function within finance team

Key Achievements:

- Lead various business initiatives projects including launch of new

products/ identification of acquisition target to enhance product mix/

streamlining of product mix thus resulting in overall increase in bottom

line

- Sales Analysts System (Cognos BI) implementation team resulting in sales

reporting of entire market thus supporting sales team on budget

achievements

Al Ghurair Group- (Leading local diversified conglomerate in UAE)

June' 02- Dec '04

Senior Finance Analyst-CPG Business

- Monthly closing and reporting of P&L and balance sheet along with

detailed variance analysis

- Development of various MIS reports to highlight the business performance

against the budgets/targets

- Analyzed and critically reviewed business performance for specific

business areas/segments

- Competitive benchmarking for the products and detail analysis of market

competitors

Grant Thornton International Oct '00

-May '02

Management Consultancy and Business Advisory

- Spearheaded the advisory team on two of the largest privatization deals

- Identified an acquisition target and developed an Acquisition strategy

for a Joint-Venture Bank.

- Reengineered the business and financial processes of one of the largest

media group.

- Developed the business plan and financial model for various industry

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) June '96

-Oct '00

Audit Senior/Supervisor

- Managed and developed client relationships, planned, supervised and

reviewed audit engagements

- Provided accounting services such as preparation of financial statement

- Reviewed of tax returns, reviewed of internal controls and implementation

of IFRS

EDUCATION

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) (2012) Chartered Accountant

(2000)

CFA Institute USA Institute of Chartered

Accountant of Pakistan

Chartered Accountant ICAEW UK (2013)

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales

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