MAZEN EL BARDAN

• Direct a team of 4 in effectively managing the finances of a complex enterprise, training and
coaching individuals in employing best practices and policies to continually elevate quality of work
and team productivity.
• Lead the restructuring of the finance department, effectively delegating and assigning accounts
receivables, accounts payables, General Ledger, and document controller in order to optimize
workflows among a team of 4.
• Define the plan and timeline for starting up the migration process from Tally ERP.9 to Business
Center -Dynamics 365, guiding the completion of all deliverables along key benchmarks of
success.
• Head the implementation of data cleansing across bank reconciliations, AR ledgers, AP ledgers,
accruals, and prepaid accounts, effectively eliminating data backlog.
• Review financial statements of the subsidiary in KSA, reconciling intercompany balances.
• Produce MIS reports for all jobs, tracking profitability and evaluating against preliminary
estimations; categorize costs based on the issued purchase orders, highlighting excess quantities
and measurements to achieve maximum return with minimal expenditure.
• Govern operations for allocating factory expenditures against overheads for consumable items and
machinery usage across different stages of production, including: printing, engraving, welding,
assembling, packaging, and shipping.
• Evaluate workflow of each stage of production, determining the precise allocation rate in order to
forecast manpower needed for each stage; effectively control costs under the framework of
Activity/Base/Cost.
• Optimize systems for monitoring factory labor hours, allocating timesheets to respective running
jobs; verify all monthly payrolls for office staff and factory workers, processing through the WPS.
• Execute monthly financial close, balance sheet, and income statement reporting, delivering directly
to the General Manager to enable data-driven decision making.
• Responsible for preparing and updating the daily bank position to control cash management, as
well as the post-dated cheques issued to ensure due cheques are financially covered.
• Complete quarterly VAT return filing, communicating with the Federal Tax Authority to resolve any
disputes in respect to invalid penalties.
• Collaborate with the HR department to setup Medical Insurance for office staff and factory workers.
• Negotiate with suppliers to resolve outstanding disputed balances, securing discounts and final
settlements to mitigate and prevent legal action against the company.

• Coordinated with external auditors to guide the delivery of amortization schedules, AR/AP
reconciliation, accruals/prepayment schedules, and other audit related requirements to achieve
timely audit reporting.
• Spearheaded execution and review of daily financial activities, including: invoice verification to
support project approvals and payment without delay; and follow-up with India office and project
team to confirm approved invoices and payments complied with PO terms and conditions; with
PBG & ABG valid whenever applicable.
• Conducted due diligence on vendors, subcontractors, prospective clients, JV partners, and other
stakeholders to confirm their financial capability to perform and deliver potential purchase
orders, effectively mitigating any partnership risks.
• Partnered with proposals team to advise on various finance-related matters, supporting
data-driven and financially sound planning and strategizing.
• Migrated processes from an old software to ERP in partnership with the IT team, verifying that all
migrated data matched across: vendor balance, PO balances, AR balances, balance sheets items,
and P&L items.
• Ideated and implemented strategy to support the migration process, utilizing mail merge and
excel to process 3, 000 invoices for projects approvals while the system was frozen; enabled the
streamlined flow of approval processes until the ERP was established.
• Guided team of 2 in complying with all confidentiality policies, protecting bank records and client
information by preventing mishandling of data and mitigating potential breaches.
• Demonstrated expertise in consolidation and VAT to support a range of projects, collaborating
with teams of 8 to guarantee compliance with all relevant policies and procedures.
• Championed monthly closing activities, including verification of bank reconciliations, fixed assets,
schedule and deprecation entries, MTM and CTC entries, and revaluation and HEDGE deals
entries to meet group reporting deadline.
• Piloted processing of LC/ LPO/ LG applications and amendments with efficiency to avoid any delay
in shipments and penalties.

• Architected and improved accounting systems and processes to meet business needs and
maximize operational efficiency, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align objectives and
meet goals.
• Entrusted with compiling general ledger entries within a short timeline, achieving 100% accuracy.
• Performed in-depth financial analysis in order to suggest key budgetary adjustments that
successfully increased company profits.
• Verified over $30M in cash and credit payments on a monthly basis, demonstrating fluency in
multiple currencies, including: Euro, USD, JPY, AED, DZD, GBP.
• Designed an effective tracking sheet for Vessel investment and for overheads being built in China
with an overall cost of $750M USD, streamlining categorized cash flow reporting to management.
• Supported financial management conversion by performing functionality, capability, and system
integrity testing prior to launch.
• Commanded daily cash functions, including: account tracking, payroll and wage allocations,
budgeting, donating, and all types of cash and banking reconciliations with 100% accuracy.
• Presided over Petrofac Nigeria financials, performing monthly close processes, reconciling
actual costs of PINL vs. budget, reconciling supplier and receivable balances as well as
tax-related balances.
• Oversaw payroll-related activities for Petrofac Int’l Nigeria Limited, including salary and HR
advances, computation of deductions and reimbursements for the month, preparation of salary
transfer letters, and resolving payroll queries from employees.
• Created the segment-wise P&L statement; monitored PINL cash flow against the budget;
reviewed receipts from client and matched with AR Invoicing; tracked all back-charge expenses
paid on behalf of the client.
• Crafted financial reports for business units and jobs; prepared GL entries related to prepaid,
accruals, depreciation, and exchange difference entries (including HEDGE deals entries).
• Accomplished all inter-company accounting requirements, including raising monthly debit notes
to various group companies for expenses/costs incurred by PIL as well as managing accounting
for all invoices received from various group companies of Petrofac as approved by the respective
project managers.
• Cooperated with group accountants to reconcile inter-company balances at month end, resolving
all disputes and generating relevant periodic reports.
• Managed the fixed assets register, calculating depreciation for all blocks of assets on a monthly
basis, passing all the required journals on a monthly basis, and gaining approval of the Finance
Manager.
• Held all bank materials, statements, and fixed deposit confirmations in strict confidence.
• Shepherded major data migration projects to ERP oracle, inclusive of formatting, data
verification, and data matching fields being migrated with the original data source.
• Documented all cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses and line of credit transactions.