harris rahim

Financial Controller at Schwarz Group Lidl International

• Germany - Neckarsulm
• My current job since March 2024

Associate Director Financial Planning & Analysis at WELLA Company

• Germany - Darmstadt
• January 2022 to December 2023

• 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

FP&A Manager/Revenue Manager at PepsiCo GmbH

• Germany - Neu Isenburg
• December 2018 to December 2021

• 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)

Senior Costing Analyst at Adient Automotive Seating

• Germany - Burscheid
• April 2017 to November 2018

• 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

Junior to Senior BBP Analyst at Kraft Heinz Company

• Germany - Duesseldorf
• January 2015 to March 2017

• 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

Working student at KPMG AG

• Germany - Munich
• December 2013 to May 2014

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

Internship at KPMG AG

• Germany - Munich
• April 2013 to August 2013

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