Dr. Abid Ali 347 A/3 Gulberg III, Lahore, PakistanEmail: axa0002@live.com & abid313@yahoo.co.uk Ph: (M) +92322 9009995 (R) +92321 3626413

Seeking Senior Management role in a growth oriented organizationEXECUTIVE SYNOPSISMeticulous and highly accomplished Leader with 20 years of hands on experience as top most Finance professional with expertise in Strategic Business Planning, Business Performance Evaluation , Strategic Decision analysis, Business results presentation , Risk Management, Operational Excellence, Enterprise Risk Management, Financial discipline/Internal Control Framework, Merger Management/ Business processes Integration, International Financial Reporting Standards/GAAPS, Knowledge Management, Business Modelling/Business Operating Structures management, Due Diligence/Business acquisition Management, Business Change/Culture Management, Project Management/IT Systems Analyst, Corporate Governance/ SOX and Business Intelligence; Highly Result-oriented decisive leader to maintain high quality standards to meet challenges of this fast paced and high turn-over industry; Tendency to thrive in fluid environments while remaining pragmatic , focused, Highly ethical, trustworthy and discreet;.AREAS OF EXPERTISE/CAREER HIGHLIGHTS In-depth knowledge of IFRS, International Accounting Standards, Sarbanes Oxley,

Corporate/Tax laws, Industrial/Commercial laws and Corporate Governance/Regulations

Expertise in Statutory Reporting, Management Reporting, Group Consolidations, Business Intelligent Tools (Cognos, SAP etc.) Specialized Reporting Tools (Dashboard, Balanced Scorecard, KPIs)

Expertise in Asset management, Corporate Planning, Capex Management, PIPs (Project Investment Proposals), Financial Feasibilities, Due Diligence and Business Development/Evaluations.

Developed SOPs, Policies, Manuals, Authority Matrix and Guidelines to effectively establish internal control framework at all the entities to align with Global processes (Corporate Governance/SARBOX, IAS/IFRS, US GAAPS and Statutory/Legal Frameworks).

Have special expertise in funds management, treasury functions, leasing processes, insurance risk management, bank guarantee processes, negotiations with bankers, import processes, FIM/CF/RF/other Financing tools and foreign exchange management

Extensively involved in budgeting, standard costing, and forecasting processes, developed annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, monthly forecasts (latest estimates) for commercial organizations, involved in budget presentations and international reporting, developed comprehensive mechanisms for variance analysis from the budget and developed executive information system to provide decision making mechanism to the stakeholders.

Secured up to date knowledge of taxation laws, corporate laws, industrial/commercial laws and its implication on business/profitability

Accomplished professional in SAP systems, expert in using system functionalities and features to correlate with business processes, information/reporting requirement, embedding requisite controls, optimal utilization of human/IT resources and achievement of business objectives.

Have special expertise in establishing new finance department/organization. Developed all the systems for the newly established organization including chart of account, General Ledger, subsidiary ledgers, and reporting/information mechanism.

Instrumental in Business Risk Management (all types of risk including Internal Controls), developed Risk Logs, Risk Registers, Risk Mitigation Plans, Mitigation STPs, Business Continuity Plans, Emergency Response Plans, Crisis Management Plans and Disaster Recovery Plans.

Efficiently and proactively analyzed all the projects undertaken, used best Project Management and Change Management to complete well within the timeframe and budgetary allocations.

Developed business plans including Business Excellence Plans, Budget 3/1 Plans, Entity Business Plans, Entity Quality Plans and Facility Master Plans (Assets replacement, technological innovations and expansions)

Exceptional expertise and experience in inventory management, effectively managed inventories to improve cash availability, reduced dead stocks, improved stock days covers and tremendously improved Cash cycles / cash turnovers.

A solid knowledge of Procurement Processes - Vendor Management - Evaluation/Approval, Preferred Suppliers & Supplier Relationship Management, Competitive Bidding, Procurement Systems, Contract Management, Service Level Agreements, Technical Terms of Trade, Prices and VMI Systems/Processes.

