Group Finance Manager
Hikaru Shipping Line Group
Total years of experience :10 years, 5 Months
• Orchestrated financial strategies for 11 entities (Shipping and Logistics, Technology etc.) elevating policies and practices.
• Directed cross-functional teams, enhancing risk assessment, control implementation, and compliance.
• Led KPI tracking, reporting, and evaluation, driving informed financial decisions.
• Pioneer IFRS alignment, ensuring accurate & compliant financial reporting.
• Formulated and executed corporate tax planning strategies, optimizing tax liabilities.
• Collaborated on strategic funding initiatives, considering tax implications for expansion.
• Led and mentored financial teams, fostering a culture of continuous growth and performance.
- Worked with BDO Singapore; and clients (including MNCs) from UAE, KSA, Pakistan, Switzerland, China and USA.
1) Working on remote audits including group audits from planning till finalization, including working on a specific technical area, preparing quality deliverables and audit files, and other related specialized areas and recommending solutions.
2) Providing advisory regarding finance, accounts, ERP(Functional) internal controls and taxation to clients including MNCs.
3) Provide tax planning and strategies and recommend actions.
4)Prepare the standalone/group financial statements, complete the consultancy and consolidation process of group entities in various countries of multiple clients, and support the audit of FS.
5) Advisory on complete pay-out solutions (receipts and payments) to businesses having the online operation (e.g apps) including all the related operational, management, legal and regulatory consultation.
6) Review the data of clients and prepare reconciliations across different ERP modules and support them by providing solutions.
1) Overall planning of audits, designing audit strategies, supervision, review and finalization of assurance engagements including preparation of quality deliverables, resolving audit queries and taking appropriate actions.
2) Identify, research and resolved the accounting and auditing issues;
3) Analyze past results, and variance analysis, identify trends and make recommendations for improvements of internal controls.
4) Review & test design, implementation and effectiveness of internal control system and provide recommendations for improvement.
5) Prepare redrafted standalone and group financial statements, complete the consolidation process and audit the Group/SA financial statements (MNCs/large groups): align/adjust them with IFRS/FRFW.
- Worked on entities from KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait and UAE.
- Othman Group, NAMA Chemical Group, Ghossaibi Group, PAN Gulf Group, Al Osais Group, Salman Group etc.
- Sectors: Chemical, Technology, Hospitality, F&B, Travel & Tourism, Oil and Gas, Real Estate, Construction, Engineering, Environmental etc.
1) Develop, operate and maintain commercial systems and procedures that will meet the needs of the HQ.
2) Handle international and cross-border taxation matters and advice on tax planning.
3) Support the business team by evaluating the project's revenue and cost breakdown and provide a summary for HQ’s risk evaluation form approval processes.
4) Coordinate to ensure all business records are correctly recorded in the ERP system and reported to HQ and relevant regulatory authorities. Manage the end-to-end financial accounting functions e.g Accruals etc
5) Coordinate HQ to ensure all compliance matters including accounting reporting, audit and taxation.
6) Responsible for the data submissions for the timeliness, completeness and accuracy for CT Pakistan and aligning them with CTG accounting policies and IFRS. Analyze movements, & investigating variations.
7) Reporting any anomaly from the data extracted from different systems so that it could be promptly identified and appropriately highlighted. Train employees to ensure compliance with policies & procedures.
8) Define a chart of accounts disciplines (also for the new IFRS implemented) to ensure uniformity in accounting. This involves specifying reconciliation and controls in line with IFRS.
Our responsibility includes collecting, processing and delivering relevant, timely and accurate information used for providing strategic, financial and operational feedback to all business units around the world. It also includes primarily the implementation of ERP, closing all modules, preparing reconciliation, investigating the reasons of variation and rectifying them, also;
- Data extraction, data collection and data validation;
- Months-end closing & reporting:
- Review the data flow across different ERP Modules/Group entities and a variety of applications and prepare reconciliations and solutions.
1) Planning, execution and finalization of the external audits, financial advisory assignments and agreed-upon procedures in accordance with the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs), International Accounting Standards (IAS & IFRS), Companies Ordinance, GAAP and other laws and regulations.
2) Analysis of the financial data and review of data regarding assets, liability, capital, income & expenditure.
3) Review and provide solutions for data flow and controls for new IFRS implementation.
4) Review designing, implementation and effectiveness of the internal control system and provide recommendations for the improvement of internal controls.
5) Preparing redraft financial statements and making adjustments in accordance with IFRS/FRFW.
Sectors: Construction, Telecom, Technology, Power, Oil & Gas, Education, Health, Government, NPOs etc.
(CPA Qualified) Completed ICPAP qualification and experience requirements: Advanced Financial Accounting and Reporting, Auditing, Financial Management, Business Analysis, Taxation, Management Accounting, Information Technology, Business Laws, Corporate Laws and Corporate Governance.
CA Finalist (Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan) Completed ICAP training requirement of three and a half years of audit experience from Deloitte, and currently appearing in Final module examination.
Economics