Muhammad Naeem Qazi

• Lead the creation, development, and implementation of the strategic financial long & short-term plan, policies, procedures, and controls to protect the company from the business and financial risks.
• Collaborate with CEO and present board members periodic financial performance for the group while clearly demonstrating the alignment of group’s strategic financial goals with overarching business objectives.
• Chart the review and creation of consolidated financial reports in compliance with IFRS & SOCPA with guaranteeing timely periodic closing of accounts.
• Partner closely with the division heads in creation of group annual rolling operational budget, lead the review of performance by charting periodic detailed performance report while devising strategy for improvement.
• Preside over and direct key operations of the overall treasury function while administering working capital arrangement,
managed the sourcing and negotiation of banking facilities, Letters of Credit (LCs), and Letters of Guarantee (LGs), and maintain close relationships with banks.
• Led end-to-end financial management of engineering, infrastructure mega projects, optimized project performance by controlling cost, streamlining contract cash flow and maintaining liquidity to ensure timely achievement of delivery of projects.
• Accomplished the financial planning of a new industrial venture, managed entire CAPEX lifecycle by leading feasibility studies, sourcing industrial financing, cost controlling, monitoring expenditures, and operational readiness.
• Derived production line performance through the establishment of standard unit costing, inventory monitoring, wastage control initiatives, workforce planning, and effective overheads allocation to achieve production and growth targets.
• Conduct the risk assessment & analysis of potential projects, strengthening project commercial viability by reviewing customers’ contract, budgeted project cost, workflow plan, vendor-contract agreement and performing sensitivity analysis to flag risker areas of project and its impact on project profitability.
• Collaborate closely with the division head in devising project-financial plan, review periodic course correction at each milestone completion while maintain continual monitoring of cost and flagging key areas for cost control improvement.
• Lead the execution of progressive analysis by charting cost center detailed analysis report upon project completion.
• Led the transformation of management information system by integrating groups financial reporting and establishing dynamic dashboard for KPI/performance tracking within MS dynamics 365.
• Play a key role by administering direct taxes, Vat, Zakat returns submission, while ensuring disbursement of all statutory payments within regulatory timeframe.
• Spearheaded the annual statutory audit, providing executive leadership throughout the audit lifecycle, overseeing financial reporting, internal controls, and auditor engagement to ensure the issuance of audited financial statements within regulatory deadlines while maintaining full compliance with statutory, governance, and financial reporting standards.
• Directed the accurate recognition of contract revenue and assets, with guaranteeing 100% compliance with international financial reporting standards.
• Oversight, inter-company financial transactions, while ensuring fair allocation of shared services across group.
• Furnish guidance, coaching, and leadership to new and existing staff members to improve overall work performance.

• Placed a strong and continuous emphasis on maintaining compliance with accounting policies & procedures and dispensed recommendations to executive management on improvement opportunities.
• Led the timely creation and reporting of periodic consolidated financial statements, administered in-depth performance analysis of financial reports to the board and stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.
• Served-in an integral role by leading the consolidation of annual revenue budget, and group annual funds requirement by establishing detailed cash flow plan.
• Managed financial cycle for engineering and construction turnkey projects value over $300M, placed continuous emphasis on maintaining compliance with project budgeted cost and accounting policies for the group.
• Optimized inventory monitoring by designing ERP-driven procedures for every stage of the product lifecycle, collaborated with
developers to customize ERP modules that ensured real-time accuracy for manufacturing processes, while ensuring inventory
tracking of Raw Materials, WIP, and Finished Goods at each stage.
• Drove the implementation of the cost control system by developing ERP lock BOQ mechanism for each cost driver to uphold planned cost.
• Leveraged extensive expertise in the oversight overall treasury function of the company, including planning and sourcing of funds, managing sufficient liquidity across group and maintaining sufficient cash flow throughout financial cycle.
• Chart the review of continuous 13 weeks rolling forecast cash flow, optimized funds allocation across group entities by effectively forecasting cashflow movement for the group.
• Spearheaded the development of Odoo ERP implementation to manage financial data, inventory, fixed assets, financial reporting management, supply chain flow, and cost centre analysis to optimize business performance.
• Directed the year-end external audit process, coordinating cross-functional teams and managing auditor engagement to ensure the timely completion and issuance of audited financial statements within all regulatory deadlines, while maintaining full statutory and compliance requirements.
• Oversee timely filing of periodic VAT CIT/Zakat returns, and ensure timely disbursement of statutory payments.
• Administered in-depth assessment of variance reports and documents to identify problem areas, achieving a 5% reduction in
monthly expenditure by implementing strict compliance with controls and effective verification process.
• Validate group employees’ payroll and ensuring disbursement of payment withing regulatory timeline.
• Execute accurate endorsement and validation for invoice payment authorizations, payment vouchers, bank instructions, and
other related financial documentation to enable timely processing of payments.
• Conduct regular review of customer’s aging summary and maintain continuous follow-up with overdue receivables.
• Orchestrated guidance and training of staff with a focus on improving performance and furthering development.

• Support Sr. management by providing financial information on fiscal matters, including performance review, resource allocation, capital expansion status, funds position, and statutory compliance review.
• Chart the preparation and review of financial reports, executed in-depth performance analysis with budget and POP, while flagging key areas of improvement.
• Chart the creation of operational & capital expenditure budget ensure continuous monitoring of expenditure and chart detailed progressive periodic variance analysis report.
• Developed sophisticated financial models by executing scenario-based sensitivity analyses—incorporating DCF, NPV, IRR, and ROI metrics to assess profitability to support executive investment allocation decisions.
• Participated in implementation of Oracle EBS by providing support to IT in mapping full cycle of CRM, operation workflow process, BOM formation and inventory management.
• Improved cash inflow by developing delivery document management system, for the operational team, to help speed up creation and issuance of customer invoices.
• Oversee continues review of AP/AR lifecycles, implemented system for rigorous follow-up protocols that reduced overdue receivables and guaranteed a clean ledger for annual financial audits.
• Cooperate effectively with the external auditor to provide all relevant information and guarantee timely completion of the
audit report.
• Supervised the operations of monthly submission of the VAT & WHT returns and ensure timely process of payments.
• Resolved various accounting procedure queries by performing research and interpreting accounting policies and regulation.
• Oversee timely periodic closing of financial accounts and ensured all ledgers completeness.
• Resolved and attained various stakeholder queries e.g. suppliers’ payments, supplier credit limit, suppliers’/customers’ ledger’s completeness dispute on timely manner.
• Reviewing and verifying inventory reports of all stages of process periodically and ensuring valuation accuracy.
• Oversee and direct accounting staff on matter general invoicing, credit limits of customers, and petty cash record.
• Validate suppliers’ bills, expenses vouchers and payment disbursement.