Omar Khalifa

* Analysing financial appraisals to evaluate the profitability of upcoming investments opportunities.
* Preparing quarterly investor reports on profit projections as well as any ad hoc reporting required.
* Constructed a financial model for each project reconciling the overall cash position and ensuring all expenses are booked accurately on the online accounting system.
* Assisting the development team in identifying when certain budget lines are exceeding the budget to ensure availability of sufficient funds.
* Recoded 3 years’ worth of projects spending and costs for an accurate position to date against the budget.
* Restructuring the construction budget for bank loan revaluation submissions.
* Organised a tracking tool for running costs not budgeted for to show their impact on profit appraisals.
* Agreed with bank QS to fund upfront supplier payments on multiple projects reducing the working capital requirement significantly.
* Comparing senior & mezzanine lending terms for various projects along with the equity requirement.
Analysing actual spending against budgets and providing explanations for variances in relation to current projects
* Organising data and analyses into reports for senior management.
* Updating actual cash flows and projections in order to identify future cash requirements from investors.
Reconciling external book keepers’ entries to ensure accuracy of the accounting system.

* Timely and accurately delivery of all reporting requirements throughout the turbulent times of the Libyan revolution and the splitting of Sudan.
* Outstanding legal audit results from Baker Botts covering our business operations in Sudan (operating under an OFAC license) with zero red flags and/or violations over the past two years.
* Overachieved the expected financial reporting compliance rating during the last corporate audit.
* Led initiative to adopt a best practice used in Beirut’s office for automatically tracking all A&M (advertising and marketing) expenses via Microsoft access and applied it to our market unit.
* Led a balance sheet cleansing initiative in 2013 where all idle accounts dating back 5 years were traced and cleared along with all outstanding employee balances.
* Record month end closing entries on SAP; upload financials from SAP to online HFM.
* Consolidate and validate monthly financials on HFM across entities.
* Prepare monthly and quarterly business and balance sheet reviews for management.
* Monitor marketing expenses against budget and calculate monthly OCF impact.
* Provide management with monthly financial packages for volume trends and KPIs.
* Calculate monthly NWSP payables/receivables as well as quarterly reconciliations.
* Evaluating financial reporting processes as well routine and non-routine risk assessments
* Evaluate and update financial reporting processes on a quarterly basis.
* Complete quarterly COSO testing of all financial reporting audit testing.
* Ensure compliance and booking of all T&E (travel & related) claims.
* Maintain HFM system structure to ensure financial integrity.
* Review and challenge the budgets with the department heads to ensure they are in line with the company’s direction and targets.
* Analyse business results vs. Plan/Forecast highlighting opportunities and risks to management.
* Proactive collaboration with the accounting team to identify profit and cash flow gaps versus quarterly forecast.
* Provide analytical and planning support to management using market trends and historical data to assess the profitability of new market launches.
P* lan and track G&A (General & Administrative), S&D (Sales and & Distribution), and A&M (Advertising & Marketing) budgets with senior team leaders.