User:Imthiaz

Imthiaz refers to Mohamed Imthiaz (Arabic: محمد امةىاز); born 04 August 1961 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, is a Sri Lankan National, who has worked and lived in Sri Lanka, and several Asian and Middle Eastern countries since he started his career in 1981. Since 2007 he works and lives in UAE, currently holding a resident visa in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Imthiaz started his career as an articled Audit Trainee in 1982 when he started his coursework with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. He then worked for Jinasena Group, Southern Group Constructions, Gateway Inc. etc. In 2017 he is working as a Finance Manager of Emirates National Copper Factory LLC, engaged in the production of Copper based electrical power transmission products for the Transformer Industry, Switchgear Industry, and Cable & Wires Industries. Early Life Mohamed Imthiaz was born in 1961. His father was Mohamed Salim Hamid from the Southern part of Sri Lanka from the family of Kunji Bawa Haji Hamid A born Muslim. His mother was Inul Hinaya Hamid From Colombo.

Education: He was educated at St. John's College, Colombo, where he completed the primary and secondary education and joined D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo for his tertiary pre-University education. He joined as a student of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka in 1981 and the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka for the MBA Program in 1995. He visited on a Scholarship to Japan, where he learned Japanese management techniques and entrepreneurship.

Career in Finance: He became apprenticed in Chartered accounting field with an emphasis on Audit.

He previous served as the General Manager of Al Taher Group UAE, and GGICO Group UAE as Finance and administration manager in two of the GGICO subsidiary companies, Gulf Engineering Services LLC located in Dubai, Sharjah and Gulf Dura Industries LLC, Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah. Mohamed Imthiaz has a Finance and IT background and worked basically in the different facets of construction Industry and IT industry since 1990. Mr. Imthiaz started his career as an Audit Trainee at KPMG Sri Lanka in 1981 as an enforced procedure to get CA Sri Lanka membership. He joined Jinasena Group as an Accountant where he worked on a Jinasena (Loadstar) – Solideal (Belgium) partnership to manufacture solid tyres in the Rubber (raw material) rich Sri Lanka. Today Solideal Loadstar is the world’s largest manufacturer of solid tyres operating 24/7. Mr. Imthiaz engaged in the purchasing rubber from the rubber plantation growers to gain competitive advantage. In the 80’s Supply Chain (SCM) as a management function was not known, instead SCM came under a broad purchasing job under the Finance function. Until 1990 he got engaged in import of assembly parts for motors, pumps, Computers, machinery for tyre production for the group Import export department and worked for the Jinasena group Finance Department.

In 1990 Imthiaz joined another construction Industry company – Southern Group Civil Construction Ltd (SGCC) as a Finance Manager where he procured civil construction materials and tea leaves (Bought Leaf) for the Southern group. He organized the finance department and was instrumental in shifting the group head office from Matara in the Southern Sri Lanka to Colombo Rajagiriya, the Capital of Sri Lanka. Mr. Imthiaz got involved in the supply chain of manufacturing tea, in Derangala Hills Tea factory and through the Sri Lanka Tea Brokers association link up with the John Keells group transported manufactured Tea to the Sri Lanka Tea auctions, where International buyers bought tea for exports to overseas markets. During the 90's the tea prices were not faring well and he helped the management to fund the acquisition of other tea factories who opted to sell their factories due to poor prices. He also engaged in the 60 Km Rathkinda road construction project and Uda Walawe irrigation construction network.

With the IT dot-com revolution in the late 90’s and the millennium, he got into the SCM of Computer parts connecting US, Europe, and Asia for the manufacture of desktops and laptops for the US MNC Gateway Inc. for the Asian markets. He visited Japan and studied the cost savings made by Toyota’s JIT procurement and SCM strategy involving over 25,000 suppliers under AOTS management development programme. The IT manufacturing infrastructure was shifting to Asia as global manufacturing ERP software became popular. He played a vital role in the supply chain, distribution, and Finance over a decade from Malaysia, Singapore, and Sri Lanka.

After the dot-com crash, he joined GGICO group in 2007 as finance and Admin manager in Dubai in the MEP, FM, and Plastic PPR pipe manufacturing industries. He got into the SCM for construction materials and equipment import export transportation and storage in the Middle East, working as GM for Al Taher group.

Mr. Imthiaz discovered himself to have spent more than 25 years in Finance, purchasing and SCM for many companies under various financial & general management positions. He made a move into the Shipping, Logistics and SCM Industry in 2012 when he joined Vision Shipping LLC as a Director in 2012 and operated in the 3PL, Logistics, warehousing, and GCC transportation, managing operations through customs in the regions dry ports, Airports and seaports.

