Senior Financial Analyst

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Summary of professional responsibilities and key accomplishments over my

career to date are:

. Financial statements in accordance with IFRS, United States (US) GAAP

and US SEC regulations for 10k and 10Q;

. Accounts closing process for timely and accurate reporting;

. Ability to deal with complex accounting issues;

. Preparation of models to support financial analysis;

. Presentations for management, audit committee and Directors meeting

highlighting financial KPIs;

. Business process re-engineering to bring efficiencies and bring cost

savings; and

. Develop, implement and maintain strong internal controls and

procedures across the entire business to ensure completeness, accuracy

and validity of the accounting books and records.

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Senior Financial Reporting Analyst July

2013 to date

Shelf Drilling Holdings Limited (previously shallow water drilling unit of

Transocean Inc. NYSE listed company) is a private company involved in

international jackup drilling. The management team has been formed largely

from Transocean's senior leadership team. Customers include Chevron,

ExxonMobil, ONGC, Perenco, Petrofac, Saudi Aramco and Total.

Worked in finance department and responsibilities included:

. Preparation of annual and quarterly financial statements in accordance

with US GAAP including Proforma financial statements;

. Participate in the preparation and completion of monthly, quarterly

and annual financial statements and MD&A

. Goodwill impairment testing, writing position papers, researching US

GAAP requirements, indirect cash flow and working capital analysis,

writing footnotes etc

. Worked on Compliance certificates for credit agreements;

. Collection of information from corporate office and field locations

for the preparation of statutory financial statements;

. Month end processes including journal entries and analyzing and

explaining variances;

. Reconciles and analyze balance sheet accounts;

. Documentation for internal and external audit; and

. Reporting line to the financial reporting manager and Assistant

Controller.

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Financial Planning and Reporting

May 2010 to March 2013

Dubai Investments (DI) is a Dubai Stock Exchange listed company and

conglomerate having interest in real estate, shares, manufacturing and

aluminium sectors. I worked in the private equity investment arm of DI

called Masharie LLC. Masharie LLC is a large investment company having

interests in real estate; construction; rubber and tape manufacturing;

aluminum extrusion; and MEP work.

Worked in the corporate finance department and responsibilities included:

. Post acquisition monitoring of investee companies in line with the

divestment plan KPIs;

. Involved in the preparation of annual budgets of individual business

units and consolidated results;

. Monthly analysis of actual results against budgets and updating the

annual forecast;

. Preparation of consolidated financial statements in accordance with

IFRS;

. Reporting to the shareholders and holding company; and

. Reporting line to the Group CFO.

Audit Executive Sep

2008 to Mar 2010

Worked in audit department of Deloitte & Touche in Dubai office and

responsibilities included:

. Planning and execution of statutory audits and review of financial

statements under US GAAP and IFRS;

. Reporting to Deloitte UK during the annual audit of Royal Bank of

Scotland;

. Submitting audit proposals for prospective audit clients;

. Audit clients included a good mix within the baking, manufacturing,

and service industries including Mcdermott Inc., Royal Bank of

Scotland, ABN Amro Bank and Fitness First; and

. Reporting lines to the senior managers and partners.

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Audit Executive Nov 2007 to Aug

2008

Associated with Assurance department of Ernst and Young in Jersey, Channel

Island office and responsibilities included:

. Lead the audit work from planning to reporting;

. Review of compliance with UK GAAP including first time adoption of FRS

26 (IAS 39);

. Engaged in the audit of different entities including securitization

vehicles, trusts, law firms and real estate companies;

. Attended training on EY audit methodologies in London; and

. Reporting line to the audit manager.

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Audit Supervisor Nov 2002 to Dec

2006

Started career with KPMG and worked in Karachi, Riyadh, Jeddah and Dublin

offices. My responsibilities included:

. Planning, supervision and finalization of statutory and financial

audits, interim review engagements and engagements on agreed upon

procedures;

. Foreign reporting in accordance with the instructions of the group

auditors;

. Audit clients were mainly in the banking, brokerage and mutual funds

sectors; and

. Reporting line to the audit managers.

EDUCATION:

. Pursuing Canadian CPA - UFE exams in Sep 2014

. Pursuing U.S. CPA - AICPA USA (already passed FAR exam in May 2014)

. Associate Chartered Accountant - Institute of Chartered Accountants of

Pakistan - December 2006

. Bachelor of Commerce - University of Karachi - December 2002

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

. Successfully applied complex accounting issues including stock based

compensation, shares held in trust, earnings per share (with multiple

classes and waterfall effect), segment reporting etc.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

. Working as part time faculty member and conducted training sessions on

IFRS, advanced corporate reporting and advanced audit & assurance for

ACCA and CA students in Dubai

. Attendance trainings on:

o US GAAP and IFRS conducted by Technical lead partners of Big 4

firms;

o JD Edward, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) and Epicor;

o Time management skills; and

o Presentation techniques.

IT, COMPUTER & TECHNICAL SKILLS

. Proficient in using JD Edward, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM),

Epicor; and

. Proficient in Microsoft Office applications mainly Excel, Word and

PowerPoint.

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