Profound knowledge of Supply Chains Systems, Import/Export Processes / Regulations, HR Processes, Compensation/Employees Benefit Management and Leadership skills.

Expert to develop business strategies, devise strategic initiatives to achieve Business Excellence and hit hidden wastages, develop criteria for functional baselines and Sigma Metrics, identify Revenue Assurance/Maximization drivers and develop KPIs for achievement of overall organizational goals /objectives.

Won several laurels and appreciations from the superiors for tireless efforts, exceptional teamwork, and super performances and accelerated value delivery to the organizations.

Expert in Business process re-engineering (BPR), developed baselines for Finance, QA, HR, Logistics and procurement departments, developed KPIs for customer value analysis/performance monitoring and developed framework for cost effectiveness, headcount rationalization, robustness and service agility of the functions / departments.

Consistent Top performer, Sites/entities/functions under controls remained top in Business Performance, Operational Excellence benefit delivery and KPIs achievements.

Instrumental for the training and development of subordinates/colleagues and was top knowledge manager (No.1 all over GSK world) with respect to knowledge sharing, providing solutions and responding to queries from colleagues all over GSK world.

Hand on knowledge and experience of QMS (Quality Management System), GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices), FPGs (Facility Planning Guidelines), TPs (Technical Processes) and EHS (Environment, Health & Safety) Standards/guidelines.

An astute leader capable of making quick business turnaround and persuasive communicator with well developed business analytical skills

Kept high personal and professional integrity, adhered leadership edge principles to understand people’s needs and motivations, and to incorporate these in procedural designs.

Continuously monitor, analyze and report the potential effects of macro-economic, industry and competitive forces on business strategy and profitability.

Strong analytical, interpersonal and negotiation skills, ability to lead and motivate multi-disciplinary teams and create Energy and enthusiasm to form a stimulating change oriented working environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Wincom (Pvt.) Limited April 2011 to dateWincom (Pvt.) Limited is an Abu Dhabi Group company engaged in the development and management of telecom infrastructure of Warid and Wateen Telecoms. The company is also involved in developing the software and providing managed services solution to Bank Alfalah for Branchless Banking and BISP (Benazir Income Support Program).Head of Business Excellence Reporting Chief Executive Officer (Wincom and Raseen)

Accountable to provide leadership to Finance, IT, HR, Admin, legal and corporate affairs functions and overall looking after the team of 20 professionals engaged in all echelons of support services.

Engaged and involved in the strategic decision making, provided financial evaluations and decision making framework for new projects and investment opportunities.

Leading mega project of process integration and in sourcing of Operation and management services by Warid.

Leading the teams to develop and implement BISP/Branchless Banking softwareFour Brothers Group December 2009 to April 2011Four Brothers group comprises of 16 companies engaged in Telecommunication (LDI, LLO, Tele Equipments, and Trend Mobiles), Engineering, Foods, Business Solutions, Pesticides, Fertilizers, Seeds, HEIS, and Corporate Farming etc. The group has over Rs. 10b revenue and strong Franchisee network all over the Pakistan.

Group Financial Controller/CFO reporting to Group Chairman. Accountable to provide leadership and Head of Finance, IT and Supply Management

functions and overall looking after the team of 80 professionals engaged in all areas of Finance.

Negotiate with banks to arrange funds, agree credit limits, funds rationing and managing the cash cycle to provide suffice funds to coup with hyper business growth (over 300%)

Responsible to develop/manage systems and procedures, develop performance criteria (KPIs) and overall look after top line Bottom line results of the whole group.

Engaged and involved in the strategic decision making, provided financial evaluations and decision making framework for new projects and investment opportunities.

Looked after the legal, statutory, corporate affairs and taxation related matters of the group, deals all the legalities with PTA, PTCL and Interconnect/international operators with respect to APC, CPP and ASRs.

