Sahar Khalid, Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Sahar Khalid

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Baker Hughes Inc

Location
Kuwait - Al Kuwait
Education
Master's degree, Finance
Experience
11 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 7 Months

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager at Baker Hughes Inc
  • Pakistan
  • March 2015 to June 2015

• Financial planning, analysis, reporting, technical accounting and business partnering relationship between Operations and Support Functions
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Monthly tempo review and sequential bridge
• AR Management, ensuring Lapse days & DSO are maintained to minimum
• Weekly Revenue & FM Flash by Product Line
• Product line/Customer/ Contract profitability analysis
• R&M analysis, SLOB & Bad Debt Review
• Weekly Billing and Collection Tracking
• Handling Projects as assigned

Country EFO Lead at Baker Hughes Inc
  • Kuwait
  • March 2014 to March 2015

• Creating an engaged high performing EFO team with potential to grow
• Leading Statutory Income Tax Declaration and Inspection
• Maintaining general ledger, A/P, A/R, cash disbursements and other func-­‐
tional areas.
• Coordinating the production of various financial reports that summarize
and forecast company business activity and financial position.
• Handling Entity Rationalization project
• Managing AP Scanning Center in country
• Ensuring continuous effective communication between EFO, Ops, FPA and
other stakeholders
• Documentation Retention as per the policy
• Participating in the most complex general accounting projects.
• Working together with OPS and FPA on various country projects
• Supporting various CI and regional projects

General Accounting Lead Middle East & Africa at Baker Hughes Inc.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2013 to March 2014

• Leading a diverse team of four accounting members
• Handling Prepaid Processes
• Handling mobilization/ demobilization process
• Managing Corporate Income Tax processes for ME, updating standard pro-­‐
cess based on country laws/ requirements
• Managing APWF Accruals Process
• Handling Concur T&E Accruals std process and providing related support in
clearing aged T&E reports
• Handling Fixed Loaned/Borrowed Assets accruals process
• Handling VSAT Accruals Process for Africa
• Leading R type sharepoint creation and management project
• Handling Projects as assigned

Senior A/R Accountant at Baker Hughes Inc
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2012 to June 2013

• A/R & Revenue Standard Processes Implementation
• Streamlining Revenue & A/R Processes
• Reduce topsides to minimal
• Maintaining Kuwait, Egypt & Jordan A/R Revenue Close Processes
• Middle East BlackLine Account Reconciliations Review & follow-­up
• Reduce Revenue Accruals Volume by effective follow-­up
• Flash vs. Actual Variance Identification
• Accrued Revenue Ageing & Analysis
• Liaising with internal & external auditors for Annual Revenue & Receivable Audit

Senior GL Accountant at Baker Hughes Inc.
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • February 2008 to December 2012

• Kuwait Financials Monthly Variance Analysis including detailed review of P/L & B/S
• Computing and analyzing trends in financial data
• Financial Master Data Management
• Standard processes Implementation (AR Revenue, Inventory, Inter-­‐
company and AP)
• Legacy Business Process Improvement
• Reviewing BS Acct Reconciliations
• Forex Currency Translation Adjustment (CTA) Analysis
• Securing approval for expenditures on (CAPEX)
• IC rebilling, IC Balances Confirmation -­‐ Identifying & resolving outages
• InterCo Advances Reconciliation
• Buyout exclusions from commission payable to CSR
• InterCo / 3rd Party Revenue & Cost Accruals
• Quarter Pack, Tax / EOS roll forward Submissions
• Handling Audit queries, Taxation and other STAT Reporting.
• CSA (Controls Self-­‐Assessment) Validation for Kuwait
• Remotely handled Qatar Baker Atlas Accounting including but not limited to IC, AR, P/L review and reporting, Trend Analysis, B/S recons and Month End Close accruals

Senior Accountant at Al Dali International Co
  • Kuwait
  • October 2004 to October 2007

• Keeping track of project costs and manage actual vs. budget analysis
• Ensuring revenue streams and costs are captured and reported timely
• Undertaking and performing analytical reviews of the business whilst
evaluating costs and profitability
• Preparing monthly, quarterly, semi-­‐annual management reports and
variance analysis
• Balance sheet control reconciliation’s and P&L reporting

Accountant at Sharjah & Kuwait Manufacturing Co. Ltd - Kuwai
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • September 2003 to September 2004

• Performing Bank Reconciliations
• Handling Accounts Payables
• Performing General Accounting Tasks
• Book-­‐keeping, posting journals & maintaining general ledger

Baker at Hughes Inc
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Education

Master's degree, Finance
  • at SUIT
  • January 2011

Specialties & Skills

Time Management
Compliance
Teamwork
Analysis
Performance Excellence
ACCOUNTANCY
ACCOUNTING
ACCRUALS
AP STYLE
FINANCIAL
GENERAL LEDGER
PROCESS ENGINEERING
REPORTS
TAX PLANNING

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certified Fraud Examiner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999