Talha Sultan

Managed financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, and risk management. Oversaw financial reporting to ensure compliance and accurate insights. Streamlined processes, leading to cost savings and operational efficiency. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to analyze business data. Provided actionable insights to senior management for informed decision-making. Implemented process improvements and automation to enhance efficiency. 1. Data Centralization and Reporting: ➢ Successfully centralized financial data from diverse sources. ➢ Developed interactive Power BI dashboards for real-time reporting. ➢ Improved decision-making by providing accurate and timely information. 2. ERP Implementation and Data Migration (NetSuite): ➢ Led data migration efforts during NetSuite implementations. ➢ Ensured seamless transition of master and transactional data. 3. Process Optimization: ➢ Implemented automation solutions, reducing manual tasks. ➢ Enhanced financial processes, resulting in faster reporting cycles. ➢ Advised management on long-term strategies based on data analysis.

Presence in Canada, Pakistan, Jordan, Nigeria, UAE HO Held responsible for reporting the financial performance of the group. Ensuring the compliance with SOP and cautiously monitoring the SOPs ensuring that they are in line with the objectives and taking necessary action to make them more effective and agile to the pertaining dynamic environment of the industry and regulation. Analyzing risk factors arising from either compliance and or internal processes. Ensuring the correct classification of the account head as per IFRS’s. Budget controlling and making of Budget for the group. As a Financial Analyst, I have successfully contributed to critical projects involving data migration, reporting, and SAP implementation. Here is a brief overview of my accomplishments: ➢ Collaborated with cross-functional teams to collect and analyze financial data from diverse sources. ➢ Developed and executed data migration strategies, ensuring data accuracy and completeness. ➢ Conducted data mapping, transformation, and validation to maintain data integrity. ➢ Prepared concise financial reports to communicate key insights and risks. ➢ Led data migration efforts during S/4 HANA implementations. ➢ Managed end-to-end data migration processes, including scope definition, and loading into SAP. ➢ Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure successful project phases and go-live. ➢ Financial Analysis and Forecasting. ➢ Process Improvement and Strategy.

Held responsibility for identifying and driving process improvements and automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and drive toward regional standardization. Oversaw and supported managing projects entailing the on boarding of new entities, new business offerings and activities, ensuring that revenue processes and controls were in place before launch. Well known within the organization for demonstrating strong technical accounting acumen to be able to conclude on the accounting treatment of new product launches, projects, and complex transactions. Key Achievements ➢ Played an integral role in the system implementation across the entire Group and received an early promotion to senior Grp Accountant (from an Accountant role) ➢ Defined all SOPs for the reporting channels and delivered several pieces of training to upskill major stakeholders. ➢ Implemented a new risk management system, capturing all sale funnel data.

Presence in Canada, Yemen, Pakistan, UAE HO, Russia Held responsibility for day-to-day finance and accounts operations and overlooked financial transactions, payable cycles to ensure compliance with company policies and regulation. Prepared monthly operations reports detailing cash flow, daily sales outstanding, and projected revenues- including full-cycle financial statements, always ensured timely monthly closing. Key Achievements ➢ Recognized for providing exceptional service by monitoring accounts for accuracy and resolving long-standing billing discrepancies. ➢ Saved over 8 million AED worth of litigation costs and vendor discounts.

Headed the Finance Department for the FMCG division and supported the overall strategy and multi-year capability builds to enable the growth and capture the prioritization. Collaborated closely with business leaders and Board members to link the operational flow and workforce strategies to improve effectiveness, contractual payments, and budget optimization. Key Achievements ➢ Developed from the ground up the accounting and the control system, which enabled a timely and accurate financial reporting; supported the management in key decision-making processes. ➢ Oversaw the financial reporting function of the group to ensure it wins in accordance with local statute and IFRS.

Worked closely with Functional Business Units and Key Managers to ensure that all audit and internal assurance, risk assessments and evaluations were appropriately tracked and measured. Displayed rich people management skills with major stakeholders and external clients across manufacturing, hospitality, fashion, and retail sectors. Key Achievements ➢ Received a promotion to a Supervisory role within just 6 months. ➢ Participated in all regular post-month-end close reviews to revisit the process and proposed solutions that Senior Management accepted and implemented.

Analyzed, designed, and created business specifications to facilitate the delivery of tailored solutions. Displayed confidence with presentations and communication skills to both create and deliver top-quality presentations and demos to a broad audience including C-Suite and technical teams. Key Achievements ➢ Major contributor in leading the team that was tasked to implement the Financials module for the ERP and resolving all the choirs of the management on how to route the specific system while overcoming software limitations. ➢ Fronted a team of five staff to implement the ERP systems from scratch (textile manufacturing unit). ➢ Developed an MIS for the management for timely and accurate decision making through that ERP system.

Drove profitability whilst generating revenues throughout the region via forecasting, business planning, and oversight of cash flow, funds, liquidity, accounts payable (AP), and accounts receivable (AR). Supported day-to-day finance and accounting functions by setting policy and procedure; retained ownership of Pakistan legal entities. Key Achievements ➢ Produced financial reports for senior leadership whilst analyzing and disseminating MIS reports.