Muhammad Ahsan Jawaid

• Spearheaded a financial model consolidating IT costs across 12 business units, reducing
manual reporting time by 50% and enhancing real-time visibility into IT Engineering, Tech,
and total BU IT costs.
• Led monthly forecasting and variance analysis with detailed commentary on key GLs,
presenting insights to business leadership to support strategic decisions.
• Partnered with business primes to identify and validate key risks and opportunities in
IT, achieving ~$800K in cost optimization through reduced contractor utilization and labor
costs reallocation. Improved forecast accuracy and enabled informed leadership decisions.
• Maintained seamless month-end continuity during a transition, temporarily overseeing TELUS
International responsibilities and training a new hire to ensure smooth handover and
operational stability
• Automated IT shadow P&L in Adaptive Insights with systems team, enabling faster
delivery and variance insights for leadership.
• Led month-end financial close activities by analyzing results and coordinating
reclassifications, accruals, and prepaid entries with the accounting team to ensure
accurate reporting.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance the accuracy and timeliness of
forecasts and budgets for Infrastructure Ontario.
• Built an integrated financial model linking service categories across financial cycles and
regions to the Master Budget for real-time updates, improving budget accuracy.
• Led variance analysis on key expense categories identifying cost-saving opportunities and
providing actionable insights, contributing to a 10% reduction in FY 25-26 Budget Utility
Expense.

• Designed and implemented a deck template model that streamlined consolidation and
automated updates, reducing turnaround times for budget, forecast, and projection cycles
by one day for P&L views.
• Provided analytical support and insights that achieved a 5% reduction in OPEX over 12
months, empowering Finance leadership to make strategic decisions.
• Contributed to the development of annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and projections,
focusing on P&L analysis, earning per share (EPS) calculation and optimization.
• Transformed raw financial data into compelling P&L narratives for leadership, enhancing
decision-making and clarifying financial direction.
• Generated ad-hoc reports for management and guided teams on Hyperion functionality.
• Took a lead position in training and coaching financial analyst.

• Coordinated with various cross-functional teams and data analysts to implement data
collection process and execute a company-wide Power BI dashboard integrated with existing
applications.
• Built and delivered a dynamic dashboard report that informed senior leadership on agency
cost and major vendor tracking, resulting in a 15% cost reduction.
• Engineered a labor-staffing model predicting the cost-benefit impacts of an increase in labor
hours and the proposed increase in Govt. funding.
• Developed financial statements by automating requirements. Connected multiple datasets
using BI and linked them to the dashboard saving 2 to 3 hours in gathering and
transforming recurring data.
• Presented executive level KPI insights across all Extendicare homes, identifying trends and
highlighting at-risk homes below benchmark occupancy.
• Mentored and supervised two Financial Analysts and oversee their operations.

• Designed and maintained a dashboard to track BFGs financial and operational health,
reducing unnecessary expenses by 10% through trend analysis.
• Reduced monthly and quarterly financial reporting time by 30% by transforming the data
using BI tool.
• Reviewed financial statements for all business units, providing in-depth analysis and
actionable recommendations to management.

• Managed financial and commercial operations across KE business units, advising on cost
optimization and investment decisions.
• Controlled budgets and monitored performance, identifying opportunities to reduce
budgetary slack by 20% through variance analysis.
• Automated monthly and quarterly corporate KPI reports by automating requirements with
dashboards. The dashboards presented the status of the overall performance quickly saving
4-6 hours of work by the team.
• Evaluated different projects by adopting various financial management tools to analyze an
investment. The financial feasibilities resulted in optimum utilization of the company
resources.
• Redesigned the Accounts Payable function, implementing Vendor Invoice Management
software, eliminating invoice hardcopies and reduce invoice-processing time by 30%.

• Monitored suppliers invoices, processing the same on SAP and ensuring timely payments to
the vendor.
• Prepared journal entries, vendor reconciliation, and accruals of major vendors in SAP.
• Coordination with auditors and technical officials to furnish documentation and ad hoc
requests.