Khalid Noor, Accounting Manager

Khalid Noor

Accounting Manager

FedEx

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Master's degree, CFA Level III
Experience
15 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months

Accounting Manager at FedEx
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since February 2016

Highlights:
• Established new forecasting tracking and management reporting system to improve availability and accuracy of financial data, triggering 15% increase in accuracy.
• Built data visualizations that showed how we could control the avoidable losses and working capital cost by 25% by re-engineering the operating expenditure mechanism;
• Spearheaded due diligence for Sr. 600 M expansion facility, identifying key risk factors and forecasting investment viability.
• Develop detailed spreadsheets to identify trends and develop forecasts. Consolidate and analyze monthly results and budgets.
Key Responsibilities
• Review financial statements and analyze sales revenues, costs, expenses, and tax rates for all business units of the company;
• Create and deliver presentations, providing recommendations on short- and long-range ROI. Spearheaded due diligence for strategic operation’s service providers, identifying key risk factors and forecasting investment viability;
• Member of finance integration team for FedEx Policies rollout in the Region;
• Responsible for analysis of monthly operational data, performing trend and route cause analysis and advising management costing and pricing decisions;
• Developing and maintaining effective costing and budgeting system, setting up appropriate costing budgeting and reporting controls, ensuring adherence to these controls and continuous involvement in costing and budgeting process of the company;
• Analyzing Operations data to calculate various variances reports, compile the findings and report to Management with recommendations.

Senior Internal Auditor – Projects & Investments at Abdullah-Fouad Holding
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • March 2014 to January 2016

• Assisting the head of investments in evaluating the various investment proposals with the help of various valuation techniques;
• Building Financial models from scratch for various projects;
• Co-lead the M&A transaction from origination till execution;
• Assisting in monitoring various portfolios through regularly reviewing the valuation and performance, characteristics in order ensure the timely identification of irregularities and any potential discrepancies;
• Monitoring the performance of various projects through KPIs;
• Assisting the Investment Manager in divesting decisions such as sales of subsidiaries and business units.

Senior Associate at PwC
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • December 2012 to February 2014

- Assisted in M&A & investment proposals by providing the required financial analysis that includes NPV, IRR, DCF & PB calculations;
- Prepared the annual budgets and the quarterly forecast, interim revenue and cost projections;
- Reviewed and analyzed the financial performance of the company;
- Analyzed business performance vs. budget and forecasts;
- Analyzed the company financial performance vs. similar companies and identify areas of improvements;
- Assisted in preparing financial data & presentation for BOD meetings;
- Assisted with audits and prepare audit work papers;
- Actively contributed in the financial feasibility of a real-estate development project;
- Performed financial feasibility of projects (Mitchells Fruit Farm Tomato Processing plant;

Associate at PwC
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • January 2009 to November 2012

Supervisor/Audit In charge
• Planned and conducted audit preparations; Served as liaison during all audit phases
• Analyzed and evaluated internal controls for company as well as third-party vendors and service providers, including law firms, advertising and media agencies, insurance companies, and others.
• Conducted client interviews and risk assessments to increase understanding of audited areas. Created and implemented audit programs to test internal controls.
• Worked closely with audit team and client to identify and resolve potential and existing issues.
• Prepared time and expense budgets for all audits, authored reports summarizing findings. Compiled and presented audit findings, recommended control and business practice improvements.
• Reviewing the work done by team members to senior manager and engagement partner.

Audit Associate
• Conducted review and evaluation of internal control environment of Treasury Department and revenue department.
• Prepared preliminary and final analytics for audit engagements and evaluate the results
• Performed substantive analytics and test of details on Revenue and receivables, Fixed assets and depreciation, short term and long term financing, purchase and payables, inventories, Derivative financial instruments etc
• Performed the external audit of Certified emission reduction units (Kyoto Protocol project)

Education

Master's degree, CFA Level III
  • at CFA Institute
  • January 2022
Master's degree, ACCA
  • at ACCA
  • September 2016
Master's degree, CA
  • at Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan
  • December 2015
Diploma, CIA®
  • at Certified Internal Auditor®
  • September 2015

Certified Internal Auditor

Bayt Tests

Financial Analysis Test
Score 68%

Specialties & Skills

Internal Audit
Financial Modeling
Financial Analysis
Financial Management
Investments
Ensuring effectiveness and efficiency of processes and management directions
Evaluation of controls for susceptibility for fraud, money laundering or other illegal activiites
CIA CISA CPA TeamMate ACL IDEA Oracle EBS SOX COSO FRAUD
Ensuring compliance applicable directives to minimize risks and add value to the organization
Preferably with strong knowledge of VAT and IFRS.
tudying market variables or changes in life and economic changes and financial performance
Recommend debt structures by analyzing refinancing options.
Define financial situation by completing quantitative analyses
Build financial database by identifying sources of information; assembling, verifying, and backing u
Experience in the industry of freight forwarding and Express
Management and development of investment portfolios in local and International Markets

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

Pakistan Institute of Public Finance Accountants of Pakistan
  • Associate Member (6380)
  • April 2014

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Office Certifcation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2008
Valid Until:
October 2008

Hobbies

  • Geo Tagging
  • Photography