Finance Manager
Deloitte & Touche Middle East
Total years of experience :19 years, 0 Months
Management of finance and accounting of Deloitte ME.
-Revision of monthly financial reports and ensuring targets are achieved through budget variance analysis.
-Oversee all accounting processes and ensure they are up to date and reconciled on a monthly basis.
-Cash management of Deloitte ME.
-Ensure intercompany accounts of all Deloitte offices are well maintained and reconciled with Head Office balances.
-Revision of Deloitte KPIs and ensure targets are achieved.
-Review of financials of all Deloitte offices in the Middle East to ensure consistency of financials.
-Internal Audit of Deloitte offices in the Middle East region.
Went through different units, Financial Planning & Reporting and Accounting:
1- Financial Planning & Reporting Senior Analyst: January 2011 - Present
-Responsible for annual budget and quarterly forecasts initiation and generation in addition to liaising with all the departments for budget planning, input and final output.
-Responsible for the generation and review of monthly financial and non-financial reports to the Ministry of Telecommunications, mtc touch management and Zain group management.
-Generation of monthly variance reports and providing management with the corresponding analytics.
-Responsible for the maintenance and control of the company budget and a key approver in the procurement cycle.
-Assist the Finance Director in all management requests, letters, contracts and customized reports in addition to financial support to all departments.
-Coordinate with the external auditors to generate the quarterly reviews and the annual audit reports through attending to their requests in addition to the review and verification of the final drafts.
-Key involvement in various studies and projects conducted by the company (in house or outsourced).
-Key member of the Management Contract renewal committee in the negotiations with the MOT.
2- Financial Planning & Reporting Analyst: November 2008 - December 2010
-Development of the budget cycle, budget templates and the budget reporting.
-Generation of financial statements and trend and variance analysis of the trial balance.
-Generation of reconciled monthly MOT reports for review by the Finance Director.
-Reconciliation of financials between revenue data (trial balance) and IT data.
-Reconciliation of accounting reports to trial balance figures.
-Maintaining records of the company CAPEX budget and CAPEX spending.
3- Accounts Payable Coordinator (Team Leader): April 2007 - October 2008
-Managed a team of three accountants.
-Validate all payments made to external suppliers and other stakeholders.
-Responsible for the maintenance of the Trial Balance through monthly trend analysis and accounts verification of entries made by the Accounts Payable team.
-Responsible for end of month closing of Payables, Receivables and General Ledger.
-Verification of all system reconciliations (AP vs. GL, AP vs. AR) made by the Accounts Payable team before end of month closing.
-Generation of accounting reports to management and other departments.
-Setup of Oracle Financials ERP (Payables, Receivables, General Ledger) and maintenance of its accounting accuracy.
4- Accounts Payable Agent/Officer: May 2005 - March 2007
-Booking of invoices and preparation of payment requests to be reviewed by the AP team leader.
-Preparation of system reconciliations and supplier reconciliation to be reviewed by the AP team leader.
-Preparation of accounting reports (account breakdown, statement of account).
Dean’s Honor List in Fall 2001, Fall 2002 and Fall 2003