Saad K. Email & Phone Number

• Champion financial operations with a focus on strategic planning, forecasting, and business process enhancement.• Orchestrated the seamless integration of Oracle ERP Cloud, significantly boosting system efficiency and profitability.• Lead and inspire cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional solutions that surpass expectations, driving operational excellence.• Collaborated with senior leadership to align financial strategies with organizational goals, ensuring cohesive and forward-thinking financial planning.• Implemented advanced data analytics tools to enhance financial reporting accuracy and timeliness, resulting in more informed decision-making processes.

• Directed comprehensive financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting to stimulate business growth.• Executed ERP systems implementation, optimizing business processes and streamlining financial operations.• Developed and maintained robust financial controls, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.• Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders, driving initiatives that enhanced operational efficiency and profitability.

Ontario, Canada

• Steered financial accounting, capital budgeting, and supply chain management, enhancing overall financial health.• Pioneered planning, budgeting, and forecasting initiatives, leading to substantial improvements in financial performance.• Spearheaded cost reduction initiatives, achieving significant savings while maintaining operational integrity.• Conducted in-depth financial analysis to identify opportunities for growth and operational improvement.

Guelph

• Performing complex scope business analysis work including work flow analysis, business information requirements and defining project business requirements scope working with subject matter experts and end users to identify and resolve business issues• Planning, designing and modifying manual and automated business processes, procedures and applications, along with detailed documentation creation, working independently and on teams with project leaders, software developers and subject matter experts as required• Preparing detailed specifications for business applications, participating in quality testing process and training end users for all modified and new processes• Continuously engaged in learning, improving and evolving

Burlington

• Developed and introduced new templates to increase the efficiency of transaction processing, and implemented across various departments to ensure seamless transition of data.• Standard cost update process development and streamlining by working with supply chain to ensure that the costs reflected in the system were accurate, and representative of total standard costs, including freight, duty, and foreign exchange factors.• Continuously improving on internal financial policy adaptation to new more efficient processes while maintaining compliance with SOX, IFRS, and Eaton Financial Policies.• Worked with internal and external audit to ensure compliance with emerging electronic audit evidence requirements and implemented new processes to reach the goal.• Developed a standardized budget analysis tools for department leaders to highlight variances to budget, allowing for quick turnaround and decision making. • In depth review of excess and obsolete inventory, using IBM Cognos Reports and OBIEE, with marketing and supply chain, on a SKU basis, highlighting top 10 offenders in each product line. Follow-up with demand planners to ensure ordering strategy was adjusted for excess and obsolete items. Inventory movement between locations to consume slow moving SKUs in a swift manner. Setting targets of inventory reduction through discount strategies to ensure minimized risk in inventory.• Streamlined the physical inventory process, allowing for significant reduction in time to completion, increased accuracy level, and reduced inventory loss to under 1% of gross inventory.• Improved monthly reconciliations to act as standalone documents with sufficient electronic audit evidence, while increasing user friendliness.• Used PL/SQL queries to extract relevant data from Oracle Financials and Oracle ERP, to efficiently and quickly analyse data requirements on an AdHoc basis• In addition to the responsibilities outlined in my prior position*

Burlington

Responsible for providing proactive financial service for Eaton’s Canadian Electrical Operations through innovative planning, analysis, consulting and reporting while maintaining effective control in accordance with GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley and Eaton corporate policy.• Managed the accurate and efficient processing of transactions in the Eaton accounting system. This process included data input into Encore financial system, Oracle Financials and Oracle ERP. • Implemented financial policies and procedures to ensure compliance with Eaton Financial policies, GAAP, local regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements and restructured the SOX validation documents. • Taking lead on internal and external financial auditing requests, schedules and reporting requirements. • Provided Cost Accounting support and analysis with specific focus on product costing, cost savings, inventory control, capital spending, and inventory reserves. • Planned, performed and analysed post-count variances of plant, satellite and distribution center physical inventory counts. This included managing the cycle count program, reporting metrics and assisting plant accounting managers with resolving issues.• Provided accurate and timely financial reporting and analysis focusing on manufacturing costs and variances. This included reporting plant performance metrics and validating cost of sales through the review of bills of material with a focus on standard labour, routing and overhead rates.• Partnered with plant accounting managers to manage, report and analyze excess and obsolete inventory. • Provided accurate and timely account reconciliations.• Participated in the operating profit, cost savings, working capital and inventory forecasting and annual profit planning processes.

Burlington, Ontario

• Assisted with the accurate processing of transactions in the Eaton accounting system. This process included Oracle ERP 11i and IBM's Sterling WMS in the early stages of implementation (joined in the first quarter after implementation of new ERP system) • Assisted with physical inventory accuracy checks, re-count verification, and sample audits of work in progress (WIP) counts.• Worked with Accounting Managers on an AdHoc basis to trouble shoot issues and follow up till resolution.• Month end close activities including adjusting journal entries, reconciliations, and reporting.

Mississauga, On

• Managed all accounting and financial reporting functions. Developed and maintained documented procedures• Timely preparation and appropriate issuance of accurate financial statement• Financial analysis and performance monitoring• Systems conversion and implementation• Prepared year-end working papers and coordinated external audit requirements• Assisted in preparation of company's annual budget and forecast along with government reporting and tax returns• Fixed assets management and cost accounting functions

Canada

• Cleared backlog of assigned tasks from two months prior within the first two weeks on the job.• Liaison between all impacted departments to ensure smooth daily activities.• Use of AS400 and Virtual Claims software to provide operations support to claims adjusters, Including, but not limited to; o Processing cheques for accurate and timely payment to claimants and vendors. o Cumulating and dispatching documents for legal proceedings, working with claimant’s requests as well as company lawyers.

• Actively participated in full inventory counts at all 3 stores of the Mississauga region, achieving an outstandingly low store inventory loss percentage at each.• Team player in preparation and reorganization of the store dynamics and layout for “show and tell”; the Corporate plan using Mississauga Heartland store as a model for other stores, chain wide.• Ensured smooth day to day operations, by preparing the sales floor on a daily basis, via down stocking, and placement of received merchandise. Also, placing any overstock and locating the merchandise on stock locator sheets, for cross check and entering in the system.

• Maintenance of an accurate set of books by ensuring that all entries, financial transactions, pre-payments, accruals, assets, liabilities and income are correctly recorded.• Act as a link between various departments across 11 offices in the Middle East and Africa, ensuring smooth daily operations.• Monitoring and controlling petty cash transactions of staff in all offices.• Produce MIS reports as required by the Management.• Maintain monthly BRS (Bank Reconciliation Statements) of Head Office and Branch Bank Accounts.• Participation in the monthly closing of accounts for corporate reporting.• Follow up and ensure timely receipt of all sales.

Cpa, Professional Education Program

Honours Ba, Accounting And Marketing

• Independent project work has developed my analytical thought, numeracy and ability to manage projects efficiently. • Regular group.

Management Specialist - Accounting Stream

Activities and Societies: • CAIDSS (Challenging AIDS in Society) at University of Toronto at Scarborough, Executive Panel, 2004-2005..