He is experienced in countries such as Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar etc. Imthiaz was educated at St Johns College, Colombo and D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo. He attended Institute of Computer studies, Colombo worked as a volunteer in the Saukyadana first Aid movement. He had his professional Studies at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (ICASL), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK (CIMA) and Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.

Imthiaz has had Extensive experience in all aspects of the Construction Industry since 1990 in Finance, Administration, HR and HSE functions starting from the primary - closer to nature Industry to secondary and tertiary Industries covering several facets of Construction, some of which are listed below: ○ Civil Construction Projects ○ Highway Constructions - 60 Kms Rathkinda Road Project in the Mahaweli System C		○ Irrigation and River Diversion water reservoir construction management - Udawalawe Irrigation Scheme ○ MEP - Mechanical Electrical & Plumbing Projects Contracting - GGICO 4 x G+15 Highrise building in Sports City, Dubai, UAE ○ Building Maintenance Contracting - HVAC Air conditioning maintenance contracts in all emirates of UAE ○ Facilities Management Contracting - Building Security service, maintenance and cleaning services in Dubai ○ Metal Quarrying - Girandurukotte Metal Quarry to supply materials for the Rathkinda Road construction Project ○ Construction Machinery hires in Southern Sri Lanka for excavation, compaction, material lifting, Road development etc.		○ Manufacture of Pipes and Construction Materials - Concept brand PPR pipes in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE ○ Timber processing, cutting, shuttering and Joinery - Chemically treated and Kiln-dried rubber wood for the furniture industry ○ Industrial and Domestic water pumps manufacturing - Casting on Ferrous pump casing, Manufacture of Electrical Motors for Water pumps ○ Manufacture of Copper Rods, Copper Wire, and Copper cables ○ Manufacture of Paper Insulated Copper Conductors (PICC) for the Electrical Transformer Industries ○ Manufacture of Busbar for Electrical Switchgear for modern highrises and power transmission systems

Imthiaz engagements in Financial Audits of Companies exposed him to large-scale Govt. Audit of Sri Lanka State Plantation Corporation engaged in Tea Plantation and Tea manufacturing sectors and large-scale trading in FMCG, Furniture, Textile, Tyre and Food products with Nationwide outlets. This initial grasp paved the way to establish new CTC Tea factory for Southern Group and manage Orthodox Tea factory at Derangala Hills. Solideal in a Joint venture manufacturing project of solid tyre manufacturing in Sri Lanka. Imthiaz has expertise in the procurement of heavy Plant and machinery for, Loadstar. He also procured Injection molding and Plastic crushing plants for the manufacture of Plastic Sanitaryware products. Other major procurement projects include heavy machinery, crushing plant etc for Rathkinda Project, Pipe extrusion factory machinery for GGICO in RAK, Raw materials procurements for Jinasena Group water pumps, Rubber Tyre, Textile for garments, and prawns for export processing etc offered an extensive exposure to supplier management and procurement and price negotiations In Maximizing Returns to the Owners of long-standing organizations Imthiaz studied the Industry competitive landscape, the ecosystem of how such Industries operated, headwinds and trends at the time and used the critical success factors and key metrics of the industry and Company to strategically position the Company around the fast moving and profitable products to increase revenue and returns. In 2008 He was instrumental in arguing a case and winning for Al Taher group in the middle of the financial downturn, which drastically affected the Construction Industry of UAE. Kaizen is a word Imthiaz learned in Toyota Manufacturing, Nagoya, Japan to attempt for an incremental increase in productivity and to break down complex issues into manageable units and get staff to come up with suggestions and alternatives. The technique of staff engagement in the issues management in their respective sectors helped his endeavor to deliver quality products that excited customers. Taking a Helicopter view of a geographically diversified organization, understanding its strengths, weaknesses, Critical success factors and current market positioning Imthiaz formulated strategic plans for companies to fit the market opportunities. A study of the Company's competitors, the current Political, Economical, Social and technological changes taking place in the economy and the Industry will predict the competitive landscape for a company's products and services. Having done this Execution of policies, prioritization based on the 80-20 rule and making the revenue curve click to surpass the breakeven point at all times in each profit center to eliminate cash flow hiccups is a sound achievement I can demonstrate with right resources. Imthiaz likes cross-cultural diversity and breaking the language barriers and to accept challenges in communication across the world. He has lived in 15 countries and 60 cities and Networked across 120 nationalities that gives him the edge over others to work in multi-cultural, multilingual cross-section of the world population.

Imthiaz visited several cities in Jordan and Egypt during November - December 2017 period. He talked to people of different cultures and attitudes during his stay in the countries.