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Fadila Karbhari

Naperville,IL

Summary

Seasoned financial professional with broad experience in budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning. Skilled in optimizing financial processes and leading diverse teams to exceed corporate goals through innovative strategies and efficient resource allocation. Excel at communication, problem-solving, and leadership, ensuring seamless operations and team synergy.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager Buying Controlling

Aldi
Naperville, IL
12.2022 - Current
  • Drives strategic decisions with comprehensive financial insights.
  • Cultivated robust partnerships across National Buying, Pricing, Assortment Planning, and Finance sectors to steadily improve gross profit metrics.
  • Managed internal initiative focusing on merging product financial data to enhance financial planning and profitability evaluations.
  • As the company is migrating from legacy systems to SAP, prioritized active communication with stakeholders and alignment of interim and future reporting.
  • Currently tasked with developing a comprehensive Trade Funding process spanning across multiple functional areas in National Buying, Accounts Receivable, Accounting, and Buying Controlling.

Finance Manager

UnitedHealth Group – Optum
San Francisco, Remote
05.2022 - 10.2022
  • Providing support to OptumRx PBM Operations financials, monthly reporting, month-end close, and forecasting/budgeting activities
  • Labor Mix Analysis - built a labor mix reporting model to review two-year historical analysis as well as ongoing comparison to budget and prior year
  • Analyze labor mix and provide recommendation for optimization
  • Revenue Analysis - client mix, billed to clinical case ratios, rate per billed case
  • Highlight impacts to new clients versus terminated clients
  • Monthly FTE Reconciliation – consolidate monthly labor resources (onshore/nearshore/offshore, contractors, internal) to analyze financial implications
  • Corporate Chargebacks – review costs charged to the business for reasonableness

Finance Manager

EXELON CORPORATION
Oakbrook, IL
05.2019 - 03.2022
  • Managing an annual $420 million in energy efficiency spending that is recoverable from customers, and ensuring all related financial transactions are recorded based on GAAP and FERC accounting, along with internal accounting policies.
  • Led the financial transformation, supporting an organizational restructure of Energy Efficiency and Demand Planning group.
  • June 2021 – nominated by ComEd executives to attend the 13th Annual MEA Energetic Women Conference.
  • Jan 2021 – attended Prosci’s intensive three-day session on Change Management and received certification as a Certified Change Practitioner.
  • Dec 2020 – received ComEd’s Powering Together Award for standing up an internal online platform called Marketplace, presented by CEO Joe Dominguez and President Terry Donnelly.

Senior Financial Analyst

EXELON CORPORATION
Braceville, IL
08.2015 - 05.2019
  • Functioning as a member of the Exelon Finance Team, with responsibilities for ensuring that a financial perspective is brought to daily operations, proper classification (O&M vs. Capital) and treatment are followed, and compliance with all managerial policies.
  • Monthly Overtime Report – implemented additional controls that highlight changes to overtime requests two months out, to help control overtime costs. Overtime requests should align with P6, the scheduling tool, which has work loaded eight weeks ahead.
  • Outage Capital splits the team – developed a standard template to capture capital support for projects in certain departments, such as Operations, Radiation Protection, Mechanical Maintenance, Electrical Maintenance, and Instrument Maintenance.

Finance Manager

PEPPERS AND ROGERS GROUP
Dubai, UAE
05.2012 - 07.2013
  • Surpassed expectations by securing a positive EBT during initial months at PRG.
  • Ensured financial integrity, reliability, and accuracy of $25 million of revenue for all EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Asia).
  • Collaborated with project managers to achieve targeted project profitability, and to highlight any financial risks.
  • Worked with staffing for project resource plans, ensuring utilization targets were at or above target per levels and positions.
  • Created and managed financial reports (monthly EMEA and CSS financial packages) that summarized key financial metrics for the Executive Committee

AFME Financial Analyst, Nutrition Finance

PFIZER
Dubai, UAE
05.2011 - 04.2013
  • Ensured financial integrity, reliability, and accuracy of $320m of revenue for AFME.
  • Supported five business finance managers and the Regional Finance Director.
  • Conducted comprehensive data consolidation and generated actionable financial insights for nutrition operations.
  • Ensured accuracy of pricing and costing data through meticulous review.
  • Ensured Inventory levels for Gulf markets remained within regional targets of four months.

Various Accounting Roles

EXELON CORPORATION
Oakbrook, IL
05.2002 - 07.2009

As part of the Controller’s Group, responsible for maintaining the integrity and reliability of our accounting and financial reporting processes through the consistent application of policies and procedures. More specifically, ensuring that all activity recorded to the GL will be entered and approved in accordance with Exelon’s policies and guidelines, including delivery within the established close timelines, and in compliance with our Key Financial Controls.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Accountancy

Northern Illinois University
Illinois, USA

Skills

  • Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Financial Profitability Assessment
  • Data-Driven Financial Insights
  • FERC Regulatory Accounting
  • Inclusion Leader
  • Effective Stakeholder Engagement
  • Analytical Problem-Solving
  • Business Process Improvements

Systems and applications

  • SAP
  • Peoplesoft Accounting
  • Hyperion/Essbase/Smartview
  • Microsoft Office (Excel - Macros, Pivots, Lookups, SumIFS, PowerPoint, Word, Access)
  • Tableau
  • Power BI

Timeline

Manager Buying Controlling

Aldi
12.2022 - Current

Finance Manager

UnitedHealth Group – Optum
05.2022 - 10.2022

Finance Manager

EXELON CORPORATION
05.2019 - 03.2022

Senior Financial Analyst

EXELON CORPORATION
08.2015 - 05.2019

Finance Manager

PEPPERS AND ROGERS GROUP
05.2012 - 07.2013

AFME Financial Analyst, Nutrition Finance

PFIZER
05.2011 - 04.2013

Various Accounting Roles

EXELON CORPORATION
05.2002 - 07.2009

Bachelor of Science - Accountancy

Northern Illinois University
Fadila Karbhari