Wael Al Faraj

Saudi Arabia Finance Manager

• Managing all aspects of day-to-day financial activities across all operating entities.
• Managing all aspects of tax & legal compliance activities such as; entity corporate governance, VAT and all direct & indirect taxes.
• Maintaining a robust internal control environment and overall responsible for signing off on the quarterly Control Operating Self-Assessment COSA.
• Assuring Group Accounting Policies are communicated, understood and adhered to at all times
• Leading and supervising the Finance Department with hiring, training, monitoring, managing and appraising the Finance staff.
• Promoting financial discipline and cost optimization as well as business process improvement & opportunities.
• Overseeing the preparation of monthly management and financial reports including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow
analyze and explain major variances to Budget and Forecast
• Managing and coordinating all treasury matters, facilities, BGs, cash management.
• Leading Cost savings, high efficiency, productivity monitoring, and process improvement initiatives.

• Managing all aspects of day-to-day financial activities across all operating entities.
• All aspects of tax & legal compliance activities such as; entity corporate governance, indirect or direct taxes
• Maintain a robust internal control environment and overall responsible for signing off on the quarterly Control Operating Self-Assessment COSA
• Ensure Group Accounting Policies are communicated, always understood and adhered to
• Display the appropriate leadership skills to supervise the Finance Department with hiring, training, monitoring, managing and appraising the Finance staff.
• Managing all local treasury matters including banking relations and maintaining most efficient credit facility utilization.
• Promote financial discipline and cost optimization as well as business process improvement & opportunities.
• Oversee the preparation of monthly management and financial reports including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow sales. Analyze and explain major variances to Budget and Forecast

• Managing all accounting and reporting aspects for projects from concept to commissioning.
• Responsible for working capital efficiency including, Billing supervising, DSO, cash flows, and client relationship
• Compliance assurance with SOX, USGAP, and IFRS
• Project bid evaluation and bid-to-award cost change impact analysis
• Project Execution Opportunities/Risk Highlighting
• Managing all budgeted shared project functions
• Efficiently managing LCs & Bank Guarantees

• Periodic and Static Budgeting
• Forecasting
• 3-Way Variance Analysis
• Job Costing
• Cost Control & Allocation
• CAPEX & OPEX Proposals and Cost-Benefit-Analysis
• Subsidiaries & Joint Venture Accounting
• Compliance Reporting & Audit follow-up

• Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet notes & reconciliation
• Business Trend & Variance Analysis
• Overhead accounting and Analysis
• Reports Consolidation
• Forecast
• LEAN projects and cost saving analysis
• Cross Segment Internal Audit, Internal Control Assessments, and SOX compliance

• Capital efficiency & Credit Control
• Internal & external DSO
• Billing and client relations
• Contract analysis and amendments support
• Exposure and bad debt management

Supervisor (2002-2003)
• Payment forecast
• Managing all accruals
• Funding & Treasury Reporting for local & overseas accounts
• Clearance overdue liability and smoothing process
• Bank Reconciliation keeping
• SWPS Procurement System Control Analyst for ARM Geo-market
Payable Accountant (2001-2002)
• Handling vendor invoices & bookkeeping
• Accruals
• Coordinating with procurement and logistic departments
• Payment processing
• Ensuring archiving within company’s policy and government authorities standards