Saharzish Riaz Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Centralize procurement reporting across all markets, and develop Power BI dashboards, providing high-level insights into key performance indicators (KPIs), trend analysis, and outlier detection.-Design executive-level dashboards for Source-to-Pay (S2P) performance, providing actionable insights and strategic metrics for senior management.-Perform data validation and quality assurance checks to ensure accuracy and reliability of data reports and dashboards.-Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT and Global Procurement & Supply Chain, to gather requirements and ensure alignment on data reporting needs.-Support management in procurement processes audits and action items.

- Assisted in the development and implementation of the AnalytX dashboard in Qlikview, providing a comprehensive view of addressable and non-addressable spend data, enhancing category management, and improving governance and visibility to drive savings initiatives.- Acted as a liaison with external consultants for the project of revamping Group Procurement Policy as per industry best practices.- Played a key role in initiating and overseeing the rollout of procurement survey company wide.- Championed the synchronization of company-wide spend and savings initiatives with Finance department, and developed presentations for executive management, illustrating the savings attained through procurement strategies and highlighting procurement function KPIs.- Led annual corporate planning cycle of fixed cost and employing cost recovery model for shared services department, conducting monthly financial stewardship, account reconciliation and expense reporting with Finance for Procurement function.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

- As an IT Procurement Business Partner, gathered business requirements and led procurement planning, supplier research, vendor management and analysis on cost saving opportunities.- Collaborated closely with the Central Procurement Function and Finance Shared Services to ensure smooth execution of contracts and the procure-to-pay cycle, leading to successful project delivery within specified timelines.- Successfully implemented and ensured compliance for SOP for user-end procurement activities and streamlined processes including PR, contract renewals, contract administration and goods receiving, resulting in reduced turnaround time of PR to PO conversions, payments and efficient stakeholder management.- Successfully developed a comprehensive CAPEX dashboard, enabling faster and more informed decision-making for the department heads, reducing processing time by 2x.- Performed spend analysis and led annual corporate budget planning cycle for central technology department of around 8Mn+ USD employing zero-based budgeting technique and conducted quarterly stewardships with Finance.

Pakistan

- Collaborated with the Compliance Team Lead to guarantee the adherence of all procurement activities to company policies and regulations.- Published Contract Preparation and Award procedure in accordance with Eni S.p.A policy and conducted market scouting activities for competitive vendor pool, vendor qualifications, and supplier management for contract award process.- Collected and analyzed data from ERP system to generate accurate monthly KPI reports including spend, savings, lead time, efficiency and supplier performance for submission to headquarters.- Conducted training sessions on procurement policy for a wide audience across the subsidiary.- Assisted the procurement manager during audits.- Completed ad-hoc reporting requests as needed such as plan vs actual procurement spend variance, CAPEX vs OPEX variance, OPEX optimization, etc.

Karachi, Pakistan

- Designed and developed a comprehensive model for budget monitoring and procure-to-pay cycle.- Implemented expense management strategies, such as negotiating favorable pricing with suppliers and optimizing vendor pool.

Karachi, Pakistan

Assisted deputy regional director in facilitating consultants, budgeting and expense tracking, training execution, proposal writing and audit requirement.

Islāmābād, Pakistan

Internship at Peace & Democracy function.

Islāmābād, Pakistan

Internship at Human Resources department.

Hyderabad, Pakistan

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance, 3.44

Bachelor'S In Business Administration, Accounting And Finance, Cgpa: 3.26

Activities and Societies: Microsoft Student Chapter, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Chapter

High School, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies, 84.18% , A1

Matriculation, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, A1