Mohamed Essam Gazar
Riyadh,Saudi Arabia
Summary
Polished Finance Manager with successful track record of handling high volume transactions on regular basis. Considered an expert in creating robust financial models. Looking for new opportunity to apply attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2016
2016
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Finance Manager
Nawafeth for Media Production
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
04.2025 - 11.2025
- Founded in 2017, Nawafeth began by producing social and entertainment content for leading clients across both the public and private sectors. Over the years, we have refined our skills and discovered the secret formula for creating engaging, unscripted entertainment — a new and dynamic form of documentary storytelling designed specifically for today’s audiences.
- Develop and oversee the company’s financial strategy and budgeting.
- Manage financial planning, forecasting, and reporting.
- Control costs and ensure profitability.
- Enhanced company profitability with strategic budget planning.
- Implemented new financial systems enhancing data accessibility and reliability.
- Monitor cash flow and manage investments and funding.
- Ensure compliance with financial laws and regulations.
- Analyze financial performance and provide insights for decision-making.
- Lead the finance team and support executive management with financial guidance.
- Responsible for timely monthly consolidated financial statements, payments, cash-flow management reporting
- Participate in financial standards setting and in forecast process
- Supervise the A /P & A/ R& GL Accountants.
- Review and sign the payroll.
- Provide training to new and existing staff as needed.
- Follow up business process performance and performance evaluation.
- Quarterly balance sheet and P & L Fluctuation Analysis
- Trained staff on finance-related matters improving overall understanding and performance.
Chief Accountant
Saudi Media Company (SMC)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
09.2023 - 04.2025
- SMC is part of Engineer Holding Group, which entails several media companies such as Al-Arabia OOH, Ain Al-Arabia for indoor advertising, and MBC media solutions (MMS). SMC is one of the leading media companies in Saudi Arabia, offering multiple advertising media solutions, and it is the exclusive media sales representative for Saudi Broadcasting Authority, Rotana FM. Furthermore, SMC is operating and managing King Saud University Stadium (Alawwal Park), which succeeded in enhancing, developing, and digitalizing the stadium to support and thrive sport industry in Saudi Arabia.
- Manage and oversee the daily operations of the account department
- Ensure the accurate and timely monthly quarterly and year end of close
- Ensure the timely reporting all monthly financial information
- Assist the controller in the daily banking requirement
- Ensure the accurate and timely processing of positive pay transactions.
- Monitors and analyzes department work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
- Responds to inquiries from the Director of Finance, Controller, and other finance and firm wide managers regarding financial results, special reporting requests and the like.
- Control OPEX & CAPEX against monthly budget.
- Share in decision support to improve the finance operations.
- Plan, coordinate and execute annual financial audit.
- Collaborated with external auditors for accurate year-end audits.
- Led team in preparing annual reports, resulting in timely submissions.
- Organized and carried out month-end, quarterly and year-end processes.
Chief Accountant
Majal For Art Production Hakawati Group
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
03.2021 - 09.2023
- Hakawati is an entertainment and literary management company that orchestrates local-modernized content. We work closely with exceptional writers, directors, and actors by encouraging and guiding them through their explorations of their unique styles. We guide careers with confidence, relying on our experience and strong partnerships in every area of the changing media and film landscape. Alongside our distinguished clients, we continue to expand our strategic partnership with major and mini-major studios on a consistent basis, producing feature films, TV series and shows selling spec scripts and sourcing open writing, directing and acting assignments.
- Implemented cost control measures to reduce unnecessary expenditure.
- Prepared detailed forecasts to guide budgetary planning process successfully.
- Supervising the Routine accounting task in the department on day-to-day Basis
- Ensure accurate and timely Monthly, Quarterly, and year end closing
- Ensure accurate and timely processing of Payroll
- Timely and accurate submission of vat and zakat tax return
- Coordinate with external auditors to ensure that an annual audit is completed on time
- Review weekly, monthly Bank Reconciliation, ensure all Outstanding entries are cleared on time
- Handle full spectrum of financial and cost accounting role e.g. Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, General Ledger yearly
- Responsible for timely monthly consolidated financial statements, payments, cash-flow management reporting
- Participate in financial standards setting and in forecast process
- Supervise the A /P & A/ R& GL Accountants.
