Rehan Ahmed
Usmani
TAX & FINANCE SPECIALIST
Here is what I can do for you
I am Rehan Usmani, a Financial Consultant with 17+ years of experience. I specialize in providing comprehensive financial services, including Tax & Auditing, financial planning, analysis, and strategy development, to help businesses optimize their financial performance and achieve sustainable growth. Let me assist you in improving your financial visibility and enhancing your financial operations.
Tax &
Auditing
Expert tax planning, compliance, and auditing services to ensure your business meets all regulatory requirements while minimizing tax liabilities.
Bookeeping & Accounting
Bookkeeping and accounting services offer accurate financial recordkeeping, helping you maintain organized financial statements and support informed business decisions.
CFO
Services
Deliver strategic CFO services, offering financial oversight, budgeting, and forecasting to guide your business toward sustainable growth and profitability.
I am a FINANCE SPECIALIST
Work Experience
Group Financial Controller
• Act as a key strategic advisor to the Board, senior management, external stakeholders, and partners across multiple companies. Foster cross-functional collaboration to align financial strategies with the group's vision and business objectives.
• Oversee the budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting for all companies within the group, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and alignment with business goals and long-term financial planning.
• Consolidated Financial Management & Compliance: Coordinate fiscal management across the group, reviewing and analyzing consolidated financial budgets. Ensure that financial strategies and objectives are accurately reflected in each business's operational plan and ensure compliance with statutory requirements across all entities.
• Lead the budget formulation process across multiple companies, ensuring accuracy and integrity through the appropriate approval processes. Act as custodian for maintaining the consistency of financial practices across all entities.
• Deliver timely and accurate consolidated financial reports, including statutory, regulatory, and Board-level reports for the group. Provide strategic insights for each company's performance.
• Establish and approve group-wide financial policies, procedures, and internal controls, ensuring a competitive strategic edge and alignment across all companies.
• Lead, shape, and set the financial direction for the Finance Departments of each company within the group, ensuring alignment with both current and future operational objectives.
• Develop and implement group-level strategies to manage cash flow, foreign exchange, and debt requirements across all entities. Advise the Board on the overall funding requirements and financial health of the group.
• Serve as the key financial liaison to the Board and senior management, providing insights and advice on long-term financial strategy, risk management, and growth opportunities across all companies.
Finance Administration Manager
• Finance Division Leadership: Spearheaded the establishment and rapid growth of the finance division for a conglomerate of 13 diverse service sector companies, successfully setting up operations within 3 months.
• Controls and Procedures Implementation: Enhanced accounting efficiency by implementing robust financial controls, procedures, and best practices, leading to streamlined operations.
• Strategic Planning and Feasibility Studies: Played a crucial role in developing projection plans and conducting comprehensive feasibility studies for four new ventures launched in 2023.
• Cost-Saving Initiatives: Implemented cost-saving measures, driving a 16% increase in the 2023 YTD bottom line through expense management and successful office rent renegotiation.
• Sales Revenue Growth: Developed daily reports and dashboards that resulted in a consistent 15% monthly increase in sales revenue, providing key insights for strategic planning.
• Team Leadership and Management: Effectively managed and led the finance team, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture to ensure efficient day-to-day operations.
• Financial Reporting and Analysis: Provided senior management with strategic financial insights and recommendations, preparing accurate and timely financial reports, including statements, budgets, and forecasts.
• Financial Analysis for Strategic Decision-Making: Conducted in-depth financial analysis to support strategic planning and decision-making, leveraging data-driven insights.
• Commission Structure and KPI Implementation: Revamped commission structure and introduced a KPI system to enhance sales team performance and drive group-wide improvement.
• Tax Compliance and Strategy: Implemented effective VAT and Corporate Tax strategies, ensuring accurate accounts mapping and thorough preparation of tax return schedules in collaboration with the tax division, bolstering compliance.
Assistant Finance Manager
• Handling all the administration and management of the off-shore office at Karachi
• Responsible for overall financial and management accounting.
• Responsible for monthly & year-end financial statement and corporate tax returns.
• Looking after annual income and expenditure profile and monitoring of variances against budgeted figures.
• Prepared monthly financial statements, including distributing monthly revenue and expenditure reports to departments.
• Analyzed and reconciled expenditure and revenue accounts, including custodian accounts and investment reports.
• Use BB (Bloomberg) to find securities and other related information.
• Develop management to measure and analyze financial and operational information (e.g. financial ratios, key performance indicators, sales forecasting plat form, integrated budget model, product pricing and management report).
• Preparing periodic financial statements including profit loss accounts, budgeting & controlling, variance analysis & commentaries.
• Automate process to improve rigor and speed in the processing critical information.
• Analyzed company`s financial needs and worked with management raise capital.
• Analyzed market share and data on competitors.
• Analyzed the impact of debts and equity financing on capital & ownership structure.
• Supervised staff of 3 providing emphasis on career development and succession planning.
• Reviewed contractual commitments and supplier’s term – advised on adjustment to project regarding costing, expenditure etc.
• Responsible for account receivables collection to maintain high level of cash flow.
Accontant
• Responsible for general accounting, office final account.
• Maintaining accounting software.
• Responsible for costumer ledger accounts reports.
• Reconciling monthly cheques reports / supplier statement and issue payments.
• Processing invoices with corresponding nominal coding.
• Dealing with supplier enquiries.
• Recording all purchase of fixed assets (vehicles and machinery).
• Checking recorded and banked remittance from customers.
• Issuing cash and expenses for staff.
• Maintaining weekly and monthly payroll.
• Deal with Cash payments and resolved queries from customers.
• Followed up outstanding quires on purchase invoice held for payment.
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