1. Munawar Farooq Akhtar
General Manager Finance at TWI Gulf WLL Manama, Bahrain
Contact Information
Email Address: a.munawar.farooq@gmail.com
Mobile Phone: +971 55555 9352
Mobile Phone: +973 36869840
P. O. Box: 2190
Address: P.O.Box 2190
Fax: +973.17582714
Target Job
Target Job Title: Finance Director, General Manager, Director of Sales/Business Development, Senior
Commercial Manager
Career Level: Executive/Director
Target Job Location: All GCC Countries
Career Objective: A management professional with 17+ years of extensive experience in driving business
excellence with core competencies in strategic sales, administration and taking full responsibility of
business operations. Exceptional track record in formulating sound financial policies, procedures and
systems to ensure effective control and accountability. Known for strategic and focused approach, with
extensive accolades for limiting risk, creating lean teams, financial returns and external customer service
and output. Seeking a challenging position with a progressive organization to amalgamate skills into a
synergy of change, growth and profit.
Target Industry: Consulting Services; Education, Training, and Library; Engineering; Information
Technology; Industrial; Management; FMCG; Business Support; Planning
Employment Type: Employee
Employment Status: Full time
Notice Period: 1 month or less

2. Personal Information
Birth Date: 22 December 1969 (Age: 44)
Gender: Male
Nationality: Pakistan
Residence Country: Manama, Bahrain
Visa Status: Residency Visa (Transferable)
Marital Status: Married
Number of Dependents: 2
Driving License Issued From: United Arab Emirates
Experience (17 Years, 1 Month)
General Manager Finance
at TWI Gulf WLL Location: Manama, Bahrain
Company Industry: Education, Training, and Library
Job Role: Accounting/Banking/Finance
March 2008 - Present Accomplishments:
• Spearheaded day to day operations for the Bahrain head office, drove financial and strategic
development of the organization.
• Dexterously led, defined and executed organization-wide budgeting, forecasting, administrative,
operational reporting processes as well as executed planning cycle.
• Proffered financial stewardship across assigned regions including GCC countries and African countries:
Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, Nigeria.
• Successfully effected cost cutting measures to achieve organizational goals, reduced direct travel cost
to 30% by decreasing the unnecessary overheads like travelling business class. As well as changing the
management policy of stay in 5 star hotel to 4 star.
Key Responsibilities:
• Formulating and implementing financial and administrative policies/ procedures with a primary focus of
establishing internal controls, ensuring optimal utilization of organization resources.
• Responsible for monthly P&L review with ownership to ensure maximum profitability of establishment.
Empowering newly trained management team to focus on individual areas of P&L to achieve an overall
acceptable result.
• Managing the acquisition of capital assets and ensuring that assets are properly recorded, amortized,
and disposed of as appropriate.
• Orchestrating the entire spectrum of financial contrivance for enhancement of performance through
preparation of annual budget including mid-year review, target setting and year end performance matrix.
• Streamlining the preparation of financial reports/ consolidated financial statements that summarize and
forecast the organization 's financial position, such as balance sheet, profit/ loss statements, budget
report and cost report. Submitting month end reports to the UK office.
• Monitoring risk management policies and procedures to ensure that program and organizational risks
are minimized.
• Evaluating and advising on the need for new technology to meet the organization's financial data
processing, control, and reporting requirements.
• Providing strong leadership and guidance through establishment of performance goals, allocation of

3. resources and ensure that the team has an understanding of the vision and strategy and their part in its
achievement.
Corporate Manager
at International Food Co. LLC Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Company Industry: FMCG
Job Role: Management
July 2006 - February 2008 Joined as Chief Accountant, charted a phenomenal growth chart to merit
promotion as Corporate Manager
Designation Chronology:
• July 2006 - February 2008: Corporate Manager
• June 2003 - June 2006: Commercial Manager
• June 1997 - May 2003: Chief Accountant
Accomplishments:
• Instrumental in reviving struggling operation from being on the verge of bankruptcy to a turnaround
success story by utilizing expertise and sheer hard work.
• Registered 15% growth in revenues.
• Combined entrepreneurial drive with business-management skills to augment net profit by 5%.
• Dexterously managed key account annual sales contracts - Carrefour, Spinney’s, Shop N Save, Gean’t,
Giant and Hyper Panda hypermarkets in UAE and Muscat as well.
• Entrusted with the responsibility of optimizing revenue, growth and profit targets through the introduction
of new brands and businesses.
• Proffered high-level, strategic consultative advice on business improvement initiatives, to allow the
realization of cost saving/ revenue enhancing as well as optimizing operations.
• Conducted feasibility and operational studies, analyzed and evaluated financial aspects of business
opportunities - entrusted with decision making to launch new store keeping unit (SKU’s) from Unilever
HPC Export UK.
• Boosted 109% growth in frozen items supplied by Unilever UK.
• Spearheaded a team of 65 including departmental Managers, proffered direction, leadership, and
oversight required to deliver excellent results and achieve all goals.
Key Responsibilities:
• Propelled growth through day-to-day management of significant commercial issues for strategic sales
and business development, operations, finance and cost control and administration in line with the
management’s direction and policies.
• Planned process initiatives to achieve/surpass KPIs/revenue targets, liaised vertically and horizontally
across departments to ensure smooth/well-coordinated execution of the business plans as per stipulated
budget specification.
• Defined business strategy and P&L roadmap, efficiently allocated financial and human resources of
company for optimum and efficient utilization to achieve company goals.
• Daily reviewing production report to control the product shortage and stop production of dead items.
• Mentored sales personnel, set goals/targets and acted as a resource to enable them to leverage
winning culture resulting in greater market share, wallet share, and profitability.
• Established a competitive sales force by offering aggressive compensation, desirable benefits packages
and performance-driven sales-incentive programs.
• Administered the whole gamut of inventory management operations including maintaining and
verification of daily stocks, scheduling deliveries to maintain effective inventory levels and ordering
utilizing JIT philosophy.
Commercial Manager

