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 sustainable growth and profitability.Team Leadership: I led a high-performing team of two professionals, overseeing planning, financial analysis, and factory operations.Profit Optimization: Leveraging my expertise, I initiated profit-enhancing strategies, including:Pricing Strategies: Analyzing market dynamics and implementing effective pricing models.Capital Expenditure (Capex): Evaluating investment opportunities and optimizing capital allocation.Inventory Management: Streamlining inventory processes to enhance liquidity and minimize costs.Balance Sheet Optimization: Ensuring efficient utilization of resources and managing working capital effectively.My collaborative approach, data-driven decision-making, and commitment to excellence contributed significantly to our unit’s success.

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 and Cluster Finance Director

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 change management, enhancing capabilities, and people development agenda.Work responsibilities include business partnering with different markets on target alignments, financial planning cycles, actuals reporting, simplification and standardization of process across markets, SAP implementation validation and Ad-hoc value-added support projects for end markets.

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 right directions- Strengthening financial acumen of dotted and directly connected teams- Helping senior business and finance leadership team with transformational journey

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 Financials feasibilities of new & existing customers- Managing customer queries and operational handling- Leading for self distribution finance operations

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 opportunities-Partner with the business to develop costing/profitability models and reports-Assess the impact of strategic financial decisions and provide recommendationsto leadershipAchievements:-Partnered with Innovation & Renovation team and helped business in launchingnew variants adding PKR 1.5 bn of revenue in 2019-Successfully managed financial feasibility of CAPEX projects worth PKR 500 mio-Collaborating with extended teams based in Dubai, managing Cereals business-Contributed towards the development of related teams on their Financial Acumen

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 projects-Automated the manual processes leveraging my advanced excel and data analytics skills-Contributed in identifying the KPI's and developed a performance matrix to improve operational efficiencies

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 recognized by senior management on my efforts.

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 about Variances in Financial records. >Documenting the Control Deficiencies.Exposure includes the following clients:>Coca Cola Beverages Limited.>Mitchell's Fruit Farm. >Haidri Beverages Ltd, Pepsi Co.

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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