Accounting

I’ve had a rich and diverse background in Accounting. I was one of the senior team members of a Big Four in UAE when their Outsourced Accounting practice was transformed as a dedicated subservice line around the world. I’ve served as Finance leader/Auditor for the MENAL region entities of a global ICT leader, a large hydrocarbon non-operator, a teleco, a global leader in diamond supply chain industry, a mining Fortune 500, largest of Oman’s ports and marine logistics, a leading fuel and dry logistics in a Central Asian country, public health operator in a Central Asian country, national radio broadcaster as well as Privatization Commission of Pakistan and many other prestigious clients in UAE, Oman, KSA, Pakistan and Afghanistan. I’ve a strong grip over ERP implementation, and Financial Information Systems’ design and integration oversight. My Accounting service offerings include the following:

Secondment, Co-Sourcing and Managed Services

• Secondment comprises assigning dedicated one or more resources as part of the client’s team usually for a spcialized mandate and not on turnkey basis because the utilization of resources is the discretion of the client’s functional manager.
• Co-Sourcing envisages managing the entire Finance department as the body while the head is the CFO or Finance Manager of the client.
• Managed Services are provided remotely by way of outsourcing the finance business processes.

These services cover all-round financial business processees such as revenue and receivables, inventory, expenses and payables, payroll, fixed assets, general ledger and periodic closing. The chosen team ordinarily comprises of financial accountants adept in recording and reporting original entry financial transactions, managing receivables and payables aging and risks, fixed assets managers, labour and personal tax law savvy payrollers, budget controllers, and financial closers.

Statutory and Management Reporting

Statutory and Management Reporting services include:

• preparation of IFRS and Company Law compliant financial statements,
• Board and Head Office reporting packs, and
• Financial Planning & Analysis reports.

These services also support other forms of regulatory reporting which may be financial or non-financial in nature. The selected team members are seasoned professionals of Accountancy and FP&A background with solid grip on IFRS, Management Accounting and Financial Management, with the ability to prepare executive level decision support decks, business cases and auditable statutory financial statements.

Finance Business Process Transformation

This service offering requires professionals who walk both the worlds of finance and technology and can act as Project Managers in a PMO structure and work hand in hand with the software vendor and the client SPOCs to build or transform a robust Financial Information System. The typical team members are scope and deadline devouts who follow rigorously discussed and articulated scope of services and a detailed Work Breakdown Structure. They are well versed with how Accounting data flows from pre-original-entry stage all the way to the financial statements or other desired output. They have seasoned grip over spreadsheet functionalities, have dealt with large data slicing, dicing and visualization, can usually build dashboards, analytics,, macros, and can flawlessly work with ERPs and off-the-shelf information systems.