Experience

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  Keystone Consulting (Pvt) Ltd

  • Lahore, Pakistan

  • Director Enterprise Applications

    • Aug 2016 - Present
    • Lahore, Pakistan

    Leading Oracle practice through Pre-Sales, Solution Design & Architecture, Implementation and Team Management for various clients, including:• QATPL (Lahore) – Fusion Financials• Soorty (Karachi) - Taleo• Elite Estate (Eighteen, Islamabad) – Fusion Financials, Fusion EPM, Fusion HCM, Fusion SCM• Air Sial (Sialkot) – Fusion Financials• Pakistan Petroleum Limited (Karachi) – Fusion EPM (Financials, Capital, Workforce and Projects)• Haleeb Foods (Lahore) – Fusion HCM• Atlas Power (Lahore) – Fusion Financials, Fusion SCM.

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  Abu Dhabi National Hotels

  • Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  • ERP Manager

    • Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
    • Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Managed the implementation of Oracle Cloud ERP, SCM and EPM.

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  INTRASOFT Middle East

  • Doha, Qatar

  • Project Manager & Solution Architect

    • Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
    • Doha, Qatar

    Being part of System Integrator, working as Project Manager & Solution Architect for the implementation of Oracle Applications, Demantra and Hyperion for Ali Bin Ali Group, Doha, Qatar.ABA is one of the largest business house in Qatar, involved in FMCG Distribution, Beverages Manufacturing, Hospitality, Printing and various other businesses. My role is to manage the project; and to design & implement unified solution, which can cater needs of all business units, using centralized platform of Oracle Application.

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  Arabtec Holding PJSC

  • Abu Dhabi

  • Head of ERP - Director Systems & Development

    • Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
    • Abu Dhabi

    The position was based at holding (head office) level and the role was to direct the implementation, maintenance & support of Oracle Applications, Primavera Enterprise, Primavera Unifier and number of other Industry specific applications falling under construction and construction related domain.Initied Oracle ERP Implementation as Project Manager in one of largest subsidiaries i.e. Arabtec Construction LLC. Built in-house team and hired external consultants (system integrators) to execute the implementation. Completed 1st phase of the project in record 4 months of time, wherein Oracle Financials, Oracle Projects and Unifier was implemented.Planned and initiated second phase, for the implementation of Primavera Unifier and Hyperion; and for the role-out of Oracle Financials to rest over subsidiary companies.

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  Saudi Oger Ltd.

  • Applications Manager

    • Nov 2011 - Mar 2014

    In line with the company's high level plan, along with ERP implementation, overhead and operating expenses needs to planned, monitored and controlled. I am made responsible to provide means to achieve these goals. Oracle EPM (Hyperion) and Oracle OBIEE are selected to develop means to provide controls and timely meaningful information. - "Oracle Hyperion Planning and Budgeting" is being implemented to prepare budgets at the lowest level, hence making the line level managers responsible of their spending. This includes usage of various other tools of Hyperion i.e. Workforce Planning, Capital Assets Planning, Essbase, FDQM etc.- "Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance" is being implemented for preparing and monitoring the over all business plan covering Projects Planning and Cash Forecasts.- " Oracle Hyperion Financial Management" for getting overall company's financial position and reporting in various formats.

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  Oger Emirates LLC

  • Abu Dhabi

  • IT Development Manager

    • Apr 2009 - Oct 2011
    • Abu Dhabi

    The organization is rooted in Kingdom of Saudi Arab; and has recently started construction and contracting operations in UAE, operating from Abudhabi and Dubai. My primary function is to strategies, design, integrate, implement and run core systems including Oracle eBusiness Suite (R12.1.3), Primavera, Hyperion and various in-house developed and third party applications. Reference to this, following tasks and functions are accomplished:Developed Information Systems Road Map, Five Years Strategic Plan, Information Systems Department Budget and the Applications Implementation Budget;Shortlisted and selected Implementation Consultants and reviewed and approved detailed implementation plan;Developed and implemented IT Policies and Procedures e.g. network management, IT security management, configuration management, change management, development management, implementation policies and methodologies etc;Interviewed, selected and hired internal resources for the Project;Organized relevant trainings for IT and business users;Architect the integrated solutions footprint with combinations of standard features of ERP, customized applications and integration of existing and third party applications;Conducted Conference Room Pilots, System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing;Managed and maintained project life cycle from Initiation till closure along with complete documentation e.g. charter, scope, issue/risk registers, change requests, work plan, status reports etc.Extensive cutover planning, involving all the key business users and stakeholders;

