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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Driving business strategy, implement core financial processes, and own key growth and profitability projects.Working cross-functionally and cross-geography with our business teams on our key strategic programs establish best in class processes, analytics, and controls.• Finance lead for the category partnering the business across multiple geographies in achieving growth and profitability targets. • Finance lead for the S&OP and FP&A processes aimed at spearheading business performance.• Conducted workshops on gross margin improvements by driving efficiencies in supply chain costs, optimizing trade spends and improving product mix.• Developing Dashboards management reports to bring clarity to the global leads to support better business decisions.• Benchmarking on competitive pricing in each half to identify pricing opportunities and GM improvement strategies and follow through on end-to-end execution.• Develop and maintain financial models to enable analytics around trends, performance, and outlook that are consistent throughout the geographies and business units, perform variance analysis, and develop business cases, margin profiles and investment summaries.• Control all the media investment spent behind the brands and conduct ROI analysis on media and brand marketing activities.• Direct the monthly forecasting activities for Home Care to insure timely and accurately compliance with corporate timelines.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Delivering analytics across all 5 Unilever Net Revenue Management Levers:Brand Portfolio Pricing, Pack/Price Architecture, Mix Management, Promotion Management, Trade Spend Translation.•Conducting NRM analysis and align across functions (Brand, Finance, Customer Marketing, Consumer & Shopper Insights, Supply Chain, Category Management, etc.) on key outputs and opportunities to exploit across Price/Pack, Mix and Promotion Optimization.•Support the delivery of NRM workshops to share findings, gain input and alignment of key opportunities•Support the creation of selling stories that positions Unilever as an expert in the revenue management space•Support the NRM Manager in strategically influencing and bringing thought leadership in the area of NRM•Support the development and/or implementation of World Class Tools and Analytics

United Arab Emirates

•Analyzing current vs past financial data and performance of various channels and projecting quarterly credit limits and forecast risks, resulting in 25% reduction in at risk accounts.•Performing ADHOC analysis on Gross profit margin, USG, UVG & core operating margin.•Streamlining Debtors management & Accounting of outstanding amounts. • Monitoring customer overdue through effective customer finance connection, periodic reconciliations and balance confirmations.• Reconciling select customer accounts and analyzed them periodically in order to ensure that accounts reflect true and correct view of business.• Validation & clearance of customers credit limit overrides (CLEs). • Regular market visits to validate and reconcile customer accounts.• Developing standard process on quarterly balance confirmation from customers.• Monitoring customer deductions and conducted review meetings with Sales team to ensure credit notes are timely being raised as per Trading Agreements.• Liaison effectively with outsourced Financial Services team to resolve queries on time and took necessary steps to reduce the queries.• Assisting Finance Manager with timely preparation of Debtors Forecasts and Trade Receivable reports.• Manage implementation of credit policy, credit risk assessment and credit investigations of existing and potential customers• Undertaking effective steps to achieve Debtors Days & Overdue targets of the Company.• Ensuring systematic update of Customer Masters with valid supporting and authorizations for audit purposes.

United Arab Emirates

Broad exposure in project, operational and financial management across range of sectors including Government, Private and Financial Services. Team member on a large public sector engagement with a Key Federal Authority in the UAE to assess current state of budgeting and design future state, performance based budgeting system. Supporting team member on a large job realignment and organizational restructuring engagement with a Key federal authority in the UAE involving:o Competency assessment, Job grading structure, Job realignment, to-be organization structure, Job descriptions. Team member on market entry strategy and feasibility study for a New Islamic Finance Company to be setup in the UAE. Key phases include:o Identifying competitive position in the market, SWOT analysis, competitor analysis, capability analysis, environment analysis, business proposition, developed strategic framework including vision mission and values & assisted in developing financial models. Supported in developing advisory solutions across number of industries/sectors and designing of proposals.

United Arab Emirates

Casting Financial Drafts and Leads to ensure no numerical / rounding error exists. Proofreading of Financial drafts. Test of controls on various processes such as Journal entries, Payroll, Revenue, Cost of Sales (Inventory). Test of Details on Revenue, Payments and Related party Transactions to ensure the ageing period as per company policy. Substantive procedures on Revenue, such as revenue Cutoffs & test of Details. Reporting to senior auditors and Asst. Manager on issues identified during the Audit & Clearing of review points with clients.

Bachelor'S Degree, Accountancy And Finance, 3.56

Activities and Societies: Modules: Accounts, Finance, Auditing, Quantitative Methods, Research Methodology, Economics, Portfolio.

Aissce, Science