Summary

As a manager analytics, audit & assurance professional, worked in ICT industry for more than a decade gaining experience in wide range of business analytics ,risk management , revenue assurance & fraud management. I am adept at managing financial,risk and assurance operations and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Additionally, I have a proven track record of successfully leading and managing teams, driving process improvements, and implementing best practices.


 My experience in current role of controlling ‘Financial Technology Company’ through systemized approach has taught me the significance of collaboration and teamwork. I believe that working together as a team and having an adaptive approach towards problem-solving is essential to deliver quality products and services to customers. With my communication and interpersonal skills, I can express my ideas, thoughts, and technical concepts to my team members and clients. I am a high-performing individual who can manage multiple priorities and deliver results even under tight deadlines.


 

Projects

Offer Audits (Warid Off-net to On-net ) design and daily monitoring reporti
Retail Vs Wholesale Profitability and opportunity Analysis
Value Added Service -VAS monthly and periodical Audits
Co-Location or Site Sharing Revenue Assurance
Business Processes Transformation and integration ( Mobilink Warid Merger)

Experience

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ASSISTANT MANAGER INTERNAL AUDIT AND ASSURANCE
CMPAK ECCL - a FinTech co. of Zong4G
Apr 2021 - Present | Islamabad, Pakistan

Privileged to form a new Fintech entity with-in Telecom leader-Zong4G and deployed control environment with views of Audit & Assurance,Revenue Assurance,Fraud & Risk Management,etc.Scope of work to assurance transaction level data from customer start point/POS or APP to Ericsson EWP toward EDW,reporting and recognition into books of accounts.
 Role & Responsibilities:
Setup functions of audit, assurance and centralized BI from scratch.
Deployment/worked with departments for the development of policies & process in light of group guidelines.
Harmonized & centralized a verified reporting stack (digital business stack).
Exploited data analytics, manipulation and visualization through Ms. PowerBI, KNIME,SQL and Tableau.
Timely wringing of group audits,ICMs,ICFR,3rd Party or regulatory audits, Internal audits , RAFM audits, Regulatory systems and financial audits etc.
Team Management, Training plans and KPI approval and appraisals. 

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Assistant Manager (IA,RA,FM,BI), management grade-9 (actg. Head)
CMPAK ECCL - a Fintech division of Zong4G
May 2021 - Jul 2023 | Islamabad, Pakistan

Privileged to form a new Fintech entity with-in Telecom
leader-Zong4G and deployed control environment with
views of Audit & Assurance,Revenue Assurance,Fraud &
Risk Management,etc.Scope of work to assurance
transaction level data from customer start point/POS or APP
to Ericsson EWP toward EDW,reporting and recognition into
books of accounts.
Role & Responsibilities:
Setup functions of audit, assurance and centralized
BI from scratch.
Deployment/worked with departments for the
development of policies & process in light of group
guidelines.
Harmonized & centralized a verified reporting stack
(digital business stack).
Exploited data analytics, manipulation and
visualization through Ms. PowerBI, KNIME,SQL
and Tableau.
Timely wringing of group audits,ICMs,ICFR,3rd
Party or regulatory audits, Internal audits , RAFM
audits, Regulatory systems and financial audits etc.
Team Management, Training plans and KPI
approval and appraisals.

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Assistant Manager Revenue Assurance
CMPAK Zong4G
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021 | Islamabad, Pakistan

- Overall responsibility of RAFM department’s reporting and performance management, leading the team of 08 professionals. Responsible for Implementation of RAFM systems , Air probing solutions, BI reporting deployment and big data solution from end to end revenue assurance perspectives. Presentation of primary data into TM forum RA matrix for management. Risk based assurance & case studies/analysis for management.
- Spearheaded the RAFM’s control framework and maturity model to assess the strengths and accrue the opportunities to become a world class digital RAFM segment of ICT. Enhanced maturity model from 2.6 to 4.2 (out of 5.0).
- Facilitated the business reviews with data analysis for end-to-end controls and followed through with business leaders on actionable items for improving business assurance metrics over a period. Average yearly revenue savings attributed from such project are (approx.) PKR 100Mn. and still moving up with the scale of business.
- Systematized business assurance controls for Interconnect & LDI assurance, end to end roaming assurance, Prepaid and postpaid rating and billing assurance, product & offer management, order management & provisioning, network usage management, receivables management, finance & accounting, and partner management.

