زهير حسن

• Prepare monthly standalone financial statements for 16 subsidiaries, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and full IFRS compliance.
• Maintain and update detailed disclosure notes reflecting operational and financialdevelopments across the group.
• Support the monthly consolidation cycle by coordinating with subsidiaries to validate adjustments, resolve discrepancies, and review submissions before finalization.
• Strengthen reporting timelines and internal controls by improving documentation standards and cross-entity communication, supporting a more efficient month-end close.

• Led end-to-end accounts payable operations across multiple entities, overseeing vendor payments, procurement accounting, and production cost recording.
• Took ownership of the Fixed Asset Register (FAR): conducted full physical asset counts, ensured completeness and accurate tagging, and managed asset disposals through the ERP in place of manual entries.
• Prepared monthly depreciation schedules and reconciled them against ERP records, investigating and rectifying variances on a timely basis.
• Reviewed long-outstanding supplier balances, clearing aged credit balances to the P&L and driving recovery or write-off of debit balances, while building monthly controls for tracking and following up on supplier advances.
• Managed the full month-end close cycle, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and management reporting in line with IFRS.
• Strengthened intercompany transaction accuracy through structured review and reconciliation procedures, and maintained strong vendor relationships to support smooth internal and external audits.

• Prepared monthly and quarterly financial statements, supporting management's strategic planning and decision-making.
• Managed bank reconciliations, vendor payments, and day-to-day cash flow monitoring across operations.
• Conducted financial analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities, partnering with operational teams on budgeting and timely reporting.

• Managed the complete accounts payable function — procurement accounting, invoicing, and payment processing — in line with company policy.
• Oversaw end-to-end payroll for 150+ employees through the WPS system, and recovered approximately 70% of long-outstanding employee advance balances exceeding SAR 300K.
• Prepared monthly bank, intercompany, and balance sheet reconciliations, reducing reconciling items and errors across the reconciliation cycle.
• Filed monthly withholding tax and VAT returns and reported to Treasury and CIT quarterly, ensuring full regulatory compliance.
• Trained and supervised accounting staff, and partnered with external auditors and offshore teams to standardize reporting and ensure compliance.

• Processed supplier invoices, supported payroll operations, and monitored creditor aging to maintain healthy vendor relationships.
• Managed letters of credit (LCs) in line with banking requirements and introduced internal control improvements that reduced AP
errors.

• Managed accounts payable processing, vendor reconciliations, and invoice verification for a multinational pharmaceutical operation.
• Partnered with procurement to streamline payment approvals and prepared creditor aging reports to support cash flow planning.

• Conducted external audit fieldwork for clients including Dubai Islamic Bank and Bayer Pharmaceuticals, reviewing internal controls and identifying risk areas.
• Prepared audit reports with practical recommendations for process improvement.