Ali Al-Aali, Head of Finance & Control

Ali Al-Aali

Head of Finance & Control

Saudi Electric Services Polytechnic

Location
Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accountant
Experience
18 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 8 Months

Head of Finance & Control at Saudi Electric Services Polytechnic
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • My current job since October 2014

-Accounting & Financial Management
-Financial Analysis & Reporting
-Preparing Annual Budget and forecasting trends.
-Developing and updating accounting, finance and management policies and procedures
-Determining financial objectives. Designing & implementing systems, policies & procedures to facilitate internal financial control
-Implementation of a new ERP system (SAP) as main driver ensuring progress from all stakeholders
-Monitoring budgets and comparing them with actual cost and revenues related to production
-Ensure timely and accurate of preparation & filing of statutory Financial Statements, Financial Reports
-Cost control
-Cash management
-Pricing & Costing
-Strategic Procurement
-Strategic Business Reviews
-Contract management

Head of Finance & Control at Saudi industrial Gas Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • December 2013 to March 2014

Duties and Responsibilities:-

-Organizes, supervises and executes all finance and administrative issues of the Company.
-Serves as the financial consultant for all Business Units and Areas by monitoring financial performance against the plan and initiating corrective actions
-Heads and develops the local finance team (Accounting, Controlling & Cash collection)
-Directs the local accounting &reporting, planning, tax and treasury practices
-Leads and ensure the year end audit process, monthly reporting process and ensures a timely and accurate submission
-Manage the cash flow of the company by ensuring trade working capital improvements by managing all stakeholders
-Reviews, assesses and challenges the BU’s actual performance, plans, capital expenditures and growth initiatives
-Provides leadership and challenge for all strategic plans, efficiency projects and other major initiatives including profitability and visibility calculations for those projects
-Ensures and improves the company performance, initiates the necessary measures towards the fulfilment of corporate targets.
-Ensures the operative business excellence through the use of adequate IT processing.
-Supports the implementation of a new ERP system as main driver ensuring progress from all stakeholders
-Ensures a permanent improvement of the local administrative processes.

Sr.Project financial control at Siemens
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • August 2009 to December 2013

• I'm working as a Sr.Commercial project manager / Project financial control for EPC (engineer-procure-construct) project valued more than $30 Million, with the clients SEC, SABIC & Sipchem.
• Responsible for the coordination, the management & follow-up all financial & administrative aspects related to project.

Duties and Responsibilities:-
-Project controlling.
-Revenue, cost and cash flow forecasting and controlling.
-Control, monitor & maintain project cost in SAP.
-Ensures compliance with IFRS (International Finance and Reporting Standards).
-Preparation of cash flow forecast & budget.
-Prepare change request for project value, planned cost & process changes in SAP
-Ensure timely customer invoicing & collection of receivables, create customer invoices in SAP.
-Preparation of financial report to management.
-Participate in internal meeting with project team to review schedule, costs, quality
-Risk & opportunity management.
-Review & identify financial risk & opportunities.
-Prepare requests for forward cover to minimize currency risks.
-Prepare commercial offers to client for change requests.
-Project procurement management.
-Negotiates based on defined requirements with subcontractors/partners & enters into back-to back agreements in alignment with the customer contract.
-Contract management (contract analysis, clarification, deviations )
-Evaluate commercial proposal, determine payment terms.
-Checking of supplier invoices, distribution & follow up approval & booking.
-Process good received (GR) transaction in SAP (MIGO).
-Commercial negotiations
-To ensure compliance of policies & procedures of documentation required for smooth processing of invoices.
-Monitor projects actual expenses against budgeted expenses & take corrective actions in time.

Major Achievements:
-Collect payments from customers on time.
-Payments to suppliers on time.
-Trained some new staff.
-Improving the project profit

Accountant Supervisor at Abdullatif Alissa Group Holding Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2006 to August 2009

Duties and Responsibilities:-
-Accounts payable / Accounts receivable
-Administer cash payments, expenses recording and petty cash reconciliation, checking the vouchers and posting in ledger.
- Maintained petty cash funds and accounts.
-Payroll.
-Prepare journal entries and reconciles general ledger.
-Posting of all bank transactions, payments, receipts and deposits, bank charges and commissions.
-Loans accounting (processing all loans procedures and transactions including creation,
Renewal, scheduling, installments repayment, reporting…)
- Fixed assets accounting, reporting and participating in fixed assets inventory.

Major Achievements:
-Trained of three new staff.
-Reduce the balance of accounts receivable.
-Payments to suppliers on time.
-Reduce errors in payroll.
-Accept my proposal to develop a program for electronic archiving .

Auditor-General at Al-Bassam CPA’s Consultants
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • February 2005 to February 2006

Duties and Responsibilities:-

-Examination of documents and procedures and to carry out the inventory of stocks and assets.
-Auditing Department which was responsible for the cross casting and calling over of the financial statements, in addition of participating in certain substantive tests.
-Participation in the physical counting for the fixed assets of the Saudi Mail Office Authority.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accountant
  • at King Saud University, Riyadh
  • July 2005

Specialties & Skills

Auditing
Microsoft Office
SAP ERP System
Accounting Supervisor
Financial Control
Kerridge System
Team player and able to work under pressure
Time management
Self-motivated
Optimistic

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
  • Membership
  • May 2014
Saudi Organization for Certified public Accountants (SOCPA)
  • Membership
  • April 2008
Saudi Accounting Association (SAA).
  • Membership
  • April 2003

Training and Certifications

Internal Audit (Training)
Training Institute:
Saudi Accounting Association
Date Attended:
March 2008
Duration:
6 hours
Accounting,Zakhat & TAX,Auditing course (Training)
Training Institute:
Saudi Organization for Certified public Accountants - SOCPA
Date Attended:
May 2008
Duration:
912 hours
CMA Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Morgan International
Date Attended:
June 2014
Duration:
216 hours