Head of Financial Planning & Reporting
Hassad Food
Total years of experience :17 years, 7 Months
The group's annual revenue US$200m approx. and investments over US$500m. Food Security Program and investor in Food and Agribusiness
Responsibilities:
•Annual Budgeting and Planning cycle and Quarterly forecasts
•Periodic reporting and analysis
•Monthly and weekly trading reviews
•Preparation of subsidiary accounts
•Carryout financial analysis of investment opportunities
Key achievements:
•Established budgeting and planning policies and processes and successfully running the planning cycles for eight years
•Established management reporting packs for senior management, company board and investors
•Established five-year cashflow planning mechanism involving group consolidation
•Month end process, trading reviews, budgetary control, and business analysis
•Financial accounting - foreign subsidiary accounting and responsibility of annual audits
Educational, research, and community development.
Responsibilities:
•Managing the Reporting Team
•Production of periodical management accounts and providing management with analysis and support
•Budgeting and Business Planning Cycle and preparation of Board presentations
•Process improvement and implementation of new financial management, accounting and reporting systems
Achievements:
•Implemented and conceptualized Activity Based Budgeting
•Implementation of Hyperion Planning for budgeting and financial reporting
•Revamped annual budget pack for QF Board and enhanced budget analysis for senior management
•Fully automated and enhanced management accounts through implementation of Enterprise Business Integration (EBI)
•New investment reviews supported with financial modeling and impact analysis through management fee structure
•Budgetary control mechanism in ERP Oracle - worked on the project from concept to implementation of phase I and II
•System Administrator of Hyperion Planning System
•Formation of Revenue Augmentation - worked from concept to creation of a new Revenue Augmentation Committee thus drafted Committee Charter and presentation to senior management
Responsibilities:
•Production of monthly industry reports and maintenance of client database
•Assist in Monthly and quarterly Management reports including Balance scorecard Achievements:
•Assist in preparation of high level and detailed Business Planning Model
•Client reporting implementation into Global Financial Information System (GFIS)
•Developed and automated Monthly Sales Management Reports reducing the production time by few days
•Assisted in the development of balance scorecard
•Annual Business Analysis Pack which involved interrogating the firm's financial databases and turning raw data into useful management information
•Assisted in Client Profitability Analysis