Key accomplishments and responsibilities include:Strategic Financial Leadership: Guiding the business to maintain financial KPIs through detailed forecasting, and in-depth income and cost analysis. Developing strategies based on performance against targets.Financial Close: Overseeing all aspects of monthly, quarterly, and half-yearly financial close processes, ensuring the timely submission of statutory returns.Compliance and Policy: Ensuring compliance with statutory and ethical standards, while formulating strategies to enhance and adapt financial policies and procedures to meet the evolving needs of the company.ERP Implementation: Successfully concluded ERP implementation, aligning operations with hospitality best practices. Introduced an automated collection/payments system, enhancing financial efficiency and streamlining transactions for sustained operational excellence.Efficient Treasury: Revolutionizing collection & online payment processes.Tax Planning: Strategically managing the hotel's tax liabilities through effective tax planning, ensuring compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations, and optimizing tax efficiency.Stakeholder Relations: Maintaining strong and productive relationships with internal and external customers.

1. Reviews and modifies Aligned Finance & Accounting, Material Management and Procurement Manuals to address changing needs of PTCL & PTML.2. Review, modifies & finalization of financial SOPs of new/revised business processes.3. Prepares strategies to improve and implement the financial policies and procedures & Digitalization of Taxation Procedures, as a team lead, liaise between the end user and the IS department for Digitalization of business processes as per the requirements of the business with embodied financial integrated controls.

As a finance team lead for the Digitalization of FICO business processes, liaise between the end user department and the IS department for Digitalization of new/revised business processes with focus on embodied system based financial integrated controls within ERP.Conducted SAP ERP Training Sessions for the Zonal & Regional finance teams.

Reviews and modifies Finance & Accounting, Material Management and Procurement Manuals to address changing needs of the company. Prepares strategies to improve and implement the financial policies and procedures. As a finance team lead for the Digitalization of FICO business processes, liaise between the end user department and the IS department for implementation of new/revised business processes as per the requirements of the business with focus on system based financial integrated controls.Conducted SAP ERP Training Sessions for the HQ, Zonal & Regional finance teams.

Member of core SAP Implementation Team during this phase management has given additional responsibility of the post of GM Asset Management. Key responsibilities include:1. Maintaining close liaison with other ERP team leads for effective SAP implementation and usage.2. Have a close interaction with Treasury, Shipping and procurement department for payments of centralized procured items3. Successfully Capitalized assets, in excess of PKR 50 billion, over 4 years4. Initiated and executed the physical verification of assets - a first in the company’s history. 5. Supervised the inventory valuation & physical count of inventory at all regions.

Member of core SAP Implementation Team as finance team lead, SAP implementation in PTCL covers PTCL, Paknet and PTML. Key accountabilities include : 1. Timely review of AS-IS and To-BE Processes for documentation of business blueprints. 2. System analysis and design, liaison with process owners and consultant’s for implementation. 3. Worked on authorization matrices and identified the gaps where segregation of duties could affect the control environment. 4. Finalize the SAP FICO end users Training Plan and Training Manuals/Material. 5. Conducted various training session for the finance teams at Headquarter, Zones & Regions all across Pakistan.

Soda Ash Business is a Strategic Business Unit of ICI Pakistan Limited. It is an ISO certified unit, manufacturing Soda Ash & Sodium Bicarbonate.Major accountabilities when left the company were • Assisting Management in decision making and management reporting, in line with International Accounting Standards and ICI Group guidelines. Variance identified and highlighted to Executive Committee for necessary corrective action.• Assisting Commercial department in monitoring credit exposure to customers, funds management and payment to suppliers.• Liaison with external and internal auditors for audits of the Business and follow up for implementation of any actions identified by auditors in coordination with business team and ensure that SOX documentation of FSCP remains up to date.• Managed Engineering Stores (all locations) in accordance with ISO, RCMS & ICI’s SHE standards. All applicable internal controls regarding receipts, issuances, inspection and remits are adhered to.

I have worked as a Purchase and Query Manager in ICI Pakistan Limited and major responsibilities were • The procurement of raw material, engineering spares where quality comes first.• Managed the operations of Despatch Office including the haulier operation in compliance with ICI SSHE standards.• Managed Limestone Querying operations and ensured smooth supply of one of the key raw material for manufacturing Soda Ash.