Ikram Abdeen

Experienced strategy planning professional with an overall career spanning of over 17+ years to serve global business operations positioned across USA, UK, Canada, Gulf, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. I’m recognized as a result oriented individual where my skills served the senior management with my strategy planning, Business Planning, BI and analytical expertise.

Lead – Business Finance Officer

• Contracts/Service Level Agreements analysis and confirmation
• CMC and QCC authorization for existing & new stations
• Transformation Project lead for GHS finance function
• Opportunity & Risk identification for transformation projects
• BFO for budgeting (CAPEX & OPEX) for GHS for all GLs
• Responsible to report and analyze AOGs (Aircraft on Ground)
• Regional CCR meetings for the RMs via Power BI dashboards
• Rate, Volume, Price mix variance analysis
• Accessing IATA portal to understand rules & tariffs of stations

Strategy and Corporate Planning Lead

• Corporate Strategy Formulation & alignment to the Vision statement of the business.
• Project Feasibility - Market Assessment, Financial Assessment, Technical Assessment, Risk Assessment
• Business Planning - Overall Business Development Proposals for government related projects
• Build business cases & financial analysis for leadership review.
• Investor Relationship management on analytical functions
• Interacting with equity research analysts as a central voice
• KPI Reporting on the progress and performance of projects
• Market Research to break into to new markets
• Engage CFT team to formulate, review & deliver strategies
• Engaged in developing competency frameworks for job functions within the value stream.
• Set targets on costing, pricing, & gross earnings for new product

Manager - Strategy Planning, Analysis and PMO

• Develop & present strategy presentations on demand
• Application of strategy planning tools (PESTEL. SWOT, TOWS, Positioning, 5 Forces, Portfolio Analysis and Balance Score Card)
• Provide strategic guidance & direction in achieving goals.
• Report & align financial KPI’s for transformation projects
• Business Proposal Feasibility through Market assessment 
• Due diligence for venture and production facility acquisition

Assistant Manager Business Planning

• Research on market opportunities to optimize growth.
• Central voice of the SBU for current & future market trends. 
• Benchmarking competitive product and market performance.
• Translate consumer insights to formulate Product Strategies
• Develop product catalogue to leverage on market opportunities
• Manufacturing alignment to support the growth strategy.
• Supply chain development to reserve raw material capacity

Strategy Lead & Business Analyst to the CEO

• Cross functional engagement with seniors for LRP preparation.
• BUDGETS: Preparation of Sales, Overheads & CAPEX budgets to project the forecasted annual performance of the business..
• KPI monitor reviews for leadership to understand performance. 
• Develop Power Point presentations for business requirements
• Cost Leadership - Identify & drive cost reduction initiatives.
• Provide ad-hoc reports & data to the seniors on demand.

• MBA – Master of Business Administration from the University of Wales with a Distinction 
• BA (Hons) Business Management