Rizwan Farooq Curriculum Vitae

CA (Inter) | B.Com | Certified Tax Practitioner

DIRECTOR TAXATION | HEAD OF TAXATION [Having 17 Years’ Experience of working in Pepsico Bottling, Coca-Cola Bottling, Nestle & others in Pakistan]

Based At:

298-Safari III, Behria Town, Phase II, Islamabad, Pakistan (Present) 428-Nargis Block, Allama Iqbal Town, Lahore, Pakistan (Permanent)

LinkedIn: https://pk.linkedin.com/in/rizwanfarooqasbusinessmanager

Contacts: Mobile: + (92) 307 4446171 Home: +92 42 37807204

E-mail: rizwanfarooq.pk@gmail.com

Multimedia: Skype: rizwanfarooq.pk

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Corporate Restructring Model Developer

Tax Lobbying specialist

Tax Policy Adviser Effective Tax Rate (ETR) Reduction

Expert

Leader For Improving

Reputation as good Taxpayer

Development of SAP to extract all Tax complaince reports from System to eliminate MS Excel working

Development of Tax Fixed Assets Register and Deferred Taxation

Finalized the long pending assessments of Nestle & Coca-Cola.

Lobbying at FBR for optimizing tax benefits For Nestle & Coke

In house Tax Advisery and training & development to reduce consultants cost.

Professional In: Professional In:

On Job Projects Steered: Professional In:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

a. Pepsico Bottling Operations at Head Office in Islamabad Pakistan (May-2014 to May-2015).

b. Coca-Cola Bottling Operations at Head Office, having Six Plants in Pakistan (December 2009 to April-2014).

c. Nestle Pakistan Limited at Head Office in Lahore Pakistan (July 2005 to November 2009).

d. Panasian Group representing Volvo, Dynapac, AtlasCopco in Pakistan (November 2001 to June 2005).

e. Zafar Shah & Co a Professional Firm of Chartered Accountants (July 2000 to October 2001).

f. Tax Forum Consultants a Professional Taxation Firm (January 1999 June 2000).

g. Ernst & Young (EY) 4 years C.A. Article ship under ICAP bye laws (January 1996 to December 1998).

Haidri Beverages (Pvt) Limited, Northern Bottling (Pvt) Limited and

Beverage Plus (Pvt) Limited [Annual Turnover USD 16 million]

Key Objectives & KPIs:

Management role as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Head of Taxation reporting to CEO.

Managed Treasury Function for funded and un-funded facilities from 11 Commercial banks. Total exposure of banks was USD 28 million.

Timely circulation of all periodic Reporting of financial statements, Financial Ratios Analysis and Return

on Investment (ROI) to management and Board of Directors. Professional discussions for effective

monitoring the business trends and more emphasis on weak areas of business.

Organized periodic & annual internal and external audits in compliance of IFRS and/or GAPS.

Timely managed finalization of annual Business Plan (BP) by engagement of all key business operations,

its implementation across the company.

Ensured the compliance of taxation laws and legal functions of the business.

Implemented Internal control policies & procedures for smooth operations for minimize business risks.

Steered SAP Implementation and managed MIS functions for SAP optimization of FI, CO, MM, PP, Quality, HCM, SD modules.

Successfully implemented Controls of QC & QA to minimize wastages from production.

Developed and implemented market Database in Oracle to improve the functions of warehousing,

shipping, secondary sales and transport.

Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan Limited [Annual Turnover USD 60 million]

Key Objectives & KPIs :

Worked as Head of Taxation reporting to CFO.

Lead for controls & discipline in all business transaction across Pakistan to avoid tax implications.

Coordinate meetings between company senior management and Ministry of Finance for tax lobbying.

Tax planning for mitigation of tax risks and litigations.

Negotiated with tax consultants & lawyers in the best interest of company to expedite the process of

finalization of pending tax litigations (direct & indirect taxes).

Worked with top auditors & tax consultants of the country like PWC, E&Y, KPMG and tax lawyers like

Cornelius, Lane & Mufti (CLM), Barrister Sattar Silat, Ramday Law Associate for direct & indirect taxes.

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Nestle Pakistan Limited [Annual Turnover USD 80 million]

Key Objectives & KPIs :

Worked as Manager Taxation for Nestle and its subsidiaries.

Implemented effective tax rate savings through strong control on business transactions.

Coordinated with tax audits teams for internal and external audits and successfully resolved the audit observations.

Analysis for financial statements for handling the implication of direct & indirect taxes for audit.

Panasian Group representing Volvo, Dynapac, Atlas Copco in Pakistan

Key Objectives & KPIs :

Worked as Head of Internal Audit, Legal & Taxation.

Team member of Group’s Senior Management for all the group companies.

Performed the responsibilities as a group company secretary, head of group internal audit department,

management of group legal affairs, handling the direct & indirect taxes affairs of all group companies.

Project manager for ERP Solution SCALA implementation and training etc.

Zafar Shah & Co (a Professional Firm of Chartered Accountants)

Key Objectives & KPIs :

Worked as Manager Statutory Audit & Taxation.

Managed the Internal Audits, Statutory Audit opinions and corporate matters.

Maintained the filing of income tax returns and assessments for individuals & corporate sector.

Tax Forum Consultants (a Professional Taxation Firm)

Key Objectives & KPIs :

Worked as Manager Tax with Mr. Shahid Pervez (Advocate Supreme Court) for direct & indirect taxes.

Filing of income tax returns for individuals & corporate sector.

Completed assessments, re-assessments and customs duty refunds.

ACADEMIA & CERTIFICATIONS: o C.A. Intermediate/Foundation from Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP). o Bachelor of Commerce from Hailey College, University of the Punjab, Lahore Pakistan. o Certified Tax Practitioner from Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). o Life Member of Tax Bar Association.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS: o SAP all modules implementation and optimization. o Oracle Financial implementation and optimization. o Microsoft all applications (MS Word, MS Excel, MS power point etc.)

PERSONAL DOSSIER: Marital Status Married with 6 dependents Date of Birth May 20, 1973 CNIC No. 35202-8996855-9 Re-location : Flexible Notice period: Immediately

REFERENCES: 1) Mr. Kamran Butt, FCA (Senior Tax Partner) KPMG, Lahore Office Cell # 0300-8414200. 2) Mr. Muhammad Awais, FCA (Senior Tax Partner) Ernst & Young (EY) Lahore Office. Cell# 03008429559. 3) Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, FCA (Chief Operating Officer) Pepsico Bottling, Islamabad. Cell # 0300-8427445