Muhammad Sohail Ahmad

Results-driven Chief Financial Officer with extensive experience in financial leadership, strategic planning, corporate finance, budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, and business performance optimization. Proven track record of partnering with executive teams and boards to drive sustainable growth, improve profitability, strengthen financial controls, and optimize capital allocation. Highly experienced in financial reporting, risk management, compliance, audit, process improvement, and leading high-performing finance teams.

Recognized as a commercially focused and strategic finance leader who transforms complex financial data into actionable insights, supports informed decision-making, and delivers measurable business results.

Fractional Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Strategic Financial Advisory Services (2023-05 – Present)

• Strategic Executive Advisory: Serve as executive financial strategist for business owners, CEOs, and founders across diverse sectors, evaluating profitability, capital allocation, and expansion opportunities.
• FP&A & Financial Modeling: Lead multi-year budgeting, dynamic rolling forecasts, scenario modeling, and financial reporting to enhance decision-making agility in changing economic environments.
• Treasury & Working Capital: Implement 13-week cash flow forecasting tools and working capital optimization strategies, significantly increasing liquidity reserves and debt-servicing capacity.
• Governance & Operations: Overhaul internal control frameworks, chart of accounts, and financial performance reporting to streamline month-end close and ensure absolute audit readiness.
• Value Creation & Expansion: Conduct in-depth cost rationalization analyses, unit-economics optimization, pricing elasticity reviews, and pre-fundraising due diligence for growth-stage businesses.

Finance Leader – Funds, Compliance & Taxation at Fauji Foods Limited (2021-04 – 2023-04)

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• Treasury & Capital Management: Directed liquidity management, short/long-term borrowing strategies, banking relationships, and covenant compliance for a large-scale enterprise.
• Taxation & Regulatory Oversight: Spearheaded corporate tax planning, indirect tax management, sales tax compliance, and statutory filing while representing the corporation during tax audits and regulatory reviews.
• Financial Performance & Planning: Led enterprise-wide budgeting cycles, financial variance reporting, operating cost controls, and key management KPI dashboards reported directly to executive leadership.
• Internal Controls & Governance: Redesigned internal control mechanisms and compliance monitoring protocols, substantially mitigating enterprise operational risk and enhancing governance standards.

Director of Finance / Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Fazaia Housing Scheme (2018-08 – 2021-03)

• Full Financial Leadership: End-to-end management of all finance, accounting, capital budgeting, treasury, and tax operations for large-scale multi-million-dollar real estate infrastructure developments.
• Strategic Board Partnership: Partnered directly with the Board of Directors to formulate long-term capital allocation strategies, project feasibility studies, and financing structures.
• Financial Control & Budgeting: Formulated annual operating budgets, cash flow management frameworks, and project-based financial reporting to maintain positive cash conversion cycles.
• Governance & Systems: Developed corporate financial policy manuals, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and internal control architecture, minimizing exposure to fraud and audit exceptions.
• Executive Team Leadership: Led and mentored a multidisciplinary finance team of accounting professionals, instilling a culture of analytical rigor, precision, and continuous improvement.

Manager – Assurance & Taxation at RMDM & Co., Chartered Accountants (2017-03 – 2017-10)

• Audit & Tax Leadership: Supervised complex external audit and tax assurance engagements across diverse commercial and manufacturing sectors, ensuring strict adherence to IFRS and statutory tax regulations.
• Advisory & Risk Assessment: Conducted comprehensive internal control assessments, risk management evaluations, and operational process reviews, providing actionable remediation roadmaps to client executive boards.

Associate at PKF FRANTS & Co., Chartered Accountants (2012-02 – 2015-08)

• Audit Execution: Executed financial statement audits, analytical procedures, substantive testing, and regulatory compliance reviews for mid-to-large enterprise clients.
• Financial Analysis: Analyzed client accounting systems and internal control workflows to identify operational bottlenecks and financial exposure.

Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) / Chartered Accountant (CA) in Accounting – Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) (2006 – 2016)