I’m a Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA) having over Nine (9) years of working experience in the field of finance and business at K-Electric Ltd, a top tier organization and only vertically integrated power utility company in Pakistan which has enabled me to develop a comprehensive understanding of the accounting, receivables, payables, process management and other financial matters.
Strategy and Support:
• Preparation of REVEX budget and thereon its allocation to specific projects.
• Gauges organization’s reliance on Vendor’s engagement in KE’s projects to ensure standardized systems; Proposes creation of centralized strategies to deal with vendor’s affairs as per prescribed procedures and guidelines highlighted by standardized responses in varying situations so to optimize Vendor’s utility.
• Ensures maintenance of centralized control over Vendor’s management; Serves as the focalperson and carries out activities such as hiring and firing, reward and fines, training need analysis, performance evaluation and mentoring of workers etc.
• Allocation of pre-qualified vendors to the entire distribution network by evaluating the existing awarded scope of work and Vendor’s capabilities and capacity constraints.
• Performance gauging matrix development through IT.
Receivable Management:
• To review and determine that dues are not recoverable as per policy and ensure its compliance.
• Assist in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) before implementation of improved process.
• Approve the cases for write off receivables and ensure that it has met the criteria of NEPRA to claim it as subsidy.
Business Performance Analysis and Reporting:
• Financial & non-financial KPIs’ analysis and reporting.
• Preparation of budgets & forecasts and iterate results with relevant stakeholders.
• Preparing Operational Budget, Fortnightly, Monthly, Quarterly Forecasts, and Long-Term Plan.
• Design and implement recovery strategies and procedures as per business requirement.
• Monitor performance of clusters and regions against set KPIs and business objectives.
• Monitor the business performance in terms of recovery and present better solution to leadership.
• Partner with leadership to perform the strategic evaluations, identify potential gaps and implement corrective actions to strengthen operational processes.
• Highlight deficiency in internal control and with the help of IT based solution mitigates it.
• Update/prepare revenue and loss financial models (advanced excel).
• Focal person to internal auditors and compliance team.
Customer Accounts:
• Analyzing units consumed by consumers with respect to their previous trend.
• Billing and invoicing of approx. 300k consumers every month.
Compliance and Risk Management:
• Placing controls to mitigate risks with respect to assigned risk ratings for all business activities conducted by business center.
• Perform and control the full audit cycle including risk and control management over operational areas such as Revenue, Billing Recovery and distribution etc.
• Advise to management on matters concerning financial and operational integrity and compliance with business rules and regulations, relevant legislation, risk assessments and corporate practice.
• Identify, evaluate, manage and reports on cost effectives, financial risks, operational processes, outcomes and systems of the management.
• Select appropriate audit approach, design test procedures and execute defined internal audit methodologies and processes.
• Evaluate the adequacy of process design and the effectiveness of controls in meeting business and control objectives.
• Identify and document control and process weaknesses and provide evidential support for findings.
• Highlighting any deviation from policy by IBC (Integrated Business Centre) and ensuring all operations are being carried out as laid down in NEPRA CSM & Co.’s SOP.
Business Finance:
• Preparation and analysis on internal P&L, Provision & Incentive Plan.
• Providing robust modeling & graphical representations and analyzing them to facilitate management in taking project management and day to day corporate finance decisions.
Finance:
• Prepared feasibility study report on inventory management system.
• Interrogated personnel who have knowledge about the system.
• Generated reports through Oracle software and updated the results on spreadsheets.
• Audited the relevant documents and asked management for co-operation.
• Assisted management in drafting SOP and the relevant action plan to implement them.