Farhan Sultan Email & Phone Number

Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Build partnerships and strong relationships with all commercial stakeholders (Internal & External) and provide financial support to commercial decision making.Support the preparation of the quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting cycles.Breakeven, Variance, and Trend Analysis and commentary on deviations.Pro-actively planning to foresee deviations from budget, avoid surprises and agree on necessary corrective actions.Commercial Finance Reporting including Discounts Depth and Rebate ROIs Analysis for Executive Management. Review and provide inputs for Commercial terms of Business Development Agreements (BDA) before signing by Executive Management.Monitoring KPIs adherence, provide inputs for improving Trade Investment Process to support overall financial performance of company.Ensuring clear, concise, timely insights are delivered to relevant internal and external stakeholders.Utilizing advanced systems (BI tools) to automate reporting and insight generation.Ensuring governance and adherence to policy.Responding to a variety of ad-hoc request for the Senior Leadership Team

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

My responsibilities includes:• Work with our Trade Marketing Team to obtain proper support for their credit notes in order to process them accurately• Assist in developing & coordinating reports that track all trade spending including summarizing actual versus planned performance on a monthly/YTD basis. Facilitate plan roll-up and fund close-out processes to help insure plan implications and that P&L reports are completed accurately and timely.• Support Marketing and Sales teams to track performance of key promotional events throughout the year to monitor performance and impact on sales, budgets and profitability. • Preparation and analysis of Trade & Marketing Spend accruals and accounting for trade spend by business segment and sales channel with accordance of approved BDA Scheme & Promotional activities.• Prepare Quarterly reports and reconciliations of all customer incentive deductions.• Track trade & Marketing spend promotions to ensure discounts are applied to invoices & included in monthly accruals/Actual reporting.• Receiving Spend Claim from Sales, Validating against approved BDA/Promotional activities and approving to be processed by regional accounts.• Consistent coordination and communication with trade Marketing team to ensure all promotional activities for the period are captured and accounted for in the financial statements.• Coordinate with the Accounts Receivable (“AR”) team to ensure deductions are properly applied to promotion accrual/Actual on a timely basis• Meet month end close and project timelines• Liaise with Sales and AR/Accounts Payable teams on issues and concerns• Provide process improvements within areas of responsibility• Provide ad hoc analysis• Perform special projects and information requests as assigned

My responsibilities included:Maintaining inventory recordsReceiving shipment form supplierPerforming weekly physical count on more than 8 shops.checking daily sales & figure out discrepanciesMaking time sheet of salesman for salary purpose.Sending memos & deductions to employees

Acca, Accounting & Audit

Part Qualified

Bachelor, Humanities

Intermediate, Science

-Played in Cricket team to won some Local Tournaments -Provincial quiz competition champion

Matriculation, Science