Ali Al Tahifah

Support the CFO in developing the strategy by providing recommendations to strategically enhance financial performance and business opportunities.
Manage the financial control framework with responsibility for all financial information provided internally and externally.
Contribute fully to the development of company strategy across all areas of the business, challenging assumptions and decision-making as appropriate and providing financial analysis and guidance on all activities, plans, targets and business drivers
Manage the collective achievement of the finance departmental objectives through the leadership of the finance department - setting individual objectives, recruiting qualified staff, managing performance, developing and motivating staff, provision of formal and informal feedback and appraisal
Ensure that company financial systems are robust, compliant and support current activities and future growth
Implement operational best practices
Ensure financial legal compliance.

Handle full spectrum of financial and cost accounting role eg. AR, AP, GL, forecasting, budgeting
• Responsible for day to day finance and accounts operations
• Perform full set of accounts and ensure timely closing of accounts.
• Perform project cost forecasts/budgets, cost tracking, monitoring and controls.
• Responsible for timely monthly consolidated financial statements, payments, cash-flow management reporting for submission to HQ.
• Review & issue payment vouchers & journal entries
• Perform cash flow forecasting, budgeting and working closely with the operations and project teams in analyzing margins, variances and cost analysis.
Issue project cost reports for review and approval.
• Develop and maintain internal control and effective accounting system and policies for the set up.
• Support MD in ensuring that inter-company cost allocations are in line with management agreements and transfer pricing policy
• Establish and maintain systems for cost-sensitivity analysis and early-warning of cost-overruns
• Work consultative with the respective departments on cost reduction initiatives.

Credit Accounting - task Performed
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Maintain the corporate credit policy
Recommend changes in the credit policy to senior management
Create a credit scoring model
Manage customer credit files
Monitor the credit granting and updating process
Accept or reject the staff's credit recommendations
Personally investigate the largest customer credit applications
Personally visit the largest customers to establish relations
Monitor periodic credit reviews
Monitor deductions being taken by customers
Manage the application of late fees
Manage the corporate financing program
Credit Cards Reconciliations
Payables Management - task performed
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Review invoices and check requests
Sort and match invoices and check requests
Set invoices up for payment
Process checks requests
prepare and process accounts payable checks, wire transfers and cash payments
Reconciliation of payments
Prepare analysis of accounts
Monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date
Resolve invoice discrepancies
Vendor files maintenance
Correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries
Produce monthly reports
month end closing
Payroll Accounting - Payamaster accounting
Cost controlling

Enering Daily Transactions, Auditing and Peparing FINANCIAL STATEMENTS