kashif feroze, Cost Analyst

kashif feroze

Cost Analyst

Pharmaceutical Solutions Industry

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, CMA (Pakistan)
Experience
12 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 2 Months

Cost Analyst at Pharmaceutical Solutions Industry
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since June 2015

 Product Cost & Manufacturing cost Reporting

 Periodic Budgets ( Production, Sales, Cost) and
Variance Analysis

 Verifying Bill of Materials

 Production efficiency Analysis, OEE, TEEP
Analysis

 Reviews, analyses and updates standard costs,
product margins and cost variances

 Support in the Development of the product cost
for budget.

 Analyzing periodic actual cost versus budget with
tracing and justification of variance.

 Product Cost for new Products/Projects

 Monthly overhead & capital spending detail.

 Product Cost Breakdown

 Material, Labor, Manufacturing Overhead
Calculations

 Proposal Analysis, Contract Costing

 Yearly Expense Comparative analysis

Accomplishments:
 Evaluating Tender Profitability of Value 200
Million

 Introduced and Implemented BI Driven Data
Analytics for Costing and Variance Analysis

 Team lead for BPR & SAP S4 Hana Pre-
implementation design process.

 Activity Based Cost Implementation

 Budget V/s Actual Comparison Framework

 Set up the Product Cost Orientation for
management reporting and tender costing
(From Indirect to Direct Costing)


Dashboards & Data Analytics Role:
 Developed Management Reporting in Microsoft
Power BI® Dashboards

 Data Mining in Microsoft Power BI® from SAP
system Outputs

 Periodic Machine Efficiency Matrices for
Overhead Cost Controls in Microsoft Power BI®

 Manufacturing Cost & Variance Analysis
Dashboards in Microsoft Power BI® Tools

Technical Edge in SAP:
 An in-depth grip on CO Module

 Maintaining Monthly Cost Run

 Maintaining Bill of Materials (BOM) at FG and
SFG level

 Maintaining Activity Prices and Cost Centers
Master Data

 Inventory and Internal Orders Management

 Cost Center & Work center design

 GL level reconciliation

 Logical designing of SAP reports in liaison with IT

 General Navigation in SAP ERP ECC 6

Assistant Manager Internal Audit at NISHAT Chunian Limited
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • January 2012 to March 2015

NISHAT CHUNIAN GROUP
(ICAEW CERTIFIED TRAINING EMPLOYER)

Assistant Manager Internal Audit (Jan2012 to Date)
Duties and responsibilities:

Accounts and Finance

• Global Responsibilities: (Company-wide)
Review and analysis of company’s Annual, Half-yearly and Quarterly accounts (consolidating all divisions and subsidiaries)
• Payables and Receivables, review monthly age analysis of accounts and inquiry for any unreasonable outstanding balances and settlement thereof.
• Review of monthly bank reconciliation statements
• Coordination with external auditors for statutory audits.
• Capital project appraisals as directed by finance committee

Audit

• Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplications, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
• Inspection of accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.
• Examine and evaluate financial information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity.
• Develop audit recommendations for improving operations and internal control systems.
• Perform pre-disbursement audit, cash counts, physical inventories, or other audit procedures as needed to meet the audit objectives.
• Execute audit and other related assignments as directed by HOD
• Co-ordinate with the team for smooth implementation of the assignments
• Gather adequate, reliable, related and useful evidence to authenticate audit findings and to maintain the evidence as record.
• Analyze the information gathered to identify reportable factors.
• Identify risk while analyzing the information and communicate to the audit the nature of risk associate with the transactions.
• Perform follow up procedures to assess the adequacy of the audit implementation of recommended actions

INVENTORY ANALYSIS AND COSTING

• Valuation of Finished Goods and Work in process of all Power, Spinning, Weaving, Dyeing and Stitching units.
• Costing of Contracts for evaluation purpose at their closure.
• Monthly Yield, Quality and Contraction Analysis of selected quality.
• Monthly Stock Count and Store Consumption Report along with their analysis
• Yield Reports of Fabric on different formats
• Casual visits to mill for the verification of different matters.

ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUIT (R12)

User level knowledge of following oracle modules for reporting and as well as Data Entry along with backend system logics and workings.

• Inventory
• Order Management
• Purchase Order
• Cost & Management

Inquiry level knowledge of following oracle modules for verification and all types of management reporting as and when required.
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Fixed Asset
• General Ledger

ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Grip on International Accounting Standards (IAS) IFRS
• ERP system Oracle Knowledge (would have an added advantage)
• Professional judgment and skepticism to conduct audit work
• Computer Literate (MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint)
• Ability to comprehend and interpret policies, procedures, laws, regulations, and guidelines

HONORS AND AWARDS
• Completion of CMA in due time period of 3 years
• CGPA 3.59/4 in BBA (Hons.)

Education

Master's degree, CMA (Pakistan)
  • at Institute of cost and Management accounts of pakistan
  • February 2012

ICMAP ( A MEMBER OF IFAC) CMA Feb 2012

Master's degree, finance
  • at University of Central punjab
  • October 2008

BBA Hons' (MBA finance equivalence by HEC) Oct 2008

Specialties & Skills

Business Intelligence
Budgeting
Costing
ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS
CONTROL SYSTEMS
Grip on International Accounting Standards (IAS), IFRS
Ability to Comprehend and interpret policies, procedures, laws, regulations, and guidelines
Financial Analysis
Costing and Controlling

Languages

Urdu
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

ASA - Australia (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2022

Hobbies

  • programming