Ashkar Alhan

Diversified Government Portfolio: 14 entities across Marine, Ports, Real Estate, Hospitality, FMCG & Trade
- Own the full FP&A cycle across a 14-entity government portfolio — annual budget preparation, rolling forecasts,
and monthly spend tracking against plan, providing forward-looking commercial insight to senior leadership and
board.
- Lead monthly management reporting — consolidating financial data from SAP and Oracle ERP across 14 entities,
preparing variance commentary and performance analysis, and presenting findings to divisional managers and
executive stakeholders.
- Deliver commercial finance support to business unit leaders — translating financial data into actionable insights
that drive resource allocation, cost optimisation, and strategic planning decisions.
- Design and maintain Power BI dashboards and automated reporting frameworks, enabling real-time performance
visibility across the portfolio and reducing manual reporting dependency.
- Lead a finance team of 11 across monthly close, balance sheet control, IFRS compliance, and intercompany
reconciliations — ensuring accuracy and completeness prior to executive review.
- Built Excel VBA and Python automation on SAP/Oracle ERP, reducing close processing time by ~30% and freeing
team capacity for value-added analysis.
- Manage UAE VAT compliance group-wide and coordinate external and internal audits across all entities —
consistent audit-ready reporting delivery maintained throughout.

- Managed financial and regulatory reporting across 10+ jurisdictions simultaneously — MENA, Central Asia, and
Africa — each with distinct local compliance frameworks and non-negotiable submission deadlines, all met without
exception.
- Built consolidated risk and exposure reporting tools from scratch, integrating data from multiple source systems
and delivering accurate management outputs to senior leadership.
- Coordinated with finance contacts across multiple countries and nationalities, navigating time zone and regulatory
variation to deliver group-level reporting on schedule every period.
- Designed planning and forecasting inputs to support commercial decision-making across the banks trade finance
portfolio — consolidating exposure data into forward-looking risk summaries.
- Zero missed deadlines and zero compliance exceptions recorded across all jurisdictions throughout tenure.

Healthcare | Fintech | Marine & Shipping | FMCG | Real Estate — 5 Business Units
- Led financial planning and budgeting across 5 commercial divisions simultaneously — integrating inputs from
business unit leaders, challenging assumptions, and producing group-level forecasts and scenario analyses for
senior management.
- Delivered consolidated management reporting each period — multi-source data integration, intercompany
eliminations, and variance commentary ensuring accuracy and completeness prior to executive review.
- Acted as finance business partner to division heads — translating financial performance into commercial
language, identifying trends, and recommending corrective actions to optimise business unit performance.
- Business travel to Nigeria, Madagascar, Malaysia, and Singapore — direct engagement with local finance teams
and commercial counterparties across emerging and frontier markets.
- Maintained financial controls and audit readiness across the group, producing audit schedules and resolving
queries across multiple annual cycles.

Financial Services —FP&A, Reporting & Finance Operations
- Led budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning for the business and its commercial client portfolio — producing
variance analysis and management summaries for senior decision-makers.
- Redesigned consolidation and close processes using Excel VBA automation, delivering a 15% cost reduction and
materially improving the quality and speed of management reporting outputs.
- Owned the full accounting cycle end-to-end —journals, reconciliations, monthly close, IFRS financial statements,
and audit coordination — and led a 3-person finance team.
- Identified reporting inconsistencies and process gaps; proposed and implemented solutions that improved
forecast accuracy and reduced time-to-insight for management.

- FMCG (Macksons Holdings): Led financial planning and management reporting across a multi-entity FMCG
holding structure — group consolidation, intercompany eliminations, and statutory reporting across multiple annual
cycles.
- Banking (Amana Bank): Produced Central Bank regulatory submissions — CAR, LCR, NSFR, NPL — on fixed
deadlines with zero compliance breaches over four consecutive years; built strong discipline for high-accuracy,
deadline-driven financial environments.
- Four consecutive years of Central Bank regulatory reporting at Amana Bank —zero compliance breaches (CAR,
LCR, NSFR, NPL).