محمد بلال

 Entrusted with Finance Operations of 4 Group Companies including Educational institutes, Health Sector and FMCG establishments.
 Financial Reporting and Budgeting
 Handling of day to day Financial operations
 Involvement on Group level for improvement of Processes and controls

• Batched up with the responsibilities of Head of Finance & Operations of Fabrizio (Pvt) Ltd in January 2013, it is a group entity of Stylo Shoes. Job responsibility includes

o Supervising the finance team and leading towards the coporate strategic goals
o Preparation of financial statements and ensuring the month closing schedules and entries.
o Preparation and review of bank account reconciliations and party reconciliations.
o Critical analysis of revenue, expenses accounts to ensure correct recording and highlight the abnormal trends on monthly basis
o Review of monthly financial statement and report the variances in expenses and income accounts.
o Ensure correct recording of assets and liabilities.
o Review and supervise the budgeting exercices of the organizaion and reporting the variances thereon.
o Preparation of different reports for management and CEO
o Proficient in handling Accounting matters
o Independent and self motivated with proven record of success
o Dealing / managing Receivables and payables independantly
o Providing and interpreting financial information. Monitoring and interpreting cash flows and predicting future trends.
o Developing financial management mechanisms that minimise financial risk; Conducting reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities;
o Liaising with auditors to ensure annual monitoring is carried out;
o Developing external relationships with appropriate contacts, e.g. auditors, solicitors, bankers and statutory organisations such as the Inland Revenue;
o Producing accurate financial reports to specific deadlines; managing budgets; arranging new sources of finance for a company's debt facilities; supervising staff; keeping abreast of changes in financial regulations and legislations
o Analysis of differenent retail industry trends including sales value, volume, category, IPT, RPT, OTIF etc.

• Entrusted with the responsibilities of Head of International Business in September 2011 and appointed as Chief Representative Officer (CRO) of the Company for China Representative Office.
o Responsibilites include the entire business setup in China.
o Evaluated the business proposal for Business setup in China.
o Carried out two visits to China for Legal set up evaluations.
o Meetings with legal firms for incorporation of the entity.
o Analysis of the potential business areas.
o Capital injection opportunities and possibilities.
o Involvement of Quality assurance firms for business partners.
o Review of Human resource requiremnt and selection of office location.

• Exploiting the International Sourcing expertise from the above analysis and cost saving in the current businness local procurement and reducing the current purchase price by 40%

• Joined as Manager Internal Audit in March, 2007. Promoted to Head of Internal Audit (Senior Manager) in January 2011.
o Reporting to Director Finance, Audit & IT. Member of the Management Team, a layer next to the Board of Directors of the organization.
o Responsibilities include review of internal controls and policies adopted by the organization and design of policies and procedures and implemementation thereof.
o Preparation of Annual Audit Plan for the organization and to ensure the department activity alignment
o Carrying out the internal audit assignments on monthly and adhoc basis as desired by the management.
o Charting the Physicaly inventorie plan for the retail points and reporting thereto.
o Carring the analytical reviews and highlighting the abnormalities.
o Ensuring the implementation of the control weaknesses and audit observations in the user departments.
o Preparation of internal audit reports for the managemenet with recommendations thereto.

• A Subsidiary of Enpointe Technologies Inc. USA, a leading US Based Call Centre and Pakistan’s largest Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Company.
• Worked as Assistant Manager Finance. Responsibilities include implementation of GL System \{Sidat Hyder Financials (Back end SQL Server & Front end Power Builder)\} at two remote locations and computerization of the financial record. Job description also includes recording of daily business transactions i.e. vendor payables, customer receivables, bank & cash payments, preparation of bank reconciliation statements, liaison with financial institutions for routine matters, arrangement of long & short term finances including leases, preparation of financial statement on monthly basis, liaison with external auditors for completion of annual/half-yearly audit and looking after the budgeting and forecasting the financial aspects of the business.

Ovex Technologies (Pvt) Ltd
Aug 05 to Feb 07
• A Subsidiary of Enpointe Technologies Inc. USA, a leading US Based Call Centre and Pakistan's largest Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Company.

• Worked as Assistant Manager Finance. Responsibilities include implementation of GL System \{Sidat Hyder Financials (Back end SQL Server & Front end Power Builder) \} at two remote locations and computerization of the financial record. Job description also includes recording of daily business transactions i.e. vendor payables, customer receivables, bank & cash payments, preparation of bank reconciliation statements, liaison with financial institutions for routine matters, arrangement of long & short term finances including leases, preparation of financial statement on monthly basis, liaison with external auditors for completion of annual/half-yearly audit and looking after the budgeting and forecasting the financial aspects of the business.