meme's CV
Profile summary
Finance Manager with 26 years of experience across 5 organizations in the UAE. Adaptable professional transitioning from General Accounts, Receivables, and Assets to Finance Manager, specializing in financial planning, IFRS reporting, and Oracle ERP management. Shaped financial strategy and governance frameworks to ensure regulatory compliance and operational efficiency. Committed to steering fiscal performance and stakeholder alignment through rigorous internal controls and data-driven forecasting.
Career highlights
Financial Planning & Budgeting: Built rolling forecasts and variance dashboards, increasing departmental budget accuracy from 85% to 95% while maintaining total expenditure within 2% variance across multi-year reporting cycles.
Team Leadership & Governance: Led cross-functional finance teams of up to 23 staff members, standardizing internal policies to achieve 98% process compliance and delivering audit-ready reports with zero critical findings.
Digital Transformation & ERP: Implemented digital finance workflows and integrated Oracle ERP systems to replace manual processes, accelerating monthly close cycles by 20% and reducing financial processing errors.
Strategic Financial Oversight: Managed operating and capital budgets between 400M and 500M, coordinating the transition of financial structures through direct engagement with government finance authority stakeholders.
Key skills
Professional experience
Shapes financial strategy and governance across two organizations, steering multi-entity oversight and internal control frameworks. Manages a cross-functional team of 12 to standardize policies and ensure regulatory compliance.
- Built rolling forecasts and variance dashboards, increasing departmental budget accuracy from 85% to 95%.
- Led a cross-functional finance team of 12, standardizing policies to achieve 98% process compliance.
- Delivered audit-ready board and government reports, resulting in zero critical findings across all reporting cycles.
- Optimized working capital processes to reduce receivables outstanding beyond 90 days.
- Improved compliance reporting timeliness by 22% through structured budget review and approval processes.
Architected the finance and fixed assets function, building a team of 07 specialized staff to support organizational scaling. Steered the transition from private to government financial frameworks through direct engagement with external authority stakeholders.
- Built the finance and fixed assets department, defining internal processes and hiring 07 specialized staff members.
- Coordinated the transition from private to government financial structures through direct engagement with finance authority stakeholders.
- Prepared annual budgets and audit reports, maintaining total expenditure within 2% variance throughout the 2013-05 to 2017-04 period.
- Implemented digital finance workflows to replace manual processes, resulting in fewer errors and faster monthly close cycles.
Directed financial operations for a team of 23 staff, managing general ledger, payroll, payables, receivables, and cash management functions. Defined reporting standards and system integration strategies to support organizational scalability.
- Integrated Oracle financial systems to improve reporting accuracy and support operational scalability.
- Supervised finance teams of 23 staff across general ledger, payroll, payables, receivables, and cash operations.
- Delivered budget versus actual reports, reducing payment delays and correcting billing discrepancies.
Steered financial operations and capital planning for the institution, maintaining oversight of budgets between 400M and 500M. Directed the transition to digital tracking systems and managed the integration of enterprise resource planning software to modernize financial workflows.
- Managed operating and capital budgets between 400M and 500M with full financial oversight.
- Reduced financial processing errors by implementing digital request and resource-tracking models.
- Supported JD Edwards ERP implementation, accelerating monthly close processes by 20%.
Directed financial operations for receivables, assets, and general ledger functions across the group. Oversaw intercompany accounting processes and audit compliance to maintain data integrity across multiple entities.
- Settled monthly bank reconciliations and intercompany transfers across group entities.
- Converted manual processes into centralized electronic systems to increase monthly closing speed.
- Provided accurate confirmations, reconciliations, and compliance documentation to support external audits.
Education
Languages
English · Professional
Arabic · Native