Muhammad Abid Email & Phone Number

A finance professional with 14 years of industry experience at operational and managerial levels including 3+ years as Financial Controller.Partnered with different industries including Technology, Telecommunications and Healthcare. Also worked with KPMG Islamabad and Abu Dhabi in assurance for 4 years.Area of expertise includes overall controllership functions such as over-seeing day-to-day financial operations (Corporate accounting, AP, AR, Treasury, Fixed assets, Pension funds, Filings, etc.), monitoring compliance to laws, policies and procedures, tax strategy & planning, internal and external reporting, external & internal audit, Project/company budgeting and forecast, revenue assurance, bank guarantees and LCs, application of IFRS, internal control evaluation for improvement. Worked closely on legal and regulatory matters including setting up legal entities, leading special government audits which also covers dealing with the high courts and appellate tribunals for relief measures to protect the legal rights of the company. Key contributor to Finance transformation projects - creating & improving FINOPS procedures, implementation of Oracle Fusion, Process alignment due to Merger and Acquisition, process reengineering, Fixed assets alignment and integration (counting, recording, reconciling, conversion to Oracle based register), and ARIBA P2P including an automated payments flow. Ability to maintain a positive and professional attitude, demonstrate leadership skills by training, empowering team members to take decisions and lead by example. Strong belief to come up with solutions over problems. Experience of dealing with senior leaders and CEOs and be the key point of contact for business advice. Also, a member of the local executive committee.

Listed skills include External Audit, Ifrs, Big 4, Internal Controls, and 30 others.