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Manager Tax and Zakat

• Tax, Zakat and VAT advisory and compliance. Reported to Tax Partner
• Consolidated zakat return, annual tax return, information returns, mixed tax-zakat return, WHT return, double tax treaty impact, VAT implementation, transaction advisory, impacts on financial models
• Tax litigation – handling ZATCA audit notices, and managing appeals in TVDAC and TVDRC
• Evaluate and suggest key changes in book keeping, to minimize tax risk
• Advise on Tax optimization and thin capitalization
• Maintaining tailored dashboards as per client requirement and give presentations on tax issues
• Time cost tracking for each job
• Supervised team of Tax Seniors and Associates
• Served holding companies, branch of foreign entities, consortiums, joint ventures
• Major clients: Aljomaih Holdings, BCI chemicals

Senior Finance Specialist

• Finance Control and lead for Saudi Arabia, UAE and South Africa BU
• Monthly recording of entries of payable invoices, bank postings, field expenses, tax provisions
• Review monthly closing schedules. Review reconciliation with source documents. Ensure
reconciliation of TB and MS Navision reports, such as AP/AR ageing, FA register, open PO report
• Control job sheets and raise time cost invoices. Raise sales invoices and update receivables, IFRS 16 working, ECL, closing accruals, Intercompany invoices and recons
• Reduced Monthly Financial Closing timeline by 2 days
• Review and update chart of account
• Give updates and present cost and revenue variances to regional finance team
• Monitoring Sales project creation and project status. Match project completion with cost accrual, unbilled revenue, over invoiced revenue, etc.
• Financial operations: receivables followup, and Payable invoices processing
• Finalized branch audit and head office audit for 3 years
• Global netting of intercompany balances and cash flow optimization
• Review variances, provision status, current tax and deferred tax provision, profit/loss and cash forecast
• Update daily cash position, forecast and bi-monthly payment plan
• Liaison with bank for daily operations
• Maintaining tailored dashboards and presenting on open tax issues, funding status, AP and AR challenges, knowledge transfer sessions, etc
• Liason with tax consultant for annual tax return, TP affidavit, CbCR notice, tax certificate
• In house filing of KSA and UAE VAT returns, and WHT returns
• E-invoicing implementation
• Lead migration to NielsenIQ policies
• Closures of open tax cases with ZATCA and lowered tax exposure by USD 4 million
• Availed ZATCA tax amnesty scheme. Saved tax exposure of over USD 1.6 million
• Revised regional Transfer Pricing SLA agreement and achieved saving around USD 1 million in 2 years for GCC
• SAP ERP, Navision Financials, SalesForce

Senior Associate - Tax

• Tax and Zakat advisory and compliance. Reported to Tax Partner
• Consolidated zakat return, annual tax return, information returns, mixed tax-zakat return, WHT return, double tax treaty impact, transaction advisory, impacts on financial models
• Handled filing of 86 clients in tax season, including individual and group entities
• Tax litigation – handling ZATCA audit notices, and managing appeals in TVDAC and TVDRC
• Evaluate company’s financial system. Reviewed SAP, Oracle, SUN, Tally, etc
• Evaluate and suggest key changes in book keeping, to minimize tax risk
• Advise on Tax optimization and thin capitalization
• Maintaining tailored dashboards as per client requirement and give presentations on tax issues
• Time cost tracking for each job
• Supervised team of Tax Seniors and Associates
• Served holding companies, branch of foreign entities, consortiums, joint ventures
• Major clients: Aramco Oil Pipeline, Abdul Latif Jameel Group, Tamer Group, Emaar, Apple, Schlumberger UK, etc

Tax and Zakat Senior

• Tax, Zakat and VAT advisory and compliance. Reported to Senior Manager
• Consolidated zakat return, annual tax return, information returns, mixed tax-zakat return, WHT return, double tax treaty impact, VAT implementation, transaction advisory, impacts on financial models
• Handled filing of 35 clients in tax season, including individual and groups
• Tax litigation – handling ZATCA audit notices, and managing appeals in TVDAC and TVDRC
• Advise on Tax optimization and thin capitalization
• Evaluate company’s financial system. Reviewed Xero and Quickbooks
• Tax advisory to international hotel operator for assessing business setup in Saudi Arabia
• VAT health check of a large UK based Investment Fund with Saudi Arabia operations
• Maintaining tailored dashboards as per client requirement and give presentations on tax issues
• Keep clients updated with latest tax developments
• Lead team of Tax Seniors and Associates
• Served holding companies, branch of foreign entities, consortiums, joint ventures
• Major clients: Saudi Tourism Ministry, Elm IT, Riyadh Cables, MIG group, Tasnee, Abengoa, Jadwa Fund, Herfy Foods, AlKhozama Investment (Faisaliyah Tower), SITE group, CNBM, etc

Finance Officer - Joint Venture

– Managed 5 group companies and their branches, spread in Pakistan and Indonesia
– Handled 1 offshore PSC asset and 7 onshore PCA assets

