GMG is the Middle East’s leading family-owned business affiliated with some of the world’s most successful and respected brands, including Nike, Columbia, Timberland, Vans, Mama Sita’s, and McCain. The group operates across the GCC and South-East Asia (SEA) regions, spanning Sport, Everyday Goods, Health & Beauty, Properties, and Logistics sectors. GMG covers 12 countries, 58 cities, 650+ stores, 120+ brands, 6 factories, 12 community malls, and employs over 14,000 staff.As the Vice President of Finance at GMG, I oversee all financial activities for the groupKey Highlights:Strategic Financing: Successfully negotiated significant facilities with local banks to enhance working capital and support the Group’s growth initiatives.Process Automation: Led the automation and digitization of key processes, including stock insurance control, daily sales reconciliation, and the management of electricity bills for over 500 stores.Team Revamp: Conducted a comprehensive reassessment and revamp of the corporate finance team, managing a group of over 90 professionals to drive efficiency and performance.Centralization Efforts: Centralized group treasury, procure-to-pay (P2P), record-to-report (R2R), and order-to-cash (O2C) processes to streamline operations.Tax Strategy Contribution: Played a key role in implementing the Group’s corporate tax strategy, including the assessment of Pillar 2 initiatives.Family Office Development: Spearheaded the establishment of a family office to enhance financial management and investment strategies for the Group.

Responsible for Group’s statutory and management reporting including annual budgets, 5-year plan, treasury management, weekly cashflow consolidation and management, final reviews of bid/proposal submissions for new contracts, VAT reporting and bank relationship management. Responsible to keep group finance manual and policies updated while managing and streamlining the Delegation of Authority Policy for the group. Responsible for integration of Inhouse software and several Financial software used across different divisions of the Group. Implementation and monitoring of user access rights based on segregation of duties principle. Furthermore, managed Business Compliance and Internal Audit departments of the Group as addedresponsibility. Highlights: 1. Concluding VAT Refund claim audit by FTA 2. USD 2m facility negotiated International bank 3. Consolidated and Standalone Financials sign off by auditor EY within the record time for AMS.4. Group Compliance of ESR, UBO and VAT Filings 5. Billing and recovery of USD 100m in record time.

Promoted as Regional Director Finance for the most challenging and significant business division(Afghanistan) of the Group. Lead a team of 15 members in Dubai covering the area of Reporting, Contract Finance, Billing, US Govt. Compliance and Audits and Treasury functions. Played an instrumental role in aligning Operations, Contract’s admin, Supply chain and Finance departments on strategic direction of executive management. Successfully executed dynamic, real time and dashboard reporting to Executive management of all areas of Afghanistan Business division. Highlights: 1. Realtime tracking of $200m spare parts spend plan and declining balance 2. Improved cross functional/departmental communication 3. Completed DCAA Audits (US Govt.) with no significant weaknesses or financial inconsistency reported 4. Liaison with US based Prime Contractor for all contract related queries.

Joined AMS as Senior Manager Finance in Corporate Finance Department. while reporting to Director of Finance, Corporate. Mainly responsible for Group Accounting, Reporting, Forecasting, Budgeting, VAT Compliance, Treasury and Payroll Management. Highlights: 1. Introduced control check excel model for the Group Reporting Pack brining 100% accuracy to manual consolidation and reporting pack. 2. Implemented Reporting Tool for Consolidation at Project and Entity Level 3. Introduced strong controls on manual payroll system of 4000 Employees across the group

Responsible for Group’s regional and entity specific statutory and management reporting includingannual budgets, 5-year plan, accounting for acquisitions, purchase price allocations and JVs. Highlights: - Getting 1st year of Group’s Financial statements sign off by auditors (PWC) - Timely and accurate reporting of ICD Group reporting in COGNOS - Implemented the structure for Group Reporting in Tagetik

Promoted as Senior Financial Controller and moved to Commercial Wing of Group. Mainly responsible for Group’s regional and entity specific controlling and reporting including Highlights: - Standardization, Automation and Consolidation of Monthly Management Reporting. - Developing Budget Models and Tools for forecasting & budgeting. - Defining and implementing Global KPI structure and Reporting mechanism. - Preparation of Annual Budget & 5-Year plan and Rolling Monthly Forecasts process.- Successfully automated management reports by integrating ERP with Excel for regions including Tunisia, Morocco, and UAE

Promoted to Financial Controller reporting directly to Group CFO. Mainly responsible for: - Developing annual budgets and quarterly forecasts for all the business units of the Company - Monthly management reporting (consolidated) of all business units of the group to the board - Designing and maintaining reports in reporting tool (Tagetik) - Managing Group Authority matrixHighlights: - Group reporting, budgeting, and forecasting via implementation of reporting tool Tagetik - Implemented dashboard reporting for construction projects of Fuels operations.

I have been involved in several financial audits for the Group entities with its existence in different countries across the globe. Group is diversified into Ship Supply, Retail, Foodservice, Fuels, Aviation, Transport, Logistics, Security, Site Service, Shipping Support, Bakery and Construction businesses. Major responsibilities includes:• Developing risk based internal audit plan for business divisions• Performing risk assessment of key business units • Understanding control environment, developing process flows and performing risk-controls mapping• Identifying design weaknesses in Internal Controls and reporting to Management and Head of Audit• Preparing audit program and executing test of controls • Communicating audit observations with process owners, documenting responses and Issuing final report to Management and Head of Audit• Maintenance of Approval Matrix (Delegation of Authority)Achievements:- Developed an Excel Based Tool for identifying approvers as per Delegation of Authority for the required Activity and Threshold of transaction.-Development of Standard operating procedures for revenue, inventory and payables cycle. -Mapping of in-house inventory software access to the user group maintains the segregation of duties and access conflict checks for more than 2000 employees.

Senior Associate Audit

I was responsible for managing audit teams for carrying out statutory audit and reporting to manager and Partner.