Provided true business and leadership expertise which helped to attained exceptional business results with many folds increase in sales and profitability

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited , Islamabad (Nov’08 – June 2009)PTCL is the largest telecommunication Company in Pakistan providing wide range of telecommunication services & market leader in every product line, the organization is subsidiary of UAE based Telecommunication group EtisalatGeneral Manager Finance/Cost Management (Reporting to Executive Vice president/ Senior Advisory member)Key Deliverables: Accountable for operational excellence of the whole organization with respect to optimal

usage of financial resources and bring efficiencies/effectiveness in every echelon of business. Facilitating SAP implementation particularly, FICO, HCM (Human Capital Management),

Investment, Projects, Capital work in progress, Assets Accounting, fund management Accounts Payable & Receivable, Inventory Management, MRP, Supply Chain Management, Business Intelligent & Work Flow application.

Facilitating Internal external auditors in the audit process and finalizing ICM/ML. Implementing/persuading strategic initiatives in all the business areas including Energy

Conservation, Functional baseline, Network rationalization, Space utilization, processes/systems improvement and resource austerity drive to harvest maximum benefits from transformation into agile commercial organization

Instrumental in the statutory reporting process particularly half yearly and quarterly results presentation

Monitoring progress of the staff and motivating them to achieve stated targets of the company within the time constraints

GlaxoSmithKline Pakistan Limited, Lahore/Karachi (Nov’92 –Jul’95 & Jul’96 – Aug’08) GlaxoSmithKline is one the top global healthcare group which discovers, develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare productsServed various roles as Financial Controller, Senior Manager Finance, Operational Excellence Champion and Risk/ Knowledge Manager: Key Deliverables: Accountable for budgeting, forecasting processes, develop business plans, Review

packs and disseminate to group using Cognos/Dashboard/Unison systems and meeting all timelines.

Served as Financial controller of Major manufacturing facility of GSK Pakistan and coordinator for all the four manufacturing sites in Pakistan.

Providing leadership to site finance teams and managing whole financial activities of the sites.

Liaising with commercial colleagues for audit processes and statutory reporting. Directing and controlling site activities related to Finance and accounting; ensuring a sound

system of Internal Controls in place and in use in line with the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley.

Responsible for developing and implementing financial policies, financial systems and SOPs (finance and internal control related) for all the Manufacturing sites of GSK Pakistan.

Managing and coordinating Risk management process, developing Risk logs , Risk register, STPs, Risk mitigation plans and Business Continuity Plans

Providing financial analysis and recommendations for actions on deviations from plans for production performance, operating expenditure, capital expenditure and working capital.

Managing standard costing process, Activity Based Costing and liaising directly with commercial markets on costing issues and cost estimates for new products

Benchmarking of Critical Production and Key Performance Indicators of the site Instrumental in the blue chip projects like Functional baseline, sigma matrices, Lean lab,

energy conservation, 5s, door to door, OEE, Vision Factory and ACVA. Engaging and coordinating customer board meetings to negotiate cost sharing agreements

(Services Level Agreements), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).Alzawaq Food Factory, Jeddah (Jul’95 – Jun’96)Finance Manager (Reporting to Plant General Manager): Key Deliverables: Managing whole activities of Finance department (Accounts Payables, Cash and Bank

Management, Accounts Receivables, Sales Order Processing, Fixed Assets Management, Payroll Processing, L/C management/Landed Cost Management, Budgeting, Forecasting, Planning, Management/Statutory Reporting, Supply Chain management and management of all procurement processes).

Developing in house systems for all the finance processes including GL, CWIP, AP, AR Inventories, Fixed Assets, Consignment Costing, Budgeting and Variance analysis.

Instrumental in the Capital Management Projects, Investment proposals evaluations, Financial Feasibilities and funds management.

