-Senior ERP implementor with more than 50 Success stories-Define and implement digital finance agenda for different industries-Design creative BI Dashboards for enterprises-Tax and Accounting advisory-Define internal audit control points and monitor them through BI Dashboards

Financial Forecasting & Budgeting:- Forecasting of "Sales" on a monthly and strategic basis. Actualizing the monthly data and all the related analysis and target management.- Forecasting of "Costs" including costs of production, distribution, raw and pack materials and finished goods. Analysis of forecasted costs versus actual results, analysis of the cost variances and finding the sources of differences.- Forecasting of Overheads from details to strategic levels. Actualizing the monthly data and all the related analysis and reporting.- Budget Management, including supply chain budget, overheads budget, advertising and promotions budgets and all the budgets to cover all the profit and loss forecast.Management Profit & Loss:- Profit and Loss monitoring, analysis, and management. Including monthly management profit and loss and related analysis and reporting.Working capital management:- Reporting of actual monthly working capital and its forecast, analysis of the actual data versus the forecast. - Forecasting of WC for the next financial year for decision making purposes.Cashflow Management:Monthly and strategic forecast for cashflow and related analysis for macro decision making of leadership team.

• Leading financial accounting activities of Unilever consisting of Purchase-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash and treasury teams.• Contributing to the education of over 70 staff members which included 4 Finance Assistant Managers and 8 Senior Accountants through formal training, supervision, and performance evaluations.• Handling financial aspects of more than €100 m Turn Over which came from 600k accounting transactions.• Managing 1.5k suppliers' account, 400 employees' account and 70k customers' account in terms of accuracy and reliability.• Leading the day to day financial aspects of the operation by effective business partnering and managing financial systems and control processes, investor relations, cash management and forecasting.• Managing all the monthly account closures, financial reporting and various financial projects within the tight corporate deadlines.• Ensuring compliancy with group accounting policies and financial reporting standards, legal & regulatory compliance and local statutory reporting. Achievements:• Simplifying finance procedures and illustrating business results by designing professional Excel dashboards, Access databases and BI reports.• Having digitalization agenda to automate most of finance procedures which led to considerable time saving as well as more efficiency. For instance, implementing different business intelligence tools/softwares for improving customer service, business integrity, efficiency and accuracy across finance department.• Developing a innovative software to monitor all internal audit control points and documenting the respected results and follow-ups.• Getting clean opinion reports (Unqualified Opinion) from external auditors during all service years in Unilever.

• Managing Purchase-to-Pay team, contract negotiations, reporting, financial controls and strategic planning.• Contributing to the education of over 11 staff members through formal training, supervision, and performance evaluations.• Ensuring compliance with group accounting policies and financial reporting standards, also ensuring legal & regulatory compliance relating to tax and SSO.• Measuring financial risks and overseeing financial control and procedures.• Implementation of new corporate financial procedures to ensure best practice, changing financial structure and loan negotiations.• Banking negotiation development for bearing highest banking interest and facilities for the company.• Coordination for tax auditing, SOX auditing, FS auditing.• Leading monthly closure of accounts and monthly provision review and analysis.• Minimizing FX exposure by analyzing on time payment of foreign payables.• Leading salary and reward calculation and payments both for local and expat employees.(300 in number)• Leading banking payments for importations and analysis of best payment route.• Managing 1 k supplier accounts and 300 employees' accounts in terms of accuracy and reliability.Achievements:• Led successfully a team of 10+ accountants and senior accountants in order to achieve 99% signed account reconciliation with suppliers and vendors.• Designed a new workflow and procedures in order to lift bottle necks. Successfully decreasing payments lead time from 14 to 5 days. • Led Purchase-to-Pay team in order to comply with zero-based control and SOX audit policies for the first the time in Unilever Iran. Motivated the team to apply continual self-auditing practice.• Negotiated with corporate manager of major Iranian banks in order to achieve the highest interest on saving accounts. Increased annual interest income by €1.5m . • Designed more than 20 controlling reports resulting in more risk coverage and transparency.

