Husam Al Khalili CMA MSc Accounting

• Assessment of the company’s current financial performance and position and figure out ways for profitability and growth improvements.
• Evaluating the company’s overall financial health, by applying key financial analysis tools, ratios and models.
• Determining which of the company’s products/services or product lines generate the largest contribution of its gross profit, and further perform Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis and determine how changes in costs and volume affect a company's operating income and net income.
• Identifying overall business degree of operating leverage and financial leverage.
• Working with individual departments to prepare budgets and consolidate them into one overall corporate budget.
• Preparing internal financial reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision making.
• Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of the company’s future operations.
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward.
• Considering opportunities for the company to expand or grow; map out growth plans, including capital expenditures, investments and working capital management, in order to generate multi-year financial forecasts.
• Provide upper management with analysis and advice regarding how to most effectively utilize the company’s financial resources to increase profitability and grow the company at an optimal rate, while avoiding putting the company at serious financial risks.

• Perform financial statement analysis using fundamental techniques such as financial ratios and profitability analysis.
• Advise on corporate finance issues related to risk and return, financial management, raising capital, working capital management, and corporate restructuring.
• Advise on corporate investment decisions through conducting the capital budgeting process and discounted cash flow analysis.
• Analyze business and financial information to build forecasts of targeted businesses, industries and identify synergies for the use in making investment decisions or enter into a business transaction such as in merger & acquisition.
• Develop feasibility studies for new investment opportunities in the food security sector in terms of production, trading or logistics.
• Develop business plans for the group entities based on the master corporate strategy.
• Develop business models and capital/operating budgets accordingly.
• Maintain and develop various financial models and standard templates distributed for use by all of finance during the planning processes, ensuring quality, accuracy and focused analytic review.
• Analyze initiation, operation and disposal cash flows and working capital requirements before seeking a trade finance and negotiate bank terms.
• Handling all the required group reports (Monthly, Quarterly, Annual).
• Provide accurate cash-flow projections, and monthly budget reports to the group and to budget holders.
• Calculate and issue financial and operating metrics.
• Handling of product cost calculations, updates and provide costing sheets for any new products or services taking into consideration all supply chain costs.
• Interpret data affecting investment programs, such as price, yield, stability, future trends in investment risks, and economic influences which would influence the decision making.
• Maintain knowledge and stay well-informed of developments in the fields of food security, business, finance, and economic theory.
• Monitor fundamental economic, industrial, and corporate developments through the analysis of information obtained from financial publications and services, investment banking firms, government agencies, trade publications, company sources, and personal research.

• Managing the corporate finance projects and financial consulting assignments.
• Conduct Privatization and Build - Operate - Transfer (BOT) services.
• Preparation of Private placement memorandums.
• Preparation of business plans and feasibility studies.
• Conduct financial due diligence and business valuations.
• Preparation of financial projections and financial cash flow forecasts.
• Provide ongoing advice and support with flotation, mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs / buy-ins and disposals.
• Advice on reorganizing and restructuring existing businesses.
• Conduct business process mapping and re-engineering with emphasis on developing policies and procedures manuals.
• Proposal writing and engagement negotiations.
• Conduct Training Sessions.

• Assist in managing the corporate finance projects and financial consulting assignments.
• Preparation of business plans and feasibility studies.
• Conduct financial due diligence and business valuations.
• Preparation of financial projections and financial cash flow forecasts.
• Conduct business process mapping and re-engineering with emphasis on developing policies and procedures manuals.
• Proposal writing and engagement negotiations.
• Conduct Training Sessions.

• Completing all fieldwork and data collection related to corporate finance projects and financial consulting assignments.
• Conduct As-Is documentation and gap analysis and prepare draft policies and procedure manuals in To-Be format.
• Develop the complete set of working papers and supporting documents for compliance audits as required by grant agreements of agencies such as (USAID, UN, World Bank).
• Assist in designing assumptions and financial models for feasibility studies.
• Conduct financial statement analysis using financial ratios and profitability analysis and cost/volume/profit analysis.
• Assist in conducting financial due diligence and business valuations.