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  Bukhatir Group

  • Sharjah, UAE

  • Group IT Manager

    • Nov 2004 - Mar 2009
    • Sharjah, UAE

    Bukhatir Group comprises of 22 organizations; 16 use Oracle eBusiness Suite, 11.5.10. The group comprises of diversified Business Units, spread across Middle East and Asia, including manufacturing, trading, construction, real estate and education. I lead the centralized IT department of the group, comprising of 35 team members. Some of the major achievements are as follows:Designed & implemented Property Management Solutions for a Shopping Centre (Sahara Centre), a Real Estate Company (ABTEC) and three very large Property Developers (Dubai Sports City, International Sports Cities UAE, Pakistan and Tunisia) using Oracle Property Manager, Financials, EAM, Supply Chain modules and some self designed customized applications and integration with third party application such as Building Management System, Traffic counting Systems etc.Designed, developed and implemented customized modules for an education institution; comprising of Students Registration, Education, Library, Accounting and various other areas. All the modules are seamlessly integrated with Oracle AR, GL, AP and Inventory. Developed and implemented detailed IT policies and procedures, considering COBIT and ITIL. Managing support to all the group companies.Managed the implementation of strong gateway security, anti spamming and antivirus deployment. Developed and implemented strong physical and logical security for data centre.Initialized in-house Continuous Education Program for advanced training of Oracle E-Business Suite.Yearly Budget preparation, Budget Tracking, Financial Reporting and Regular presentations to the BoD's regarding IT Vision, IT Plans, implementation statuses and upcoming technologies.

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  PwC

  • Lahore, Pakistan

  • Managing Consultant

    • Feb 2003 - Nov 2004
    • Lahore, Pakistan

    ERP Implementation Project - Petrochemical Industries Company, KuwaitIBM Business Consulting, UK was managing the project and I was with them since February 2003. Worked as Team Leader for Order to Cash cycle. This was a full fledge Oracle implementation (release 11.5.8) including Financials, HR, OPM, Order Management and CRM applications. The project went live in Nov-03. I was there on the project till Feb-04 for post live support.Prepared Existing Process Flows using Visio and write-ups using MS Word.Prepared To Be Process Flows and Mappings for Order Management, Advanced Pricing, Shipping Execution, Finished Goods Inventory, Receivables and Cash Management. Prepared Analysis document as a final deliverable for Analysis Phase.Conducted CRP (Conference Room Pilot) and prepared designed documents, individually for each module, as a final deliverable of Design Phase.Configured the CRP, SIT, UAT and Production Instances for all the modules relating to my area including Order Management, Advanced Pricing, Shipping Execution, Workflow, Oracle Inventory (related setups), OPM Inventory (related setups), Purchasing (related setups), Receivables and Cash Management. Prepared Test Scripts and Training Manuals for all the related modules and conducted Super User and End User trainings.Prepared detailed User Manuals for OM, Pricing, Shipping, AR and CM.Partially worked on CRM Applications i.e. Sales Online and Quoting.Prepared functional and technical specifications for 20 customized reports. Liaison with technical team for development and tested the reports. Also developed number of Discoverer reports.Prepared functional and technical specification for module customization. Liaison with technical team for development and performed final test.Acted as key team player for finalization of Chart of Account structure, design and Organization structure.

