George Sabry Mikhail Philops

• Orchestrate end-to-end financial governance for a diversified Group (F&B and Operations).
• Direct monthly closing cycles, ensuring unified reporting standards across subsidiaries.
• Spearheaded margin analysis for multi-branch F&B operations, providing actionable insights that
optimized menu pricing and inventory turnover
• Analyze group financial performance, KPIs, and margins; provide strategic insights and recommendations
to senior management to support growth and profitability.
• Prepare and review financial statements in compliance with IFRS/SOCPA, supporting timely year-end
closures.
• Liaise high-level relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, and regulatory authorities, reporting
for all kind of inspections and ensuring full compliance with ZATCA statutory requirements (zero penalties
during VAT inspections and audits).
• Drive continuous improvement of accounting policies, systems, and internal controls, enhancing
reporting accuracy, efficiency, and transparency across all subsidiaries.

• Led end-to-end finance and accounting operations for multiple business units, supporting trading,
distribution, and service operations.
• Developed and created annual budgets and forecasting processes, prepared annual budgets exceeding
SAR 100M, monitored and reduced variances, implemented corrective actions.
• Established rolling cash flow forecasts that improved working capital stability and strong banking
relationships enabling smoother procurement for heavy equipment distribution.
• Engineered a strategic cost-optimization program across trading and service units, delivering 40% cost
savings via renegotiated vendor contracts and waste reduction.
• Prepared detailed P&L statements and management reports by business unit/branches, supporting
executive decision-making that improved margins levels and sales performance.
• Ensured full compliance with SOCPA, IFRS, VAT, and ZATCA regulations.
• Achieved a clean audit record (Zero Findings) across all years by enforcing strict internal controls and
SOCPA/ZATCA compliance frameworks
• Lead and manage finance teams comprising 8 Accountants and 12 logistics/operations staff across
multiple locations.
• Overseed AR/AP, general ledger, fixed assets, inventory accounting, and payroll processes.
• Coordinated with external auditors and successfully support annual audits.

• Managed financial planning and budgeting for ICT projects, strictly controlling the invoicing cycle based
on Percentage of Completion (POC), retentions, and contract terms
• Implemented accounting functions across all company activities and departments.
• Validated supplier contracts and procurement activities to ensure value-for-money and adherence to
project budgets.
• Managed Percentage of Completion revenue recognition, retention receivables for complex ICT projects,
customers advances, contracts terms and ensuring accurate cash flow projections.
• Implemented payroll systems and ensured accurate timely payments.
• Supported management with financial analysis, cash flow forecasting, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Managed banking relationships, reconciliations and cash forecasting to ensure liquidity for project
execution and timely supplier payments.
• Managed AR/AP, general ledger, fixed assets, inventory accounting.

• Managed accounting functions across multiple construction projects.
• Prepared job cost reports, monitored budgets, and analyzed material and labor variances to support
project profitability.
• Supported contract reviews, changing orders, and audit preparation.
• Strengthened internal controls and compliance frameworks.
• Prepare and analyze P&L statements and financial reports.

Progressive accounting roles including Accounts Receivable Supervisor and Cost Accountant in
construction, manufacturing, transportation, hospitality, and FMCG sectors, with strong focus on cost
accounting, budgeting, inventory control, and financial reporting.

Highlights:-
- Analyze financial information to produce forecasts of business, industry, and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions.
- Assemble spreadsheets and draw charts and graphs used to illustrate technical reports, using computer.
- Interpret data affecting investment programs, such as price, yield, stability, future trends in investment risks, and economic influences.
- Prepare plans of action for investment based on financial analyses.
- Present oral and written reports on general economic trends, individual corporations, and entire industries.
- A corporate finance analyst, or associate, uses business acumen and investment knowledge to review a firms financial statements and recommend investment strategies to senior leadership. A corporate finance associate also reviews a companys liquidity (cash) levels.
Key Responsibilities: -
- A corporate financial analyst evaluates a firms operating data, compares current versus historical information and provides investment selection strategies to senior management and detects liquidity trends by appraising a companys different financial ratios.
- Analyzes Accounting Data and prepares the transition to financial statements, using various computer software and spreadsheets.
- Uses the Company’s ERP to generate financial analysis and build firm’s Budget.