Abdul Liyas Mancheri CMA ACMA

Providing regional strategic financial leadership for a diversified business group
operating across UAE, KSA, Oman, and India.
• Built and structured the KSA finance function, recruiting and training highperforming professionals to support business growth and ensure strong financial
governance.
• Driving working capital optimization, strengthening credit control processes
and reducing overdue receivables by 53%, significantly improving liquidity.
• Leading cash flow management and forecasting through implementation of a
13-week rolling cash flow model, enhancing visibility and proactive decisionmaking.
• Managing trade finance operations, including export Letters of Credit (LCs),
and negotiating with banks for bill discounting facilities to optimize funding and
cash conversion cycles.
• Overseeing end-to-end accounting operations for the KSA division, ensuring
compliance with local regulations, accuracy in reporting, and alignment with
group policies.

• • Leading financial operations for a $2.5B FMCG conglomerate across KSA, UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar.
• Preparing Quarterly and Annually Consolidated financial Statements by ensuring accuracy and compliance, monthly financial performance analysis reports comparing planned and actual performance for each business unit and group level.
• Introduced renewed financial policies and procedures and improving internal controls, workflows and process efficiency timely.
• Led implementation of Odoo ERP across multiple geographies and leading digitalization across the group.
• Designed Power BI dashboards for each department by integrating live data from different Odoo regional servers to improve executive decision-making through real-time insights.
• Developed strategic financial models supporting long term growth and managing new investment portfolios, coordinating cross functional plans with different business heads to align with strategic plans.
• Ensured timely and accurate submission of VAT, Zakat, ESR, and Corporate Tax returns in compliance with GCC regulations.
• Managing and mentoring a team of 40+ professionals across finance and accounting departments.
• Reporting to CEO

• • Oversaw the finance department operations, including policy creation, budgeting, recruitment, and performance evaluation.
• Managed treasury transactions, cash flow forecasting, and maintained relationship with different banks.
• Analyzed monthly P&L and implemented cost reduction strategies by coordinating with business unit heads and improved gross margins by 23%.
• Filed VAT, WHT, Zakat, and income tax returns on time and ensured audit compliance.
• Managed working capital effectively to achieve key working capital metrics targets (DSI, DSR)
• Evaluated and ranked each business unit according to financial performance by using Dupont Analysis, Contribution analysis and Responsibility Accounting.
• Analyzed potential investment and Capex opportunities by using NPV, IRR, Payback Period and opportunity costs to support management decision making
• Initiated and prepared financial model focusing five years growth and updated time to time with actual data, introduced rolling budget to support financial model.
• Implemented Focus ERP
• Reported to CEO.

• Prepared standalone and consolidated financial statements for the group, led budgeting, financial planning and forecasting and coordinated with external auditors on behalf of all subsidiary companies.
• Prepared multi-dimensional analysis reports to support management decision making such as Contribution analysis (Business unit level and product wise), Value Chain Analysis, and investment analysis for Capital Expenditures.
• Coordinated and synchronized with each Business unit heads to finalize budgets, review and evaluate key operational and financial metrics and to achieve annual operation plans.
• Reviewed trial balances and ensured accuracy and compliance for financial reporting across subsidiaries.
• Managed ERP (Alpha with Oracle database) system implementation for group-wide accounting operations and start ups under group
• Implemented, reviewed and managed cost accounting systems for each subsidiary company and improved gross margin effectively.
• Reported to CFO.