Ahsan Hafeez

About Ahsan Hafeez

Experienced Chief Financial Officer with a strong demonstrated track record of working in…

Experience

1. Chief Finance Officer Gulf Countries Yemen & Shared Services

   Sanofi

   Mar 2013 — Present

   Responsibilities includes financial management, financial reporting and the budget / planning for a business operating income of EUR 100mn with turnover of Euro 175mn sales & Operational expenses of Euro 40mn covering 6 countries including Gulf region & Yemen. Member of Board of Director for Gulf reporting to General Manager & Region CFO.\\\\n• Managing 20 person team in financial planning / budgeting, internal control, accounting and IS.\\\\n• Appointed to lead the Way Forward project to streamline the streams line the teams among different management centers to lean the workload headcount by 20% to improve the profitability.\\\\n• Providing strategic thinking & decisions to support business in implantation of the projects in coordination with intradepartmental functions.\\\\n• Selected for a newly created strategic initiative for tactical actions and resource allocations from mature products to expected new launches for the next 3 years.\\\\n• Close coordination between cross-functional teams and initiates process to increase business improvement.\\\\n• Ensuring the correctness of monthly financial statements and ensure control through a new advance electronic based approval of expenses through project management versus budget.\\\\n• Keep in touch with all developments and assessing business, its impact and highlighting risks on the organization.\\\\n• Reduce obsolescence risk less than 0.5% of sales via monthly committee to sell the product with different strategies.\\\\n\\\\n