Finance Manager
M. H. Alshaya Company
Total years of experience :19 years, 4 Months
Accountable for Financial & Strategic Planning & Analysis for 25 Brands (some prominent brands: Foot Locker, American Eagle, Mothercare, Next) with top line of USD 1.2 billion Approx, across 11 countries MENA)
• Assisting the brands in Business planning and Forecasting for ROY by providing strategic & trends analysis
• Strategic Portfolio analysis highlighting the opportunity to increase bottom line by closing the loss-making stores and reviewing the current stores performance against BP & LY.
• Preparing periodic financial and strategic review power points presented to CFO & CEO by Division President.
• P&L Management: Cost Lines management & initiatives, liaised with senior management to drive cost savings USD 7m in FY'19.
• Automation Non-Stock Items Movements like Hangars and Shopping bags resulted in cost savings of USD 3mn in FY’18.
• Financial modeling for pricing and discount promotions, event forecasting to envisage performance.
• Automation of Invoice processing system resulted in quicker processing of Invoices from initiation, Approval to Payments to supplier & removal of backlog of over 5000 invoices.
• Managing and delivering Adhoc projects driving business change
• Overhaul Cost control process from Inventory receipts, to Costing,
MIS Reporting, Inventory management and Ingredients costing for
products resulting in 4% cost reduction.
• P&L analysis through business review reports and key commentaries to senior management by highlighting variances relating to actual performance vs operational and profitability metrics
to support management decision making.
• Supported negotiation with suppliers by providing MIS reports leading to smoother Inventory storage and reduction in Inventory by 30%
• Single source for contextual information related to cost control, ingredients costing and consumption analysis for all markets.
• Led a team of to implement MIS reporting structure in three different markets and two separate restaurants concepts.
• Devised and Led ad hoc projects highlighting the variance in MIS reporting across branches resulted in accurate cost reporting and decrease in cost variance across branches by 10%
• Price Volume Mix analysis- to determine the underlying reasons for sales variances due to price or volume effects at category level.
• Budget Planning & Analysis prepared financial models & analysis for Income Statement, P&L, Price volume mix, resource allocation, cost controlling drivers, Management Cash Flow to envisage growth drivers, trends & KPI's.
• Supporting the CEO in preparing business concept for the sugar
refinery in State of Kuwait.
• Created Strategic Partnership with Major Technology Partners and
Raw Sugar Providers in the Region.
• To assist budding entrepreneurs with skills, knowledge and
networking opportunities to start theirbusinessby
consulting services through workshops, seminar and one to one
consulting.
• Enabled the company to start business of Al Markaz honey in Yemen.
• Attended 3-day workshop with Mr. Brian Tracy,
Speaker on “Leadership & Focal Point
Masters Programme International Business (MBA), Symbiosis Institute of Intl. Business, Pune, India
2000 Bachelor in commerce from Pune University, Pune, India
