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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Overseeing financial implications of multiple entities within group based in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia having diverse operations and dealing with the responsibilities through a team of Finance Managers, Accountants and support staff and making sure that full set of accounts are performed correctly.• Acting as a business partner to provide guidance and direction to the head of each BU and developing trustworthy relationship with the Business Unit to drive financial management and processes.• Group reporting, consolidations and financial analysis on the performance of subsidiaries & project financing, including investment valuation of subsidiaries.• Liaising with regional directors to analyze the performance of their respective regions (setting KPI's, performance based bonus calculation, AR/AP management).• Establish a culture of trust, compliance, and financial control with all internal and external stakeholders.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Managing the Group’s financial & treasury systems, ensuring financial information is timely, accurate, complete, and compliant with relevant accounting and taxation principles.• Group reporting, consolidations and financial analysis on the performance of subsidiaries, projects, financing, including investment valuation of subsidiaries.• Reviewing financial reports (monthly, quarterly, yearly) submitted from subsidiaries and closing of books as per IFRS as well as preparing monthly consolidated report for the group & presenting it to the senior management based in France (HQ). • Responsible for making sure that VAT, CIT & WHT returns are submitted correctly and on time for all the related entities.• Preparation of annual budgets, cash flow forecast, inter-company reconciliations & GM% analysis for holding company entities, and setting of targets for the business segment & regions.• Performing variance analysis & recommendations on monthly BS & P&L from BU's compared to budget and last year and issue reports as required by the management• Assist the Group CFO in presenting reports to senior executives, stakeholders, and board members.• Managing External / Internal Audits & Liaise with Tax consultants & corporate Lawyers

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Performed full set of accounts and ensure timely closing of accounts. • Responsible for preparation of timely monthly consolidated financial statements, payments and cash-flow management reporting for submission to HQ in France.• Ensuring proper Accounting standard are followed.• Oversee operations of the finance department, set goals and objectives, and design a framework for these to be met.• Support CFO in ensuring that intercompany cost allocations are in line with managementagreements and transfer pricing policy• Reviewing the monthly payroll calculation and disbursement of salaries.• Quarterly Filing of VAT return• Performing relevant financial analysis, such as cash flow forecast, sales and P&L per customer• Bank reconciliation and resolving any differences• Interaction in a timely manner with the parent company to support with useful information and analysis

Malaysia

• In charge of Company's Account Receivable/Payable, Treasury, Payroll and Inventory management• Assuring timely and accurate sales invoicing as well as verifying items billed against goods sold through keeping check and balance on sales order, delivery order as well as B/L.• Weekly reporting of invoicing totals/ageing totals/invoice adjustments• Cash management and debit/credit memo creation.• Verifying & approving purchase voucher, PO’s as well as MRN's & Purchase Invoices• Preparing and reconciling company's weekly/monthly statement of accounts, Bank Statement and statement of overall company's inventory• Creating monthly provisions whenever required• Monitoring company inventory stock level including both FG & RM and controls inventory levels by conducting physical counts, reconciling with data storage system• Keeping track of goods delivered and opening/closing stock.• Preparing monthly Payroll of all employees• Preparing and submitting yearly Corporate Tax to Inland Revenue Board (IRB) of Malaysia• Quarterly report submission on export of goods to Bank Negara Malaysia• Assisting CFO in preparing and analyzing Financial Statements as per company’s policies• Reviews, investigates, and corrects errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents, and reports• Ensure that sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements• Recording and detailing of all the transactions on ERP Focus V7.0• Liaising with bank, auditors, tax agent, company’s secretary, clients and suppliers• Month end variance analysis & reconciliations

Karachi, Pakistan

*Preparing and analyzing accounting records and financial statements according to the company policies*Performed bookkeeping and administrative duties*Maintaining records of donations for Budgeting and Cash Flow Forecast.

Karachi

• Preparing invoices, credit and debit vouchers and directly dealing with customers• Using MISYS software for cash transaction like withdrawals, deposits, remittances, accounts opening and clearing of cheques

Master’S Degree, Accounting And Finance, 2:1

Activities and Societies: University of Salford Accounting Society

Bachelor’S Degree, Finance, 3.5 Cgpa

Activities and Societies: Bahria University Model United Ntion (BUMUN), University football co-coordinator, Student Resource Center (SRC).