Uliya Khan
Sydney,Australia
Summary
Finance Manager having more than 10 years of expertise overseeing transactions and analysing monthly financial reports in various industries including public sector. Highly collaborative individual with track record of effectively training and coaching staff members. Offering confidence, team contribution and decision making skills.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Manager ANZ
Reckitt Benckiser Australia and New Zealand
05.2022 - Current
- Provide critical support to Finance Directors of two business units and commercial finance executives by overseeing financial reporting, including process improvement for shared services for ANZ region
- Lead the analysis and reporting of monthly financial data and present insights to Directors before each month is closed.
- Drive the achievement of treasury and group reporting targets and manage key finance functions
- Oversee adherence to finance policies and lead and implement measures to improve processes and streamline workflows
- Collaborate and obtain information to develop weekly budgets and forecasts
- Prepare and present detailed financial information and variance analysis to stakeholders and regional leadership team
- Led cross functional teams in implementation of SAP and Blackline and streamlined month end process for ANZ finance including tracking overdue and dependencies after system implementation
- Work with senior management to implement and refine business processes and led the effectiveness of financial controls from over 50% to over 90%
- Created a dashboard that provided real-time insights into the key actions to be taken on finance wide project
- Effectively manage Finance team and shared services team, providing leadership and ensuring alignment with financial policies and foster a collaborative and compliant work environment.
Manager Asset Accounting
Transport for NSW
11.2021 - 04.2022
- Successfully led set up of a brand new team to meet financial reporting and month end requirements for a portfolio of over $5 billion infrastructure assets
- Proactively established as finance partner and dealt with complex issues such as cracks identified in train fleet, IFRS16 accounting of 5000+ leases and tracking of work-in-progress of over $2 billion across project teams in all of New South Wales
- Delivered annual budget submissions and complex valuation models for asset portfolio of over $5 billion, including managing valuation process and working with external valuers.
Manager
PwC Australia
04.2019 - 11.2021
- Successfully led large external audits, including on ASX 50 property group and ASX 10 infrastructure manager and received feedback for the 'smoothest audit process' from an ASX 10 group
- Drafted and presented reports to Boards and Audit Committees of large listed clients and worked closely with finance leadership teams including CFOs and Controllers
- Made recommendations and close partnering with stakeholders for implementation of improvements such as improved documentation of inputs to valuation models of asset portfolio of over $10 billion, rectification of ongoing double booking of expenses and excess provisions, recovery of lost revenue, development of accounting memos
- Developing detailed understanding of large ASX listed businesses and regular engagement with the relevant finance and non-finance stakeholders such as tax, treasury and valuations experts to develop the audit approach and reach conclusions for complex judgments of over $100 million.
Senior Associate - Audit
PwC Australia
11.2016 - 09.2018
- Awarded an opportunity for secondment to PwC Luxembourg for three months and lead group audit of hotel chain of over 90 hotels across Portugal.
Senior Accountant
KPMG Australia
01.2016 - 11.2016
- Financial statements and regulatory audits.
Assistant Manager, Taxation & Legal services
PwC Pakistan
01.2013 - 02.2015
- Represented large clients (such as Coke, TetraPak, listed power companies) before tax and appellate authorities and obtained multiple favorable outcomes.
Education
Business Analytics Nano Degree
Udacity
12.2019
Chartered Accountants, Australia And New Zealand
10.2018
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Microsoft Power BI
- Tableau
- Microsoft Excel
- SQL
- SAP Business
- Budget Forecasting
- Financial Budgeting
- Internal Controls
- Continuous Improvement
- Variance Analysis
Accomplishments
- Led cross-functional teams to implement accounting systems (SAP and Blackline) and streamline processes to onboard shared services
- Achieved 95% financial controls effectiveness by developing a clear project plan for team.
- Developed dashboard for which won award for Top digital contributor of the firm at PwC Australia.
Timeline
Finance Manager ANZ
Reckitt Benckiser Australia and New Zealand
05.2022 - Current
Manager Asset Accounting
Transport for NSW
11.2021 - 04.2022
Manager
PwC Australia
04.2019 - 11.2021
Senior Associate - Audit
PwC Australia
11.2016 - 09.2018
Senior Accountant
KPMG Australia
01.2016 - 11.2016
Assistant Manager, Taxation & Legal services
PwC Pakistan
01.2013 - 02.2015
Business Analytics Nano Degree
Udacity
Chartered Accountants, Australia And New Zealand
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