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Toronto, On, Ca

Canada

Canada

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Working as Lead Revenue Operations Analyst, my key responsibilities include:• Leading the revenue, billing and budget process of world wide off cloud revenue of over USD 1.2 billion, through analysis and reporting of forecasts, actuals, and plans• Setting and reviewing the drivers for Sales compensation and targets with the renewal leaders to align the targets with budget as well as organisation’s strategic plans and long term goals.• Leading the weekly actuals and variance analysis reporting to the CCO’s office• Identifying areas where processes need to be streamlined and/or automated and lead regional process improvement initiatives.• Driving automation & development of existing & new renewals reporting.• Demonstrating thought leadership around renewal sales data processes and operations.• Reviewing and analysing operational and renewal data and providing insightful variance analysis and recommendations to enable and influence effective decision making.• Leveraging transactional and other data to identify underlying trends within the business and provide guidance to business leaders.• Liaising with various internal stakeholders and partners across the organisation.• Performing ad-hoc analysis as required • Ensuring data in Assure and other systems utilized by the Renewals and Operations team is accurate.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Working as a Commercial Finance Manager for the entire Group, my responsibilities include:• Ensuring actionable insights are embedded in the financial planning process and reflected in the strategic plans • Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for innovations that lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining of operations• Help designing automated systems of reports to capture the required information to be provided to internal and external stakeholders• Providing Finance and Executive teams visibility of performance against key levers to enable timely actions to rectify underperformance• Synthesize data from databases and collaborate cross-functionally across Product, Marketing, Accounting, and Business Intelligence (among other teams) to understand relationships between key drivers of the business• Utilizing BI tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance• Working with Business Intelligence and Data Science team to optimize marketing spend across regions and media channels and ensure that spend is measured against realized return.

United Arab Emirates

Working as a Senior Financial Analyst (Senior FBP) , my responsibilities include:• Managing end to end Budgeting of the Company including collection and consolidation of data, challenging the numbers with the operational management and presenting to the senior management, the Holding Company and the Board for their review and approval• Developing Financial Models and providing support on Pricing of new products including Market research identifying market segment, addressable market segment and ability of the Company to leverage on existing Client relationships along with New Clients • Pro-actively supporting the business in providing actionable insights and analysis for the Lines of Business to achieve their budgeted revenue and profitability targets including KPIs and OKRs• Working with the department heads on preparation and follow up of Return to Green Plans, highlighting the key levers and enablers which can improve the financial results• Preparing monthly and ad hoc management reports for review by senior Management and the Holding Company on the financial performance of the business by Line of Business highlighting the key performance drivers and business risks and issues, explaining the reasons for major movements in revenue & expenses between budget, actual and previous periods• Finance owner of the submission of monthly Corporate Performance Dashboard to the Holding Company • Driving the periodic forecasting cycle and carrying out in depth variance analysis for Reported numbers vs. Budget and forecast• Preparing the 5-year business plan including Cash flows and Balance Sheet after incorporating the numbers of subsidiaries• Supporting on Debtors for the Credit Management teams. Monitoring timeliness of billings, ageing of DSO, identifying any trends. Ensuring all credit notes requests from clients are evaluated and justified before being signed off by the CFO

United Arab Emirates

As a Financial Analyst, my responsibilities included:• Managing financial reporting related to operations division especially IT Outsourcing Services.• Coordinating the operating budget definition and consolidation, working closely with the operations team • Working on a number of key initiatives from services re-organisation, cost reduction and strategic projects, requiring careful financial planning and control.• Working with Applications / ITO management and strategic Finance to develop the best shoring business case. KPIs of cost/FTE and Revenue/FTE to be evaluated to track performance measures properly by each cost centre and provide Line of Business statistics• Working closely with ITO management for alternative cost reduction plan by setting stretch target for each capability Lead to absorb new business without additional spending.• Ensuring compliance of the financial data as per corporate policies• Preparing and presenting revenue, costs and recovery analysis by Line of Business on a monthly basis highlighting key business risks

Dubai

My key responsibilities here include:- End-to-end engagement management as team leader- Supervision of the team and review of working papers of various areas of the financial statements- Consultation on significant matters with various professionals such as lawyers, tax advisors, actuaries and IT experts- Establishing positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members, clients and other stakeholders- Providing basic advisory services to clients in respect of taxation, foreign currency remittances, accounting treatment of complex transactions and compliance with secretarial practices- Ensuring timely completion and submission of key deliverables to the client within stringent deadlines.-Overall engagement management and client relationship management with preliminary decision-making for resolution of critical reportable matters to the Board of Directors of the Client

Karachi

My key responsibilities here included:- Leading large teams through planning, execution and completion stages of audit- Coordination with the team manager and client personnel- Assisting clients in preparation of financial statements in accordance with the applicable financial reporting framework including compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)- Audit of various head office functions including treasury operations for banks and revenue, cost of goods sold ,taxation and other significant components of financial statements for manufacturing concerns- Supervision of the team and review of working papers of various areas of the financial statements-On-the-job training and professional development of staff

Cpa Ontario, Accountancy

Member of CPA Ontario

Cpa Us, Accounting

Member of Montana State Board of Public Accountants

Ca, Accounting And Finance

• Associate Member of ICAP since July 2013 • Secured Merit Certificates for outstanding performance in subjects “Functional English”.

Cima, Management Accounting

• Associate Member of CIMA since November 2017 • Cleared all exams in first attempt • Secured Gold Medal for third highest marks worldwide.

Masters, Economics

Bachelor'S Degree, Commerce

Secured 4th position amongst all students.