Finance Manager
Emirates Advanced Research & Technology Holding LLC
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :14 years, 9 أشهر
• Responsible for finalization of financial statements in compliance with the IFRS standards, operating agreements, policies, laws and regulations.
• Manage full-cycle SAP ERP Finance applications (GL, AP, AR and AA) including SAP BPC- Planning, Budgeting, reporting and Forecasting.
• Perform requirement gathering, design, configure, test and deploy SAP functional module(s) FICO - GL, AP, AP, AA and SAP BPC
• Map business requirements to the functional module(s) FICO, MM, SD and Budgeting and Consolidation(BPC)
• Monitor the day-to-day financial operations by supervising all the processes related to the financial accounting operations which includes billing, AR, AP, GL and Payroll.
• Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and successfully integrating business needs with available opportunities
• Analyze financial data related to strategic projects which include, but not limited to, mergers, acquisitions, divestment, integration, and cost optimization.
• Ensure project governance and seek continuous improvement and project optimization.
• Responsible for Solution Design Documents (SDD), Functional Design Documents (FDD), Test Cases, Test scenarios and User Manuals
• Track project requirements and delivery against milestones with the implementation teams, identifying and coordinating resolution of any constraints or issues.
• Involvement in all finance-related systems implementation and assisting in the preparation of relevant business requirement documents, conducting required UAT and providing trainings.
• Ensuring adherence to UAE VAT and other tax compliances including computation of tax, payment of tax, filing of returns and related compliances.
• Liaise with auditors /support end-to-end internal and external audit activities (Planning, Scheduling, Tracking and Follow-up). Lead the implementation of recommendations by internal and external auditors.
• Liaising with the account owners and ensure all self-identified issues are reported through the RAG reporting submitted, and that the items at risk have a corrective action plan with an action owner and a target resolution date. Following-up for the timely resolution of all such issues.
• Review costs and perform cost/benefit analysis related to projects and/or programs and ensure that the business is run in compliance with all regulations.
• Prepare long-term financial projections. Performs financial analysis to enable/support definition of business concept, long-term vision and develop business strategy
• Ensure a solid control environment that comply with the corporate governance structure, Contracts Manual/SOP and DOA issued by the Group. Ensure that the company meets the requirements of both internal, external and government auditors.
• Setting up bank accounts and maintaining banking relationships, ownership of authorized signatories and working on cash-flows
• Responsible for capturing, analyzing and estimating business requirements and translating them into SAP ERP solution architecture that fit within the business environment
ETISALAT as a major shareholder, this is a private joint stock company with the activity of satellite telecommunications. I was involved in the following day-to-day activities of the business.
• Manage monthly closing of books of accounts; perform tasks in relation to monthly, quarterly and annual financial books closure.
• Annual budget preparation/approval by coordinating with respective Departments / Divisions to obtain the relevant information. Responsible for forecasting, budgeting and Management reporting / variance analysis
• Prepare long-term financial projections. Performs financial analysis to enable/support definition of business concept, long-term vision and develop business strategy
• Working out costing related to call per minute /Develop and maintenance of costing model
• Dealing with banks and cash flow management to ensure efficient use of groups resources
• Implementation / Configuration of Pre-paid and Post-paid Rate plans in ‘IN’ and BSCS system respectively
• Supervise and participate in the preparation and review of all monthly and annual financial statements.
• Extracting daily usage reports, fraud usage /Roaming reports by using SQL query
• Interacting with the Internal and External auditors in completing the Audits. Lead the implementation of recommendations by internal and external auditors.
• Dealing with Project costing / Capitalization of completed projects after issuing PAC / FAC
• Configuring systems to automate the reports
• Working on business plan presentations to be presented to the BOD/Group CEO
• Develop and monitor all internal controls to ensure the company’s assets are safeguarded,
ACCOUNTING, COSTING, MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING