Sajid Rangoonwala

Result-oriented finance and operations director with 20+ years experience leading top-notch strategic business teams. Effectively leads the business toward operational effectiveness and waste reduction. Creative and technical problem solver, who refines and implements far reaching system enhancements and solutions to increase efficiency and reliability. Respected leader mentors and empowers teams to develop best-practice level processes and company leading productivity. • Responsible for setting up, overseeing and managing annual financial plan for four business divisions including capital budgets, department budgets and standard costs a quarterly sales expense forecasting month end close and month end variance analysis. • Forming partnerships with four division general manages to devise sustainable business improvements. • Responsible for hiring, developing and retaining exceptional long term employees. • Developing and implementing process improvements and automation. Effectively reduced errors and increasing staff productivity and customer service.• Designing and developing reports to reduce newsprint waste. • Responsible for managing general accounting, accounts receivable and accounts payable functions. Working with internal and external auditors. • Verifying and ensuring that all the financial statements meet the required specifications.• Assisting in testing, training and deploying new software packages.• Handling the tasks of maintaining compliance with corporate financial governance and providing financial planning and analysis. • Team member in the implantation, testing and roll out of Crystal reports Enterprise server.• Designed and implemented an automated ABC classline affidavit email process using MS Excel.