ريم اليوسف

As a country Finance Leader, my responsibilities include overseeing the company's four entities/joint ventures in the country to ensure:
1. The adequacy of all companies financials via investigating all potential high risks, imposing controls and KPI, and maintaining proper accounting books
2. Partnering with all Internal and External stakeholders to secure all business sustainability and growth needs
3. Provide management with all necessary information to make enlightened strategic decisions

In Addition to being the Company Treasurer, as an Acting Finance Manager, my responsibilities include but not limited to:

 Overseeing the Accounting, Procurement, Operation Control, Collection and IT departments
 Overseeing the external relationships with Banks and financial institutes such as SIDF
 Overseeing the relationships with audit companies and finance government departments such as GAZT and GSTC
 Collaborating with Cluster CFO to improve the efficiency of communication and reporting channels within the organization
 Collaborating with other teams and departments to fulfill the company objectives in an alignment with overall policies and procedures
 Supporting management with shareholders, board and company committees’ requirements/reports
 Preparing Ad-hoc managements reports

 Optimizing cash flow through preparing monthly cash forecasts and utilizing access funds
 Stream-lining the day-to-day practices through creating and implementing procedures for various functions such as processing transactions and managing petty cash at the company’s five different sites
 Managing and improving relationships with existing banks as well as screening for potential future relationships with new banks
 Managing the company debt profile through monitoring loans’ covenants, interest rates and IRS
 Negotiating Loan restructuring or refinancing as well as new loans with banks and SIDF
 Coordinating with both Account payable and receivable teams regarding payments and collections
 Managing Forex exposure through negotiating exchange rates with Banks treasuries

The leader of the team founding the department of account and finance in this start-up branch where my responsibilities include but are not limited to:

 Institutionalizing parent company policies and procedures
 Guiding and training new employees
 Book keeping of all activities related to account receivables, account payable, and treasury
 Communicating with clients and suppliers
 Preparing all monthly and yearly reports
 Analyzing company financial statements and investigating any discrepancies
 Supporting other teams within the company such as billing, logistics, and sometimes operation team
 Representing the company in industry related events such as SPE and MEOS

As a financial analyst with Weatherford, in addition to the tasks I perform as an accountant I handle:
 monthly analysis of financial statement
 monthly financial Presentations/ reviews for top management
 Queries of product line managers related to uploading and analysing their data on the company various systems i.e. KRA, Hyperion, Cadency…etc.
 reconciling company different entities within Saudi and Bahrain

As an accountant with Weatherford, I handle:
 Day to Day direct interface with Inter-company Team for Asset Addition and Disposal & Reconciliation of FA Register.
 proper closing of GL for monthly/annual basis
 Month End Reports: ENB, RNR, AR Trade by Destination
 Product line cost and income statement analysis
 Balance Sheet Reconciliation of all entities in Saudi & Bahrain
 Prepayments Schedules
 Accrual of Revenue, COGS and Tax
 Preparing /Uploading of Roll Forward data for FA, Inventory and AR Trade in Hyperion
 Preparing of Foreign Currency Exposure Reports
 Reconciling/Uploading of Budgets and Forecast in Hyperion
 Routine follow up with Accenture team in Manila for GL Coding