Rizwan Zafar, Business Advisor

Rizwan Zafar

Business Advisor

Location
Pakistan
Education
Master's degree, Commerce
Experience
27 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :27 years, 7 Months

Business Advisor
  • My current job since June 2019

Business management, corporate, financial & strategic planning, optimizations, processes improvements, risk management, policies and procedures development and implementations, budgeting, analyses and reporting, taxation planning and other allied services.

Chief at Hamnoor Industries
  • June 2016 to March 2019

Created, enabled, preserved and reported value for organization with business activities in different countries. Managed corporate planning, strategic management, budgeting and executions, treasury, financial planning & analysis, reporting, taxation, compliance and control, operations and performance management, etc. Developed teams and performance based culture, efficient processes, KPIs and controls for sustainable business growth. Achieved successful timely operations winding up and shift as per business plan. Worked as business partner and remained pivotal in tremendous 30% plus business growth in short span of time.

at VEON Group
  • April 2005 to January 2016

significant contributor in providing strategic & operational suggestions and solutions for business planning and executions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures & partnerships (B2B), pricing, sales and marketing, NPS, objectives settings and performance evaluation, etc. leading revenue growth to achieve $1.5 Billion milestone
•Active involvement in global group teams and in achieving successful execution of mega initiatives & projects like GCB, transformations, digitalization, accelerate, Enterprise Risk Management, Internal & Financial Controls, mega procurement contracts negotiations, etc. resulting in value additions of billion $ plus as a whole
•Generated savings of $300+ Million and 15% plus operational efficiency by strategic transformation of supply chain functions / activities from PR to procure
•Accomplished $100 million plus EBITDA improvements through transformation of budgeting, forecasting and planning including utilization of zero based budgeting
•Achieved 3%+ EBITDA improvement through cost savings / value additions by operational changes like digitalization and automation of order to delivery, billing & reconciliation, credit and collection systems and integrations
•Led $ 3.7 Billion plus risks identification, mitigation and management through setup and leading enterprise risk management function
•Led $600 million plus complex project (among others) from finance domain and got successfully completed within budget
•Led successfully operations & finance domains of companies with multi products and services spread over multiple locations with transactions worth billions and retail structure of 300 plus franchises
•Active, on the front, participation in M&As negotiations, finalization and execution; achieved 10%+ EBITDA improvements implementing post-merger structural and procedural transformations & cost reductions
•Have setup new companies, have built teams and have led successfully merger and restructuring of finance and other functions
•Led implementation and efficient functioning of SOX compliance, ERP implementations and mega IT / automation / digitalization project involving 28 Oracle modules implementation and integrations with other systems targeting USD 3 M plus annual cost savings, paper less environment and multiple value additions and efficiencies
•Steered huge changes by developing and getting implemented all high risk areas related controls, policies and procedures for organization having 14, 000+ operational locations and millions of transactions per day, to ensure effective and efficient business operations and controlled spending for billions of USD worth annual transactions

Country Manager at TeleVoice Group
  • June 2000 to April 2005

Manufacturing, Telecommunication, Trading and Tourism businesses)
•Head of Consultancy & Specialized Services

Senior Manager at JHI
  • South Africa
  • April 1996 to May 2000

World Wide Association of Firms of Independent Accountants

Education

Master's degree, Commerce
  • at Accountant – England & WalesHEC
  • March 2020

Master's degree, Commerce
  • at Equivalence from Higher Education Commission
  • January 2011
Master's degree, Finance, Accounts, Audit, Strategic Management
  • at Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan
  • February 1998

Specialties & Skills

Strategic Planning
Leadership
BUDGETING
FINANCIAL
POLICY ANALYSIS
REPORTS
ACCOUNTANCY
AUTOMATION
BANKING
BUSINESS PLANS
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

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