• Order-to-Cash process implementer and controller in terms of risk factors and authorization. (€80 m annual Turn Over) ;16 k direct sales customers ; 13 key account customers ; 30 official distributors• Team building and training team members per Unilever inquiries.• Management of the contribution reports on weekly & monthly basis.• Internal KPI setting and monitoring of the progress in line with company goals.• Managing more than 80 employees in Order-To-Cash team.• Discounts and bad debt provision booking and analysis.• Assuring full compliance with all tax rules and implementing regulation of new AML and Article 169 of Direct Taxation Law.• Debtor aging report analysis and working on the improvement of debt collection.• Cash forecast on monthly basis.• Preparing seasonal tax reports.• Training the team to improve team work, commitment and self-motivated goal setting.• Managing monthly closing processes and reconciliation of general ledger accounts and sub ledger accounts.Achievements:• Cooperation in implementation of Sage X3 in Unilever Iran. • Designing and implementing more than 40 controlling reports to minimize operational risk and reach full compliance with auditing requirements.• Achieving zero deficiency in annual SOX auditing.• Implementation of using POS machine devices for direct sales collection.• Monthly account reconciliation with all customers without any exceptions.• Gathering and archiving all customer identification documents in order to obtain full compliance with AML and Article 169 of direct taxation law.• Reconciliation between two ERPs Sage and Logo in all mutual accounts.

• Tehran-Karaj & Mashhad Direct Sales order to Cash process supervision and control. (€36 m annual Turn Over)• Designing flow charts, accounting procedures, and organization charts for direct distribution for the first time in Unilever.• Managing more than 60 employees in Direct Distribution finance department.• Coordination and collaboration with CD-team to shift delivery from 48 hr to 24 hr.• Reconciling 16 k customers' account on a daily basis.• Following up collection team performance for optimizing cash collection and minimizing bad debt and overdue receivables.• Implementing all Unilever policies and procedures in subcontractor companies.• Preparation of monthly financial position booklet for direct distributions.• Preparation of job descriptions and manuals for each position.• Daily monitoring of work flow accomplishment by obtaining smart reports.• Implementing and debugging LOGO TIGER PLUS accounting software in terms of accounting and warehouse module.• Cost controlling of third party expenses.Achievements:• Designing and implementing 24 hr Order to Cash retail sales process for the first time in Unilever Iran for 3 provinces. • Handling order to cash process for 3 biggest provinces of Iran which is equal to €24 m annually with only 0.02% bad debt in receivables.• Continuous reconciliation of 16 k customers in accounting system.• Reducing 20 men power in finance department by optimizing processes and designing controlling reports and improving efficiency. • Preparing Interactive videos for job description and manuals for every position in direct distribution finance department.

• Monitoring the compliance of financial activities with GAAP, local tax and SSO Law and company procedures.• Reviewing, investigating, and correcting errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents and reports.• Monthly AP & AR checking for optimizing cash management and minimizing bad debt and over dues.• In charge of distributing financial statements and cost center reports.• Staff management and training more than 8 full time employees. • Cooperating with both internal and external auditors during financial and operational audits.• Ensuring that all costs submitted to finance department by petty cash holders are correct and in accordance with SNS payment policy and ensuring that supporting documents are valid and reliable. • Monthly reconciliation of employee accounts, petty cashes, supplier accounts, subcontractor accounts and customer accounts.• Monthly reconciliation of 10 bank accounts.• Closely maintaining and controlling the fixed assets system and following up of all company fixed assets in terms of physical verification and book keeping.• In charge of creating and revising chart of accounts.• Monthly calculation and payments of salaries of 300 employees.Achievements:• Full reconciliation of 10 bank accounts with credit balance in system for 2 years as a project in Treasurer position.• Physical verification and counting of fixed assets in 5 provinces of Iran within 2 months for labeling purposes and taking receipt from asset holders.• Finding and adjusting duplicate payments or duplicate expense booking by reconciling all payables, receivables and most important expense accounts.• Auditing procurement department and revising their procedures and implementing segregation of duties for approvals and new workflow resulting in monthly €20k saving in purchasing expenses.• Implementing segregation of duties in accounting software in order to minimize booking errors and possible frauds by users.