ISHTIAQ RABIUL ISLAM
Parramatta,NSW
Summary
Motivated management accountant/financial analyst with over nine years of experience in business partnering and performance management. Seeking a role to create an impact on the company bottom-line with impactful analysis and business partnering. Accustomed to working in a fast-paced, high-stress environment whilst ensuring close attention to detail along with an eye on the big picture. Proven track record of working collaboratively with different departments towards team goals and organizational KPIs for both mature and young organizations. Strategic level candidate working towards CGMA (CIMA) professional qualification. Well-versed in data gathering and complex analysis using various BI tools including Tableau and PowerBI.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Finance Analyst
AVIS BUDGET GROUP
06.2023 - Current
- Provide business performance reporting of the APAC region to senior management on a daily/weekly basis
- Business partnering marketing functions
- Key Player and support in driver-based forecasting and planning model
- Facilitate investment appraisal process
- Develop and automate KPI reporting tool enabling decision making
- Automation of Scorecard reporting for GM level and below
- Maintain data integrity of financial and non-financial information of the different business systems
- Reconcile financials across systems and business units
- Develop new reporting required by the business to support decision making
- Automation of PAR approval process
Management Accountant
TYROOLA PTY LTD
02.2021 - 06.2023
- Manage Finance, Reporting and HR function, leading a team of four members
- Monitor and enhance business performance through strategic and operational KPIs
- Develop forecast and budget at group and company level
- Develop and circulate reports with financial and non-financial KPIs, for senior management and investors
- Analyse and present insights to senior management and department leads to drive business decisions
- Maintain the reporting database via Google BigQuery and Google Datastudio
- Established 3-Way Financial Statements Model in the organization to facilitate forecast
- Designed yearly finance roadmap for strategic alignment
- Managed the year end closing of three business units and audit of Australian entity for two years
Commercial Accountant/Analyst
TYROOLA PTY LTD
08.2020 - 01.2021
- Assist in decision-making for business performance management and strategic planning
- Create and prepare reports, develop insights for cost optimization and revenue growth
- Analyse and present findings to senior management and department leads to drive business decisions
- Facilitate budget formulation and forecasting
- Support product line maintenance and promotional activities
- Conduct experiments to create new and more effective ways of using data and automation
- Assisted in launching new international markets and distribution channels
- Developed internal controls for the company's costs and processes
Technical Business Analyst
TYROOLA PTY LTD
06.2019 - 07.2020
- Support product line maintenance and promotional activities
- Manage product, supplier and pricing databases
- Create reports to deliver insights for cost optimization and revenue growth to management
- Assist in launching new products and product lines
- Automated various reports to enhance efficiency and accuracy
Intern
TYROOLA PTY LTD
03.2019 - 05.2020
- Manage product, supplier and pricing databases
- Manage product content and assist in launching new products and product lines
- Conduct ad-hoc analysis for product management
Specialist, Business Manager
GRAMEENPHONE LTD
11.2017 - 07.2018
- Provide guidance on financial governance and manage business performance of product team, digital services, digital products, enterprise team and customer service and experience teams through variance analysis and departmental P&L management
- Assess product business case and campaigns against strategic direction and organizational KPIs
- Conduct post-evaluation of campaigns and share insights with management
- Conduct deep-dive analysis on areas of strategic focus like cost optimization and margin enhancement
- Managed the finances and launching business case of e-commerce platform and streaming service
- Created and presented business cases for investment committee for capital-intensive decisions including brand shop establishment, new vertical launch, cross-device marketing tool adoption
- Award: Exemplary business partnering & modelling in the POC global launch of a video streaming platform
Senior Executive, Business Performance Management
GRAMEENPHONE LTD
05.2017 - 10.2017
- Provide guidance on financial governance and manage business performance of digital services and product team through variance analysis and departmental P&L management
- Assess product business case and campaigns against strategic direction and organizational KPIs
- Conduct post-evaluation of campaigns and deep dive analyses
- Managed business cases of customer tool app and e-commerce vertical
- Create and present business cases for investment committee
- Created a framework for digital investment decision prioritization
- Award: Business manager role of high-impact nationwide festival themed campaign
Executive, Cost Management
GRAMEENPHONE LTD
05.2015 - 04.2017
- Develop, monitor and report on cost savings initiatives to required stakeholders
- Meet cost-saving targets and facilitate cost-saving projects by analytics and stakeholder management
- Review contracts to extract efficiency in terms of volume, price, and SLA with scope of work
- Created a variance analysis dynamic tool to be used at Group Finance level for decision making
- Liaise with AT Kearney for global cost benchmarking project, being the organizational key contact
- Recognition: In Annual Performance Review - scored high in both 'Leadership Potential' and 'Exceed Expectations' in 2016 Goals, reaching the top four percentile of Finance division
Management Trainee
LANKABANGLA FINANCE LTD
07.2014 - 05.2015
- Assess loan applications and credit scores
- Conduct background check of loan applicant
- Calculate credit risk score and pass decision
- Conduct business visit of SME loan application
- Review established risk management guidelines
- Recommend process improvements on the assigned functions
- Rotation in various other functions as part of learning
Intern, Cost Management
GRAMEENPHONE LTD
02.2014 - 06.2014
- Document and refine the operational excellence manual for cost saving initiatives
- Manage the global cost benchmarking project across the org, liaising with AT Kearney
Education
CIMA - Strategic Level Candidate, Management Accounting Professional Qualification
CIMA
UKMasters in Commerce (Ext) - Specializations in Management Accounting and Business Analytics
UNSW BUSINESS SCHOOL
Sydney, NSW01.2020
Bachelors in Business Administration - Major in Finance, Minor in Operations
INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Dhaka, Bangladesh01.2014
Skills
- Management Accounting
- Financial Modeling
- Reporting & Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- Advanced Excel
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Variance Analysis
- Closing
- Data Analytics
- Financial Planning
Certification
- SAS Postgraduate Joint Certificate in Business Analytics - SAS
- Microsoft Office Specialist Excel 2016 - Microsoft
- Certified Supply Chain Analyst - ISCEA
- Various programming courses through MOOC platforms
References
Referees will be provided upon request.
Timeline
Finance Analyst
AVIS BUDGET GROUP
06.2023 - Current
Management Accountant
TYROOLA PTY LTD
02.2021 - 06.2023
Commercial Accountant/Analyst
TYROOLA PTY LTD
08.2020 - 01.2021
Technical Business Analyst
TYROOLA PTY LTD
06.2019 - 07.2020
Intern
TYROOLA PTY LTD
03.2019 - 05.2020
Specialist, Business Manager
GRAMEENPHONE LTD
11.2017 - 07.2018
Senior Executive, Business Performance Management
GRAMEENPHONE LTD
05.2017 - 10.2017
Executive, Cost Management
GRAMEENPHONE LTD
05.2015 - 04.2017
Management Trainee
LANKABANGLA FINANCE LTD
07.2014 - 05.2015
Intern, Cost Management
GRAMEENPHONE LTD
02.2014 - 06.2014
- SAS Postgraduate Joint Certificate in Business Analytics - SAS
- Microsoft Office Specialist Excel 2016 - Microsoft
- Certified Supply Chain Analyst - ISCEA
- Various programming courses through MOOC platforms
CIMA - Strategic Level Candidate, Management Accounting Professional Qualification
CIMA
Masters in Commerce (Ext) - Specializations in Management Accounting and Business Analytics
UNSW BUSINESS SCHOOL
Bachelors in Business Administration - Major in Finance, Minor in Operations
INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
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