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Assistant Manager Revenue Assurance | internal audit,revenue assurance,comp
CMPak Pvt Ltd (Zong)
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021 | Islamabad, Pakistan

-    Overall responsibility of RAFM department’s reporting and performance management, leading the team of 08 professionals. Responsible for Implementation of RAFM systems , Air probing solutions, BI reporting deployment and big data solution from end to end revenue assurance perspectives. Presentation of primary data into TM forum RA matrix for management. Risk based assurance & case studies/analysis for management.
-    Spearheaded the RAFM’s control framework and maturity model to assess the strengths and accrue the opportunities to become a  world class digital RAFM segment of ICT. Enhanced maturity model from 2.6 to 4.2 (out of 5.0).
-       Facilitated the business reviews with data analysis for end-to-end controls and followed through with business leaders on actionable items for improving business assurance metrics over a period. Average yearly revenue savings attributed from such project are (approx.) PKR 100Mn. and still moving up with the scale of business.
-       Systematized business assurance controls for Interconnect & LDI assurance, end to end roaming assurance, Prepaid and postpaid rating and billing assurance, product & offer management, order management & provisioning, network usage management, receivables management, finance & accounting, and partner management.

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SPECIALIST REVENUE ASSURANCE-RAFM TECHNOLOGY & FINANCE
JAZZ
Mar 2011 - Oct 2017 | Islamabad, Pakistan

Established procedures to mitigate risks related to revenue, business fraud & traffic frauds to comply with
the group’s vision towards global revenue assurance and fraud management. Increased revenue assurance
coverage from 50% to 95% revenue streams coverage by emphasis on ‘switch-to-bill’ assurance.
Periodic testing of internal department’s controls to assess the health of RAFM control system as per Group
RAFM charter and in-lined with TM Forum guidelines.
Automated almost 85% of the workload in SQL/PL-SQL, Ms. Access & IBM Cognos.Weekly update on
VEON’s RAFM portal and updated dashboard for management.

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Assistant Manager Business Assurance | Revenue assurance,fraud and risk
JAZZ
Mar 2011 - Oct 2017 | Islamabad, Pakistan

Financial and Operational Risk Alerts for Management committee, various initiatives taken to protect Mobilink’s Interest and implement sound business controls to avoid risks.
 Active inputs on business transformation specifically includes Mobilink-Warid merger and integration to world class level. SWOT analysis on revenue assurance functions and reporting.
 Margin assurance: Designed model for end to end commission assurance covered Rs. 6 billion exposure (p.a) to Mobilink. By adopting principle of Detection, Investigation, Prevention and Correction, investigated corporate (club) payments of Rs.280 million monthly to reduce exposure of Rs.27 million p.a commission cost to Mobilink.
 Develop end to end collection model for management visibility and to build inherent controls over payment vs. receivable of franchises and business centers nationwide, that ensured harmony of financials across all business points. Almost 500+ Franchises and 11 Business Centers’ operating nationwide having receivables/exposure with Rs.11 billion per month are stream lined and generation of risk alarms on real time basis to highlight anomalies. Additionally, 100% conversion of inventory based cheaque payments to E-Payment to smooth cash flows to Mobilink. By virtue of the fact, bounced cheaque exposure from Rs.88million reduced to Rs.0.1million.
 Detailed analysis and management reporting to assure Rs.400 mn (approx..) periodical revenue for Value Added Services (VAS) segment, VAS CDR Investigation and dispute resolution with third party vendor. Data Validation between Data warehouse and Revenue assurance systems.
 Periodical management reporting for Site Sharing / Co-Location’s revenue assurance among business partners/operators.
 In-bound and Out-bound’s Roaming Partner’s revenue and cost assurance by analyzing and reporting anomalies to relevant stakeholders. Assurance reporting for management for roaming receivables and payables by analyzing “TAPIN, TAPOUT, SyniverseDCH, MF

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LEAD ACCOUNTING , SOX COMPLIANCE AND AUDITS
OVEX TECHNOLOGIES
Jul 2005 - Mar 2011 | Islamabad, Pakistan

Performed several roles as per requirements of US corporate company (Enpointe technologies – KPMG)
clients.Active inputs while centralizing systems for shared resources from QuickBooks, Oracle to SAP.
100% in time project delivery as a result almost 90% operational work shifted to Pakistan office.
Supervised and managed daily accounting functions from timely recording of transactions to preparation of
financial statements. Reporting to higher management and Group’s management. Implementation of
associate company books in SAP-FI/CO.

