Kashif A.

About Kashif A.

A strong, results and people oriented leader with 20 years of leading businesses and organizations. Driving growth, change, developing individuals and leading breakthrough improvements in challenging businesses, organizations and processes are what I am passionate about. My core competencies are in Strategy Development and Planning, Financial Analysis, Supply Chain, Budgeting and Shared Services. Experiences include developing market, developed markets, global businesses, global operations and financial systems and shared services – including leading large global businesses and processes

Experience

1. Chief Financial Officer

   Circular Action Alliance

   Jan 2024 — Present

   CFO for Circular Action Alliance (CAA)Responsible for all areas of Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Strategy, Biz Operations and ProcurementCAA is a newly established startup to implement EPR laws in the US states (Oregon, Colorado, California and Minnesota and other states that follow). CAA has been established and supported by 20 of the largest FMCG, Beverage, Retail industries in the US. Board members of CAA include P&G, General Mills, Coke, Pepsi, Nestle, Amazon, Walmart, Danone and others. CAA is expected to be >$150MM in Revenue in 2025 and exceeding $1bn in Revenue by 2027Areas of responsibility include: 1) Financial Planning & Analysis: Long-term (i.e. 3+ years out) and Short-Term 2) Revenue and Cost Management 3) Implementation of ERP systems4) Setting up and implementation of banking and cash collection systems5) Setting up all financial reporting, accounting and financial policies6) Oversight of Procurement function including all Procurement policies and tasks7) All Board and Committee reviews

Education

• Institute of Business Administration

  MBA, Finance

  1998 — 2001

• Karachi Grammar School

  A' Levels, Business

  1995 — 1997