Irfan Shaikh Email & Phone Number

Mumbai Area, India

To develops and maintains the business intelligence reporting frameworks, tools, and data marts; works cross-functionally with various business owners to determine and meet their reporting and analytics needs; and manages a team of business analysts to ensure timely high-quality reporting and analytics. Ensuring that the company has the necessary data and information for ongoing daily operations and strategic planning. Leads the BI team in providing in-depth analysis towards discovering new opportunities for the company's continued growth thru the followings: • Planning and implementing the overall analytics and business intelligence strategy• Lead the design and development of analytical projects designed to understand key business behaviors that drive customer acquisition, retention, and engagement• Identifying opportunities to develop forecasts, statistical models, segmentation schemes, and data-driven analyses to drive marketing and merchandising efforts around customer acquisition and conversion• Discovering new opportunities to optimize the business through analytics and statistical modeling• Partnering with the Technology teams to deliver a stable and highly available reporting platform• Works with business owners to identify information needs and develop reporting; primary partners include the management team, finance & accounting, marketing, online retail, merchandising and operations• Oversee all aspects of analytics and business intelligence projects• Develop and maintain reporting and analytical tools, including Business Objects• Integrate web analytics into transactional and customer analytics• Hire, train, and supervise Analytics team and ensure that team meets the reporting and analytical needs of the business users

Riyadh Saudi Arabia

o Pricing negotiations, Finalizing BOQ, RFP and RFQ with Suppliers / Operators, and NSN internationalo Pricing Analysis of Carrier on different services and productso Preparing plan for Festive offers and service agreements between Etisalat & DB carrierso Finalizing and approving projects SOW, SLAs and terms and conditions with contractors and contractor’s manpower supply to the operator / service provider. o Preparing and approving the corporate offers and pricing plans for operator / service provider. o Working with Product development and Marketing department to finalize and approve pricing models for each service o Preparing and analyzing different types of pricing models for combo offers and VASo Analysis of Revenue Data, Subscribers Data and Trouble tickets of Network operations Department of operatoro Preparing Reports for management dashboard o Managing all telecom Projects of TSS, OSS & Network Optimization as Network plano Frauds management to the non compliance between operator and NSN / NSN and its Contractors specially on Network Man Powero Management and Timely delivery of multiple and critical activities o Designing and auditing of monthly KPI of the departmento Preparing Project KPI and Performance report for management dashboardo Supporting NSN pre-sales activities in introducing the potential market opportunities, screening and vetting opportunities to include “GO /NO GO” approval from Projects and Program Head (NSN) in accordance with pre-agreed revenue, margin and sales target.

Mainly involve in ensuring that: oWeekly invoices are issued for all the on-going projects and funds are collected.oSupplier invoices received and payments are scheduled as per due dateoStaff expenses claims are in-line process for approval by HR, Finance & CEOoPresentation of outstanding and expected risk and issues together with proposed solutions & optionsoFinancial modelings are done and based on margins defined in business planoRisk and profitability analysis are done on time for each ProjectsoProject cost prepared by P&P head are OK for submission to clientsoBanking accounts are operated in-line of business needs as per the project planoThe project financing are approved by banks as per projects schedule & business planoAll LC / BC are issued to the clients required for the projects oAll accounting procedures for on-going projects are in compliance to US-GAAP.oTimely re-Structuring of the financial & Management reports are done as required for business

Directing financial management functions including development of monthly/quarterly financial statements, financial forecasts, and budgets. Oversee general accounting functions, including AR AP & GL account reconciliation, and cash management. Interact with the Director of Finance and CFO concerning financial forecasts and reports.Strategically restructured financial reporting & billing processes in accordance with organizational changes.Served as key leader in effectively managing 12% annual revenue growth.Finalised the UAT issued of billing system with IT within 3 of weeks for more than 153,000 post paid subscribers, including special and festival offers.Finalizing revenue for PTT & GSM cellular. Working with the team on MCC, Mobile Handsets, PTT & GSM network, to co-ordinate and manage the process of submitting quarterly forecasts, annual budgets and 5 year financial plans.

Mainly involved to prepare and analyze financial reports, Business Plan & Expenditure Forecasts, KPI, Balance Score Card, monthly Executive Management Reports including Monthly Revenue, Market Share & Performance report, and Sale & Collection Analysis report. Analyzing the issues to determine the monthly performances of the operations. Liaised with non-finance personnel to evaluate the underlying reasons for the monthly performances (KPI & BSC) Compiling monthly corporate report detailing the performances of the operations issued to the Corporate Planning. Largely responsible for producing all accounts queries using Analysis & Retrieve data for Excel. Assisted the IT team in developing financial systems to fulfill the needs of Business Unit. Built and lead team in carrying out special projects.

Cma - Partly Qualified), Management Accounting

B.Com, Accounting & Taxation