Muhammad Umar Farooq Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Project 1 - Business Analyst: Revenue Assurance for a bank in UAEProject 2 - Project Owner: Budgeting & Forecasting for a bank in Africa

Lahore, Pakistan

As a proactive and results-focused professional and co-founder, I've showcased expertise in financial management and market analysis, driving growth and positive outcomes. Successfully instituted a process for monthly management accounting and analysis, monitoring KPIs across manufacturing (production output, line efficiency, wastage) and commercial (GMV, margins, stock cover days) domains.

London, United Kingdom

Bridge is a VC-backed chain of nursery and primary school providing a high-quality education to children living below the $2-a-day poverty line.The work experience is MBA placement with an outcome of up-to 20,000 words applied research project on Financial Modelling for an EdTech startup operating on a business model of Public Private Partnerships (PPP).Primarily the role entails review of existing company financial models, provision of accurate and reliable projections by creating a standardized financial model.

Lahore, Pakistan

Pakarab Fertilizers Limited (PFL) has long been the leader in compound fertilizers.Payroll & Accounts Payable• Executed monthly payroll processing, adjustments of month end provisions, employee benefits, vetting of related payroll payments, vendor invoices processing and adjustments of inter-company transactions.• Prepared weekly payroll area forecasts & yearly budgeting, providing monthly variance analysis and management commentary.• Devised a template to project deferred liabilities as per IAS 19-Employee Benefits as part of annual external audit exercise.• Modernized accrual booking process by timely recording and examining Operating Expenses (Payroll area) directly from expense sources on monthly basis, improving accruals accuracy.Inventory, Costing & Fixed Assets• Collaborated monthly closings for Inventory & Costing and provided with underlying year end reconciliations; validated general ledger accounts for balance sheet reconciliations.• Conducted detailed analyses and reconciliations to present evaluation of change in management accounting systems, to management team.• Established business partnering relationship in a team of 3; between Materials, Technical Services & Operations Finance departments to ensure effective gap analysis.• Streamlined Fixed Asset Register, resulting in accurate recording of previously unaccounted expense in General Ledger.Financial Reporting & Analysis• Gained understanding on finalization of financial statements for a subsidiary company.• Analyzed a financial model devised to assess a subsidiary's going concern assumption.

Lahore, Pakistan

• Maintained commercial documents for Duty Drawback, Sales Tax Audit and NGA compliance.• Identified bottlenecks in export documentation system and advised on process improvements.

Lahore, Pakistan

• Created flowcharts and proposed improvements in supply chain process to Head of Department.• Formulated Net Sales Revenue report, Key Account profitability analysis and Value Chain Analysis for new product development.

Lahore, Pakistan

• Performed validation and verification of internal controls over Cash & Bank areas.• Reviewed S.O.P.s; completed substantive testing on various expenses, advances and purchases areas.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba Full Time Programme, Strategic Management

Core Modules: Managing Socially Responsible Organizations, Operations Management, Change Management, Strategic Leadership, The Aston Edge.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law

Corporate Finance elective - MBA exchange program 1. Treasury Management 2. Enterprise Risk Management 3. Mergers & Acquisitions

Acca Member, Professional Accountancy

ACCA Affiliate- 2015 - Advanced Taxation (UK) - Advanced Audit & Assurance (INT)

Bsc (Hons), Applied Accounting

Research and Analysis Project An evaluation of the business and financial performance of D.G. Khan Cement Company Limited over a three.

High School Diploma, Sciences - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Chess, Cricket.