Umer Farooq Email & Phone Number

Dubai, AE

United Arab Emirates

As a seasoned Finance Manager, I spearheaded business and commercial finance operations for the Flour & Grains Unit within the Agri Division. With a robust topline of USD 220 million, our operations spanned across the GCC, Asia, and Africa.Key Responsibilities:Strategic Financial Leadership: I provided critical financial insights and guidance to drive.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Managing financial planning, analysis and reporting for North Africa Caucasus and Kazakhstan cluster.Acting as a finance business partner to Area Corporate Finance teams.Also managing delivery of service line expansion and SAP implementation projects.A team of 9 direct reports supports me win the day to day deliverables.Reporting to hub Senior Management.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Leading the shared services Corporate Finance (planning, analysis and reporting) function for Middle East, North Africa and South Asia cluster 12 amazing direct reports serving on different seniority, managing 30 markets across MESA&NA are my success enablers in this role.Acting as a people leader and supporting leadership teams based in Malaysia achieving.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Finance value partner for Business Unit Condiments and Food Services. Part of BU LT, helping business strengthening bottom line and procedural controls.Managing a team of two direct subordinates. Key responsibilities:- Value partner, leading profit improvement initiatives worth PKR 1 Bio- Strategic financial planning and helping business teams to adjust to.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Worked as Commercial Finance Manager (Sales Controller) for Waters Business - South region. Lead the team of 8 Direct reports including Controls Specialists, Control Officers and Data Controllers.Key responsibilities Included:- Partnering with Business & Sales Teams on route to market evaluations and exploring new and more cost effective avenues- Managing.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Spearheaded monthly business planning cycle for NESTLE Juices, NESCAFE, MAGGIand Breakfast Cereals (PKR 20 bn c. USD 125mio) on progressing seniorities.Key responsibilities:-Interpret and evaluate monthly analyses of business trends, including budgetvariance of financial results and Key Performance Indicators to identify areas of riskand.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Lead the End to End operational financial management and internal / external audits of HR department.Key Achievement:-Developed a loss tree analysis that helped HR controls team in identifying reworkand waste layers in the processes. As an outcome of this tool my team startedsaving 13 hours monthly which were invested in other improvement.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

My role was to ensure that payroll records are in line with the details provided by the employees for their Pension, Provident Fund and Other benefits provided by the employer to them. Lead a team of 4, spread nation-wide on master data accuracy. Developed a control matrix for the organisation which helped in sustaining data input quality. Was also.

Lahore, Pakistan

I got the fortune of working at A.F Ferguson & Co. ( A member Firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers Network). Where i worked as a junior member of External Audit team. During this time i got the opportunity to assist the audit team in:>Analyzing the financial data. >Covering Expenses, Share Capital and Cash at Bank area during the audit.>Inquiring the clients.

Lahore

Worked as Teacher’s assistant for 7 months at a leading accountancy institute.

Chartered Accountant, Accounting And Finance, Advanced Level

Fellow Member, Accounts And Finance

Accounts and Finance. Majors: Advanced Financial Management & Advanced Audit and Assurance.

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting And Finance

Business Administration And Management, General

Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles

Hssc, Computer Science, A

Ssc, Computer Science, A

Activities and Societies: Music Society

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