4. at International Food Co. LLC Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Company Industry: FMCG
Job Role: Management
June 2003 - June 2006 Accomplishments:
• Drove business expansion through aggressive sales initiatives that deliver revenue growth, market
share, and market penetration.
Key Responsibilities:
• Managed, deployed resources /personnel and conceptualized strategies to effectively achieve yearly
business plan, vision, mission and corporate values in consonance with organizational and departmental
objectives.
• Formulated yearly business plans, monitored actual progress against agreed plans. Reviewed monthly
business performance report/ Profit & Loss statement, made strategic recommendations towards
formulation of key business strategies whilst mitigating costs.
• Drove existing business forward as per formulated plans, coordinated with other departments for
maximum utilization of joint resources and increase the company's profitability.
• Proffered real-time actionable market intelligence and forecasts, enabled strategic decision-making.
Assured top line sales goals and bottom line profit goals are met, by recognizing profitability/ revenue
impact of business opportunities.
• Kept close tabs on market dynamics/competitor activities and devised effective marketing strategies to
counter the same. Collated information and formulated strategies to optimize performance parameters
and business outputs.
Chief Accountant
at International Food Co. LLC Location: United Arab Emirates
Company Industry: FMCG
Job Role: Accounting/Banking/Finance
June 1997 - May 2003 Key Responsibilities:
• Directed the preparation of the statutory and quarterly accounts and maintaining supporting records for
consolidated financial statements/ accounts in accordance with standard accounting practices.
• Ensured integrity, accuracy and timeliness of financial and accounting records, provided records and
reports to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position as well as enable
responsible decision making by the management.
• Employed cost accounting methods/ business metrics to quantify the benefits of a cost center and relate
costs and benefits to those of the organization as a whole.
• Prepared and reviewed all monthly as well as annual financial statements including P&L, B/S, monthly
closing of accounts, AP/AR, payroll summaries, cash flow projections, reconciliation statements, ageing
analysis, other cost-benefit analysis and financial management reports.
• Designing annual budget guidelines to optimize cash flows, managing long and short term working
capital requirements, re-organizing processes for optimal utilization of financial structures for the
company.
• Built and superintended a team of core professionals in coordinating the overall financial operations and
directing financial activities in achieving short term and long term strategic objectives.
Previous Professional Experiences:
January 1997 - May 1997: Sales Executive, Jaffer Brothers Pvt Ltd, Karachi Pakistan
Education

5. Master's degree , Finance / Accounting
at Maastricht School Management
Location: Netherlands
Completion Date : January 1996
Certification / diploma , Computer Science
at Maastrict School of Management
Location: Cyprus
Completion Date : January 1996
Bachelor's degree / higher diploma , Management
Information System
at Intercollege
Location: Cyprus
Completion Date : January 1994
Conference:
• Attended annually conferences organized by Unilever HPC export with other Unilever distributors
worldwide since last 4 years.
Specialties
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Skills
Strategic Business Development/ Sales, Financial Management &
Planning, Accounting
Level:Expert | Experience:More than 10 years | Last Used: 1 month or less
Strategic Planning/ Decision Making, Establishing Operational Plans &
Goals

6. Level:Expert | Experience:More than 10 years | Last Used: 1 month or less
Analyzing & Strategizing Projections, Financial Analysis, Costing
Level:Expert | Experience:More than 10 years | Last Used: 1 month or less
Business Administration, Optimizing Operations, Inventory Control,
Contractual & Financial Negotiations
Level:Expert | Experience:More than 10 years | Last Used: 1 month or less
Market Analysis & Research, Competitor Analysis, Target Setting &
Achievement, Driving Growth
Level:Expert | Experience:More than 10 years | Last Used: 1 month or less
Leadership, Team Building, Motivating, Training & Development,
Problem Solving Skills
Level:Expert | Experience:More than 10 years | Last Used: 1 month or less
Communication & Interpersonal Networking, Conflict Resolution, Group
Dynamics, Synergy
Level:Expert | Experience:More than 10 years | Last Used: 1 month or less
MS Office Applications, Database Management, Focus Software
Accounting Package, Internet
Level:Expert | Experience:More than 10 years | Last Used: 1 month or less
Languages
English
Level:Expert
References
Brian Philip Hunt

7. Job Title: Regional General Manager
Company Name: TWI GULF WLL
Phone Number: +973.36869840
Email Address: brian_philp_hunt@hotmail.com
Training and Certifications
Health and Safety Training (Training)
Training Institute: TWI ME L.L.C Date Attended: April 2013 (20 hours)
Hobbies and Interests
playing cricket
Love to play and watch cricket