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Sultan ul Arfeen

Sultan ul Arfeen

Prague,Prague 1

Summary

Dynamic revenue management professional with extensive experience at Novartis, excelling in SAP S4 HANA implementation and financial reporting. Track of supporting financial decision making with revenue & revenue deductions data analysis, coupled with strong problem-solving skills. Recognized for enhancing cross-functional collaboration and ensuring compliance, driving significant improvements in revenue processes.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

LDC S4 Hana Revenue Champion

Novartis
Prague
05.2024 - Current
  • Implementation of S4 Hana and Vistex in Release 2.0 countries for revenue management processes.
  • Close collaboration for cross-functional alignment with Commercial, Customer Service, Finance, and the LDC project teams on revenue management processes.
  • Support with user requirement analysis, providing the design team with a deep understanding of revenue and revenue deduction scenarios.
  • Super user: User acceptance testing.
  • DITL testing.
  • Data migration support for RRD.
  • Mock testing.
  • Go-live Hypercare

Senior FRA Specialist

Novartis
Prague
11.2022 - Current
  • As a Senior Revenue Specialist, I am responsible for managing a larger-scale business entity and a broader revenue scope.
  • Business partnering for contracts with customers in commercial, finance, legal, supply chain, and customer service—from contract inception to settlements (collections, rebates, and settlements).
  • Project partnership - Leading S4 implementation for the assigned scope in partnership with Commercial, Finance, FRA, Technical Accounting team, Global Design, and IT teams. From user requirements to user acceptance, DITL testing, and hyper-care.
  • Review and reconcile revenue deduction accruals and related accounts to ensure accuracy and compliance, perform month-end closing, FCRS reporting, and Blackline reconciliations.
  • Collaboration with finance stakeholders to provide insights as per requirements, provide analysis of revenue operations to the CFO and BPAs for cash flow analysis, contracts and claims tracking with health authorities and customers, and uphold accounting and reporting accordingly for gross to net.
  • Collaboration with commercial, pricing, and legal for revenue contracts tracking, and ensuring revenue process completeness.
  • Collaboration with the Technical Accounting team for revenue APP drafting.
  • Internal and external compliance requirements support.
  • Conduct month-end and quarterly balance sheet review calls with the CFO and Financial Reporting & Accounting (FRA) Heads, focusing on revenue accruals and Gross-to-Net (G2N) movements.
  • Serve as the main point of contact for all inquiries related to revenue within your assigned scope of responsibilities.
  • Implement and uphold robust safeguards and controls over the revenue process, in alignment with the Financial Controls Framework.

FRA Revenue Specialist

Novartis
Prague
12.2020 - 09.2022
  • I was responsible for Czech and Hungarian business entities as the Revenue SPOC; my responsibilities were as follows:
  • Review and reconcile revenue deduction accruals and related accounts to ensure accuracy and compliance.
  • Conduct month-end and quarterly balance sheet review calls with the CFO and Financial Reporting & Accounting (FRA) Heads, focusing on revenue accruals and Gross-to-Net (G2N) movements.
  • Serve as the main point of contact for all inquiries related to revenue within your assigned scope of responsibilities.
  • Revenue contract review and APP drafting.

Education

MSc. - Auditing & Accounting

Norwegian School of Economics And Business Administration
Bergen, Norway
08.2016

Bachelor of Administration - Business Administration And Management

University of Sargodha
Sargodha, Pakistan
08-2010

Some College (No Degree) - Norwegian Language And Culture - 1 Year Diploma

University of Stavanger
Stavanger, Norway

Skills

  • Microsoft Excel and Power BI
  • SAP S4 HANA, BW / BEx Analyzer BI
  • Revenue & Revenue deductions data analysis
  • Financial reporting and Vistex management
  • Multitasking and attention to detail
  • Effective communication skills
  • Problem solving strategies
  • Contract management
  • Financial reporting
  • Critical thinking

References

Available upon request

Languages

  • Norwegian, Fluent
  • English, Fluent
  • Urdu, Fluent
  • Hindi, Fluent
  • Punjabi, Native Speaker

Affiliations

  • Dancing - Urban Kizomba
  • Trading - Forex and Stocks

Languages

Punjabi
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Norwegian
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Urdu
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
C1

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

LDC S4 Hana Revenue Champion

Novartis
05.2024 - Current

Senior FRA Specialist

Novartis
11.2022 - Current

FRA Revenue Specialist

Novartis
12.2020 - 09.2022

MSc. - Auditing & Accounting

Norwegian School of Economics And Business Administration

Bachelor of Administration - Business Administration And Management

University of Sargodha

Some College (No Degree) - Norwegian Language And Culture - 1 Year Diploma

University of Stavanger

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