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  Muller & Phipps Pakistan (Private) Limited

  • Karachi, Pakistan

  • Manager Oracle Implementation

    • Jul 1999 - Jan 2003
    • Karachi, Pakistan

    Phase I - Oracle Financials Implementation (Project Manager)Muller & Phipps is a pharmaceutical and consumer distribution company with largest setup of its kind in Pakistan. Oracle GL, AP, Financial Analyzer, Assets and Purchasing was implemented during this phase while using release 11.0.3 of Oracle Applications.Designed and configured Chart of Account, Cross Validation Rules, Security Rules, Summary Accounts, Budgets and Budget Organizations in Oracle GL.Uploaded the Actual and Budget balances while using ADI. Tested the GL integrity for three months while running it parallel with the legacy system.Configured Oracle Payables, Assets and Purchasing. Uploaded suppliers and banks master data with the help of technical team.Configured Financial Analyzer for data analysis and budgeting. Defined dimensions, dimension values, hierarchies and data items. Extracted and imported data from/to GL.Phase II - Oracle Order Management Implementation (Project Manager and Administrator)Performed extensive business analysis for order processing, inventory tracking, procurement and receivables cycles. Developed present business flows, to be process flows and mappings.Provided support to the previously lived modules.Configured and tested Oracle Order Management, Pricing, Shipping, Inventory and Receivables. We were using release 11i, 11.5.3.Reviewed and approved all the deliverables, prepared by the consultants, from analysis to go-live date.As I also passed the CISA examination, company additionally gave me responsibility of Security Administrator for all systems and applications, including Oracle Applications. Performed Oracle Database Audit and LAN audit while using ISACA's audit programs and taking help from COBIT and other related material and books.

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  ICI Pakistan

  • Karachi, Pakistan

  • Costing Manager & Oracle Coordinator

    • Feb 1998 - Jun 1999
    • Karachi, Pakistan

    ICI PTA business is the largest private sector investment in Pakistan. The company was to produce chemicals. I was reporting to Finance Manager who was looking after the Costing, Reporting and IT functions. Started the accounting functions from the scratch. Previously ICI Head Office was providing support to our business in all respects. I was hired as Costing Manager; Company additionally gave me responsibility to act as Finance Team Leader for implementing Oracle Applications. Implemented tree modules of Oracle Financials (Release 10.7) i.e. Oracle Payables, General Ledger and Receivables with the support of IBM Pakistan.Designed chart of Account while analyzing the business requirements, group reporting requirements and statutory requirements. Designed cost centers for departmental accounting.Prepared all type of requirements for the consultants and tested the system before going live.Designed six different reports, developed in Oracle Developer 2000 by ORA-TECH consulting. Designed an in-house developed Payroll package, linked with Oracle General Ledger.Completed the capitalization process and conducted external audit by PriceWaterhouse.Was looking after complete accounting cycle with a team of six membersChecking and approving the payments to foreign and local vendors of goods and services.System designing and development of internal controls in the field of payables, L/Cs discounting, import L/Cs, cash and bank controls etc.Was assigned as Oracle Co-ordinator after the completion of the project Functions included implementation of remaining modules of Oracle, developing the financial controls in the lived modules, providing support to the department for Oracle queries, training of users, co-ordination b/w finance and IT departments.Went live in record time.

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  A.F. Ferguson & Co. (a member firm of the PwC network)

  • Karachi, Pakistan

  • Audit Senior

    • Feb 1993 - Jul 1997
    • Karachi, Pakistan

    Completed four years article ship from A. F. Ferguson & Co. (Price Waterhouse office in Pakistan). Apart from the normal audit functions, also worked on special assignments that include system designing, purchase consideration calculations, fraud detections, internal control assessments, major stock checks etc. Some of the recognizable assignments, other than that of normal IT function are as follows: Business Process Re-engineering of Coca Cola Export Corporation and 8 local bottlers.Detailed process alignment of Crescent Greenwood Limited.Internal Control policies and procedures of Shoukat Khanum Memorial Hospital and Research Centre.Development of policies, procedure and internal controls of Beaconhouse School Systems (Pvt) Limited.