Finance Manager
M.H. Alshaya Co. WLL
Total years of experience :12 years, 7 Months
- Fashion Division & Corporate (MENA)
• Preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly financial and strategic review presentations to evaluate
• KPI’s i.e. sales, margin, and net Profit presented to divisional President and CFO Retail.
• Performing in-depth analysis to identify trends & highlight risks having significant impact on
business & aid in management decision making.
• Developed and monitoring labour productivity dashboard, cost saving tracker, store performance
report, inventory cash flow, forecasting accuracy & other KPIs dashboards to support & drive decision
making by respective brand directors.
• Managing business planning & forecasting process by guiding brand teams on formulating and phasing
of sales, margin, investment needed and driving productivity KPIs.
• Performed Cost line analysis & liaised closely with brands directors and President of division to help
division achieve full year cost savings of FY’18 USD 10 million, implemented similar initiative in ’16 & ’17.
• Product Pricing, Brand Productivity and Volume Analysis.
• Led Royalty Transition Project (cost to sales) for 3 Brands (Debenhams, BHS, Claire’s), that helped
improve margin by 2%pts, quality of stock, freeing up cash (by 15%).
• Implemented other projects: Casual & Overtime tracking & Planning; Express Brand closure; elimination
of non-value adding activities to free up to 1 hour of store time per day, MIS dashboards, CEO snapshot
slides for division review.
• Forecast accuracy KPIs, Power BI tools for reporting and training other teams on it.
• Managed and trained 2 financial analysts’ & also managed IIM (MBA) interns.
(Business Planning and Analysis) - Region AMAC
• P&L analysis through monthly production business review reports and key commentaries to senior
management by highlighting variances relating to various operational and profitability metrics in terms of
PY/Budget/Actual / Rolling Forecast, supported management decision making.
• Asia Cluster Budget 2014 (Singapore): was directly reporting to BPA Head and CFO, provided them
analysis on P&L, Brands, Price volume mix, resource allocation, cost controlling drivers & cash flow,
along with weekly spot landing analysis. Supported them in guidance to countries,
consolidation & preparation of final deck presented to top management for Region AMAC in HQ.
• Providing commentary and analysis for Management Cash Flow Report every month on DSO, DPO,
Capital expenditure, accounts payable, accounts receivable, MCF % to sales for senior management.
• Price Volume Mix analysis- to determine the underlying reasons for sales variances due to price or
volume effects at brand level. Also had setup the PVM cube for the Region AMAC.
• Prepare LTM Deck - (Leadership Team Meeting) Dashboard for the Region CFO every month, that
envisages year to date performance of countries and brands for different key performance indicators
along with providing key commentary and analysis.
• Business Trip (Novartis Campus, Basel, Switzerland) - June 2012- Project Meetings and Discussion
with CFO Region AMAC and Head BPA for Budget 2013 planning and preparation.
• Worked on Budgets 2013-2015 for Region AMAC, prepared financial models & analysis for Income
Statement, Brand P&L and Management Cash Flow to envisage growth drivers, trends & KPI’s, that
was finalized by top management after discussions with respective countries & clusters, received
recognition for same in 2012.
• Worked on various adhoc projects for new launches, off-patents cliffs, strategic plans & other
analysis for different brands & franchises in different countries and at region level.
- Finance and Due Diligence for Acquisition of oil assets
• Acclimatization to process of weekly cash budgeting and succeeding investment of surplus funds
• Understanding, designing and building of formats for Financial Modeling for Oil assets acquisition,
Projecting Cash flows, NPV, ROI, Profit sharing, Production Estimates, Exploration and Development
expenses for different scenarios.
• Worked with the Finance and Business Development teams for understanding the due diligence and bidding
process and subsequently aided in process of NELP IX round conducted by Directorate of General
Hydrocarbons for awarding Oil Blocks for exploration and Development in India.
License No. 64173 MBA IBS (ICFAI), Hyderabad IFHE (ICFAI Foundation for
, Rohtak