Elango Padavettan

• Led annual budgeting and forecasting for a USD 75M business, improving forecast accuracy from 82% to 96% and
supporting strategic decision-making.
• Improved operating profitability by 12% through cost optimization initiatives, vendor negotiations, and disciplined
budgetary controls.
• Directed multi-entity financial reporting and consolidation across Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Africa, ensuring IFRS
compliance, timely management reporting, and effective decision support for senior leadership.
• Spearheaded ERP implementation and finance process automation, reducing month-end close from 10 days to 4
days and enhancing reporting accuracy.
• Managed liquidity, cash flow forecasting, and treasury operations across multiple entities, improving working
capital efficiency and ensuring uninterrupted business operations.
• Managed end-to-end P&L performance, providing profitability analysis, scenario modelling, and financial insights
to support business growth and operational performance.
• Strengthened treasury controls and cash visibility, reducing financing costs by 15%, while maintaining 100%
compliance with VAT, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Led and mentored the finance team across accounting, reporting, treasury, and compliance functions,
strengthening financial governance and enhancing operational efficiency. Successfully negotiated banking facilities
and credit arrangements supporting multi-country operations.

Key Giga-Projects (Finance — Worlds est. USD 1.23B
Managed budgeting, cost forecasting, billing, and contractor invoice verification; processed contractor payment
cycles supporting uninterrupted progress on this landmark project. — 450km Linking Makkah & Madinah: disbursement and USD 4B, 3-Phase Development: 1.2 Million sq.m Project: — USD 30B Mass Transit Project (6 Lines, 85
Consortium): across terms

• Financial Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
◦ Built and maintained company-wide financial models supporting strategic decision-making.
◦ Led annual budgeting and quarterly forecast updates.
◦ Track budget vs actuals and explain key variances.
◦ Supporting leadership with financial analysis for strategic decisions.
◦ Provided financial input for new projects, partnerships, and investments.
• Accounting and Financial Close
◦ Oversee the outsourced accounting team.
◦ Ensuring accurate bookkeeping and general ledger management.
◦ Managed monthly and year-end financial closing.
◦ Ensuring Invoices, expenses, and payments are properly recorded.
◦ Ensuring financial records are audit-ready.
• Management Reporting
◦ Preparing monthly management reporting.
◦ Produce clear financial dashboards for leadership.
◦ Tracking key financial metrics (revenue, margin, cash, burn, runway)
◦ Preparing financial reports for board meetings.
• Budget Control and Spend Oversight
◦ Reviewing purchase requisitions and approval memos.
◦ Monitoring department budgets and spending
◦ Ensure spending follows approved budgets.
◦ Flag financial risks or overruns early.
• Treasury and Cash Management
◦ Monitoring company cash position and runway.
◦ Managed payments and collections.
◦ Forecast cash needs and liquidity.
◦ Managed remote relationship with UAE, Regional and International Banks.
• M&A and Strategic Transactions
◦ Support financial analysis for acquisitions or partnerships.
◦ Support due diligence processes.

• Developed MIS reports, profitability analysis, budgeting models, and management dashboards to support business
decision-making across group companies.
• Conducted internal audits and control reviews, identifying process improvements and strengthening compliance
and governance frameworks.
• Coordinated internal and external audit activities, ensuring timely resolution of audit observations and enhanced
financial controls.
• Strengthened procurement and expenditure controls through contract reviews, purchase order monitoring, and
payment process improvements, reducing operational errors by 20%.

• Managed treasury operations, liquidity planning, foreign exchange exposure, and debt servicing activities for large
scale infrastructure projects.
• Developed rolling 12-month cash flow and free cash flow forecasts, improving funding visibility and supporting
proactive liquidity management.
• Led debt restructuring initiatives and lender negotiations, optimizing financing arrangements and supporting
working capital requirements.
• Optimized surplus cash deployment, banking structures, and treasury processes, reducing transaction costs and
improving cash utilization.
• Managed relationships with domestic and international banking partners, facilitating credit facilities, guarantees,
and treasury support for major projects.
• Supported SAP transformation initiatives, treasury controls, and audit compliance programs, strengthening
governance and financial risk management.

• Perform audit work, including plan preparation, work papers, findings, and associated reports. Prepare audit
reports and work papers to ensure adequate documentation exists to support the completed audit and
conclusions. Assess, design, document and test the operating effectiveness and efficiency of key controls.
• Analyse, monitor, Supervise transaction-processing operations. Oversee outsourced accounting functions.
Maintain an orderly filing system of accounting documents. Collaborate with auditors as needed. Coordinate
with colleagues to prepare the companys annual report. Plan and Prepare operational ad-hoc reports.
• Reviewing purchase orders, claims and contracts, controlling the requisitions process and purchase orders for
supplies and equipment. Monitoring end to end payment and expenditures, including payroll, purchase
orders, invoices, accounts statements decreasing errors by 20% through organized digital and paper files.
• Conduct internal controls testing and identifying issues/gaps with respect to control design or operations.
Maintain process documentation i.e., process flowcharts, risk and control matrix etc. Interact with process
owners and stakeholders independently. Identify systems, business and process improvement opportunities.
• Support across controllership Teams to prepare the financials, Audit data and other filing. Plan and Prepare
the reconciliation and ensure the compliance of companies policies. Provide inputs for monthly and quarterly
business reviews in a timely manner. Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modelling.