Fractional CFO
Freelancer
Total years of experience :21 years, 0 Months
Skill Set
Financial Accounting | IFRS | Management Accounting | Treasury | Financial Reporting & Analysis | Corporate Finance | Investments and Valuation | Financial Modeling | Risk Management | Taxation and VAT | Corporate Governance, ESG | Process Engineering | Strategic Planning and Budgeting | Organizational Structuring | Cost Reduction Planning | Leadership | Managing Change | New Systems Implementation | ERP Systems | QMS and ISO | Data Migration | Business Intelligence | Digital Transformation | Data Analysis | Power BI | SQL Queries | Tableau | Power Query | Power Pivot | Python
▪ Financial Health and Treasury: Proactively maintain financial health aspects of the business to enhance performance and sustain growth by keeping adequate liquidity to meet current and future commitments, support growth strategies, and operational efficiency. Review, payments, receipts, and cash flow forecasting and analysis.
▪ Strategy, Business Partnering, Financial Planning, and Analysis: Collaborate, develop, and execute corporate strategy. Implement long-term business plans, forecasts, and budgeting. Conduct financial analysis and provide actionable insights and recommendations to improve financial results. Support expansion opportunities, M&A, or any investment decision.
▪ Accounting and Reporting: Oversee the full cycle of accounting operations daily, including supply chain transactions, fixed assets, and general ledger maintenance. Ensure accuracy and timeliness of book preparation. Review financial reports, and tax filings in compliance with regulatory requirements. Experienced with consolidated financial statements, comparative managerial accounting reporting, audited financial statements, and any ad-hoc report or data extraction.
▪ Compliance and Risk Control: Ensure adherence to relevant accounting standards, laws, and regulations. Assess financial risks and manage mitigation. Maintain a structure of internal controls documented by procedures to safeguard company assets and maintain the integrity of financial data. Respond to internal and external audits and tax authorities.
▪ Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, and Board Presentations: Employ data analysis and business intelligence tools to crunch operational and financial data to produce useful information and KPIs, and present it in a useful and interactive way. Prepare and conduct all financial performance presentations to the stakeholders including the board of directors using PowerPoint slides and Power BI dashboards.
▪ Leadership and Team Development: Unique blend of technical and operational expertise, strategic mindset, and financial acumen combined with leadership qualities like critical thinking, decision-making, effective communication and collaboration, high ethical compass, integrity, adaptability, resilience, and relationship building. Tackles unprecedented situations and deals with high uncertainty issues. Lead and mentor teams, developing a culture of collaboration, and continuous improvement. Provide guidance and training to teams to upgrade their competencies and knowledge and develop HR-related matters like performance succession planning.
▪ Redesigned end-to-end cycles of accounting, finance, and reporting responsibilities that improved
controls and timeliness together with time efficiencies.
▪ Directly collaborated with operations and top management to ensure strategic alignment and
operational efficiency that boosted profitability by 3%.
▪ Played a key role in the development and implementation of a new set of policies and procedures.
▪ Addressed and resolved inventory discrepancies and control issues with a proactive approach.
▪ Actively engaged in the seamless transition to a new ERP system, overseeing data migration
processes.
▪ Crafted comprehensive financial reporting and budgeting models to enhance decision-making
processes with minimal variances.
▪ Enhanced the efficiency of annual audits and internal audits, contributing to faster completion times.
▪ Contributed to ISO compliance and certification efforts, ensuring adherence to quality standards and
ISO 9001 certification.
▪ Played a pivotal role in diversifying products and services, actively contributing to the formulation of
strategic pricing strategies.
▪ Redesigned end-to-end cycles of accounting, finance, and reporting responsibilities that improved
controls and timeliness together with time efficiencies.
▪ Directly collaborated with operations and top management to ensure strategic alignment and
operational efficiency that boosted profitability by 3%.
▪ Played a key role in the development and implementation of a new set of policies and procedures.
▪ Addressed and resolved inventory discrepancies and control issues with a proactive approach
▪ Actively engaged in the seamless transition to a new ERP system, overseeing data migration
processes.
▪ Crafted comprehensive financial reporting and budgeting models to enhance decision-making
processes with minimal variances.
▪ Enhanced the efficiency of annual audits and internal audits, contributing to faster completion times.
▪ Contributed to ISO compliance and certification efforts, ensuring adherence to quality standards and
ISO 9001 certification.
▪ Played a pivotal role in diversifying products and services, actively contributing to the formulation of
strategic pricing strategies.
▪ Engaged in group accounting and reporting responsibilities for multiple entities within the group at
the multinational level.
▪ Played a key role in the preparation of consolidated financial statements and budgeting.
▪ Collaborated with the accounting manager to streamline processes and optimize workflow efficiency.
▪ Accumulated hands-on experience in various facets of accounting, reporting, and audit processes.
▪ Directly liaised with subsidiaries to provide technical support, fostering effective communication and
collaboration.
Masters in Business Administration with a focus on Leadership and Corporate Finance
(1999-2003) Ranked first in class of 1999 for academic year 99-2000
GED Diploma
