Sameer Shaikh Email & Phone Number

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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).

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.

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.

Bachelor'S Degree, Accountancy And Finance, 3.56

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

Aissce, Science