• Cost controller. Directly reported to Country CFO, and Project Team Manager
• Handled operated and non-operated JV assets (USD 210 million)
• Monthly recording of JV operating costs, CAPEX, OPEX, inventory, time cost, royalty, oil and gas properties, DD&A, Exploration expenditure, parking and closure entries
• Prepare monthly JV cost reconciliations, and coordinate with JV partners for issues
• Used SUN financials for accounting and InforQ&A for reporting
• Accounting for operated projects, and raise JV cost statement, and monthly cash calls
• Give updates and present project cost and annual budget tracking to leadership team
• Managed and review Cash calls, AFE, JIB cost statements. Corrected over advance position by USD 1.4 million in single reconciliation
• Project wise inventory control and LLI tracking
• Reduced Monthly Financial Closing timeline by 4 days
• Reconciled project cost of 7 years in “Sun Financial System” with audited JIB statements
• Harmonized chart of account for corporate reporting, management reporting and JV reporting
• Lead several JV audits. Achieved several monetary findings and resultant USD 2.3 million credit to company
• Coordinated JV audits, non-operator audit, Social Welfare certification, decommissioning cost certification
• Head Office budget, and JV budget management
• Maintaining information dashboards as per requirement of head office, JV partners and government authorities
• Time sheet administrator, for project costing
• Inhouse due diligence for prospective acquisitions of USD 75 million. Preparing financial models with scenario toggling, and evaluate NPV
• Coordinated with DGPC, CMS update
• Representing Finance in JV project meetings
• SUN Financials; Maximo; PEEP Merak

Manager Tax and Zakat

• Tax and Zakat advisory and compliance. Direct work with General Manager
• Consolidated zakat return, annual tax return, information returns, mixed tax-zakat return, WHT return, double tax treaty impact, VAT implementation, transaction advisory, impacts on financial models
• Handled filing of 60 clients in tax season, including individual and group entities
• Tax litigation – handling ZATCA audit notices, and managing appeals in TVDAC and TVDRC
• Advise on Tax optimization and thin capitalization
• Tax Optimization for largest IT company of Saudi Arabia and billion dollar cable manufacturer
• Evaluate company’s financial system. Reviewed SAP and Quickbooks
• Maintaining tailored dashboards as per client requirement and give presentations on tax issues
• Built up tax advisory team, won new business (SAR 2 million)
• Keep clients updated with latest tax developments
• Lead team of Assistant Managers, Tax Seniors and Associates
• Arranged international affiliation
• Served holding companies, branch of foreign entities, consortiums, joint ventures
• Major clients: Elm IT, Riyadh Cables, MIG group, Tasnee, Abengoa, Damac, Middle East Propulsion Co, etc

Tax and Statutory Compliance Executive

Worked for 3 entities and their branches in Pakistan BU, 4 Mauritania BU and 1 in Iraq. Handled 5 offshore assets and 6 onshore assets.

• Management accountant for Pakistan, Mauritania and Iraq BU. Direct reporting to Country CFO and Group Financial Controller
• Monthly recording of tax, royalty, oil and gas properties, DD&A, Exploration expenditure, raising sale invoices, as per corporate and tax guidelines
• Used SUN financials and TM1 for reporting
• Annual audits, as per IFRS and local statute for branches and HO entities in UK and Netherlands
• Participated in Annal budget exercise and working capital management
• Reduced annual Closing and monthly closure time by 6 days
• Participated in Group Tax workshop and presented Pakistan tax status and way forward
• Took part in several JV audits. Achieved several monetary findings and resultant credit to company
• Inhouse Due diligence for prospective acquisitions of USD 32 million. Preparing financial models with scenario toggling options, and advise least tax risky option for given set of conditions
• Tax controller and tax accounting. Managed tax compliance of 7 companies (3 in Pakistan BU and 4 in
Mauritania BU). Includes annual tax return, monthly WHT filing, VAT/GST filing, monthly /yearly current tax and deferred tax provision calculation, preparing commentary of monthly tax BUR, tax forecasting
• Tax cases follow up and closure with FBR, Appellate Tax Tribunal and High Courts
• Won WHT case and resisted forced WHT recovery from FBR for USD 3 million
• Company representative in PPEPCA (Pakistan oil association). Prepared and presented Industry Tax
Contribution Survey for 3 years. Also finalized proposed tax amendments for FBR and OICCI for 2 years
• Inhouse management of corporate compliance, Investment license with BOI, updating legal forms with SECP, etc
• Company Name change for head office and Pakistan branches
• Decommissioning cost audit
• Tax Contribution Survey
• SUN Financials; TM1; Merak; PEEP

Audit Senior

• Focus on Telecom and oil / gas sector. Directly reported to Audit Partner
• Annual audits, half yearly reviews, JV audits, Financial modeling, M&A Due diligence
• Oracle 11i implementation in Pakistan’s largest LDI operator
• IFRS compliance
• Became job incharge in first year.
• Pioneer of “Decommissioning cost certification” in Pakistan
• Achieved 15 – 20% efficiency in audit procedures and working papers
• Staff administrator: managed 150 audit personnel. Direct coordination with assurance Partners
• PwC Aura; Oracle ERP 11i