Financial Analyst
Arabian Oud
Total years of experience :5 years, 7 Months
• Handled monthly consolidation process, and prepared key Financial Statements, and KPI Dashboards.
• Prepared reports, ad-hoc analysis, monthly cash forecasts, operating plans budgets and revenue forecasts.
• Analyzed Arabian Oud’s financial and Operational Performance, build robust financial models that reflected historical trends, and generated 3-5 years Revenue, Profitability and Expense forecasts.
• Reviewed weekly and monthly budget performance reports and performed variance analysis to highlight differences in performance that ensured operational compliance and reported discrepancies.
• Created a consolidated dashboard that evaluated the profit margin of different products, identified the critical products and advised mark-ups or downs / discounts and future buying patterns.
• Improved financial status by analyzing results, monitoring variances and recommending actions
• Reviewed all purchase orders and invoices for compliance and accuracy
• Formulated receivables & creditors payment after conducting due aging analysis
• Saved AED 500, 000 by implementing cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems.
• Examined budget performance and followed up on Key Indicators; Collections, Payables, Stock, Sales & Net Margin.
• Managed a project to streamline financial data and eliminated backlog of 6 months due to ERP crash.
• Created dashboards / scorecards by collecting, cleaning, and structuring data for analysis from 5 disparate databases, improved reporting time, and live information on key trends, gap and patterns.
• Liaised between brand managers, and group finance manager on operational improvements and cost savings.
• Managed periodic and sudden physical counts, investigated the discrepancies, reconciled and reported them for accountability as per company's shrinkage policy
• Designed PowerPoint presentations and incorporating financial trends concise in charts / diagrams.
• Handled Fixed asset booking, calculated depreciation forecasting and capital WIP procedures.
Masters of Business Administration in Finance discipline and obtained degree with distinction. Completed final project while applying CAMEL analysis of four financial institutions i.e., private and public and performed detailed ratio analysis to assess and compare the performance.