ADIL EL AZARIFI, Finance Director

ADIL EL AZARIFI

Finance Director

Deloitte

Location
Morocco - Casablanca
Education
Master's degree, MBA, FINANCE
Experience
21 years, 10 months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 10 months

Finance Director at Deloitte
  • Morocco - Casablanca
  • My current job since September 2017

- Managing a team of 6 people: general accounting, finance, treasury, logistics et inventory management
- Validating the general accounting and preparing the Financial Statements
- Performing the Accounting and Financial Reporting on a monthly and yearly basis in Moroccan GAAP and US GAAP
- Validating the monthly and annual tax and social declarations.
- Managing the Legal Audit
- Cash management
- Managing the receivable collection and vendors payment process
- Preparing the budgets, identifying differences between the achievements and forecasts and proposing the corrective measures
- Giving advise, guidance and support on all financial matters to the senior management
Ensuring the compliance with the internal processes and local regulation
- Negotiating, controlling and validating the contracts signed with third parties : Suppliers, customers, Insurance Company and bank.
- Administrative Management : validation of payroll, insurance of compliance with labor law
- Managing Company Technology Infrastructure, Software and services businesses.

Finance Controller at Hewlett Packard
  • Morocco - Casablanca
  • December 2012 to August 2016

- Managing a team of 3 people: general accounting, finance, treasury, logistics and inventory management
- Validating the general accounting and preparing the financial statements
- Performing the accounting and financial reporting on a monthly and yearly basis in Moroccan GAAP and US GAAP
- Cash Management
- Managing the receivable collection and vendors
payment process
- Preparing the budgets, identifying differences
between the achievements, forecasts and
proposing the corrective measures
- Regular follow-up of the business using KPI :
Order intake, Invoicing, Revenue, GPM and
inventory
- Giving advice, guidance and support on all
financial matters to Senior Management
- Ensuring the accuracy of the financial
information
- Evaluating the financial risks related to the
business
- Ensuring the compliance with the internal
processes and local regulation
- Negotiating, controlling and validating the
contracts signed with third parties: Suppliers,
customers, Insurance company and bank
- Managing the relationship with third parties:
suppliers, customers, auditors, banks, tax
administration, Lawyers, social organizations
and exchange office

Africa Senior BU Finance Analyst at Hewlett Packard
  • Morocco - Casablanca
  • December 2009 to December 2012

- Managing a team of 3 people
- Managing the Profit & Loss for HP Printing &
Personal System Business unit
- Preparing the Quarterly Forecast and Semester
Budget
- Regular Month end close tasks: booking,
reporting and reconciliation
- Support AFRICA GM and DM in day to day
Business: P+L Control, making Strategic decision
to support Africa Growth, OPEX Deployment and
saving, top line and bottom line management,
reporting to MEMA & implementing specific
Projects
- Participating and preparing the internal &
external Audit
- Ensuring Audit Compliance and Promoting Best
Practices

Business Channel Finance at Hewlett Packard
  • Morocco - Casablanca
  • July 2008 to December 2009

- Managing the Africa Channel distribution
- Analyzing of the internal and external channel
compensation program, follow up of their
achievements and P&L impact on HP Result.
- Management of Marketing budget and Control of
its execution.
- Distribution Quota deployment
- Driving process improvement and initiatives with
impact on the P&L

Head of Business Finance Administration /Controlling at Siemens SA Morocco
  • Morocco - Casablanca
  • June 2004 to June 2008

- Month End Close activities: Revenue, Accruals
and ICC Billing.
- Setting of project budgets (headcount, expense,
cost, billings, revenue, cash) together with
overall Project Manager
- Assisting in supporting Accounting Department
facing KPMG external Audit Mission
- Assisting in bid preparation and Cost Calculation
- Managing the field work through General
Superintendents
- Leading project budgets and financial forecasts
preparations

Store Manager at Kroger Food Stores
  • United States
  • August 2003 to January 2004

- Managing a team of 100 associates, responsible
for goal setting, coaching and communicating
performance expectations
- Demonstrating superiority at problem solving,
evaluating and taking calculated risks, in a timely
manner
- Accountable for financial performance of the store

SPECIAL SERVICES at HOME DEPOT
  • United States
  • February 2001 to July 2003

- Special Services/ Operations segments of the Store
- Supervision and management of special orders
- Analysis of the store accountability report.
- Comparison and analysis of Store forecasts vs.
results
- Providing customer service

Education

Master's degree, MBA, FINANCE
  • at KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY
  • December 2002

Relevant Course work o Corporate Finance o Operation Management o Advanced Corporate Finance o Marketing Management o Investment Analyze o Multinational Fin Mgt oReal Property: Analyze and Investment o Strategic Management oFutures and Options o Managerial Economics o Managerial Accounting o Mgt and Organizational Behavior

Bachelor's degree, AUDIT
  • at ECOLE NATIOANLE DE COMMERCE ET DE GESTION
  • June 2000

DIPLOME DE L'ECOLE NATIOANALE DE COMMERCE ET DE GESTION:B.S. in Business Administration, Audit Major

Specialties & Skills

Administration
Marketing Management
MBA Finance
Headcount
Organizational Behavior
Visual Basic, Databases, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000, Expert Level in MSOffice
relationship building
databases and Hyperion Essbase (Fcube, Planet), BW and SAP experience, Business Objects,
Communication
self-awareness and patience

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

KSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
  • ADVISOR
  • October 2002