Zaheer Razaak

Experience

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  PwC

  Jan 2004 - Jun 2006

  Senior Associate

  • Carried out Financial Audits for the clients and prepared audit reports/management letters• Took lead in fraud investigations for clients and prepared reports to the management and the courts• Took over various agreed upon procedures for the clients including control studies, inventory verification and consolidation assignments• Prepared technical and financial proposals for the firm for World Bank and ADB projects• Led social compliance audits for MNCs such as M&S, VS and special audits for World Bank/ADB with regard to Renewable Energy for Rural Economic Development projects عرض أقل

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  David Pieris Motor Company (Pvt) Ltd

  Jun 2006 - Mar 2011

  Assistant Manager Finance & Accounting

  • Led the Company’s Accounting/Costing team including 22 members• Carried out extensive process studies and work studies with the operations to identify cost centers, cost drivers and cost optimization windows• Single handedly developed the activity based costing system for the company across the different product lines including auto-coded cost allocation• Prepared and presented segmented financials on a monthly basis to the board in terms of region and product line highlighting product profitability and customer profitability• Developed controls and procedure documents and made presentations to the stakeholders for improvement عرض أقل

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  Thales

  Mar 2011 - Apr 2016

  Accounting Manager

  • Set up the entire accounting/control system for the country office in Qatar covering three entities• Designed the cost allocation system in SAP with the developers ensuring relevant cost centers• Ensured costs are in line with the budget and costs were charged to the correct WBS• Analyzed overhead cost drivers and developed a mechanism for allocating these costs to WBSs• Ensured that tax filings for 2008-2010 was completed within 2011 and going forward tax decelerations were done on a timely basis for all the three entities• Setup the WHT compliance procedure including WHT filing, notifications and certifications to vendors• Worked as a “Key User” in SAP implementation in Qatar offices working closely with the implementation team in terms of requirement specs, quality gateways, data migration, testing and documentation عرض أقل

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  Confidential

  Jun 2016 - Jun 2019

  Financial Controller

  • Performed detailed financial reviews on monthly & YTD performance for all business units, and provided qualitative & quantitative analysis on costs, variances against their budgets and previous year’s results • Worked on various cost reduction measures across all Business units to streamline and control expenses as a member of Orbit project• Developed the project cost allocation system in Oracle R12 for materials, services and contingent workers • Compiled the monthly project cost report and reported to the management for variances and key insights• Structured the Business Intelligence System to include customized KPIs• Structuring the Electronic Information Management System (e-archive) to ensure structure and security of Financial information• Prepared guidelines, policies and procedure documents etc.• Set up the WHT certificate mechanism for vendors and ensured 100% compliance to WHT law• Prepared monthly schedules to meet the requirements of Internal Audit, External Audits as well as key management expectations• Thrashed the invoice processing time to five working days from ten working days• Worked closely with Procurement, IT and Operations as a business partner understanding the issues on the filed so as to ensure undisturbed functioning of the business عرض أقل

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  Oxy

  Jul 2019 - Sept 2020

  Consultant - Finance
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  Elegancia Group

  Oct 2020 - Jul 2022

  Senior Finance Manager
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  Confidential

  Aug 2022 - now

  Compliance Analyst