Ahmed Azab CMA CIA, Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Ahmed Azab CMA CIA

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Mohamed Yousuf Naghi Group

Lieu
Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Accounting And Business Sciences
Expérience
24 years, 5 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :24 years, 5 Mois

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager à Mohamed Yousuf Naghi Group
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • Je travaille ici depuis décembre 2021

• Lead the FP&A function and collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop the annual budget, long-term financial plans, and rolling forecasts.
• Monitor and analyze key financial metrics and variances, providing insights and recommendations to drive performance improvement.
• Develop and manage the budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Coordinate with business units to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and consolidate financial data.
• Prepare budget-to-actual analysis and highlight areas of concern or opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare regular financial reports, management dashboards, and presentations for senior leadership, highlighting key trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Conduct variance analysis against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods.
• Identify and communicate financial insights and implications to relevant stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted business partner to senior leaders, providing financial guidance and support for
strategic initiatives, investment decisions, and business expansion plans.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate new business opportunities, assess financial viability, and
develop business cases.
• Conduct profitability analysis, return on investment (ROI) assessments, and other financial evaluations to drive operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the team, ensuring the delivery of accurate and timely financial analysis and reports.
• Continuously assess and enhance FP&A processes, systems, and tools to streamline workflows, improve efficiency, and enhance data accuracy.
• Identify opportunities for automation and leverage technology to drive process improvements.
• Analyze financial and operational results to better understand company performance.
• Write management commentary on monthly management reports by compiling information from
operation to explain the difference between actual and budget.
• Evaluating previous budgets and expenditures to develop and implement future budgets.
• Conducting feasibility studies, developing models to support decision making on projects.
• Produce monthly detailed analysis reports for revenue and expenses.
• prepares, a monthly/quarterly financial statement (income statements, balance sheet, cash flows).
• Performing analysis. Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, competitors, and obligations, across sectors as requested to support in decision-making.
• Utilize Data storytelling and presentation skills, excels tools, power query, power BI, Power Pivot and Power point Converting Data to insight.
• Develop the team by managing performance, setting goals, providing ongoing training, and
maintaining strong employee relationships.

Financial Planning Manager à مجموعة محمد يوسف الناغي
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • Je travaille ici depuis mars 2021

▪ work with senior management in developing the operating and financial plan of several entities.
▪ Work with All Department’s heads to build the annual budgets and forecasts.
▪ Analyze financial and operational results to better understand company performance.
▪ Write management commentary on monthly management reports by compiling information from
operation to explain the difference between actual and budget.
▪ Communicate the results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will
lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining operations.
▪ Evaluating previous budgets and expenditures to develop and implement future budgets.
▪ Review and recommend policies and procedures that directly influence financial transactions,
inventory costing and management of accounting systems and operational strategies including the
review and implementation of process and system changes.
▪ Conducting feasibility studies, developing models to support decision making on projects.
▪ Work as a business partner Providing insights to senior management around financial modelling,
forecasts, and profitability.
▪ Produce monthly detailed analysis reports for revenue and expenses.
▪ prepares, a monthly/quarterly financial statement (income statements, balance sheet, cash flows).
▪ Performing analysis. Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments,
competitors, and obligations, across sectors as requested to support in decision-making.
▪ Utilize Data storytelling and presentation skills, excels tools, power query, power BI, Power Pivot and
Power point Converting Data to insight.
▪ Develop the team by managing performance, setting goals, providing ongoing training, and
maintaining strong employee relationships.

Chief Accountant à Lactalis international
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • juillet 2014 à novembre 2021

▪ Managed A/R (Invoicing-Credit & Debit Note- Collection- Confirmation- Aging Analysis).
▪ Managed A/P Review payable aging for each month (Accrual- Payment & Aging Analysis).
▪ Oversaw, maintained and reconciled all general ledger accounts of 3 subsidiaries.
▪ Prepare the reconciliation of key Customers Statements (Panda, Carrefour, Othaim, Raya...).
▪ Develop petty cash procedure that decreased expenses by 15% at least.
▪ Ensure all financial reporting deadlines are met & yearly closing and physical count.
▪ Assisted with interim and annual internal and external audits.
▪ Handling Fixed Assets & Related Issues (Annual Count, Reporting, Posting, Depreciation).
▪ Provide the necessary Support to decision-makers and top management.
▪ Measure the performance of the company and departments by financial indicators. ▪ Participates in the preparation, evaluation and maintenance of budgets and budgetary controls. ▪ Assists in preparation of monthly management report including Budget vs. Actual variance reports. ▪ Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data. ▪ Ensure all financial reporting deadlines are met & yearly closing and physical count. ▪ Review aging schedules of receivables and payable; making investigation of abnormal problems and recommend remedial action. ▪ Prepare cash flow forecasting on monthly basis.
▪ Contributing to the development of new or amended accounting systems, programs, and procedures.
▪ Assessing internal controls, including risk assessments and reviews of risk areas

