Ali Gohar, ERP Analyst/ Functional Consultant

Ali Gohar

ERP Analyst/ Functional Consultant

Amreli Steels Limited

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Master's degree, Finance
Experience
21 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 9 Months

ERP Analyst/ Functional Consultant at Amreli Steels Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since August 2011

My main function is to assist the Director of IT & Finance by leading strategic business projects and programs.

 Provide tactical and strategic input under the direction of Amreli Steels IT Director towards Amreli Steels current and future business applications.
 Identify how to exploit the current systems and more importantly given the forward agenda determine what is needed to support the business for the future.
 Implementation of Financials (GL, AP, AR)
 Implementation of Supply Chain (SOP & POP)
 Created and maintained an ERP Service Catalogue and a Change & Release management process.
 Created and maintained an ERP Configuration Management System.
 Created and managed the event, incident, problem and access management processes.
 Enabled effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery and support of IT services.
 Training to Accounts, Finance, Sales & Marketing, Purchase and Logistics departments.
 Maintenance of other customizations within ERP Suit.
 Performed a conversion of data from a legacy system to Oracle. Built a custom ETL Tool (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading tool)

Manager Information Technology & Customer Relations at Saifee Hospital Trust, Karachi Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2010 to March 2011

 Implemented a full range of IT Services from off-shore development, to outsourced data center, multi-lingual Service Desk and local application support team.
 Recruited and managed a team of eight Oracle application support analysts (internal / external) to provide 2nd level support to 1, 500 users across Health management, supply chain, finance and account receivable.
 Created and managed the event, incident, problem and access management processes.
 Created and maintained an ERP Configuration Management System.
 Controlled IT systems with significant impact to corporate revenue stream, including a network of 80+ interfaces connected to the ERP system.
 Supervised Service Desk support dashboards to review SLA metrics, training gaps and Service Process Improvement initiatives.
 Escalation point 24/7 for critical issues and ensured successful month-end support.

Business Analyst at Ballymun Regeneration Limited
  • Ireland
  • January 2007 to December 2009

 Participated in the Oracle 11i ERP system implementation project, providing consulting on processes and procedures for Order to Cash (O2C), tested new functionalities and deployed to Production.
 Implemented and maintained global process design and configuration of the Oracle ERP system.
 Provided worldwide testing, validation and certification in support of Oracle and boundary systems.
 Reviews, analyzes, and creates detailed documentation of business systems and user needs, including workflow, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
 Analyzes the business unit’s activities and trends and compares analyses against the service standards and best practices.
 Develop graphs, reports, and presentations of project results.
 Presents findings and works with the Business Unit Leader and other personnel to identify and implement strategies that will address tactical and strategic goals.
 Also develop and prepare effective Business reporting tool for Financial, Production and Customer Service.
 Supervised Service Desk support dashboards to review SLA metrics, training gaps and Service Process Improvement initiatives.
 Training to Accounts, Finance, Sales & Marketing, Purchase and Logistics departments.
 Maintenance of other customizations within ERP Suit.

Technical Support Agent at Hewlett Packard (HP)
  • Ireland
  • September 2005 to December 2006

 Installation and configuration of “Oracle Product” on all platforms at client side within EMEA Region.
 Solution to problems and bugs related to Oracle Products.
 Manage Standby Database, performing Replication through various different tools and techniques. Technical assistance of Oracle Database to client includes tuning, backups & Recovery issues.
 Monitoring and maintaining of server system stability and performance with associated maintenance activities.

Marketing Analyst (Executive) at Tapal Tea (Pvt.) Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • March 2002 to July 2005

 Developing, analyzing and maintaining Sales History on brands, SKU’s, Monthly, district and town wise.
 Trade offer monitoring on daily basis as per brands, SKU’s, district and town levels.
 Preparation of Incentives for the distributors, sales force and providing detail targeting reports to GM sales and marketing.
 Developing reports for overall Brand Performance regionally.
 Involved in other statistical works which includes budgeting, costing, gap analysis etc.

Education

Master's degree, Finance
  • at Griffith College Dublin Ireland
  • December 2007

MBA 2007 Griffith College, Dublin, Ireland CGPA 3.15

Bachelor's degree, Physics, Mathematics and Statistics
  • at University of Karachi
  • December 2001
High school or equivalent, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry
  • at S.M. Govt. Science College
  • December 1999

Intermediate 1999 S.M. Science College, Karachi Pakistan Second Division

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Information Systems Development
Developing Training Programs
Identifying New Business Opportunities
Analyst Relations
Accounting and Cost Management for Distribution, Manufacturing and Project related industries
Project Management
Business Process Documentation & Improvement Assessments for Supply Chain and Financial processes
Oracle E-Business Suite (Financials, HRMS, Supply Chain, CRM, Asset Managment)
Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Projects

Languages

Urdu
Expert
English
Expert
Hindi
Beginner
Gujarati
Intermediate
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

ACCA
  • Registered Student
  • February 2008

Training and Certifications

Emotional Intelligence for Business Leaders (Training)
Training Institute:
BRL
Date Attended:
February 2008
Duration:
24 hours
Adv. Diploma in Information Technology (Certificate)
Diploma in Hardware and Networking (Certificate)
Health & Safety for Computer Users (Training)
Training Institute:
INP - Ireland
Date Attended:
January 2006
Duration:
48 hours
Organisational skills (Training)
Training Institute:
BRL
Diploma in Oracle 9i (Certificate)
IELTS with 6 Band (Certificate)