Haroon Rashid Kanth, Director

Haroon Rashid Kanth

Director

Telenor Global Shared Services

Location
Pakistan - Islamabad
Education
Diploma, Accounting, Auditing and finance
Experience
24 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 3 Months

Director at Telenor Global Shared Services
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since July 2009

 Managing an offshore Telenor Group IT Shared Services department of 100+ FTE;
 Providing support and development services in the areas of ERP, collaboration tools, Middleware tools, Testing, IT operations and BI/DWH;
 Responsible for client relation and account management;
 Develop and implement ITIL and ITSM compliant processes;
 Managing SLAs with customers and vendors;
 Ensure compliance and monitoring of customer governance framework;
 Work together with cross-functional teams/Service Lines for ensuring that strategic targets are met;
 Supervise projects as Project manager/ Director/ Steer com member
 Maintaining revenue and spend budgets;
 Responsible for motivation of team delivery professionals while providing leadership and direction;
 Develop a culture within the team aligned with best practices of a Shared Service Centre.

I was engaged in GSS company strategy development project as a Lead for IT stream.

Core team member of the GSS IT transformation project responsible for defining the new IT operating model, Governance and future organization state including Structure, Mandate, Processes, Roles & Responsibilities, SLA for GSS IT.

Managing consultant at IBM Italia - Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • August 2006 to July 2009

Experience Profile: (companies and Projects)

Wateen Telecom

Project - “Data warehouse and BI (Cognos) implementation”
Period - 03/09- 06/09
Role - SME - Business Intelligence (Financials)

Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited

Project - “BPR and Oracle re-implementation”
Period - 03/09 - 07/09
Role - Project Manager

Fauji Foundation

Project - “COGNOS controller and BI modules implementation”
Period - 8/08 - 11/08
Role - Team Lead

Capital Development Authority (CDA)

Project - “Organizational Restructuring and BPR of CDA”
(Org. restructuring, BPR, Job profiling and Implementation roadmap)
Period - 07/07 - 03/08
Role - Project Manager & solutions lead

Electronic Government Directorate - Ministry of IT

Project - “e-Procurement system consultancy for GoP”
(BPR, e-Procurement Modeling and Deployment strategy)
Period - 03/07 - 09/07
Role - Project Manager and team lead Spend analysis

Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited

Project - Oracle Financials Health Check w.r.t integration with other modules and
rollout in the regional offices.
Period - 01/07 - 02/07
Role - Team lead COA analysis and financials

Oil and Gas development Company Limited

Project - “Business Process Reengineering”
Period - 09/06 - 12/06
Role - Team Lead Financials

Fin. Mgmt & ERP at National Telecom. Corp
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • December 2004 to July 2006

 Business process Re-engineering - PM
 ERP Implementation - PM
 Financial portfolio management (5 Billion PKR)
 Financial management of International Gateway operations and inter-carrier relationship.

Functional Consultant at GulfNet Pak. Pvt. Ltd
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • March 2004 to November 2004

 Business Analysis and Functional Requirements Specifications
 Designed various modules of financials (Financial and operational Analyzer, Cash Management), Supply chain (3rd party inventory handling), sales (Credit risk management) & HR systems (Employee Retirement Benefits system, Travel advance and adjustment system).
 Implemented the financials module of Apex ERP Suite at Best-way Group
 Worked on the new Chart of Accounts Structure while considering its geographical and operational structure.

Sr Supervisor at Deloitte and Touche
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • November 1999 to November 2003

Completed the 4 year training program and worked there as a Senior Supervisor in Audit and Assurance Department.

FINANCIAL REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

Understanding of Financial Reporting & regulatory bodies’ requirements, Pronouncement of various professional bodies, Accounting & internal control systems, Corporate maters affecting an organization and Laws on good Governance.

AUDIT & ASSURANCE

Responsible to plan, perform, conduct and supervise audits of diverse portfolio of organizations The expertise was extensively focused in the following business sectors
• Oil & Gas
• NGOs
• Telecom

Education

Diploma, Accounting, Auditing and finance
  • at Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan
  • November 2003
Master's degree, Management & finance
  • at SZAB Institute of Science and Technology
  • August 2002
Bachelor's degree, Economics and Journalism
  • at The University Of Punjab
  • September 1999

Specialties & Skills

IT Strategy
IT Service Management
IT Project Management
Oracle ERP
Leadership
IT strategy and operating model
ERP implementation and BPR
PROJECT MANAGER

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Six sigma Green Belt certified (Training)
Training Institute:
Kinverg
Date Attended:
March 2013
ITIL certified Service management specialist (Training)
Training Institute:
The Grey matters
Date Attended:
December 2012
Six sigma yellow Belt certified (Training)
Training Institute:
Kinverg
Date Attended:
February 2013
ITIL V3 certified (Training)
Training Institute:
The grey matters
Date Attended:
December 2012
SAP certified FI consultant (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Date Attended:
February 2009