Experience

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  Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)

  • United Arab Emirates
  • Financial Services
  • 400 - 500 Employee

  • Associate Director - Financial Controllership

    • Aug 2019 - Present

    Directing various finance activities including Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Treasury, Fixed Assets, monthly closing, VAT filing and reporting. Development of SLAs for Finance Shared Service offering and development/maintenance of Finance policies and procedures. Manage banking relationships and business owner of banking systems (including host to host payment solution). Oversight, implementation and development of financial systems having implemented Oracle Financials, Oracle Fusion and Salesforce. Review and implement internal controls using ICFR framework.

  • Payments and Systems Senior Manager

    • Jul 2015 - Aug 2019

    Responsible for establishing/ maintaining Finance policies, processes and procedures and working on various Finance initiatives (refer below). Head up Accounts Payable, Payroll and Financial Systems streams.Areas of responsibility/achievements include:1. Establishing and maintaining Finance policies, processes and procedures.2. Reviewing and providing inputs for changes to the Finance Delegation of Authority.3. Establishing and maintaining Finance Service Level Agreements for Finance Division shared service offering.4. Establishing Finance Division business continuity plans.5. Establishing and maintaining Finance division KPIs.6. Heading up accounts payable function including streamlining of processes and implementation of controls.7. Heading up payroll function including streamlining of processes and implementation of controls.8. Participating in establishment/enhancement of cross functional processes in particular for employee expense payment processing and procure to pay process cycle. 9. Participating in internal and external audits of Finance, working with auditors to ensure good financial control processes are in place.10. Responsible for maintaining/developing external relationships with banks and enhancing banking processes.11. Successfully worked in partnership with IT team as Finance lead for implementation of Oracle ERP for Payroll and Financial modules including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, I expenses, and General Ledger. Provided Finance inputs to HR and Procurement module implementation. 12. Supporting implementation of Hyperion Planning and OBIEE (Financials/ Payroll) - and key contributor to development initiatives for ERP, Hyperion and OBIEE therafter.13. Finance lead on implementation of host to host e-payment solution with which resulted in significant efficiencies and savings for the business.14. Team management, leadership and coaching.

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  Mubadala Petroleum

  • Senior Manager, Business Systems

    • Sep 2011 - Jul 2015

    Global head of Business Systems function for oil and gas company (reporting to CFO). Heading up Shared Service offering across multiple geographies for business applications.I was responsible for:1. Establishing processes and procedures for Business Systems function.2. Structuring the department for optimal efficiency in offering services to Corporate and Business Units.3. Preparation and management of global Business Systems budget across 6 locations in Middle East and South East Asia.4. Directing the implementation and support of Oracle ERP, OBIEE and Hyperion Planning servicing Finance, HR, Risk, Supply Chain and Operations departments. 5. Dealing with internal and external auditors for audits of business applications and coordinating on post audit reviews.6. Strategic Planning for Business Systems function and establishing internal KPIs for monitoring department performance.7. Driving process improvement initiatives primarily through process redesign and automation through use of systems in particular for Finance, HR, Procurement, Risk Management and IT departments.8. Acting in an advisory / consulting capacity to country heads Under my leadership, Business Systems had the following achievements:- won the Mubadala Petroleum Team award for implementation of Oracle ERP (Finance, Procurement, Payroll and HR modules)- implemented Hyperion Planning globally (for budgeting and reporting) - implemented HR performance management system - implemented host to host e-payment solution with banks - implemented Enterprise Risk Management information system including dashboards (heat matrix)- implemented procure to pay process redesign - put in place blanket agreements for use of competitively priced IT resources across broad scope of business applications- implemented a standardized chart of accounts on a global basis- implemented IT support ticket system- achieved cost savings of millions of dollars through in house project delivery

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  Mubadala

  • Abu Dhabi

  • Manager, Financial Systems

    • Feb 2009 - Sep 2011
    • Abu Dhabi

    Reporting to the Finance Director and heading up one of the 4 streams of the Finance department, I was responsible for establishment of the Financial Systems function and development and enhancement of Mubadala's financial systems across the other 3 streams of Financial Planning and Analysis, Transactions Processing and Statutory / Financial Reporting. The Financial Systems function that I led was the key interface between Finance and IT for any IT requirements.Achievements included:1. Establishing Financial Systems function and resourcing teams responsible for Oracle support, Hyperion Support and Finance Projects and putting together and managing the budgets for the function.2. Implementing period close procedures in Oracle ERP.3. Implementing online invoice approvals. 4. Project manager for HFM system implementation used for financial consolidation over 100 entities and used as the primary source of monthly management reporting.5. Entity migration project including COA standardization from legacy ERPs / Excel to our core Oracle ERP. 6. All aspects of team coaching, developing and management including annual performance appraisal.7. Implementing budgeting and management reporting via Hyperion systems.8. Partnered with IT to deliver dashboard reporting via QlikView.For the high priority and high profile HFM implementation, I was responsible end to end including RFP preparation, vendor selection, project management (and oversight of external implementation team, contributing to solution design), communications with stakeholders (multiple internal stakeholders as well as external such as subsidiaries that would be using the system), setting project governance including Steering Committee meetings (at C-level incorporating Group CFO and CIO), provision of training to all users including external subsidiaries and post go live support. This project was hugely successful and facilitated faster group consolidation and management reporting.

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  Department of Finance, Abu Dhabi

  • Chief Finance Analyst

    • 2008 - 2009

    Worked on a project to implement Hyperion Planning at Department of Finance. Primary responsibility included development of RFP, providing analysis on RFP responses to help support vendor selection decision, working on requirements gathering and working with implementation team on solution design.

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  Hess Corporation

  • Finance Specialist, Global Projects

    • 2005 - 2008

    Responsible for Management Reporting of North West Europe (NWE) region as well as coordinating the budget and forecast processes for the region. Revamped regional forecast model and process to make more accurate and efficient and featured in Global Finance newsletter as a result. Transitioned to 100% project based work, working on the successful implementation of Hyperion Planning across all regions globally, and an upgrade from Hyperion Enterprise to HFM. Was a power user of Hyperion Enterprise, HFM and Hyperion Planning and responsible for user training and support for the NWE region.

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  Toyota Financial Services

  • Senior Planning Analyst

    • 2002 - 2005

    Supported Europe and Africa region in budgeting process, provided guidance and training to Finance Managers across the region. Produced monthly management reports and worked on Hyperion Planning implementation.

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  Direct Line Group

  • Senior Performance Management Analyst

    • Mar 2001 - Dec 2002

    Produced monthly balanced score cards with commentary for Claims Department. Enhanced cost allocation model - suggested incorporation of model in Oracle Financial Analyser rather than Excel based model. This added flexibility to our ability to report and analyse data and saved significant time in month end reporting processes. Introduced new headcount report that provided visibility to ensure staff were correctly allocated to the correct cost centres.

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  Legal & General

  • Financial Reporting Manager

    • Nov 1998 - Mar 2001

    Worked on budget process, monthly management reporting and supporting branch Finance Managers.