Chief Financial Officer
The Oxford Partnership
Total years of experience :15 years, 4 Months
Business Planning & Analysis
• Monitored and directed the implementation of strategic business plans
• Developed financial and tax strategies to champion resource allocation and focus on returns before and after tax
• Managed the balance sheet, and developed a funding and capital budgeting plan to optimise liquidity and capital position to ensure appropriate management of risk
• Prepared reliable current and forecasting reports
Operations and risk management
• Ensured the integrity of the financial accounts and accounting controls in country that the company complies with all legal and regulatory requirements
• Ensured record keeping meets the requirements of auditors and government agencies
• Established and monitored reliable control systems to strengthen the risk and control environment in country
• Oversaw the issuance of financial information, reviewed and approved all externally published financial information
• Ensured cash flow is appropriate for the organization’s operations
• Applied internal control procedures for capture and disbursement operations and the integrity of the financial system in accordance with the approved regulations and policies and in light of the financial powers established for each party or person within the group.
• Approval of the Groups financial statements and final reports as the point of contact with the external auditor.
Risk Management
• Project managed the move to a new Finance system through the collaboration of the IT team and ensured that all data was integrated accurately within a restricted time frame.
• Developed internal financial policies and procedures to safeguard the company from potential risk factors that may arise within the company.
• Ensured the commitment of the Departments employees in supporting them apply and participate in their development as users, in a manner that serves to provide complete data for preparing Accounting & Financial Reporting,
• Ensured compliance with the law and company’s policies
• Managed a finance team of various roles.
• Managed a finance team that dealt with payments, journal posting, bank reconciliations, employee travel bookings and GOSI.
• Provided strategic, financial and operational feedback to the CEO on how the company is performing.
• Approved payments and company account reconciliations
• Processed monthly VAT and Withholding Tax returns for the General Authority of Zakat and Taxation.
• In charge of the annual audit - providing all required information to run a smooth audit.
• Work closely with the General Authority of Zakat and Taxation to resolve any issues and provide further information.
• Created new company policies such as company ‘travel booking’ and ‘purchasing products and services’ to create a more systematic and audited process for the company.
Senior Financial Analyst Consultant for the Record to report (R2R) project for General Electric (GE), managing a team and taking responsibility for their performance, appraisals and their contentious development.
Providing strategic, financial and operational feedback on GE’s various reconciliation accounts.
Reconciling large volume of various balance sheets and profit and loss accounts including tax accounts, payroll and bank for Sub Sahara Africa region.
Headed the transitioning process start to end as well as managed the accounts from GE to TATA for reconciliation purpose for the Transportation Business based in South Africa and Healthcare based in Nigeria.
Created and maintained financial models for the actual results reporting in combination with the short-term to mid-term objectives of the project which also assisted the audit team.
Provided quarterly reports analysis on the project performance in various target areas setup by TATA and GE and presented to information to senior management.
Revenue Accountant (April 2014 - Present)
• Produce and analyse monthly revenue and partnership revenue share costs;
• Maintain and evolve Funds and ETFs models including reporting and forecasting
• Produce regular and ad-hoc revenue reports for Sales and other front-office teams, interpreting key trends, and business partnering with these key individuals
• Reconcile partnership statements and deal with external partner queries, building sound relationships
• Deliver budgets and quarterly forecasts for revenue and partnership costs
• Work with partners to produce up to date budgets and forecasts for our partner based revenues
• Complete monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Deal with external auditor queries
• Lead project work to assist in automation of processes.
Contracts & Sales Ledger Supervisor (January 2012 - March 2014)
• Responsible for all aspects of sales accounting, Including billing one-off and recurring contracts, credit notes, liaison with regional sales team and sales queries
• Responsible for the integrity of the sales ledger system which includes the maintenance of the commercial policy price book and managing the annual price increase within the system.
• Ownership of the product coding and contract maintenance records which supports the control and accuracy of revenue accounting
• Responsible for the management and maintenance of the fund related contracts, including ETF, FIFs and Trackers for FTSE International and FTSE China
• Manage the integrity of the financial data reported through the production of month end and analysis of revenue over both the profit and loss and balance sheet including new business, revenue lines and accrued income.
• Analysis of revenue variances by product and with reference to volumes and price
• Provide day-to-day collaborative analytical support to the Sales account teams to enable them to build and iterate their new business revenue plans so that they meet financial targets
• Responsible for the calculation of the quarterly sales manager commission scheme payout and provide an analysis for any variances between the quarters
• Responsible for the delivery of FTSE "New Business" and monthly results as outlined in the monthly management accounts timetable, ensuring that the level of reporting is continually adapted to meet the needs of the business
• Produce monthly attrition and future cancellations report to senior management to assess against forecasts and targets.
• Responsible for production of the monthly pipeline forecast report for new business and attrition to check sales targets are as expected and whether there are any anomaly
• Responsible for the production of the monthly "New Business" report for the whole of Information services departments in LSE which is provided to senior managements. This gives an overall perspective on how the company is doing globally.
• Project managed sales ledger integrations on various new acquisition by FTSE
• Liaising with auditors on system, interim and year end audits
Accounts Assistant (May 2010 - December 2011)
• Invoicing for all new business contracts
• Processing credit notes after appropriate checks and authorisations have been made
• Setting up of new contracts in the General Ledger
• Preparing the new business revenue accrual and the terminal accruals
• Monitoring and tracking the status of contracts between sales, legal and the end customer
• Completion of new business contract checklist for use by Contracts and Sales Ledger Accountant in their review of the draft billing and contract set up within the General Ledger
• Preparing the monthly validation run and performing the initial review to ensure all invoices to be raised are accurate and appropriate.
• Filing of withholding tax certificates, credit note paperwork, and refund requests.
• Preparing and submitting the quarterly VAT return o behalf of FTSE Group to HMRC
• Responding to queries from customers and sales teams
Eritrean Muslim Community Association - (February 2006 - December 2010)
Project Accounts Assistant (Volunteer)
• Analyse and prepare quarterly budgets
• Accounts data collection and entry
• Research information & contact relevant organisations
• Taking & distributing meeting minutes
Jimmy Choo - Accounts Assistant (Internship) (November 2009 - April 2010)
• Accounts Payable & Credit Control
• Spreadsheet based reconciliations on Microsoft Excel
• Inputting invoices/credit notes into Movex
• Processing Staff Expenses
• Journal entries & cost analysis
Atkins - Project Accounts Assistant (Placement) (June 2007 - July 2008)
• Bought Ledgers - Liaised with suppliers & dealt with queries, checked invoices to purchase orders, inputted invoices on the system & contacted internal Project Managers
• Credit Control - Received and banked cheques, posted to the system and allocated payments against invoices & dealt with customer queries
• Timesheets - Timesheet input, dealt with staff queries
• Project Accounting - Invoiced clients, inputted & journal Project Summary Reports on to JDEdwards, liaised with internal staff, run and printed reports from JDEdwards & supporting Project Managers and non-finance staff
• Time Data Audit - Spreadsheet based reconciliations on Microsoft Excel & transfer of time within JDE system
Brunel University 2005 - 2009 BSc Finance & Accounting 2:1 Honours
North Westminster Community School 2001 - 2005 A-Level - Business Studies, Mathematics, Media Studies, I.T
GCSE - English Language, English literature, Maths, Science, Media Studies, Business Studies, Design Product Manufacture (D+T), French, Arabic