• Leading the formulation of long-term strategies to guide the organization's direction and growth via annual LRP which included strategic direction setting, environmental analysis, scenario planning, resource allocation, performance measurement, stakeholder engagement, communication and presentation, and driving continuous improvement efforts.• Facilitating the annual budget and ensuring that financial decisions are aligned with strategic priorities, informed by data-driven insights, and conducive to achieving organizational objectives.• Diligently monitoring KPIs to evaluate the efficacy of strategies in place, making data-informed adjustments as necessary.• Communicating and reporting strategic plans, progress, and outcomes to senior management and other stakeholders through presentations, reports, and monthly strategy sessions.• Providing ad-hoc financial and non-financial reports required by the management and assisting the management in strategic decision making.• Consulting various departments and stakeholders in identifying potential risks and developing mitigation plans to minimize their impact on strategic objectives and to ensuring alignment and buy-in for strategic initiatives.Accomplishments:• Successfully set up and trained a team to research and provide Business Intelligence to the management at a regular cadence and on specific requests on demand.• Steered the organizing of the Annual Strategy Summit 2024, bringing together cross functional leadership to formulate the strategy, managing logistics, whilst carrying out content coordination and event execution in collaboration with multiple support teams.

• Coaching and lecturing students on CIMA Strategic Case Study

• Functioning as the Lead Young Lead for the division’s Turnaround Program (a business transformation project) and its extension; Turnaround Evolution Program in partnership with McKinsey & Company.• Deploying strategy for the division and setting goals for the CEO, Executive Committee and General Managers and reviewing their performance bi-annually.• Reviewing and presenting the performance of the four plants of the division monthly, to the Executive Committee and following up on the actions proposed by the management.• Evaluating and approving business proposals for cost reduction initiatives (some including investments)• Reviewing the main operational and financial KPIs of the division on a weekly basis, taking corrective actions on the deviations with the ground level teams, presenting the red flags to the management, and following up on the actions.• Overseeing the budgeting process (USD 107mn) and long-range plan from then CEO’s office, assisting in developing the strategy and identifying the key risks and headwinds of the business.Accomplishments:• Representing the division as the Lead Data Evangelist and setting up a cross functional team of Data Evangelists of which the responsibility was to identify, prioritize and execute the data project requirements across the division.• Setting up the tracking and reviewing mechanisms of the predominant KPIs to be visible at a CEO level.

• Preparation of the annual budget, monthly forecasts, variance analysis, month end reporting and approval of overheads for two plants• Onboarding vendors and management of accounts payables for two plants• Review and approval of staff and executive payrolls of two plants• Evaluation and authorization of capital expenditure for two factories• Reviewing of the profitability of UK/Europe commercial business unit (comprising of 4 large customers)• Preparation of the Material P&L accounts (COGS related)• Constructing finance models required by the plants and centralised business units

• Evaluating and testing the accounting and internal controls systems of 10 plants of the cluster• Auditing the financial accounts of 10 plants of the cluster and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements• Planning and execution of annual and mid-year physical stock verifications and asset verifications of the cluster• Planning and execution of functional and factory audits and investigation of frauds and filing evidence• Development of Standard Operating Procedures for key business processesAccomplishments:• Detecting and investigating fraudulent activities relating to misappropriations of approximately USD 15,000, uncovering the responsible parties and subsequently pursuing appropriate actions against them.

• Closure of accounts during month ends for of 4 plants • Preparation and presentation of factory profitability reports for 4 plants• Preparation of ad-hoc reports requested for Management Discussion & Analysis• Monitoring of inventory and managing the inventory levels of different natures (RM, FG, Uncategorised)• Preparation of the monthly leftover report of the cluster and presentation to the management

• Closure of Sales Orders to recognize profitability of 4 plants• Preparation and presentation of factory profitability reports for 4 plants• Preparation of ad-hoc reports requested by the management• Review of long outstanding inventory for the cluster and highlighting to take corrective actions