Group Finance & Accounting Manager (Taxation Manager)
Linktia Ltd.
Total years of experience :22 years, 7 months
• Linktia Group is the leading media production/content creation company in the Middle East. The group was established in 2011, but the individual subsidiaries have been in business since more than a decade These include Magnet Photo Production, Alchemy Films, Bareface Production, Arabian Eye, The Studio, Aperto Middle East, ElectronWorld.com
• Reportable to Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Organization on all relevant matters while coordinating finance, accounts and new investment matters of the organization.
• Preparing monthly MIS reports, including variance analysis, ratio analysis and receivables aging analysis etc.
• Preparing and monitoring Budgets, projections, forecasts and analysis of income, COGS and OPEX.
• Consolidating group budgets, monthly financial reporting and management accounting including trend of operations, entity level reviews for group subsidiaries, finalizing annual external year-end financial audits of the company and its subsidiaries.
• Dealing with banks on the financial requirements of the company, while raising long-term and short-term finance and meeting working-capital requirements.
• Monitoring and presenting trends for company sales revenue and cost centers. Defining and monitoring key drivers and KPI’s and developing a suit of KPI’s to be used by the management to measure overall efficiency and identify areas for improvement.
• Managing the overall accounting and GL function of the company, including bank reconciliations, salary management etc.
• Reportable to Group CFO and Chief Executive Officer of the Organization on all relevant matters while coordinating finance and investment matters of the organization.
• Preparing monthly MIS reports, including variance analysis, ratio analysis and receivables aging analysis etc.
• Preparing and monitoring Budgets, projections, forecasts and analysis of income, COGS and OPEX.
• Consolidating group budgets, monthly financial reporting and management accounting including trend of operations, entity level reviews for group subsidiaries, finalizing annual external year-end financial audits of the company and its subsidiaries.
• Monitoring and presenting trends for company sales revenue and cost centers. Defining and monitoring key drivers and KPI’s and developing a suit of KPI’s to be used by the management to measure overall efficiency and identify areas for improvement.
• Integration of new acquisitions into the group, budgeting and projections, consolidation of group budgets, monthly financial reporting and management accounts, entity level reviews for group subsidiaries, business and value enhancement initiatives, reporting of board of directors and audit committee papers, sale and purchase agreement compliance and including liaison with all the group’s subsidiaries and associates, and all concerned internal and external stakeholders.
• Creating inorganic growth strategy, sourcing transactions & analyzing suitability. Identifying targets, meeting making presentations & convincing about alliance with group. Coordinating cross segment in-house teams. Preparing business plans, valuation scenario, transaction structuring and negotiations. Arrangement of funding, funding strategy, SPV creation. Staffing of top and middle management of acquired entities. Negotiating with legal, accounting and M&A advisors, organizing legal & financial due diligence & moderating discussions. Preparing market, segment studies.
• Reportable to The Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of the Organization on all related matters while managing all accounts, finance and tax related matters of the organization, including liaison with mills and all concerned internal and external stakeholders.
• Developed business strategies and performing all appropriate measures to cater to the emerging changes to the textile market.
• Conceptualized and implemented all Finance, Marketing and Operating Plans for the company i.e. preparation of monthly financial statements and related reports. Implementation of effective internal accounting & internal control procedures in the organization etc.
• Implemented the costing system and successfully managed the operations of the company.
• Budgeting and resource allocation planning, overall monitoring and supervision of finance, accounts and tax team and all related assigned work, supervising all production and raw-material requisition activities, Preparation of Cash flow statements, Budgets, Sales & Expense reports. Preparing monthly analysis and scheduling meeting with management to discuss the variances between budgets & actual.
Financial Information - Accounting System Development & Implementation
Business Analysis & Performance Measurement - Business Evaluation of Loan Applicants
Statutory Audit - Audit and Assurance Services
Taxation - Income Tax / Sales Tax
Legal Advisory - Legal Auditing