Finance Manager
Sedgwick Saudi Arabia Ltd.
Total years of experience :19 years, 5 Months
Key Responsibilities:
- Reporting to Regional Finance Director, EMEA.
- Preparing forecasts, budget, periodic Variance analysis & company financial business plan.
- Presenting financial results and business direction giving reasons and recommendations to the board of directors.
- Controlling all aspects of operating income & work in progress with high analytical performance.
- Preparing, monitoring & reviewing daily transactions ensuring compliance with Company policies and procedures using Vanguard, SAP & BPC.
- Managing, developing & implementing the needed Controls.
- Handling monthly payroll.
- Work in both statutory and management books comply with GAAP & IFRS standards.
- Preparing taxes returns; with-holding taxes, vat taxes and approving auditor’s zakat & income tax return.
- Leading & handling the compliance of the company internally & externally with all government laws & regulations especially the compliance with SAMA (Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority).
Key Achievements:
- Improving output & meet deadlines: The commitment to all targeted deadlines for periods closing, submission of returns with the highest integrity and accurate level.
- Mitigated financial Risks: Identifying financial risks, evaluate, introduce and measure.
- Reduce Operation Costs: Acheived cost saving by improving our billing procedures, train staff & extensive use of available resources.
- Improving working capital: Reducing provisions and DSO average, collecting $275 of formerly recorded bad debt.
- Improving compliance on internal procedures: Identifying non-compliance issues, enforcing adherence to local and global regulations, providing guidance whilst enabling open reporting channels.
- Customer relation Improvements: Reducing Complaints, enhancing customers relationships.
- ERP shifting Process: Succeeded in the smooth shift from local system to global SAP accounting system.
Key Responsibilities:
- Reporting to finance manager.
- Managing finance team; assigning tasks, monitoring, reviewing & approving all routine transactions.
- Participate in building a good regulatory environment to raise the level of performance in the accuracy of financial management outputs.
- Dealing with our internal & external auditors regarding all matters.
Key Achievements:
- Establish with finance manager the financial System & procedures from scratch.
- Detecting the weak points in policies, discover manipulations & rectifying inventory errors.
- Motivate staff to maximum productivity and
control costs through the most effective uses of manpower and available resources.
Key Responsibilities:
- Reporting to CFO.
- Controlling all financial aspects in the branch ensures the compliance to the company policies and procedures.
- Prepared a variety of studies, & reports that have received attention by my superiors.
- Participate in the quarter & yearly Consolidation process for the group.
- Extensive use of different modules in ERP system (Oracle E-Business Suite 11i).
Key Achievements:
- The success in putting controls in place which have the good effect in raising business performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Worked on full accounting cycle tasks starting from the preparation of journal entries to the preparation of financial statements.
- Worked on the assessment of new projects, preparing forecast and projects expense reports.
Key Achievements:
- Acted as the SME in the successful implementation of “Great Plains” ERP system. Switching from manual system to ERP system.
Key Responsibilities:
- Worked on full accounting cycle tasks starting from the preparation of journal entries to the preparation of financial statements.
- Worked in all accounting tasks starting from the preparation of journal entries to the preparation of financial statements, handling several tasks regarding assessment of projects & forecasts.
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting 2001