- Review and sign the payroll.
- Provide training to new and existing staff as needed.
- Follow up business process performance and performance evaluation.
- Quarterly balance sheet and P & L Fluctuation Analysis
- Hakawati is an entertainment and literary management company that orchestrates local-modernized content. We work closely with exceptional writers, directors, and actors by encouraging and guiding them through their explorations of their unique styles. We guide careers with confidence, relying on our experience and strong partnerships in every area of the changing media and film landscape. Alongside our distinguished clients, we continue to expand our strategic partnership with major and mini-major studios on a consistent basis, producing feature films, TV series and shows selling spec scripts and sourcing open writing, directing and acting assignments.
Senior Accountant
AL Nafea food Company
Jeddah, Mecca Region
03.2020 - 03.2021
- AL Nafea Food & Beverage group, Al Nafea Foods has worked with many leading partners around the world to import various food products such as rice, milk, tea and coffee products, canned goods and many other products that are of the highest standards of quality. Al Nafea Food Company has warehouses equipped with the highest levels of storage, unloading and shipping technology to ensure the safety and quality of products. In addition, Al Nafea Food Distribution Network covers all outlets throughout the Kingdom through an integrated fleet of trucks to ensure that our customers are provided with excellent service in terms of transport and delivery of goods to their warehouses using all available means of transport. We are in the heart of the Middle East, in Saudi Arabia.
- Verify, allocate, post and reconcile accounts payable and receivable
- Analyze financial information and summarize financial status
- Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures
- Manage accounting assistants and bookkeepers
- Support month-end and year-end close process
- Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
- Participate with Financial manager work on financial analysis
- Review for accounts receivables.
- Tracking all receivables accounts.
- Monthly reconciliation for all applications receivables.
- Work in payable department as supplier and make reconciliation of supplier.
- Work at ERP System (Sap Business one)
- Participate in implementation (Sap Business one)
- Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process
- Have experience Cooperate and managing a team of Accountants and Junior Accountants.
- Contributing to the development of new or amended accounting systems, programs, and procedures.
- Preparing financial analyses and reports.
- Preparing revenue projections and forecasting expenditure
Senior Accountant
Shawarma House Restaurants.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
10.2016 - 03.2020
- Bank entries and bank reconciliation.
- Review for accounts receivables.
- Tracking all receivables accounts.
- Monthly reconciliation for all applications receivables.
- Review the company’s treasury.
- Action monthly statements to customer accounts and compliance.
- Action monthly statements to payables accounts and compliance.
- Prepare Journal Entries and TB.
- Tracking of pricing.
- Work in receivable department and sales.
- Work in payable department as supplier and make reconciliation of supplier.
- For Food and Beverage Services
Education
Bachelor of Accounting - Department Faculty of Commerce - English section
Damietta University
Skills
- ERP System (Sap Business one)
- ERP System (Dolphin)
- EPR System (Zoho Books)
- Microsoft office XP (Word, Excel)
- Supervising project and Team activities
- Office processes, procedures, and technology
- ERP system (sky dimension Technologies)
- ERP systems with Microsoft Business solutions (Great Plains)
- Computerized accounting systems
- Personal computers and related software applications
- Internet searching for business needs
- Teamwork under pressure
- Quick learning of new computer systems
- Supporting new applications
- One-on-one project collaboration
- Effective communication
- Business plan development
- Reading and interpreting accounting and financial reports
- Task completion with accuracy
- Knowledge of IFRS
- Financial reporting analysis
- Familiarity with ERP systems
Custom Section
Exempt
Personal Information
- Date of birth: Jan 1995
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Egyptian
- Marital status: Single
Timeline
Finance Manager
Nawafeth for Media Production
04.2025 - 11.2025
Chief Accountant
Saudi Media Company (SMC)
09.2023 - 04.2025
Chief Accountant
Majal For Art Production Hakawati Group
03.2021 - 09.2023
Senior Accountant
AL Nafea food Company
03.2020 - 03.2021
Senior Accountant
Shawarma House Restaurants.
10.2016 - 03.2020
Bachelor of Accounting - Department Faculty of Commerce - English section
Damietta University