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Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area

Driving business transformation at Volvo Cars through delivering a scalable and sustainable ERP solution that supports Volvo Cars’ growth and business models while seamlessly integrates across the business value chain for smarter and faster decision making.Workstream leader in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Program that aims to enable new Performance Steering Model (Business Control) at Volvo Cars with new and harmonized accounting and controlling data model.

New York, United States

Honored to lead the Americas Hub teams with responsibility of financial accounting, periodic book closings, Purchase to Pay and Order to Cash operations, Financial reporting and analysis of all entities in the region for Volvo Cars and Polestar (strategic affiliate to Volvo Cars)

Gothenburg, Sweden

Partnering with senior management in Finance to set the future roadmap and mobilize cross functional teams on key focus areas of process harmonization, efficiency, quality within three mega process Purchase to Pay (PTP), Order to Cash (OTC) and Record to Report (RTR). Service Quality Management: Quality control and improvements for provided services from Global Delivery to its clients. Identifying main KPIs for each process, setting their targets and implementing actions globally to improve… Show more Partnering with senior management in Finance to set the future roadmap and mobilize cross functional teams on key focus areas of process harmonization, efficiency, quality within three mega process Purchase to Pay (PTP), Order to Cash (OTC) and Record to Report (RTR). Service Quality Management: Quality control and improvements for provided services from Global Delivery to its clients. Identifying main KPIs for each process, setting their targets and implementing actions globally to improve them continuously.Transition management: Transitioning new activities into Global Delivery shared services from existing and new businesses in the Group and related parties to expand service offer scope for the organization and bringing synergies in the Group.Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) management for all services in PTP and OTC that are supplied by a third party supplier to Volvo Cars globally. Show less

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Founded the finance shared service center for advanced finance and accounting activities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for Asia Pacific (excl. China) region. Successfully led and executed One Finance transformation in which centralized finance operations for 8 countries in APAC.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Leading accounting & reporting operations of the parent company in the Group.Led and executed monthly, quarterly and yearly closing activities along with preparing statutory reports in compliance with applicable GAAP.

Stockholm, Sweden

Conducted a research thesis in collaboration with ACREO AB based in Stockholm for six months under the title of “Socio-Economic impact of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) in Sweden”. A short version can be read on URL: https://www.acreo.se/sites/default/files/public/acreo.se/upload/publications/23.pdf

Master'S Degree, Accounting And Finance, Vg (Very Good)

Master Programme in Accounting and Finance (two years). Subjects taken during the degree include; Advanced Professional Skills, Financial.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Accounting And Finance (Gold Medal), Gold Medal Awarded By Pakistan'S Prime Minister (Yousuf Raza Gillani)

Subjects taken: Corporate Finance, Management Accounting, Business Finance, Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Accounting, Production.

Bachelor'S Of Science, Computer Sciences, Physics, Mathematics