Business Partner
Deyaar Development PJSC
Total years of experience :18 years, 0 Months
➢ Oversight of Finance department employees with a focus on Development
Projects, Asset Management and Sales Strategy and Policy
➢ Work with the business in providing finance-based solutions to commercial challenges and initiate change where required
➢ Delivering high quality management information and insights that aid top management in decision making
➢ Developing strategies that work to minimise financial risk and maintain the financial health of the organization
➢ Writing of business plan including market research and testing
➢ Capital raising, cashflow forecasting and management
➢ Stakeholder Management
➢ Accounting and statutory filings
➢ Payroll, HR & training and managing the onsite team of around 25 staff
➢ Financial, risk and performance management for a pan-European real estate fund
➢ Overseeing fund level financial statement consolidation
➢ Overall responsibility for fund model and reporting the results
➢ Supporting the Fund Manager throughout the asset lifecycle including acquisition, disposal, capex planning and lease re-gearing
➢ Critically review business processes and systems and initiate change where required
➢ Fund analysis to determine the potential impact of transactions on funds
➢ Property level cash flow forecasts and consolidation to fund level
➢ Property level business plans to aid Fund Manager performance management and decision making
➢ Played a key role in the implementation of new fund management software
➢ Lead accountant for several UK property funds
➢ Created and implemented a new cash reconciliation method for service charges which dramatically improved the accuracy and shortened the timeframe of the process
➢ Full cycle service charge accounting from budget setting, periodic spending review against budget, quarterly and annual reports, cash reconciliation