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Dubai, Ae

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Leading strategic initiatives across 17 global markets to drive growth.• Partnering with the Global CEO to address strategic challenges.• Enhancing cross-functional collaboration across regions.• Contributing to the company’s success by leveraging expertise in strategic planning, budgeting and leadership.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Built dashboards in tableau for monitoring KPIs and performances. Designed and published over 50 reports in tableau for Investors, account managers, and key stakeholders• Created 15+ pitch decks, and business plans, managed data rooms, assisted bankers, and handled due diligence• Shouldered the entire responsibility of delivering support to 10+ investors by formulating the key messages and designing & developing the investor presentation materials for senior management• Worked with CFO & business heads to build short-term and long-term plans, identified investment opportunities, and owned Annual Operating plans, and planned efficient utilization of working capital• Spearheaded the BI and MIS team to support data-driven decisions across the organization• Managed the financial model used in investor discussions and different business scenarios• Optimized company’s margins by 2% by demonstrating excellence across multiple cross-function projects• Monitoring financial markets of 5+ countries to identify potential opportunities or risks for the company’s business• Researching and analyzing industry trends and activities of more than 30 competitors

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Coordinated with 20 departments to prepare budgets and consolidation on a group level• Delivered timely and high-quality monthly financial reports, to address business and operational performance highlights and alert potential risks. • Took lead for monthly book closure and ensuring timely recording of all accounting transactions, review of trial balance and interdivision/intercompany reconciliations. • Improved formats of annual budget and monthly rolling forecasts, for a reliable and agile forecasting process while utilizing professional judgement to support management. • Reporting and presenting monthly financials to Group Finance Head/CFO. • Cost Management Project: Delivered 150k Dhs cost savings to the company• Forecasted annual budgets for the 6 cost centers and 3 shared functions and analyzed their allocation to operating divisions• Coordinated with Digital Transformation team for the implementation of Solver in the system • Construction of rules in the system (Hyperion) for seamless classification of entries to avoid manual intervention during monthly closure• Creation of Dashboard covering vital information for the Board Members• Merging of all the system interfaces during the monthly closure – New Systems with the Existing Systems

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Developed a Model for Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and forecasted the figures for the next six months• Analyzed receivables and payables of different departments of the company for the last 1 year• Learned and measured the historic Days on Hand (DOH) at each Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) level• Estimated and Analyzed the Outstanding Liabilities (200 Cr) to work out an Aging Schedule for the various payables

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance, General

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom

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