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Muhammad Usman

@muhammadusman5

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Business Finance Leader / Finance Business Partner

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for a position where I can bring my expertise to improve the business process and provide data driven insights for timely decision making.

I am certified chartered accountant (ACCA) with experience over half of decade.

I drill down my experience into two categories, formal and freelance.

Formal:

I started my experience with IT company as Accounts Executive for one year.

Then I switched to National Foods Limited as Commercial Finance Executive with responsibility of smooth sales operations. I was also responsible to analyse profitability of key account customers at product level.

After two and half years, I have taken role of Project Accounting Specialist in the same company with primary responsibility of ensure smooth P2P (procure to pay) process, budget management, CAPEX reporting and ensure compliance to control manual.

Post completion of Greenfield project in 2 years, company have provided me responsibility to act as Finance Business Partner for plant operations.

Freelance:

I am top rated freelancer on Upwork, have completed 43 projects with 1,910 billable hours with clients based in USA, Australia and UK. I consistently maintained 100 job success rate.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Assistant Manager - Plant Controlling

Current

National Foods Limited

Jul 2023 - Present (2 years)

- Constructed ZERO based annual budget of new plant, present the same to senior leadership team and get it reviewed.
- Supported plant controller to establish accurate overhead allocation process in SAP ECC and ensured smooth transition to S4 Hana.
- Performing productivity analysis which resulted in overall improvement of 16%.

Compliance Financial Reporting Cost Control Cost Tracking Microsoft Power BI Excel Office 365

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Freelance Financial Analyst

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Upwork

Nov 2019 - Present (5 years 8 months)

Providing bookkeeping support along with forecasting and budgeting for clients based in USA, UK and AUS.
I am working part time with max 12-15 hours per week.

Excel QBO Xero Financial Modeling Data Analysis Big Data Analytics

Project Accounting Specialist

National Foods Limited

Dec 2021 - Jun 2023 (1 year 6 months)

- Developed dashboard in BI for spend tracking and forecasting with Rs. 7 billion.
- Initiated self-assessment activity which resulted in improvement in quarterly compliance ratio from 78% to 96%.
- Reduced bill validation time by 83% & managed smooth P2P process.
- Ensure timely closure of open POs, GRIR and advances of Rs. 1.5 billion

Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office Communication Skills Investment Management Problem Solving Data Analysis Data Modeling Financial Systems Financial Control

Accounts Executive

Techlogix Pakistan

Aug 2018 - May 2019 (9 months)

Accounts Payable Management
Maintaining Fixed Asset Register
Maintaining lease schedules
Bank Reconciliation

Commercial Finance Executive

National Foods Limited

May 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 7 months)

- Budgeting, tracking, month end closing and analyzing selling OHs.
- Built a tool for incentive validation along with process revamp.
- Developed and update financial model in Excel to track product level profitability for 4 key account customers.
- Post evaluation of incentive structures and ensure accurate target setting.