Supply Chain Accounts Payable

Waseeq Ahmed

Al-Noor Society, Karachi, Pakistan +92-318-*******

*************@*****.***

PROFILE

Multi-skilled professional with over 20 years of experience in IT Administration, administrative affairs, and operations. Experienced in converting every opportunity into success with positive leadership, practical knowledge of risk management and regulatory compliance matters. Improves efficiencies and revenue while optimizing costs. Performance driven proven strategist with a track record of leading complex improvement initiatives and delivering on customer commitments. CORE COMPETENCIES

Business Relationship Management

Strategic Planning

Customer Satisfaction

Supply Chain Management

Logistics Management

Operations

EXPERIENCE

Ernst & Young Rapid Innovation Pakistan Karachi, Pakistan Senior Facility Management Associate Jan. 2020 – July 2022 Lead strategic sourcing events, supply chain & logistics management, accounts payable. The Subject Matter Expert for procurement requisitions. Coordinator for Continuity of Business. Procurement & Vendor Management:

Responsible for sourcing supplies, forecasting inventory requirements and assessing risk, and daily operations. Developed projections with an annual rail budget of $1.7 Million. Evaluated, managed and negotiated with service providers across all modes of transportation and supplies. Developed proactive scheduling in conjunction with competitive bidding and sourcing processes, thereby providing better control over bidding and costs related to large orders. Enhance profitability and optimized cost by maintaining complete accuracy in inventory pars and comparing vendor's similar items and sourcing best price. Improved ordering cycles by bringing more purveyors to compete for the business. Ensuring on-time delivery and improved purchasing quality by setting up the quality check procedures for the suppliers and personal on- site checking. Utilized procure to pay system reports, Microsoft Excel, and pivot tables to analyze problem areas and create solutions. Mediate between vendors, markets, and the accounts payable manager to quickly resolve incorrect invoicing. Contract management and administration as per the company/government policies, legal requirements, and customer specification. Addressing deviations in the supplier contracts, SLAs & invoices, providing accounts payable services for the entire Pakistan franchise, reviewing metrics at EMEA level to ensure targets are met, providing information for monthly expense reconciliations, variances & accruals alongside improving the delivery of services by engaging cross-functional negotiation.

• Developed and completed execution of the Procurement strategy for ($1.2 million budget)

• Developed 19 sourcing strategies for archiving, fleet management, courier services

• Developed the first formal processes for strategic sourcing, including RFP and negotiation guidelines

• Digitalized the Record Inventory System that eliminated non-value adding tasks and minimized manual effort by 21 outsourced staff

• Implemented program “Procure to Pay” that automatically rejects any invoice duplication from suppliers, acts as a maker & checker against human error and gives a monthly outlay on each supplier

• Chaired a multi-functional, corporate-level committee that developed comprehensive policies

• Reengineered the process of recording mail stream by linking courier services to customized spreadsheets that minimized manual effort by 6 contractual staff

• Centralized delivery of entire EY RI Karachi franchise’s stationary supplies which reduced the high volume of invoice requisitions raised by each department Facility Management:

• Direct facilities management operations, capital improvements, and maintenance of EY RI Karachi office. Risk assessment & ensuring safety in collaboration with external security service providers.

• Build a strong partnership with internal & external customers through regular and consistent professional communication, problem solving, and relationship building.

• Report any known accidents, observed or suspected violations of company policy, safety hazards or any unusual occurrence. Ensure improvement at the final mile based on training in the fields, and SOP compliance

• Effectively manage critical issues – zero-target for controllable incidents and/or missed services caused by 3rd part vendors, employees & missed preventive maintenance work by addressing, escalating to the relevant chain of stakeholders to be pro-active in future for such incidents.

• Coordinator for Continuity of Business (CoB) in the event of unforeseen disruption.

• Act as a subject matter expert on real estate and lease management system.

• Maintain the national escalation tracker for the EY RI Karachi office in order to provide up-to-date contact information for an emergency /after-hours circumstances.

• Manage payroll financials for all the contractual support staff of EY RI Karachi staff So that payroll and benefit reporting activities are accurate, timely, funded properly, cost- effective, and business and employee sensitive, also work as a Human Resources support. Ernst & Young Bahrain Bahrain

IT Administrator 2003 – 2019

Effectively managed entire communication infrastructure of the office with over 400 employees which include setting up work stations, telephones, fax machines, printers, scanners, photo copiers and other digital equipment such overhead projectors and video conferencing devises.

Maintain network servers such as file servers, VPN gateways and intrusion detection systems .

Remotely Support to the site engineers and end users during installation.

Set up email IDs for employees which include existing as well as new joiners and removal of email IDs of those leaving the employment which include maintaining log on IDs and managing passwords. Assisted users and provide PC, laptop, printer and network break support .

Prepared and maintained records and files in relation IT assets, network performance and problems.

Responsible for the fast and accuratete troubleshooting of reported faults

Proven ability to create and deliver solutions tied to business growth, organizational development and systems/network optimization. Skilled problem identifier and troubleshooter comfortable managing systems, projects and teams in a range of IT environments.

Good project management skills, with the ability to independently interact and at times lead a team to complete initiatives with quality and timeliness.

Ability to maintain the highly secure nature of information technology work.

Self motivated, able to prioritize, good at time management and goal driven. IT Responsibilities & Contributions:

Re-engineered company’s systems setup, establishing automated server generation routines, optimizing system performance, installing upgrades/patches, establishing system monitoring and maintaining security protocols.

Ensured that all server hardware, operating systems, software and procedures aligned with Organizational standards and strategic business plan.

Optimized system availability and equipped company with scalable systems to support business growth.

Trained employees across multiple departments on network operations including log-in procedures, Network management software, permissions, printing issues, security and use of software.

Planned, organized and moved the entire office premises of more than 350 people consisting of senior and middle level executives to new premises. Entire physical and IT infrastructure was put in place without disrupting normal functioning of the office. Negotiated with service providers to obtain very competitive prices and all the facilities were made operational within a tight timeframe.

Successfully Setup another new floor and ensured all the IT devices (fiber link, Network switches, Wireless, video conference Phones works. etc.) aligned with organizational standards and strategic business plan

EDUCATION

Graduation (B.Sc) Karachi University

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Self-motivated

Excellent communication and public relation skills. Strong communication skills and proven record of teamwork and leadership. PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1972

Nationality: Pakistani

Marital status: Married

REFERENCE: Furnished upon request

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