Muhammad Shahrukh

Working as head of finance and supply chain in a fast - paced emerging company in restaurant and café business with current annual turnover of 50m SAR and growing, reporting and advising on financial strategies to MD/ Board, while leading 8 team members. Key highlights of the job include:
● Financial analysis, trend analysis, monthly reports to provide insight to management for operational and business growth.
● Preparation of cost proposals and presentations on prospective projects considering cost vs benefit analysis.
Helped secured a major contract for opening of a branch at a prime location in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
● Ensuring working capital and treasury functions are aligned for planned business growth. Provided suggestions on re-alignment of financial / operational strategies to achieve business objectives.
● Coordination with stakeholders, banks and creditors for investments, loans and settlements. Preparation of investor deck, liaison with external auditors for statutory audits.
● To ensure compliance with VAT, WHT and income tax / zakat returns.
● Training and coaching employees for continued professional development.
● Assistance in developing effective inventory management system.

Selected Achievements
● Restructured finance and supply chain departments.
● Launched new enterprise-level software system. Trained all employees on
new system, migrated data, streamlined programs, synchronized it with reporting needs.
● Coordinated with outsourced franchise firm for preparation of franchise fees, setup fees and royalties.
● Negotiated 30 million SAR (8 million USD) from investors and banks for expansion projects.
● Finalized financial requirements for investors including company valuation.
● Developed effective re-order levels for inventory items to avoid stock shortages.

Worked with one of the reputed companies of Binzagr group (famous for its joint venture with Unilever, Coro and AVON) while supervised finance and treasury functions of all of its 4 divisions (i.e., field marketing, e-commerce B2C (start-up),
co-packing and advertising). Reported to MD and Board of Directors.

Selected Achievements
● Helped organizing finance department with reporting deadlines and job responsibilities. Thereby increased team efficiency by 50%. Reduced monthly reporting deadlines.
● Introduced concept of budget vs actual variance analysis and reports on how to reduce costs and improve sales with strong reasoning.
● Led many successful projects including integrated ERP system and securing of contract with Unilever (resulted in increased revenue by 50%).
● Helped improving business and financial relationship with business partner Smollan LLC.
● Helped country manager securing contracts with various clients by critical analysis of agreed pricing structure and costs efficiencies.
● Liaised with legal advisors for converting e-commerce division to a new company and prepared related financial feasibility.

Worked as a Head of Internal Audit with one of the famous Binzagr group companies with combined turnover of 500m SAR (I.e., 133m USD). Key
highlights of the job included:
● Risk management, led various fraud investigation audits, identified malpractices and re devised internal controls to minimize risk of misappropriations.
● Advisory services to Board of Directors in devising risk mitigation policies across the Company.
● Prepared internal audit reports, action plans and presentation to audit committee.
● Helped automating daily labor hours (recorded at projects) with centralized head-office system with a view to reduce project over runs.
● Implemented concept of off-site monitoring reports in coordination with IT
department to identify abnormal variations (e.g., excess wastage, abnormal
adjustments in financial module, inventory and for monitoring of camps' occupancy ratios).

A leading local and export based pharmaceutical manufacturing group in Pakistan comprised of five companies (famous for toll manufacturing for L`Oréal products) with combined turnover exceeding PKR 4 billion (approx. 24million USD).

Worked as a group manager Internal Audit of the group while supervising a team of 12 team members at head office and factories across country:
● Assisted in Integration of standalone subsidiary modules with financial module (Sidat Financials). Sale module; Demand Planning; Material Resource Planning; procurement; Manufacturing and Finished Goods Store.
● Assessed and successfully proposed capacity utilization, downtime and auxiliary efficiency reports for manufacturing plants which were
subsequently implemented and helped in utilizing maximum potential for output.
● Assisted in automation of manual yields calculation of products for monitoring and assessment of normal and abnormal variations / losses.

UG Foods, Ulker is famous for production and sale of biscuits and layered cakes with famous brand names of Peki and Dancake.

Major tasks and achievement included: a) standard costs computations and presentations during
NPD meetings. Monitoring costs of raw materials and finished products to control costs over runs during batch wise production; b) weekly, monthly
management reports and other analytical reports including preparation of product wise, distributor wise profits / margins etc. for profitability analysis and reporting to Ulker Turkey region.

Key responsibilities during my association with PWC included preparation of audit plan and strategies in context of applicable financial reporting framework,
International Standards on Auditing (ISAs), and other industry specific reporting requirements. I was associated with ABAS (Assurance and Business Advisory Services) and conducted and supervised various audit and advisory engagements for national and multinational companies.