Nihala Hussain Email & Phone Number

Dubai, AE

United Arab Emirates

• Managed the preparation and analysis of monthly P&L, balance sheets, and cash flow reports for the MENA region, ensuring accurate performance tracking against budgets and LBEs.
• Directed the forecasting process and development of Annual Budget & LBEs, collaborating closely with Sales, Commercial, Marketing, Supply Chain, and HR teams to align financial plans with business objectives.
• Delivered consistent and timely weekly and monthly reports to the EMEA region, adhering to Group reporting standards.
• Providing strategic financial guidance to top management by simplifying large datasets into easy-to-read dashboards.
• Developed scenario analyses and comprehensive business review presentations for top management, incorporating current trends and business conditions.
• Analyzed actual sales versus targets for monthly and quarterly business reviews, overseeing sales team incentive calculations.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Preparing event budgets & forecast for all Therapeutic Areas across MENA region.
• Managing, tracking, reporting all events & project spend using Power BI for providing insights to Budget Owners.
• Led the monitoring of overall budget consumption, ensuring alignment of spending with quarterly budgets for each product, and providing timely reporting to ensure financial accuracy.
• Ensured all planned events adhered to Merck’s global brand objectives, standards, and design guidelines, maintaining consistency with corporate branding.
• Managed the reconciliation of payments and transactions with distribution agents, including Free of Charge (FOC) goods, bonus goods, demurrage, and regulatory/legalization costs.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Posting of Journal Entries & invoices on SAP.
• Managed month-end closing postings, including accruals, petty cash, HR entries, prepayments, fixed asset tracking, depreciation, reclassifications, bank clearing, foreign exchange valuation, and IFRS compliance.
• Achieved DSO and DPO targets vs Budget.
• General Ledger and Cost Center & Internal Order master data management in line with Global Chart of Accounts.
• Executing weekly payment runs for the META region.
• Monitoring Cash Flow & Management of bank portal by ensuring sufficient bank account balances in various currency accounts.

Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Worked on Private Equity deals for 2 new start-up companies in Middle East.- Assisted in financial valuation of NMC Healthcare using DCF model and worked on its acquisition of various hospitals in Saudi Arabia.- Conducted market research on the Private Equity companies and Family Offices in MENASA region.- Supporting due diligence & negotiations.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Gathering and analysing data about university programs offered in USA. - Finding competitive edge over programs offered by top ranked universities.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Proposed a new profitable shipping route connecting the East Africa and Middle East which could provide the company a competitive edge over other shipping lines.- Drafted consolidated forecasts and budgets and analysed trends in revenue, expense, capital expenditures and other related areas.- Identified areas of cost cutting for improved operations.

Bachelor’S Degree, Economics

Activities and Societies: Regional Immersion Project, Model United Nation (MUN-2015) - 80% Scholarship for 3 years - Studied in Singapore.

Certified Management Accountant (Cma), Accounting And Business/Management

Chartered Financial Analyst, Finance, Level 1 Candidate

High School, Economics, Accountancy, Marketing And Computer Science Programming, 94% In Cbse.

Activities and Societies: 12th Grade School Topper in 2015 (Commerce)

Certified Management Accountant (Cma®), Accounting And Finance