Group Financial Controller
Faruk Group Holding
Total years of experience :19 years, 7 Months
Leading the finance team in the holding company and coordinating with 20 finance managers of the subsidiaries under the group to ensure the efficient implementation of the financial policies and procedures of the group.
Generate the stand-alone annual financial reports of the holding company according to the Iraqi accounting system.
Participating in generating the consolidated annual financial report of the group according to IFRS in coordination with the external auditor (one of the big 4)
Managing the process of initiation, auditing, recoding and posting financial transactions in the ERP system
Controlling the transactions and investments at our local and international bank accounts.
Monthly bank reconciliation. and AR/AP accounts reconciliations.
Attending group monthly meetings and periodical subsidiaries meetings.
Member of the committee of new investments opportunities.
Interview and hiring the senior team in the subsidiaries.
Managing and controlling all branch operation duties and responsibilities with the team of 13 employees.
Developing the bank’s business through maintaining its clients base and developing new business relationships.
Managing and controlling employees’ duties and responsibilities in the branch.
Managing and developing the internal work environment.
Ensure to implement policies and procedures of Byblos Bank Group.
Reporting to the Country Manager and coordinating with all department managers in the head office to ensure success implementing their departments objectives in the branch.
Attending monthly CBI -Basra meetings of Bank’s branches managers.
At January 2016 I have moved officially from Asiacell telecom. to the new sister company AsiaHawala for Non banking financial services, under FGH (Faruk Group Holding) to start an entirely new challenge in term of the position, responsibility, and industry.
AsiaHawala has been established to provide mobile payment services MPS in the Iraqi market as a first company in Iraq provide such a services for Asiacell subscribers. The idea started at 2012 in Asiacell to provide mobile financial services and started implementation under Profession Mobile Services Business Unit, I have joined this BU at April 2014. The management and the team struggled for long time to acquire the platform and to have the CBI (Central Bank of Iraq) license and establishing AsiaHawala co.
My role was to establishing the finance department and building the financial system including having the appropriate accounting software, build the chart of accounts, design vouchers, opening bank accounts, recruitment, reviewing and confirming the financial process in the core system of mobile money.
At 29th of December 2016 we did launch the services and a new stage of challenges have been started.
Finance manager of mobile financial services ( mobile money ) .
• I’ve been moved from Basra branch to HQ in Sulymania, to managing financial functions of mobile financial services project under Professional Mobile Services(PMS) Business Unit, as it was planned to separating this BU to be a sister company to Asiacell.
• Start this position with reviewing and updating financial operation process in light of accounting principles, building the chart of account COA based on the industry of the project and reporting requirements, mapping the COA with the Iraqi consolidated COA for the governmental financial reporting requirements, having accounting software, hiring finance department staff, preparing invoices forms, developing the financial process, opening bank accounts.
• I managed all operation function of finance department including processing payments, bank accounts reconciliations, recording, reporting, and the preparations for launching stage.
-In addition to my job in Asiacell I was a lecturer in accountant dep. College of administration & economic / university of Basra, after I got Msc. From the same department I assigned in this job, so far .
-I gave lectures in principles of accounting, auditing, accounting information systems, and accounting theory .
-I gave lectures in training curses for accountants, engineers in many companies .
-I have established the finance dep. In Basra branch to manage the finance operation for Asiacell project in the south of Iraq .
- I was supervise recruiting suitable staff in the dep., and than I manage Finance, accounting, purchasing, warehouse keeping works,
- I am authorized to signing lease contract for towers sites and offices and other contracts for Asiacell in south of Iraq region .
- I participated in many committees to make different strategic decisions in south region .
-I was the deputy regional manager for south region .
MSc. in Accounting with thesis about "improveing data quality of AIS in Banks" ,