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ASIF IQBAL

Lahore,PB

Summary

Visionary IT eXecutive with 19 years of progressive leadership experience in driving digital transformation, operational excellence, and business growth across diverse sectors such as textiles, FMCG, sugar, steel, logistics, healthcare, and telecom sector. Strategic Leadership: Pioneered the development and execution of robust IT strategies that support business transformation and drive measurable improvements in operational efficiency and revenue growth. Digital Transformation & Innovation: Spearheaded large-scale ERP, cybersecurity enhancements, and emerging technology initiatives such as IoT integration and machine learning applications to optimize business processes. Risk Management & Compliance: Implemented comprehensive IT compliance and cybersecurity frameworks to safeguard assets and ensure business continuity. Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled in leading organizational change, building high-performing teams, and collaborating with C-level executives to align technology investments with strategic goals. 10x Standard ERP Implementation including Oracle EBS, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics AX/365

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Deputy General Manager IT

Fatima Group
04.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: Fatima Group is one of the largest business group in Pakistan, working in Fertilizer, textiles, Sugar, Healthcare, Energy, Packaging, trading and mining sectors.
  • Developed and executed IT strategies that drove significant digital transformation across organizational processes.
  • Implementation of robust IT compliance measures, cybersecurity frameworks, and disaster recovery protocols to ensure business continuity.
  • Lead teams of Infrastructure, Technical and Functional Consultants and Application Development aligned with business growth
  • Developing and managing project budgets.
  • Looking after implementation and support of Oracle EBS O2C, P2P, and Manufacturing, EAM, HRMS and Hyperion Planning & Budgeting, ODM and i-Procurement implementations.
  • Act as the escalation point for issues relating to operational issues and supplier performance or deviations from original work estimates etc. Taking appropriate actions to resolve the issues
  • Overseeing Machine learning implementation and IOT Integration
  • IT Risk Management and Managing external vendors for different IT services.
  • Managing Analytics and BI Development.
  • Meeting with key stakeholders to identify software needs and opportunities for improvement.
  • Major Projects Delivered
  • Reduced supply chain time by ~30% through i-Procurement.
  • Streamlined budgeting with Oracle Hyperion.
  • Optimized plant cost using Oracle Asset Management.
  • Develop comprehensive data driven insights mechanism to help optimize business processes

Vice President ERP & IT Applications

ALMOIZ INDUSTRIES LIMITED
04.2016 - 04.2023
  • Company Overview: Almoiz industries is one of major player in Sugar, Energy, Steel, Textile and FMCG Production
  • Develop and implement ERP Strategy to meet organization goals.
  • Defined the ERP strategy, aligning it with the company’s goals and objectives to improve operational efficiency and financial performance.
  • Implemented MS Dynamics AX ERP in 8x Business Units, resulting in a 15% reduction in operating costs and 70% improvement in supply chain visibility.
  • Lead and Provide mentorship to teams including Functional, technical members.
  • Lead team for functional and technical support in Financial, Supply chain and manufacturing modules
  • Oversee development of FRD, FDD and SDD Documents
  • Collaborated with department heads to identify opportunities for process improvement and automation, resulting in a 80% reduction in manual data entry and improved data accuracy
  • Major Projects Delivered
  • Implemented Microsoft Dynamics ERP General Ledger, Account Payable, Account receivable, Fixed Assets, cash management, Project Accounting & Management Inventory and purchasing) Implemented in 8x Business units.
  • Logistics Module development and implementation in Microsoft Dynamics to cater business needs.
  • Development of APIs to integrate dynamics AX with third party applications.
  • Tax customization to cater Govt Tax department requirements.

Head of IT

Moiz Textile Mills
08.2013 - 04.2016
  • Develop and implement IT Strategy to meet organization goals.
  • Implementation of Oracle E Business Suite ERP (Financials, Supply Chain and Manufacturing) resulted 35% improvement in business processes
  • Network and Server Maintenance
  • Supervised Payroll and Bio metric implementation
  • Hardware Upgrade
  • CCTV and PABX maintenance

Head of IT

INTERNATIONAL PETROCHEMICALS PVT LTD
02.2012 - 08.2013
  • Implementation of Oracle ERP including financial and supply chain modules.
  • Make sure overall IT domain including ERP, Hardware and Software is working fine and catering business needs.
  • Recommend the equipment’s needs and upgrades as well as vendor management Monitor SLAs with vendors and their timely renewals.
  • Major Projects Delivered
  • ERP System implementation in 5 companies including manufacturing and trading.
  • Call Center Establishment
  • CRM implementation
  • CCTV and Payroll implementation

Assistant Manager Networks

NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION CORPORATION (NTC)
11.2009 - 02.2012
  • Responsibilities included configuration of DSLAMS, ATM Switches and routers and providing technical support to Technical Staff.
  • Maintain and configure and Management of Billing System.
  • Responsible for LAN/WAN management.
  • Liaison with customers regarding new projects (internet/intranet) from planning to solutions.
  • Major Projects Delivered
  • ATM based intranet configuration for PIFRA 33 sites.
  • Provision of intranet services to State Bank Pakistan
  • Provision of Network services to PAEC
  • Provision of Network services to Punjab Rangers

Manager MIS

FAUJI FOUNDATION PAKISTAN
12.2005 - 11.2009
  • Administration, maintenance of 300 nodes and all servers.
  • Install, configure network equipment’s like L2/L3 switches and network cards
  • User Administration, group policy maintenance/management in domain
  • Take measures to make network safe from intruders and viruses by configuring antivirus software’s, firewalls etc.
  • Upgrade IT Infrastructure as and when required.
  • ERP configuration, management and maintenance.
  • Major Projects Delivered
  • Health ERP “Medix” Implementation.
  • Fiber optic Network and domain network completion

Education

MS - Information Technology

Hamdard University
Karachi
12.2010

BCS - Computer Science

SALU
Karachi
05.2005

Skills

  • PMP
  • ITIL
  • Oracle EBS
  • MS Dynamics AX
  • Windows Server
  • ASPNET MVC
  • Power BI
  • VISIO

Certification

  • Business Analytics - Wharton Business School, USA
  • Financial Management - LUMS
  • Leadership Skills - Grid International
  • AI Strategy & Governance - University of Pennsylvania
  • Leadership for Senior Executives - LUMS
  • MCP - Microsoft
  • MCSA - Microsoft
  • CCNP - CISCO Academy
  • PMP - Cognitel Training Services
  • MS Dynamics Ax Customization - Maison Consulting
  • Emotional Intelligence - Stanford University

Languages

English

Timeline

Deputy General Manager IT

Fatima Group
04.2023 - Current

Vice President ERP & IT Applications

ALMOIZ INDUSTRIES LIMITED
04.2016 - 04.2023

Head of IT

Moiz Textile Mills
08.2013 - 04.2016

Head of IT

INTERNATIONAL PETROCHEMICALS PVT LTD
02.2012 - 08.2013

Assistant Manager Networks

NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION CORPORATION (NTC)
11.2009 - 02.2012

Manager MIS

FAUJI FOUNDATION PAKISTAN
12.2005 - 11.2009

MS - Information Technology

Hamdard University

BCS - Computer Science

SALU

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