Service Industries Limited, Lahore (Feb’91 – Nov’92)Service Industries Limited is engaged in the manufacturing of Footwear, Textiles and other leather products. The Company is one of the largest shoes manufacturer and exporter in Pakistan with wide largest network of chain stores for sale of the shoes in local marketCosting Manager (Reporting to Resident Director): Key Deliverables: Introducing and developing costing and management accounting system which helped

the site to improve profitability Developing time based labour rating system using time and motion study techniques

that helped the Site Management to reduce labour cost and improve labour efficiencies Developing and introducing online material consumption and yield checking system which

resulted in drastic decrease in raw material consumption Developing Production (shop order) flow reporting System that helped the

management to curtail in process production losses Introducing and developing Batch wise, daily, Weekly profit and loss accounts to provide Site

management instant operational health check mechanism; consignment purchase invoice checking system

Accountable for introducing and developing Standard costing and budgetary control system

Controlling and reducing inventories, increasing stock turnovers and reducing operating cycle

Improving and refining production, purchasing and store reporting systems. At times headed Work study, IT, Material Management and Costing departments.TRAININGS & CERTIFICATIONS

Attended Training Programs/Workshops on Lean/Six Sigma Leadership training , Six Sigma Green Belt training, Statistical

processes control, Total Quality Management, Theory of Constraints and Quality Function Deployment.

BPCS, JDE, SAP, Oracle Financial, MRP II & S&OP, Dashboard, Activity based Cost/management

Procurement System , Competitive biddings, preferred vendors, contract management & sourcing group management.

Management of Exchange Rate & Interest, Change Your Lenses change your world Presentation and Communication skills Supply Chan Management, Objective Setting, Emotional intelligence, Connecting

for Success Leadership Edge (five courses) Building a High Performance Organization, Designed

Thinking, Level 5 Leadership and Leadership Framework Performance managemen t, knowledge management, succession planning, talent

pooling, Interviewing skills, Site leadership Skills & Leadership Care and Growth model

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Certificate of Achievement Awarded by International WHO’S WHO of professionals

for the research work on Lean Sigma and Operational Excellence Awarded as Master Writer in Lean Sigma and Operational Excellence by American

Academy of Letters

Won Eight Awards in GSK Excellence Recognitions Award (ERA) Program which include one regional one divisional and six site or functional awards

Name included in the Directory of world’s WHO’S WHO of professionals for the Year 2004/2005

Name included in the 2000 Intellectual of 21st Century by International Biography Centre, Cambridge, England

Selected among the 2000 best mind of the 21st Century by American Biographical Institution USA

Received Six Recognition Certificates awarded by GSK management for various system development/implementations/project management

ACADEMIC DOSSIER Ph. D with specialization in Business processes improvements Lean Sigma

implementation in Pharma Industry) from Washington International University USA in 2001 FCMA (F825) with specialization in Financial Management from Institute of Cost and

Management Accountants of Pakistan in 1992 Chartered Business Administrator from Institute of Business Administrators Canada in

2004 Certified Business Manager from Professional Association of Certified Business Managers

USA in 2001 Licensed International Financial Analyst (LIFA Chartered) from International Research

Association USA Bachelor of Commerce from University of Punjab in 1985

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SAP (All modules), JD EDWARDS (Financial), BPCS (All Modules) & Oracle Financial Project Management Tools and Methodologies: MS PROJECT, APEX, IQMS & DMAIC Collaborative tools, QUICKPLACE, CONNECTWARE, SAMETIME and GROOVE Knowledge Management Tools: Peopleconnect, LIVELINK, AARs and COPs. Proficient in Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes and Workflow Applications Expert Knowledge of Dashboard, Statistical tools like SPC KISS/EXCEL, Statistica,

Cognos; Lean/Six Sigma tools and methodologiesMEMBERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

Fellow Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan Member Institute of Management Accountants of USA Member Chartered Institute of Business Administrators Canada Member of The Professional Association Certified Business Management USA Member of International Research Association USA

PERSONAL VITAEDate of birth: 25th April, 1965Nationality PakistanLanguages Known: English, Urdu and Punjabi References: Available on Request