Resume/C.V
Saddam Safdar (ACCA)
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=122317075
Mobile: +971 55 9591275
E mail & Skype: ssauh@hotmail.com
Profile Summary & Objective (Finance Professional)
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Having 10+ years of Financial and Business Management career (6 Years in
Middle East) experienced as commercial financial manager with various
industries exposures like Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Services, Banking, Retail,
Facilities Management, Real Estate & Construction, also trained with Big4 for
various assignment, ACCA member & attended courses at Manchester Business
School, now seeking a challenging and rewarding career in dynamic and
reputed organization having growth and development opportunities with goal
congruence which gives value to organization.
Achievements
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Successfully established & run the company from scratch in financial terms.
Successfully run heavy debt laden company.
Got distinction in ACCA exams.
Reduced cost of funding by 25%
Core Skills
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Segmental & Consolidated
Financial Reporting (MIS)
Operations Finance Management
External & Internal Audit
Business, Trend & Financial
Analysis
Effective communication &
Relationship Management
KPI Formulation& Implementation
Risk Management
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Project Finance
Business Valuations & Pricing
Budgets & its Implementation
Mergers & Acquisitions
Transactions
Preparing & Implementing
Financial Policies
Corporate Finance Management
Business Plans & Forecasts
Employment Record:
Worked with Big4 for various assignments, Supervision of 6-8 employees, worked with multiBillion Dollar Groups & can handle Multibillion Dollar companies too.
Finance Manager (Joint Venture of Al Masaood Group Abu Dhabi UAE)
A Joint Venture of Al Masaood Group Where I am functionally reporting to CFO (who is ex
CFO of British Petroleum where he worked as CFO across the globe including but not
limited to Russia, USA & Middle East)
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Duties as follows from November 2010 To Date
Preparing Consolidated/Group Financial Statements Monthly & Yearly and
presenting to management (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and statement of
cash flows) under IAS & IFRS, across 10 business segments of the 02
companies. Also participating in Board meetings, presenting MIS Pack and
providing feedback thereof.
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Performing an advisory function for GM covering various financial initiatives at
tactical level supported by appropriate financial tools and information to facilitate
day to day operations decision making. Also performed detailed analysis for
business mergers & acquisitions transactions.
Tracking business performance on all tactical decisions and highlighting issues
and areas of concern for corrective actions along with regular reviews of
business performance using benchmarks and KPIs to highlight and suggest
improvements to overall effectiveness.
Preparing Segmental & Group Budgets (2 companies across 10 business
segments), Cash flow forecasts & financial Models to support business plans
and controlling the budgets & business thereof.
Liaison with Financial Institution for Plant/Project Financing, Refinancing and
working capital management and dealing with clients & vendors.
Liaison with Internal and External Auditors and maintaining relationships with
Key Stakeholders, Directors, Customers & Vendors.
Managing & bringing Risk to acceptable levels.
To run & verify the payroll and safeguarding assets.
Developing supportive internal control system & operations accounting manual.
Developing financial manual along with authority level procedures.
Business & Trend Analysis of current Projects, financial Analysis of new projects
& business / projects valuations by application of various techniques.
Assistant Manager Finance (Al Futtaim Group Company)
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Duties as follows from November 2009 to Oct 2010
Preparation of Monthly Management Accounts of the Division
Timely and Accurate Reporting of Actual Results
Preparation of variance statements, analysis and alerts
Risk management across the division.
Preparation of Information Pack for Monthly Board Meetings
Communication with branches on variances, and addressing queries related to
management accounts
Preparation of Annual Budgets and Rolling Forecasts
Preparation of feasibility studies for new projects
Preparation of Reports and Ad-hoc studies as required
Analysis of financial impact due to emerging trends on business and alert
business unit(s) of any potential opportunities and risks.
Finance Executive (Jamal Al Ghurair Group Dubai U.A.E)
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Duties as follows from April 2008 To November 2009
Preparing Financial Statements Monthly and Yearly and presenting to
management(Income Statement, Balance Sheet and statement of cash flows)
Preparation of Monthly/Annual Budgets, Rolling Forecasts and variance
statements, analysis and alerts & analyzing financial impact of emerging trends.
Liaison with Internal and External Auditors.
Preparing & updating Fixed Assets register, controlling general ledgers.
Preparing daily cash/bank positions and supervising staff in finance department.
Semi Senior Auditor (Deloitte Lahore Pakistan)
Duties as follows from January 2006 to January 2008
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Applying Audit assertions to financial statements and class of transactions as
per risk based audit approach.
Assisting Senior Auditors with the preparation and presentation of financial
statements including significant financial statement disclosures, in the light of
the relevant reporting framework, performing operational and financial audits
and applying risk assessment procedures and ensuring compliance with all
applicable reporting requirements.
Calculation of VAT (Value Added Tax / Sales Tax). Verifying Payroll Account for
employees, audit of Fixed Assets and their depreciation charge.
Responsible to audit of stores (Inventory) and warehouse stock taking results.
Responsible for audit cash/banking Account including loan facilities.
Management Trainee Officer (Meezan Bank Ltd. Lahore Pakistan)
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Duties as follows from January 2005 to December 2005
Worked with Credit administration Department.
Preparing Facility Offer letters
Understanding business risk for corporate deals.
Feeding Customers documents (Charge+ Collateral+ Insurance) into Tailor
made Software System, which works as a data base and provide different
information as & when needed
Handling Administrative affairs of the Hub which also include Budgeting of
expenses incurring during the year.
Preparing various reports on customers.
Operational activates includes limits updating and disbarment profit recoveries
and other miscellaneous charges deduction.
Education
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ACCA Qualified (Member) from Accountancy Body United Kingdom.
Masters& B.Com Qualified from HEC/University of the Punjab Lahore Pakistan.
Attended courses at Manchester Business School for Innovation& Business Mgt.
Certificate of Financial consultant (CFC from Canada), Awaiting Final result for
this degree.
Computer Skills
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MS Office (Advance Excel),Proficient in SAP (ERP), Sage Line 50, QuickBooks,
Focus, Peachtree and Win Accounting so I can operate almost all software.
Languages
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English (Excellent), Urdu (Excellent), Hindi(Excellent)
Arabic (Read & write Excellent with basic understanding, business level)
Personal Information
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Date of Birth
Location
Availability
Driving License
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December 30, 1984
Dubai / Abu Dhabi UAE
I can join within one month
Valid U.A.E. driving license
References
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References will be furnished upon request.
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