During three decades of experience, I worked in various sectors as follows:
Assurance and Advisory Sector
Textile Sector
Food and Beverages Sector
Entrepreneurship
Banking Sector
E-Commerce and Technical
Renewal Energy (Wind Turbines)
Steel (iron rebars) Sector
Real Estate Sector
1- Financial Consultant
Assurance and Advisory Sector: I progressed from a trainee to a senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Pakistan and the Middle East and Ernst and Young (E&Y) Middle East, which has honed my skills in corporate accounting, audits, advisories, and taxation services. My experience includes understanding companys’ system and preparing system notes, designing effective auditing steps for multinational companies in various sectors namely, gas exploration, pharmaceuticals companies, insurance, automotive manufacturing, steel pipe manufacturing, banking, aluminum products, and cable manufacturing.
I conducted and supervised audit and finalized audit reports, preparing notes of control weaknesses highlightedbfor managment, communicating at various organization levels and ensuring their implementation.
2- Textile Sector: As a finance manager at Liberty Mills Limited, apart from finance functions, I oversaw the production of various sheeting fabrics, dyeing, printing, and stitching home textile products. I also managed yarn procurement and warehouse operations.
At Naveena Exports Limited, I served as CFO, implementing internal controls, ERP system (Oracle R12) and designing KPIs for the manufacturing of yarn, denim fabric, and woven garments which was exported to global brands like LEVIS, JC Penney, Mango, GAP, and Jordache.
3- Food & Beverage Sector: I was instrumental in setting up the first Domino’s Pizza store in Pakistan, focusing on team building, system design and its setup.
4- Entrepreneurship: I successfully ran companies as entrepreneur specializing in rental of barges at Karachi – Pakistan seaport, fishery business, towel manufacturing, real estate and denim fabric production, utilizing advanced weaving technologies like Sulzer air jet and Sulzer rapier machines.
5- Banking Sector: As a financial analyst at the Bank of Nova Scotia in Canada, I was ensuring financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting and also developed a financial model to calculate private banker compensation based on performance.
6- E-commerce and Technology: I owned and managed a private label business of cosmetics on Amazon USA, gaining experience of running e- commerce business. I prepared my company web site and was handling Click per pay (CPP) advertisements for my cosmetics brand at Amazon and Facebook.
7- Renewable Energy Projects: I led a 50MW wind turbine project, in Pakistan from team building to financial closure with domestic and international financiers. My role was negotiating with bankers, successful achieving mile stones for instalment payments, environmental and legal advisors for ensuring compliance set by the domestic and international suppliers and government regulatory body and power purchaser namely the National Electric and Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA).
After completion of the project, expense statement was successfully submitted to NEPRA for true up of rate as structured in financial model and power purchase agreement.
8- Steel Manufacturing: I spearheaded the setup of a steel mill in Pakistan. Remained part of the team along with managing director in finalizing suppliers of machines and raw materials, arranging project finance and working capital finances, Implemented Oracle ERP system, standard costing system, building team for finance department.
9- Real Estate Sector: Working for Naveena Group of companies, I experienced working on a project of making 10 story office building.
10- Financial Consulting: Currently, helping advise my client on financial strategy, preparing budgets, forecasts and analysis under name and style of Smartsourcing Solutions Inc. Also has a set-up to manage Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) for my clients.