Business Finance Partner/ Finance Manager
Unilever Pakistan
Total years of experience :16 years, 6 Months
Managing finance and business partnering with all cross-functional teams of Food Solutions division to drive quality decision making by challenging assumptions and evaluating alternatives; supporting product innovations; reviewing pricing, driving mix, margin structures and providing financial support for decision making and analysis.
Selected Accomplishments:
Revamped trade term structure for the business and distributors into greater profitability;
Led and closed two year joint business plan with Metro Pakistan.
Found cost savings and audit costs and procedures to save money at every level in the business unit.
Capability building of Sales teams by carrying out trainings nationally and creating market discount model for their empowerment and increased efficiency.
Ensure timely and accurate reporting of all management accounts in accordance with global policies. Acted as a key driver in the process to develop models to facilitate and simplify reporting (local and regional).
Finalising and reporting of monthly and quarterly management results comprising of profit and loss accounts, customer and channel profitability and working capital.
Presented overall business analysis and result commentaries by continuously working in close coordination with corporate finance director and VP Finance.
Contributed in preparation and filing of annual financial statements and acted as liaison for external auditors for both quarterly and yearly end audits.
Ensured proper compliance to business code of conduct, by working closely with internal audit team to encourage and ensure confidentiality of data.
Consolidating the company Compass after close consultation and thorough discussions with functional heads.
Made various presentations for VP finance and Chairman to be shared at various forums.
Played a pivotal role in SAP implementation, by ensuring smooth balance transfer from MFG Pro to SAP and stream lined cost centres helping record costs by function for the company.
Key Achievements:
Successfully migrated historical financial data from oracle financials to BW Citrix, working with the country process lead for the information management track (SAP implementation).
Strived to play a pivotal role in elevating the overall ranking of the department and successfully succeed in occupying the first position for management reporting in Asia AMET cluster (24 countries) in 2009.
Upon implementation of SAP led successful trainings of BW for the entire management committee.
Evaluated fifteen listed cement manufacturers giving recommendations (BUY/ SELL/ HOLD) to sales team and clients based on DCF and WACC based models. Provided research products to be printed in newspapers and magazines and represented the brokerage house on media.
Selected Accomplishment(s):
Initiated and set up ‘commodity desk’ responsible for research and facilitating trading of commodity futures contracts listed on Pakistan Mercantile Exchange (PMEX).
I graduated from University of Sheffield in UK in accounting and financial management with a 2.2 in 2006. During the same tenure I have interned with PwC Pakistan in their audit department and Askari Commercial Bank (A leading local bank) in their treasury department.