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Lead PK Accounting (KPMG Project) SAP companies end to end deployment
Ovex Technologies
Jul 2005 - Mar 2011 | Islamabad, Pakistan

Motivated and trained primary stakeholders which enhanced higher management confidence over implemented internal control and to ensure that its collective need to reduce process variation & timeliness, enhance profitability through efficiency and productivity.
 Increased client support to 24 hrs. by optimum utilization of available human resources and local and international time management.
 As a result, our outsourcing division attains 200% annual growth in 2009/2010 and majority or almost 90% activities outsourced from Los angles to local company (Ovex Technologies) in Pakistan.
 Supervised and managed daily accounting functions from timely recording of transactions to preparation of financial statements. Reporting to higher management and Group’s management.
 Responsible for routine Treasury management functions and cash management, liaison between California republic bank, Wachovia commercial bank, vendors and managers of collections and revenue.
 Preparation of intercompany reconciliations, summarizing working capital loan, accruals and amortizations schedules.
 Attained an honor to implement complete accounting system for new associate concern: Enpointe Global services.
Major recurring assignments
 Handling a range of end to end B2B, B2C, C2C & B2G Processes including GL, accruals, Journals, Reconciliations, Fixed assets, Reporting & Consolidations.
 Profitability analysis of customer’s:Top25.
 Statutory, Annual and Quarterly accounts.
Internal audit and SOX compliance
 Analyze existing policies and procedures to assess level of risk and gaps in control system, initiative to mitigate risk and reduce gaps, provided recommendation on improvements to mitigate controls and financial risks.
 Analyze data obtained for evidence of deficiencies in controls, duplication of effort, fraud, or lack of compliance with laws, government regulations, and management policies or procedures.
 Review & analysis of Cash inflow and outflow as part of the

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Sr. Analyst ( KPMG Shared services project Enpointe) SAP Deployment
KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co.
Jul 2005 - May 2006 | Islamabad, Pakistan

US based secondment in shared services project to perform accounting, audits and sox compliance assignments.

Education

Dice Analytics
Certification, ‎
Quantitative Business Analysis, SQL, Big Data Analytics, Python, TABLEAU, Power BI, KNIME
Incomplete
2022
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology (SZABIST)
M-Phill, MSMS‎
Strategic Financial Management
Completed
2018
GRAPA-Global Revenue Assurance Academy, Great Chicago area.
Certification, Global Revenue Assurance Professional‎
Revenue Assurance
Completed
2012
ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS-ACCA
Masters, , Charterd Certified Accountants,Member‎
Accounting, reporting and audits
Grade A
2011
International Islamic University
Masters, Masters in Business Administration, MBA‎
Management and Information Technology
CGPA 3.5/4
2003

Skills

Expert Alternative Financial Services
Expert Analytical Skills
Expert BI Tool MacroStrategy
Expert Budgeting & Forecasting
Expert Busines intelligence IBM Cognos
Expert Corporate Finance
Expert Credit Collection Recovery
Expert Electrical Controls Knowledge
Expert Enterprise Business Assurance
Expert Ericsson Wallet Platform - EWP
Expert Fin Tech Knowledge
Expert Financial Planning
Expert Foreign Currency Translation
Expert Fund Administration
Expert Funds Management
Expert GL Reconciliations
Expert Intercompany Accounting
Expert Intercompany Transactions
Expert Internal Financial Reporting
Expert Lease Financing
Expert Management Consulting
Expert Managerial Economics
Expert Monthly Close Process
Expert NPV
Expert P&L Analysis
Expert Prepaid Ledger
Expert Quality Control Cutting
Expert RAID Revenue Assurance integrity driller
Expert Revenue Recognition
Expert Risk Assessment
Expert Risk Metrics
Expert Social Welfare Management
Expert Strategic Finance
Expert Team Management
Expert Technical Accounting Research
Expert Transaction Sourcing
Expert Treasury
Expert Variance Analysis
Expert Variance Explanations
Expert WeDo FMS
Expert Working Capital Management
Expert تجارة المبيعات

Languages

Expert Urdu
Expert English

Abdul Contacts

Zahid Javed
Accotax Limited