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KHAJA MOINUDDIN, FCMA, CIMA, CGMA, FMVA

KHAJA MOINUDDIN, FCMA, CIMA, CGMA, FMVA

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER (CFO), FINANCE DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL CONTROLLER, FINANCE MANAGER
Manama

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
19
19
Certification
2
2

Fully Qualified Accountant (Dual)

Summary

Results-oriented finance professional, a fully qualified Fellow Chartered Management Accountant (FCMA / CGMA) from CIMA - UK & AICPA - USA and holds a Master of Commerce in Business Administration, with over 20 years of extensive work experience of strategic hands-on operating robust financial management, restructuring and creating growth initiatives that fuel revenue and profit growth.

Key Strengths include:

  • Analyzing and interpreting the financial accounts & business performance data and utilizing C-level leadership to improve the financial health of the organization.
  • Leading a strategic decision by being an implementer of an ERP financial accounting system that eases reporting capability and a smooth working environment. Robust legacy of collaborating with stakeholders & building effective alignments across functions/management levels that aid in delivering high-impact global projects.
  • Strong functional expertise with business partnering, strategic visualization, corporate finance, treasury operations, finance digital transformation, team leadership, and profit & non-profit organization experiences.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Confidential - for IT & Smart Properties, As a Chief Financial Officer, led major effectively drive change of the organization:

  • Performed detailed audits, succeeded in turning a $505K+ loss into $95K+ profit within 14 months, rapidly restored financial health by taking control of receivables & payables, improved working capital, restructured financial liabilities worth $10M with bankers, suppliers & contractors
  • Implemented ERP Odoo accounting software & trained the team
  • Made a strategic controllership of processes & systems to save cost excellence

Confidential - for Constructions & Investment business, As Group Assistant Financial Controller played a key role in centralizing 3 companies' accounts & finance:

  • Performed financial modeling for capital efficiency assignment of EBDITA to meet the goal of $30M
  • Designed management reporting for feasibility, spending, investments, payables & expenses, identified areas for cost reduction of ongoing projects $100M+ and minimized 1% of the financial cost on contingencies
  • Streamlined payroll processing from 2 remote locations to 1, with salary savings of almost $26K annually

Ahmed Mansoor Al-AAli Group - for building materials:

  • Was under falling profits and high manufacturing production costs, as a senior accountant took a major initiative for purchasing raw materials from suppliers with freight charges, increased the profit & deliver a major cost rationalization program
  • Analyzed every line of P&L, re-negotiated contracts with suppliers, reengineered 5 SBU’s financial processes, made significant changes to performance, management, and employee remuneration, implemented Peach-tree accounting software and enhanced reporting capability
  • Succeeded in reducing costs by $80K (18%), which allowed the company to achieve EBITDA growth for the first time in three years.

Work History

Chief Financial Officer

Confidential, for IT & Smart Properties
10.2020 - Current
  • Prepared accurate financial statements at end of the quarter to summarize financial health and business performance.
  • Conducted detailed analysis of company financial information and oversaw the preparation of related reports.
  • Analyzed operational issues and implemented corrective action to maximize profits.
  • Completed in-depth analyses of risks to control company profile, enhance systems and track legal concerns.
  • Oversaw deployment of strategic business plans to accomplish accounting, compliance, and revenue targets.
  • Directed budget development, creation of budgetary controls and recordkeeping systems and investment management.
  • Oversaw budgets, payroll, and accounts payable and receivable.
  • Created, planned, and implemented policies and procedures to increase productivity and maximize return on investments.

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Regional CFO: Responsible for 3 companies' financials, planning, analysis, and management reporting
• Manager: Day-to-day approval of Sales Invoices, Vendors & Utilities Payments, Payroll, and Purchase Orders of Subsidiaries companies (Switzerland, Saudi Arabia & Bahrain)
• Verifies: The Bank Reconciliation, Petty Cash, Partners, and Inter-company Statement of Accounts
• Govern: The process and take full ownership in managing Finance Function & Participating in the development of Corporate Financial Strategy, policies & procedures, and Highlighting Credit Risk
• Key role: in facilitating the full cost control, budgeting, forecasting and analysis with actuals & utilizing the financial modeling to improve business, and charged head office shared services to affiliates and subsidiary
• General Management: Responsibility including P&L management (>$13M USD) of Smart Properties, Infant Milk & Construction Real-estate businesses, and various KPIs to measure business performance
• Treasury & Trade Finance: managing the operations including strategic banking relations, various Online payments, Foreign Exchange transactions, Telex transfers, Cheques, and Letters of Credit
• Strategic Planning & Appraise: The Working Capital, Recommend, and arrange finance cash cycle with inter-company, board and stakeholders, Filling Monthly Value Added Tax Returns & due diligence
• Finance Interface: Coordinating Strategic Business Unit heads with relevant management information on inventory available, projects in hand, and unused fixed assets management
• Business Reporting, Analysis & Submitting: The Annual Financial Statements with comparative analysis, profit & loss account and balance sheet includes ratios and interpret
• Liaise: With Auditors, and manage a team of 6 including the Head of Accounts and Finance Manager, Senior Management Accountant, and three Accountants, and Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer & Directors