Chief Accountant à Lactalis International
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • juillet 2014 à novembre 2021

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (Jan.2019-Nov.2021) Chief Accountant (JUL.2014 to Dec.2018)

• Managed A/R (Invoicing-Credit & Debit Note- Collection- Confirmation- Aging Analysis).
• Managed A/P Review payable aging for each month (Accrual- Payment & Aging Analysis).
• Oversaw, maintained, and reconciled all general ledger accounts of three subsidiaries.
• Prepare the reconciliation of key Customers Statements (Panda, Carrefour, Othaim, Raya...).
• Develop petty cash procedure that decreased expenses by 15% at least.
• Ensure all financial reporting deadlines are met & yearly closing and physical count.
• Assisted with interim and annual internal and external audits.
• Managing Fixed Assets & Related Issues (Annual Count, Reporting, Posting, Depreciation).
• Provide the necessary Support to decision-makers and top management.
• Measure the performance of the company and departments by financial indicators.
• Participates in the preparation, evaluation and maintenance of budgets and budgetary controls.
• Assists in preparation of monthly management report including Budget vs. Actual variance reports.
• Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data.
• Ensure all financial reporting deadlines are met & yearly closing and physical count.
• Review aging schedules of receivables and payable; making investigation of abnormal problems and recommend remedial action.
• Prepare cash flow forecasting on monthly basis.
• Contributing to the development of new or amended accounting systems, programs, and procedures.
• Assessing internal controls, including risk assessments and reviews of risk areas

Senior Financial Accountant à Wavin Group.
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • mars 2011 à juin 2014

• Review & analyze financial transactions then prepare journal entries.
• Assist the management and finance team to prepare financial reports.
• Ensure compliance with organizational guidelines and procedures, and regulations.
• Delivered in resolving account payable/receivable issues or queries.
• Operated AP/AR accounts reconciliations.
• Assist the chief accountant to prepare the accruals, provisions, and prepayments.
• Accomplished month and year end closing process.
• Audits accounts to ensure compliance with local tax rules; follow & coordinates with each accounting local team and outside auditors to provides needed information for the annual external audit.
• Complete any other tasks assigned from time to time by the Finance Director.
• Checking & recording several types of petty cash expenses.

Audit Associate à Deloitte
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • décembre 2009 à février 2011

• Performed audit services to businesses in different sectors such as Higher Education, Manufacturing, Food Industry, Hospital, Mechanical & Engineering, Technical & Construction, and Investment services. Exposed to a variety of industries and business models that increased understanding of how businesses operate.
• Assisted in planning and managing engagements along with ensuring deliverables meet work plan specifications and deadlines.
• Supporting the accounting and auditing team in their daily functions.
• Verifying company financial books and data.
• Resolving client audit queries efficiently.
• Effectively documents work.
• Completing segments of audits, compilations, and reviews.

Skills.

• Prepared financial analytical reports using excels tools, power query, power BI, Power Pivot and Power point Converting Data to insight.
• Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data.
• Initiative-taker with strong initiative, ownership, and accountability for business.
• Collaborated with a cross-functional team comprising people from different culture.
• Coached and mentored finance and business analyst team.

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Accounting And Business Sciences
  • à Faculty Of Commercial And Business Sciences
  • septembre 2024

Faculty of Commerce- English sectionh program

Baccalauréat, Bachelor's degree of commerce- English section,
  • à جامعة القاهرة
  • janvier 2009

Specialties & Skills

Oracle Reports
Inventory Accuracy
Accountability
Cash Receipts
Financial analysis
budgeting
purchasing
annual budgets
auditing
ACCOUNTING
CLOSING (SALES)
RECONCILIATION
MANAGEMENT
PETTY CASH
ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS
INVESTIGATION
PLANNING
FORECASTING
GENERAL LEDGER
accounting
ERP.programs
ORACLE-R12
reconciliation
variance analysis
purchase accounting
analysis
Preparing Policies and procedures

Profils Sociaux

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Langues

Anglais
Expert
Arabe
Langue Maternelle

Adhésions

SOCPA
  • Active Member
  • January 2019

Formation et Diplômes

Reading Financial Statements (CFI)®-Credential ID 13300181 (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
July 2019
Excel Crash Course (CFI)®-Credential ID 13403582 (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
July 2019
Certified management accountant (CMA)®-Credential ID 58344 (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
December 2017

Loisirs

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