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Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan

Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

- Effectively communicated company developments and milestones to investors through monthly investor updates using platforms such as Crunch Base and Visible, maintaining the company's face value and investor confidence.- Led the initiative to onboard new international payment gateways, negotiating favorable commercials for the deal and diverting ~5% of the daily funds to the parent company (abroad).- Implemented a strategic pricing plan that increased revenue by ~20%, significantly reducing losses by 50% during slow demand season.- Lead the financial reporting process for group level account submission in ACRA (Singapore).- Streamlined the company's Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) structure, conducting several awareness sessions for employees and improving overall employee engagement and retention.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

- Developed a comprehensive investment strategy framework worth USD 10mn that helped shortlist the top 5 problems to solve in the travel value- chain and the strategy needed to achieve growth either organically (by solving the problems ourselves) or inorganically (by acquiring companies that are solving the identified problems).- Prepared the funding strategy framework worth USD 1mn to find a sweet spot of growth and profitability.- Analyzed the financials to communicate actionable items to management resulting in over 100% reduction in cash burn.- Analyzed and prepared a detailed report regarding the impact of floods on the business for a potential investor in a funding round of USD1.0mn.- Prepared a detailed proposal for US Aid IPA grant worth PKR 20mn.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

-Developed in depth financial models for 3 potential deals worth PKR 10bn, ranging from fresh equity (IPOs) to subsequent secondary offerings.-Performed due diligence on the project financing model for Volkswagen, amounting to PKR 21bn.-Evaluated the investment opportunities to invest in early-stage startups worth PKR 10mn for the VC arm of the family business.-Led the fund-raising activity for a private equity deal worth PKR 1bn.-Managed and executed regulatory approvals for different transaction structures from PSX and SECP for clients on regular basis.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

-Processed and approved over 150 invoices on daily basis to ensure timely payments to both domestic and international vendors.-Validated the invoices to ensure data integrity to report the invoice with 100% accuracy.-Approved over USD100,000 worth of cheques and direct debits for fuel invoices on daily basis.-Maintained 100% record of the payments made to vendors after thoroughly checking for discrepancies, if any.

Lynchburg, Virginia, United States

-Worked through major in-store reassignments of inventory, displays and other merchandising units to help establish daily sales of approximately US$500,000.-Executed modular resets according to pre-determined plan-o-grams to ensure modular integrity.-Maintained merchandise presentation by stocking and rotating merchandise, signing, and pricing merchandise appropriately and securing fragile and high-shrink merchandise.-Ensured proper execution of the customer inventory flow process, the maintenance of backroom standards and the correct processing of freight to ensure all daily sales goals are met.

Houston, Texas, United States

-Tracked revenues and costs, diligently reconciled accounts of over US$45,000 to maintain 100% accuracy and kept the records up to date.-Monitored status of accounts payable of over US$20,000 to facilitate efficient processing.-Prepared daily sales quotations, pro-forma invoices, sales invoices, and delivery invoices to monitor daily sales, averaging around US$1,500.-Supervised daily book keeping operations via QuickBooks with focus on accounts payable, bank reconciliations and daily disbursements.

Karachi

-Currency Management Department: Performed reconciliation of total bank notes and coins in circulation per day with the notes and coins issued for the day by the SBP. This reconciliation was a three-stage verification process whereby it was first reconciled with the posts received at the end of the day by the SBP from the banks; then via email confirmations from the banks and lastly by checking for the balances in the system.-Banking Department: Worked with the team responsible for managing data of the tax amnesty scheme that was launched at that time. Worked to update in real time the amount that was being generated via the amnesty scheme and from the sources that amount was being transferred in the national treasury. Also worked under the team that was overseeing the remittance section and was delegated the task to observe the data in real time and to separate the loans and grants that were coming in from the remittance being sent by overseas Pakistanis. -Export Reprocessing Department: Worked under the department head to evaluate the loan requests that were coming in under the export refinance scheme made available to companies by the SBP for the purpose of boosting exports. Evaluated the loan requests on the basis of set criteria as defined by SBP policy for export refinance scheme.- Prepared a detailed report highlighting the relationship between monetary, fiscal and foreign policy and how finance and foreign policy are closely related with regards to sovereignty of a nation.

Karachi

Worked at transforming the entire curriculum of all the classes from manual into computerized form. This curriculum transformation was done for all the major subjects. The computerized syllabus was then used to make past papers for respective subjects in order to facilitate both the students as well as the teachers to speedily access all the resource materials for better preparation for exams.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting And Finance

Alevels, Business/Commerce, General

Olevels, Physical Sciences