Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
AGM Financial Restructuring Services
Total years of experience :25 years, 7 Months
• Demonstrated proficiency in quantitative analysis, paired with strong emotional intelligence for organizational and personnel management.
• Dynamic leadership approach focused on continuous business process and operational efficiency improvement.
• Advocate for employee engagement as a cornerstone for achieving company goals.
• Led extensive Vendor and Financial due diligence processes.
• Adept in Financial reporting with a commitment to strict Compliance standards.
• Expert in Tax management, including policy development, risk evaluation, and Withholding Tax strategies.
• Responsible for comprehensive risk register, Audit oversight, and strengthening of Internal controls.
• Diligent in ensuring Zakat Compliance and fiscal responsibility.
• Orchestrates Transfer Pricing strategies to ensure regulatory Compliance.
• Guides Budgeting and Forecasting, providing essential financial insights.
• Utilizes Scenario Planning to proactively address and prepare for future business scenarios.
• Influential in Strategic decision-making to guide corporate direction.
• Manages Performance metrics to enhance organizational excellence and accountability.
• Conducts Profitability Analysis to uncover and leverage financial opportunities.
• Directs Business Planning in alignment with strategic objectives.
• Oversees Capital budget management to ensure alignment with corporate goals.
• Executes Visibility studies for evaluating potential project outcomes.
• Manages Investment portfolios to optimize returns and support growth.
• Maintains effective Cash Management to ensure liquidity and financial health.
• Monitors Financial Covenant compliance to protect the company's credit reputation.
• Tailors Capital structure management to foster sustainable growth and financial well-being.
Financial Controller
• Managing cash flow through forecasting necessary funds and planning for foreign currency requirements.
• Acting as the primary liaison for audits by meeting with external staff, implementing reporting changes, and communicating audit outcomes to upper management.
• Monitoring and improving internal controls, in collaboration with managerial staff, to enhance operational effectiveness.
• Approving invoices, particularly those exceeding standard value limits, to ensure control over large purchases.
• Assisting in the preparation of budgets by providing historical expenditure data across diverse general ledger codes.
• Minimizing financial risk by recognizing current processes, understanding company weaknesses, and recommending areas of opportunity to safeguard company assets.
• Ensuring regulatory financial compliance by understanding external reporting requirements and overseeing end deliverables to external parties.
• Compiling financial reporting adhering to the latest changes in financial practices, managing a team responsible for financial statement preparation, and affirming the authenticity of financial statements.
• Identifying cost savings through understanding operational efficiencies, optimizing staff utilization, identifying duplicated reporting functions, and determining departmental resource needs.
• Mentoring financial staff by encouraging their active involvement in higher-level discussions and leading as an example.
• Spearheaded comprehensive management of daily accounting operations across external branches, encompassing AP/AR, general ledger, budgeting, cash flow projections, and period-end financial procedures.
• Ensured meticulous execution of all accounting
transactions, including journal entry preparation, bank statement reviews, and general ledger reconciliations.
• Upheld stringent accounting standards in
bookkeeping practices, delivering accurate financial records within designated deadlines.
• Conducted thorough bank reconciliations, aligning accounting records with bank statements and crafting detailed reconciliation reports.
• Oversaw the monthly financial close process,
including asset account reconciliations and the
generation of precise financial statements.
• Contributed to financial strategy through adept
assistance in budget formulation, cash flow analysis, and predictive financial trend modeling.
• Analyzed complex accounting data to produce and present clear, comprehensive financial reports for executive decision-making.
• Rigorously verified all accounting documentation,
including payroll, bank reconciliations, and entries, to ensure impeccable accuracy and compliance with financial reporting standards.
• Handled all accounting operations of the group including supervising and managing public accounts & costing accounts, analyses and the maintenance of effective internal controls while ensuring statutory compliance.
• Maintained the company’s books of accounts, recorded journal entries, posted transactions to the ledger and entered rectification & adjustment entries, assisted in monthly, quarterly & yearly closing of books of accounts.
• Monitored daily performance of the department, scheduled jobs and delegated responsibilities to accounting department employees; monitored the progress of financial and accounting objectives.
• Examined bank statements, performed bank reconciliation to compare the balance in the bank with the balance stated in the bank statement and prepared bank reconciliation statements.
• Prepared detailed reports on company’s financial performance on a quarterly and annual basis including income statements, balance sheets, reports of annual profits and expenses and analysis of future earnings or expenses.
• Responsible for timely monthly consolidated financial statements, payments, cash-flow management reporting for submission to senior management.
• Monitored, recorded, classified and summarized financial transactions in accordance with international accounting principles and financial reporting standards.
• Managed all cost accounting related operations, ensuring that the costs for the company’s products and services are allocated according to corporate procedures and in compliance with financial accounting standards.
• Analyzed production costs, recommended changes as well as developed cost standards for materials and labor.
• Designed and implemented cost accounting systems; oversaw cost control systems, managed cost audits and prepared cost accounting reports for presentation to top management.
• Collated historical cost data (materials, labor, depreciation, operating expenses, etc.) to compare budgets with actual expenses.
• Participated in the annual budgeting process, including preparation of standard costs.
• Carried out cost accounting closing functions on a daily & weekly basis while developing and analyzing general ledger and financial statements.
• Oversaw annual physical inventory to ensure accuracy and compliance with corporate policies.
• Developed procedures and controls to ensure meaningful and reliable product costs and accurate inventories.
• Assisted senior management teams in understanding costs, variances, and other operating measures, including product/SKU level margins through key strategic reports.