Forward- focused, versatile and high-energy professional offering over 14 years’ experience within Prestige Beauty Industry in finance and accounting operations, encompassing financial control, AR & AP management, auditing, month end closing and financial reporting process. Efficient at providing accurate financial information to the management through research and evaluation of accounting data and reports. ERP (SAP) Power User and active participant in development and implementation in process scopes of Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Budget to Report & Master Data.

SKILL SET

Financial Planning & Business Analysis

Budget & Forecast Planning

Month-end Closing & Financial Reporting

Funds and Cash Management

Payroll

Internal Control System

Audit reports

Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable Processing

Academic Details

BSc. Accounting & Finance

University of London

(London School of Economics and Political Science)

It Skills

MS Office Tools

Microsoft Navision

SAP

JD Edwards

Profile Summary

Assist Controlling team/ Business Managers on budget and forecast, evaluation of monthly financial performance by comparing and analysing actual results with plans and forecasts.

Support in consolidation and manage timely and accurate financial submissions to HQ reporting systems.

Reporting to Management on various parameter of net sales, advertising & promotional marketing expenses and profitability

Payroll end to end payroll management and reporting.

Assist accounting manager and supply chain team with standard cost, pricing discrepancies

Provide corporate reporting team commentary on HFM quarterly reporting packs with commentary

Expertise in Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, Management of Vendor and Customer Database.

Organisational Experience

Nov’18 –Aug’22: Coty Middle East FZE, Dubai, UAE

Financial Reporting Analyst

Responsible for monthly financial reporting to Coty NY HQ based on business requirements and dedicated timeframes

Review the P&L and reporting to management on key expenses of profitability based on the planning and highlight any drastic variances.

Work with the commercial and marketing team on the trade investment projects for the annual year.

Support and work with demand planning and commercial & marketing team on key product lines for profitability

Balance Sheet review, P&L analysis, Quarterly reporting pack analysis and commentary on actuals vs variances to corporate.

Drive monthly meetings with commercial, marketing and business managers on trade spend, marketing, general & fixed expenses.

Responsible for general accounting functions where there is indirect involvement in implementing the systems and procedure for processes that reflect statistics, profits, cash-flows, audit, financial reporting and internal budgeting

Accounts Receivable Controller- review customer aging, ensure timely collection to maintain global DSO target, lead SSC team (Third party Finance Support Function) to ensure set up and to ensure implementations of processes where clear accountability and responsibilities exist with the SSC, commercial teams and finance custodians towards the end to end flow of accounts receivables and maintain accuracy in financial reporting.

Retail Store (Gucci) oversee all financial transactions reporting-implementation of POS terminal, reconcile sales, bank transactions and report to management. Coordinate with store manager, demand supply chain team, sales commercial team to ensure smooth end to end functioning of store.

Mar’16- Jun’18: Nuxe Middle East FZE, Dubai, UAE

Senior Accountant

Responsible for complete month-end financial statements reporting to Nuxe HQ Paris

Bi-monthly meetings with General Manager and Sales Head on monthly forecasts, budgets/plan and present variances and OPEX prior month-end reports submission

Responsible for cash funds management and payroll

Own and drive the AR & AP processing and achieve the DSO & DPO targets

Jun’08- Mar’16: Estee Lauder Middle East FZE, Dubai, UAE

Accountant

SAP Power user- migration of data from JD Edwards to SAP- Order to Cash (O2C),Procure to Pay (P2P),RTR (Reporting) & Master Data (Customer, Vendor, Pricing)

Accounts Payable Lead – Review all the expenses and employee Travel & Entertainment expenses as per ELC guidelines.

Work simultaneously with Procurement Manager to ensure all expenses are as per compliance and pre- approved Purchase Orders.

Generate reports from SAP and reconcile balance sheet accounts.

FARHANA JAHAN

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