Malik Zain Sikander

Zain telecom is part of Forbes Global 2000 companies with a market capitalization of $ 7 Bn, a customer base of over 49 million, and annual revenue of $6 Bn+ with operations spanning over 9 countries across the Middle East and Africa. Reporting to the CFO, my job responsibilities include: • Oversee the management reporting function involving the preparation of monthly and quarterly financial reporting and presentation of results to the business heads and CFO highlighting deviations from the trend and established budget. Further, on a quarterly basis present the operational highlights to the Borad of Directors and Audit Committee. • Oversee the formulation of the Five-year Business Plan and monitor progress towards achievement, drawing attention to important trends opportunities to maximize earning and minimize risk. • Lead the organization-wide annual planning and budget process, providing transparent processes for clarifying prioritization of organization strategic initiatives, ensuring timely and fact-base resource allocation decision-making, providing visibility to key strategic metrics – all to enable the efficient cross organization alignment behind the year’s annual plan • Undertake regular financial analysis of new and existing products highlighting the impact on business performance and the risks of such products. Further, in the capacity of business partnering role, ensure liaison with the commercial planning team to analyze channel wise performance and to bridge gap with budget and rolling forecasts. • To assess and approve the business cases relating to devices segment of the company and regularly monitor the channel wise profitability. • Ad-hoc financial analyses to support the C-suite decision making

- Oversee implementation of recent developments and pronouncements in IFRS (Such as IFRS 9, 15 & 16) and legal and regulatory framework - Oversee preparation of financial statements in accordance with IFRS and to liaise with external auditors for resolution of Key Audit Issues - Provide financial guidelines related to all investments, divestitures and capital expenditures, and develop, maintain, review financial regulations and authority definitions - Manage compliance and reporting requirements, to Board of Directors, Audit Committee and to ensure compliance to all statutory/regulatory requirements relevant to finance. - Leading implementation of new projects in the domain of finance such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), ERP implementation in liaison with external consultants - End to End preparation of annual budget ranging from receipt of inputs from respective departments, critical analysis and review, suggestion of suitable amendments and presentation to internal and group management for approval. -Reporting of financial KPIs, analyze variances (target vs. actual) and provide solutions and recommendations, with end objective of EBIDTA maximization and growth. -Support financial appraisals of acquisition ventures and to appropriately reflect them in Financial Statements through acquisition accounting -Submission of monthly and quarterly forecasts and provision of input to annual Business plan

Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited (Mobilink Telecom) is Pakistan’s largest cellular operator with a subscriber base of more than 60 million. Mobilink Telecom is wholly owned subsidiary of Global Telecom, Egypt and ultimate parent of the group is Vimpelcom, Netherlands. My responsibilities include External Reporting • Preparation of Statutory Financial Statements of PMCL in accordance with IFRS. • Consolidation of subsidiary companies of PMCL • Coordination with external auditors and resolution of issues for obtaining clean audit report • Quarterly reporting to the telecom regulator under telecom license requirements • Reporting to Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP ) on need basis • Ensuring compliance with SOX controls relevant to Financial Reporting Internal Reporting • Reporting financial results of the company to parent company Vimpelcom, Russia on monthly, quarterly and annual basis through Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) module. • Responsible for getting quarterly package signed by external auditors with clean report • Preparation of internal memorandums documenting treatment of complex accounting transactions under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US GAAP • Balance Sheet and profit and loss reconciliations for Intergroup transactions and resolution of difference • Purchase Price Allocation and Push down accounting journals • Ensuring compliance with SOX controls relevant to Financial Reporting

Supervising and leading multiple team members, delegating and reviewing their work, monitoring progress and evaluating performance Development of overall audit strategy in line with PwC audit methodology involving system review, risk analysis, preliminary analytics and further audit procedure to gain audit comfort Development, understanding and review of accounting and related internal control procedures with the objective of recommending improvements. Consult with clients on various matters such as reviewing, documenting & recommending revision/Improvement to the clients' processes and controls to improve efficiency, economy & effectiveness Reviewing compliance of financial statements with applicable statutory/regulatory framework, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Standards on Auditing (ISA) Reporting to foreign/parent company auditors as per their instructions SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT TELECOM CLIENTS - PwC - Wateen Telecom Pakistan - Etisalat Telecom Afghanistan - OMV Pakisan - Seaco Schlumberger Pakistan - KUFPEC Petroleum Pakistan - KCA Deutag Pakistan - DFID Pakistan - National Aids Control Program

Accounting and Financial Reporting, Financial Management, Taxation, Corporate Laws