Financial Controller
Schwarz Group Lidl International
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :10 years, 2 أشهر
• FP&A Team lead
• Act as a single point of contact for monthly/yearly performance & forecasts
• Owner of Profit & Loss statement for DACH region
• Lead month-end-close activities incl. GtN accrual reviews
• Lead forecasts, budgets & strategic plan cycles
• Owner of monthly business reviews (actuals & forecast) with EMEA
• Business partnering/liaison with cross functional teams in DACH
• Work closely with the German commercial leadership Team
• Price-Pack-Architecture Activities
• Perform Trade Margin Analyses
• Liaise with Insights team to Analyse brand/sub-brand performance
• Business Partnering with Category Lead to drive financially sound strategic decisions
• Brand ladder (Pricing) exercise vs competition to recommend strategies
• Lead Monthly Forecasting of Full P&L
• Prepare/Manage 5 Year Growth Plan for Snacks
• Advertisement & Marketing Analysis with Category Lead (Snacks)
• Own Monthly Financial Reporting to Sector
• Part of the core team for digitalization journey: IBM and Tableau implementation
• Contribute to Pricing Agenda for Snacks, Germany (Rev. Management Project)
• Prepare Product Business Case for the new & ongoing projects
• Development and improvement of seating models to identify cost benchmarks
• Understanding & interpreting plants forecasts
• Evaluate CAPEX Analysis for Green & Brown Fields.
• Prepare and Present Project Findings to the Management Team
• Receivables & Payables reporting & reconciliation.
• OFCF & Accruals reporting
• AR & AP forecasting month/Quarter/FY
• Disputes minimization/resolution
• Monthly financial closing & reporting to European HQ (UK)
• Profitability maximization with focus on customer/product mix
• Daily Sales Tracking and Reporting
• Annual customer negotiation Strategy
• Financial Performance Evaluation
Dec 2013 - May 2014 Master Thesis in KPMG AG, Munich, Germany.
Department: IT Consulting
• Topic: Effects of working capital management on the performance of firms: An empirical evidence of selected German industry
Apr 2013 - Aug 2013 Internship in KPMG AG, Munich, Germany.
Department: IT Consulting
• Detailed research on the topic Process Mining with the focus on the order-to-cash process
• Processing of SAP ERP data in MS Access
• Support for setup, data loading and quality assurance on Account Man- agement MS SharePoint platform
• Creating a competitive analysis for certain industries, including compar- ison of organizational structures and financial ratios
Aug 2005 - Aug 2007 GCE Advance Level (Higher Secondary Education)
Lahore National Grammar School, Lahore, Pakistan. Focus: Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Urdu Jun 2003 - Jun 2005 GCE Ordinary Level (Secondary Education)
Dec 2011 - May 2014 Master of Science in Finance University of Ulm, Germany. Focus: Financial Economics
Oct 2007 - Apr 2011 Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance (Honors) Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan Focus: Economics and Finance