Farooq Ahmed, MIS Officer

Farooq Ahmed

MIS Officer

Gulf News

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, ERP - SAP
Experience
24 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 1 Months

MIS Officer at Gulf News
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2015

• Generate MIS reports - viz . Retail, Bulk, Distribution, Subscriptions, Magazines, etc.
• Track and Publish the Campaign MIS
• Responsible for cleaning and continuous up-keeping of subscriber data base
• Responsible for sending email blasts to subscribers as and when required
• Keying in budget for the Sales & Distribution Department for the ensuing year and also for the budget update, subsequently coordinating with Finance for the proper posting of budget in the SAP module
• Execute all audit related activities for all publications at a periodic interval across the year and interact with BPA as well as other departments to carry out the audit successfully.

Data Admin Coordinator at Gulf News
  • United Arab Emirates
  • December 2007 to May 2015

• Generate Weekly Sales Report & Monthly Sales Report for various channels (Retail, Bulk & Employee Sales).
• Generating Third Party Publication report.
• Preparing the print orders (Sales Orders) of Gulf News and other publication in SAP.
• Reconciliation of Major retail outlets.
• Perform the month billing cycle, which involves various transactions in SAP.
• Providing admin (Sales) support functions.

Asst. Manager - MIS at Philips Electronics India Ltd
  • India
  • July 2007 to November 2007

• Associated with Philips Electronics India Ltd. (Medical Systems) as All India Business Support (Sales).
• Working on to track the Accounts Receivable and credit control.
• Reporting the actuals to budget variance to Management at regular intervals.
• Coordinating in preparation of Budgets for Sales and Marketing, Quarterly Rolling forecast etc, Weekly review of Order intake and Revenue recognition etc.
• Key user of SD module in SAP.
• Calculating the Incentive of the Sales personnel quarterly.

Asst. Sales Officer at The Hindu Group of Publication
  • India
  • May 2004 to July 2007

Leading English National Newspaper

Job involves assisting the sales team.
Interaction with the news agents for orders & payments.
MIS
Preparing Sales Reports
Designing Leaflets.
Etc.

Web Designer at Tema India Ltd
  • India
  • February 2000 to March 2004

Job involves designing the web site and maintaining the same.

Updating the web sites with new contents and uploading the same using WS FTP.

The most commonly used tools are Photoshop, Flash, Animation Pro, Microsoft FrontPage & WS FTP.

Also involved in preparing the company presentation show using Microsoft PowerPoint.

Education

Diploma, ERP - SAP
  • at Hitech Technologies
  • March 2007

SAP in Sales and Distribution

Diploma, Microsoft Exchange Server
  • at Karrox Technology
  • May 2006

 Installing / Upgrading to Exchange Server 2003  Configuring / Managing / Securing Exchange Server 2003  Managing Recipients / Public Folders / Address Lists  Managing Client Configuration and Connectivity  Back up and Recovery.  Migrating Users from Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003

Diploma, Web Deisgning
  • at Wintech Computers
  • February 2000

MS Office, Front Page, Animation Shop, Dream Weaver and PhotoShop, Flash, Corel Draw etc

Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at Mumbai University
  • April 1999
Diploma, Computer Hardware
  • at CMS Computers
  • April 1997

PC Maintainance, Networking etc.

Specialties & Skills

Adobe Photoshop
Newspaper
Marketing
MS Office, Frontpage, Dreamweaver. Photoshop, Corel draw.

Languages

English
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Hindi
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Tamil
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