Fadel Fawaz

• Leading the financial restructuring and investment readiness of a growing chocolate
manufacturing business, supporting strategic planning, financing, and sustainable
growth initiatives.

Dairy Manufacturing \ FMCG

• Led the finance function across budgeting, financial reporting, treasury, cash flow
planning, and management reporting for a food manufacturing business.
• Directed preparation of the annual budget and business plan, including sales
assumptions, profitability analysis, distribution expansion scenarios, and performance
reviews.
• Strengthened financial controls, payment governance, and reporting discipline to
improve cash visibility, approval control, and management decision-making.
• Supported ERP and finance process improvements to enhance reporting accuracy,
workflow discipline, and coordination across finance, procurement, costing, and
operations.
• Performed commercial and financial analysis across channels, margins, cost structure,
and working capital to support profitability improvement and better operating
decisions.
• Prepared executive investment analysis for FADECOs investment portfolio, assessing
financial performance, valuation movements, liquidity position, and key investment
risks to support management and board decisions.

• Directed financial strategy across multi-sector (Construction, Manufacturing, FMCG, Real Estate).
• Led Odoo ERP implementation, streamlining workflows and reducing manual processes by 60%.
• Developed financial dashboards and cost control models, driving a 10% reduction in overall costs.
• Strengthened internal controls and audit, to boost accountability across departments and reducing operational risk.
• Prepared consolidated financial reports and conducted group-level analysis across 8 entities, improving decision-making and financial transparency.
• Perform ongoing fundamental and technical analysis of a marketable securities portfolio to support investment strategy.

FMCG / Dairy Manufacturing.
• Built a consolidated financial reporting structure that improved reporting accuracy,
enhanced management visibility, and reduced reporting errors across the business.
• Implemented Risk Management and compliance practices that supported clean
external audit outcomes and stronger banking and supplier relationships.
• Achieved 15% OPEX reduction through value chain analysis, tighter budget control
and improved forecasting discipline.
• Established segregation of duties and stronger control environment to reduce fraud
risk and strengthen governance.
• Led successful implementation of Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP within two
months, enhancing process controls and reporting efficiency.
• Managed quarterly bank facilities exceeding USD 2.5 Million and led negotiations with
banks and finance companies.

Prepare interim financial reports and analyse the performance of profit centres.
• Designing the financial reports and analysis process of LPG factory (sister company).
• Evaluating and managing risk, in addition to giving recommendations for gaps found in procedures.
• Closing end of year accounts and perform end of year reconciliation of intercompany transactions and statements.
• Perform Research and Studies to assist management in budgeting and forecasting

Oil & Gas \ Retail \ Real Estate.
• Prepared interim financial reports and profit-centre analysis to support management
decisions and business performance monitoring.
• Developed reporting and analytical processes for a sister company (Phoenicia LPG),
improving financial visibility and control.
• Conducted budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis studies to support
planning and operational decision-making.
• Identified and reported 50+ fraud, control breach, and embezzlement cases,
contributing to stronger internal controls compliance, and risk mitigation.
• Reviewed operational and accounting procedures of sister company (DOCS), identified
control gaps and fraud exposures, and supported management in implementing
corrective controls and risk-mitigating procedures.

Conducted primary accounting control for 12+ Convenience Stores of DOCS.
• Analyse, examine, and interpret account records and recommendations with management.
• Detected 50+ Fraud and embezzlement committed, in addition to 100+ miss-recording accounting data documents.
• Overseeing Bank and Supplier reconciliation.
• Closing end of year accounts and preparing interim financial reports.
• Processed journal entries and performed accounting corrections to ensure accurate record.

1. Perform external audit for companies.