Finance Executive

Led complex general-ledger and grant reconciliation work across highly segmented accounts, validating approximately $400M in
financial activity across 46 grant programs while maintaining strict documentation, compliance, and audit-readiness standards.
Architected a company-wide purchasing and approval workflow within the Microsoft ecosystem, integrating the process with
accounting systems to automate request intake, approval routing, approval tracking, activity logs, and reporting.
Built Python, VBA, and Power Platform automations that reduced manual reconciliation and operational processing time by 25%
while improving consistency, traceability, and control visibility.
Strengthened audit readiness by organizing supporting schedules, improving transaction documentation, and ensuring clear linkage
between approvals, reconciliations, and financial records

Served two non-consecutive years as Interim Finance Director. Led finance operations as Interim Finance Director, overseeing an $80M annual operating budget and a 6-member finance team while
delivering unqualified audit opinions with zero findings.
Identified approximately $3M in unbilled revenue and helped recover $800K in cash over two years by developing an automated forecasting and revenue-estimation model with more than 92% estimate-to-actual accuracy.
Owned end-to-end month-end close, including reconciliations, journal entries, depreciation, amortization, financial reporting, and variance analysis, reducing final close time to five business days after period end.
Led a full-scale ERP migration from a legacy platform to Sage Intacct, including segmented database conversion, migration of approximately 3,000 fixed assets, system configuration, API integrations, AI-enabled tool implementation, user training, integrity controls, and post-implementation support.
Designed Tableau and Power BI dashboards that reduced management reporting cycle time by 15% and improved executive visibility into financial performance, revenue trends, and operational metrics

Served as the sole accounting and finance lead reporting directly to the CEO, supporting acquisition, renovation, rental, and capital deployment decisions across a real estate investment portfolio.
Built vendor-payment, lien-tracking, and cost-control processes from the ground up, reducing construction-related payment delays by 30% within five months and improving portfolio efficiency by 10%.

Served as the sole accounting and finance lead reporting directly to the CEO, supporting acquisition, renovation, rental, and capital deployment decisions across a real estate investment portfolio. Built vendor-payment, lien-tracking, and cost-control processes, reducing construction-related payment delays by 30% and improving portfolio efficiency by 10%.

Managed full-cycle accounting across trading entities, including general ledger ownership, AR/AP, bank reconciliations, inventory accounting, month-end close, and management reporting. Prepared consolidated IFRS-compliant financial statements and UAE statutory reports, and improved reporting timeliness by 20% through AP/AR and overhead cost-control initiatives.

5+ years continuous CPD; ACCA Code of Ethics; qualifying knowledge in Strategic Business Leadership, Advanced Financial Management, Strategic Business Reporting, Audit & Assurance, Financial Management, Performance Management, Taxation, Corporate Law, and Management Accounting.