Manager Supply Chain

Najma Rahman

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SUMMARY

Adaptable Finance Manager with expertise in cost accounting, financial analysis, internal audit, reporting and regulatory compliance seeks opportunities to apply project and process management expertise in a cross-functional environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, Abbott Park, IL 2003-2016

Finance Manager 2012 - 2016

Collaborated on a project to successfully discontinue the Manufacturing Database Systems (MDB) for Corporate Manufacturing Accounting and including its applications; submitted eRIM assessments, monitored MDB dependencies, tracked sunset stages of each application and found replacement solutions.

Subject Matter Expert for the SAP system development team facilitating problem resolution.

Created strategies to exit Transition Service Agreements; successfully concluded these between Abbott and AbbVie.

Regulatory Finance Section Manager 2006 - 2012

Managed compliance reporting including ARCOS (Controlled Drug Reporting) for state and federal agencies. Supervised and mentored staff dedicated to providing optimal product coding services to internal customers.

Streamlined alcohol drawback and tracking processes resulting in reduction of fines and prepaid tax balances by USD 250K.

Improved Supply Chain by building product code and location codes inventory used in tracking; identified over 10,000 in-active product codes and several locations code; received Company’s highest award (President’s Award).

Revised corporate financial policies developed contingency plans and launched training for lot and list registrars.

Improved assets verification process, and in partnership with SAP team, drove implementation of home grown controlled drug reporting system replacement.

Assisted SAP Team in product master data design and played key SME role in globalization of serial numbers increasing effective tracking.

Coached current product id assignment knowledge with Master Data Management team and Global Serialization Organization.

Senior Financial Analyst - Corporate Purchasing 2003 - 2006

Administered the domestic Purchasing Card Program including handling of new applications, record maintenance, card change processing, reporting, audit and compliance, and ongoing process improvements.

Re-engineered standard setting process, saving Abbott over 600 labor hours a year; received Procurement award(Pinnacle Award).

Developed management tools generating global quarterly economic forecast summary reports and participated in Sarbanes Oxley testing and remediation.

Coordinated exchange of raw material information between material managers, business systems and purchasing buyers.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE

As a Senior Financial Analyst (Supply Chain) at Baxter Healthcare, led the financial close, budget and forecasted supply chain cost and analyzed actual and variances, developed total delivery cost scorecards to support replenishment centers, reduced time spent on global inventory reporting process by 50%.

As a Procurement Analyst at Allstate Corporation, managed a portfolio of over 22,000 credit cards, eliminated 1,400 work hours a year by identifying and executing improvements in card administration program, played a key role in a postage sourcing strategy that saved the company $800K annually and developed an intranet site for Allstate’s corporate charge card.

As an Accounting Manager at Federal Life Company, successfully completed several large projects to modernize the company’s accounting processes including the elimination of computer cards, development of the block control reconciliation mechanism, implementation of corporate purchasing standards & launch of an agent commission audit policy.

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION

MBA, Business, Lake Forest University, Graduate School of Management, Lake Forest, IL

Master of Commerce (Business) & Bachelor of Business (Accounting), University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Certified tax professional; completed over 10,000 tax returns audit free

AWARDS / SOFTWARE EXPERTISE

Received both President’s Award and Pinnacle Award at Abbott, in addition to numerous spot awards

Software Expertise: JDE, Hyperion Essbase, SAP/ECC6, Infopak, Microsoft Office applications

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