Manager Project

Abdullah Tahir, ACCA. CGA.

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Markham, L6E0K9, Ontario, Canada

Telephone: Home 416-***-****, Cell 647-***-****

E-mail: **************@*****.***

Professional Chartered Accountant with 15 years of experience in

Sales, planning,, budgeting, forecasting, cost control, general

accounting, P&L and mergers & acquisitions with multinational

pharmaceuticals, bank and FMCG company.

EXPERIENCE

Nov.2012-Oct.2013 Finance Manager

Nestle - Saudi Arabia $130 million business. (Pfizer

sold worldwide Nutrition business to Nestle)

. Successfully managed financial integration team for smooth transition of

Saudi business from Pfizer to Nestle.

. Complete replacement of accounting system from Essbase to SAP.

. Strategically managed budgets, forecasts, supply chain orders, accruals

and P&L complete monthly and yearly closing process and reports.

. Streamlined and established routines to manage receivables and payables.

. Successfully re-established existing non-working contracts and formalized

new distributors and their contracts negotiation.

Nov.2009-Nov.2012 Country Finance Lead - Nutrition

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals - Saudi Arabia $180 million

business. (Pfizer acquired Wyeth in 2009)

. Responsible for smooth managing Saudi Arabia Nutrition finance business

of $130 million.

. Progressively managed team of 5 transactional accountants and 3 analysts.

. Strategically managed budget, forecasts and supply chain orders.

. Managed P&L, accruals and complete monthly and yearly closing process.

. In partnership with the business; established and formalized prices, to &

in market sales targets, inventory levels, ordering system, trade, audit

and distributor's relationship.

. Took lead role and change agent in implementation of GPIHP/FCPA in all

Pfizer polices.

June.2008-Nov.2009 Chief Financial Officer/ Finance Manager

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals - Saudi Arabia $250 million

business. (Pfizer acquired Wyeth worldwide business

in 2009)

. Established accounts department and managed business of around $200

million dollars whereas next 3 years targeted sales was $500 million.

. Build team of 3 accountants and 1 business analyst.

. Made regional polices and procedures along with implementation of global

corporate polices.

. Helped business to achieve it targets within compliance guidelines.

. Successfully managed distributors' relationships and cleared last 10

years receivables, payables and expired goods issues.

Aug.2003-May.2008 Group Manager - Corporate Planning, Budgeting

& Cost Control

Member of Group Steering Committee

Abdulrahman Ali Al Turki Group of Companies (ATCO)

has diversify businesses like Shipping, Sea Port

Management, Construction Business, Telecommunication,

Chemicals & Electrical Factories, Retails Outlets,

Oil & Gas Enterprise, Industrial Cleaning,

Commercial, Food Services Business, Honeywell,

Keller, CCC & Bentley Nevada. ($1 billion

conglomerate.

. Converted 4 loss making units into profitable ventures

. Made successful business plans for new projects and evaluation of all

government bids and increased the business profits multi-folds

. Established cost control models & management reporting system

. Liaison with external auditors, consultants and financial institutions

. Developed unified format for all the divisions to prepared realistic

budgets and reduced budget variance to less than 5% in last 4 years.

. Project manager for implementation of new (Accpac) ERP for the group.

. Made two five years business plans (2004-08 & 2009-13) and regular

variance reporting of financials.

Aug.2002-Aug.2003 Finance Manager

Start Consult

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

. Implemented the new accounting system in the Peachtree along with

finalization of first one and half year's audit

. Worked as a financial consultant on few investment projects.

. Registration of company in Carmon Island & in Dubai

Aug.1998-Aug.2002 Senior Accounts Officer

Pakistan Kuwait Investment Bank Private Limited.

Worked in accounts and finance department and my

responsibilities were:

. Preparation of accounts and management reports

. Managing lease and certificate of investment

systems

Special Assignment

. Implementation of new Oracle base ERP integrated

accounting and investment banking system from

previous traditionally FoxPro

SKILLS Expert at MS office & ERP systems (Essbase, Oracle, Accpac,

Peachtree, JD Edwards.

Developer & Instructor of Financial Planning Program at

various companies

EDUCATION

Qualified 8509041 Certified General Accountants of Canada -

(CGA) -Canada

Qualified 0300339 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

- (ACCA) U.K

Master of Commerce, Finance, Marketing,

Punjab University Lahore, Pakistan

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