

Financial and Administration Leader with over 20 years of full-time, international experience driving financial, admin and operational excellence across the Middle East and Africa. Throughout my career, I have successfully managed complex portfolios and provided critical financial governance for major international operations and large-scale infrastructure mega-projects. Key highlights of my project portfolio include:
1. Chevron SA Residential & Office Complex (Al Khafji, Saudi Arabia)
2. Same-Mwanga-Korogwe Water Supply Project (Kilimanjaro, Tanzania)
3. Al Maktoum International Airport Project (Dubai, UAE)
4. Nakheel's International City Phase 2 & Phase 3 developments (Dubai, UAE)
My core expertise spans cross-border financial management, corporate administration, and navigating multi-country regulatory frameworks across Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Egypt, and the UAE. Currently progressing toward my CPA designation and holding a fluent IELTS band score of 7.8, I combine technical financial mastery with international leadership agility to optimize internal controls, reduce risks, and maximize organizational profitability.
1. Oversee daily operations across Accounting, Audit, Purchase, Stores, HR, and Public Relations departments to ensure organizational alignment.
2. Guide, train, and mentor multi-disciplinary staff members to maximize performance, accountability, and professional growth.
3. Streamline cross-department workflows, facilities management, and general administrative architecture to boost operational efficiency.
4. Lead end-to-end month-end and year-end closing processes to guarantee the timely and accurate delivery of financial statements.
5. Direct corporate budgeting processes and conduct deep-dive variance analyses to safeguard company resources and capital.
6. Maintain absolute accuracy of the general ledger through the enforcement of rigorous internal controls and continuous account reconciliations.
7. Manage corporate procurement cycles, vendor negotiations, and contract executions to minimize costs and optimize inventory across stores.
8. Supervise corporate HR coordination, performance management frameworks, and strategic staff development initiatives.
1. Prepare comprehensive monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, balance sheets, and P&L statements in strict compliance with accounting standards (IFRS/GAAP).
2. Oversee all daily accounting functions, including the general ledger, accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR), and payroll processing.
3. Implement and maintain robust internal controls and automated workflow efficiencies to protect financial data accuracy.
4. Coordinate corporate budget preparation, analyze variances, and deliver financial forecasts to guide strategic business decisions.
5. Ensure 100% adherence to local tax regulations (TRA Taxes) and corporate policies while leading internal and external audit processes.
6. Supervise, train, and mentor the accounting staff.
1. Formulated financial initiatives that increased annual sales by an average of 5% while systematically reducing operating expenses by 10% annually (2014–2021).
2. Successfully negotiated complex contractual terms with SABIC and Saudi Aramco, securing high-value, long-term business agreements.
3. Structured, negotiated, and finalized various commercial bank credit facilities and spearheaded SIDF industrial integration loan applications in 2018.
4. Maintained a flawless, 100% error-free field inspection record with the General Authority of VAT & Zakat (ZATCA) over a 7-year period (2014–2021).
5. Directed the seamless deployment of an enterprise ERP system across 7 branches, drastically improving data visibility and reporting accuracy.
6. Enacted comprehensive corporate bylaws and modernized organizational structures to support business scalability.
7. Recruited, trained, and mentored high-performing teams across accounting, internal audit, HR, and public relations.
8. Engineered robust corporate business plans, allocated divisional workflows, and established strict performance review metrics.
9. Oversaw accurate daily transaction recording, compiled annual budgets, accelerated cash collections, and generated customized internal financial statements.
10. Managed direct, transparent monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting to ensure strict adherence to SABIC and SIDF financial and operational policies.
1. Spearhead the preparation and submission of comprehensive periodical financial reports to INTERSPORT Switzerland, ensuring absolute alignment with corporate accounting timelines and standards.
2. Maintain complete oversight of the general ledger to guarantee the timely, accurate, and structured recording of all daily financial transactions.
3. Formulate accurate, real-time data frameworks for budget monitoring and progress reporting to identify variances and support executive decision-making.
4. Manage daily cash flow strategies, optimizing liquidity while continuously monitoring petty cash limits and bank balances to maintain uninterrupted funding.
5. Review, update, and implement rigorous business policies and internal accounting practices to safeguard assets and match evolution in local compliance frameworks.
6. Lead and mentor the stock control team while organizing periodic physical counting audits to maintain strict data integrity between physical inventory and accounting ledgers.
7. Design, build, and personally present critical financial updates and strategic risk assessments to the Board of Directors using custom-built reporting tools.
1- Managing all daily financial transactions and ensuring that all deadlines are met and all entries are assigned to proper accounts.
2- Reconcile records of bank transactions, monitoring status of loans and bank accounts to ensure that payments are up to date and credit facilities are well utilized.
3- Negotiate credit facilities extensions when necessary.
4- Maintaining all kinds of guarantees to others & from others.
5- Managing store control, examine inventories, price lists, shortages, shipments, expenditures and materials received or issued.
6- Verify inventory computations by comparing them to physical counts of stocks, and investigate discrepancies or adjust errors.
7- Direct insurance negotiations; recommend insurance brokers and carriers to the management.
8- Process and record new insurance policies, follow up claims, calculate premiums and adjustments and solve discrepancies if any.
9- Prepare and review collection reports to determine the status of collections and the amounts of outstanding balances
10- Coordinate the activities and the current accounts with head quarter in Kuwait.
11- Preparing financial statements, periodical reports and monthly closing.
12- Perform several office tasks and provide professional secretarial support for the group FAM and MD
ERP SAP S/4HANA
QuickBooks
FOXPRO System