Notable Accomplishment:
• Boosted Sales: Implemented monthly dashboard for product sales increased income performance by 10%
• Analytical work: Bifurcated the profit & loss of Construction, Post-tension & Building Maintenance of Real Estate
• Collection Process: increase of 30% by Collated & Reconciled 4 years Receivable, Scrutiny of listing fees, disposals, samples, promotions & donations for Infant Milk Sister Concern, resulted in actual aging report
• Problem solving: Payments to vendors and employees through online banking transfers

Group Assistant Financial Controller

Confidential, for Constructions
06.2017 - 10.2020
  • Capital Efficiency: Worked with Contracts Manager, Controller & Directors on various internal consulting assignments to evaluate opportunities to optimize group level EBDITA to meet FY19 goal of US$30M
  • Financial Modelling: Supported the group’s Capital committee for review of all large purchases, contracts proposals (>$5M) submitted for approval to Board of Directors of group companies
  • Management Reporting: Prepared weekly MIS for royal family office on investments, shares & zakat, payables & expenses covering actual financial spend & forecast spend to completion across all ongoing projects
  • Forecasted and administered: the budgets of up to $64M with identified areas for cost reduction
  • Financial Cost Reviewed: Bank Contingencies such as performance guarantees for cancellation to avoid periodic charges, resulted in 1% of minimized on financial costs with computation of prepayments
  • Strategic input: of cash & bank salaries in payroll software, cut 20 days from submission boosted efficiency in funds
  • Approved & Scheduled of Payment Vouchers & Purchase Orders, Handled Bank Trade Finance Activities of Telex transfers, Joint Ventures, Letters of Credit, Bank Performance, Bid Bonds & Advance Guarantees
  • Appraised Working Capital management, Managed Monthly Tax Returns Filling, Submitted Yearly Financials to the Auditors, Leaded a team of 6 accountants & Assisted to the Group Finance Controller
  • Key Accomplishment: Achieved Statutory Audits for Affiliates, Overhaul discrepancies, errors, and irregularities of accounts, completed annual audit using in-house staff ended in save of consulting costs
  • Problem solved, payment vouchers control, caused a drop in expenses & duplication of payments

Group Senior Accountant

Confidential, for Constructions
06.2013 - 05.2017
  • Prepared & accountable for, Reports of revenue recognition, retention, cost in work progress / projects profit centers, Approved the Payroll, Suppliers / Subcontractors Payments, Reminded the Projects Manager for monthly cash inflow deficits to achieve company objectives
  • Coordinated with insurance company for contractors all risks policies, and Received Performance Incentive for Auditing in year 2014 / 2015 / 2016

Senior Accountant

Ahmed Mansoor Al-AAli
10.2010 - 06.2013

Accounts Officer

Hussain Constructions Farms & Resorts Limited
06.2008 - 10.2010

Accountant

Osama Nassier Trading Establishment for Computers
11.2004 - 05.2008

Accountant and Audit Assistant, Chartered Accountant

A. Ismail and Associates
07.2004 - 11.2004

Accountant and Audit Assistant, Chartered Accountant

V. Srinivas and Co
07.2003 - 07.2004

Education

Fellow Chartered Management Accountant (FCMA/CIMA) - Finance & Accounts

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
United Kingdom
11.2021 - 05.2022

Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) - Management Accounting

A. Institute of Certified Professional Accountant
United States
11.2021 - 05.2022

MBA - Master of Commerce

Alagappa University
India
03.2012 - 03.2014

Bachelor of Science - Commerce: Financial Accounting

Andhra University
India
03.2000 - 03.2004

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) -

Corporate Finance Institute
Canada
07.2020 - 07.2020

Skills

  • Strategic Data & Analytics support for board level
  • GAAP Principles
  • Financial Accounting
  • Financial Reporting and Analysis
  • Financial Statements with IFRS
  • Financial Management
  • Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
  • Budgeting & Forecasting
  • Business Planning
  • Variance Analysis
  • KPI Measures
  • Treasury & Cash Management
  • Merger & Acquisitions
  • Financial Modelling & Analysis
  • Corporate Finance
  • Internal Controls
  • Due Diligence
  • Risk and Mitigation Analysis
  • Financial Advice and Decision Support
  • Management Team Leadership
  • Raising Working Capital & Project Financing
  • Strategic Planning
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Trade Finance
  • P&L Analysis and Cost Excellence
  • Monthly Reconciliations
  • Stakeholder Relations
  • Management Reporting with cash flow
  • Taxation (VAT & Zakat)
  • Audits

Software

IT proficiency Digital: Financial Modeling, Microsoft Excel / Pivot Tables & Word / PowerPoint / BI / Planner

Enterprise Resource Planning: Oracle Financials, Odoo, QuickBooks, Peach-tree, and Tally

Certification

  • Certified CFO (Chief Financial Officer), Institute of Financial Accountants - IFA UK, Jun 2022
  • Diploma in IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), IAAP UK, Mar 2022
  • Certificate in FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) Series, IMA - USA, Dec 2021
  • Digital Mindset, Finance Implementation / Process Auto, CIMA – UK & AICPA – USA, Dec 2021
  • Global & Financial Leadership, IMA - USA, May 2021
  • Leadership – European Graduate School of Management - UK, Jun 2020
  • Professional Certificate Data Analytics & Visualization Fundamentals, IMA - USA, May 2020
  • Complete Financial Analyst, Udemy - USA, May 2020
  • Value Added Tax (VAT) Workshop - Fiscal Accounting UAE - Bahrain, Oct 2018
  • Business Model Canvas Workshop – Olaiwat - Bahrain, Oct 2018
  • Diploma in QuickBooks, Alison - USA, Apr 2020
  • Oracle Financial Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - Infer Data, Hyderabad - India, Jan 2004
  • Multinational Accounting Packages (Tally, Peachtree) - Net tech, Hyderabad - India, Jan 2004
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Software Engineering (Microsoft Office) - Geeni, Hyderabad - India, Apr 2002

Affiliations

  • Fellow Member of CIMA - UK & AICPA - USA, Aug 2022
  • Fellow Member of IFA (FFA): Institute of Financial Accountants UK, Jun 2022
  • Fellow Member of IPA (FIPA): Institute of Public Accountants Australia, Jun 2022
  • Member and Charter holder of Global Corporate Finance Society Canada, Jul 2020

Honorary Designation Volunteer

  • President of Bahrain Finance Professionals Toastmasters Club, Oct 2022 – Present
  • International Representative / Regional Ambassador of Bahrain of IFA / IPA, Jul 2022 – Present

Work Availability

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Timeline

Fellow Chartered Management Accountant (FCMA/CIMA) - Finance & Accounts

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
11.2021 - 05.2022

Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) - Management Accounting

A. Institute of Certified Professional Accountant
11.2021 - 05.2022

Chief Financial Officer

Confidential, for IT & Smart Properties
10.2020 - Current

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) -

Corporate Finance Institute
07.2020 - 07.2020

Group Assistant Financial Controller

Confidential, for Constructions
06.2017 - 10.2020

Group Senior Accountant

Confidential, for Constructions
06.2013 - 05.2017

MBA - Master of Commerce

Alagappa University
03.2012 - 03.2014

Senior Accountant

Ahmed Mansoor Al-AAli
10.2010 - 06.2013

Accounts Officer

Hussain Constructions Farms & Resorts Limited
06.2008 - 10.2010

Accountant

Osama Nassier Trading Establishment for Computers
11.2004 - 05.2008

Accountant and Audit Assistant, Chartered Accountant

A. Ismail and Associates
07.2004 - 11.2004

Accountant and Audit Assistant, Chartered Accountant

V. Srinivas and Co
07.2003 - 07.2004

Bachelor of Science - Commerce: Financial Accounting

Andhra University
03.2000 - 03.2004
KHAJA MOINUDDIN, FCMA, CIMA, CGMA, FMVACHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER (CFO), FINANCE DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL CONTROLLER, FINANCE MANAGER