Oracle Financials Functional Consultants

Umair Ali, ACCA

Apartment ***, Gulf Star Building, Behind Etsalat Tower Old Airport road Abu Dhabi.UAE

Email Address: ***********@*****.***

Cell #: +971-*-*-*******

PROFILE:

I am qualified accountant and worked in multiple roles in different verticals such as construction, real estate, FMCG,

microfinance, manufacturing and theme parks which includes Ferrari World Abu Dhabi.

I started career as Audit and Assurance Associate in KPMG and completed various assignments Audit and

Assurance services, Statuary Audit, Agreed upon procedures, Risk Advisory Services and Control Audit assurance

services IS/IT audit and preparation of financial statements.

Then moved to business consultancy where I delivered ERP Implementation business process reengineering (BPR),

designing financial structure to meet financial and statutory requirements, optimizing business processes to remove

redundancies, business change, IT lead business automation with focus on finance and supply chain.

Currently I am engaged with Arowana Consulting as Senior Consultant and outsourced to Injazat Data System’s

EXPERIENCE :

Arowana Consulting FZ LLC, Dubai, UAE

Senior Consultant

1st Feb 2013 To Date

KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co. Chartered Accountants – Lahore

Audit and Assurance Associate / ERP and business Consultant

April 2009 to January 2013

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION:

Charted Certified Accountant (ACCA)

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Bsc (Hons) Applied Accounting, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK (OBU)

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Certified Accounting Technician (CAT)

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PMP (PMP) Certification Training Completed.

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ERP IMPLEMENTATION / BUSINESS CONSULTANCY

• Business Process Analysis Documenting financial and business processes.

• Business Process Reengineering Restructuring business processes embedding optimization and removing

redundancies.

• Mapping whole financial structure which includes budgeting, financial reporting and financial interaction

with supply chain, manufacturing and payroll.

• Building and Designing Chart of Accounts

• Supervised the Requirement gathering activity

• Creation of the Requirement Analysis Document

• Accounts Payable related reports such as supplier ledger

• Accounts Receivable related reports such as customer ledger

• Creating General Ledger Reports using Financial Report Generator (FSG)

• Performing Month end and year end closing process and activities.

• Preparing Balance Sheets and Profit and Loss Accounts

• Preparing Cash Flow Statements and Ledger Statements

• Preparing Bank Reconciliations and maintaining banks

• Configuration of Test and Prod servers

• Conducting CRP Sessions

• Conducted the User Acceptance Tests

• Training of the users.

• Migration of data on Prod servers

• Opening data migration on Prod servers

• Post implementation support and reconciliations.

Project Management :

Planning, organizing, controlling, and reviewing the entire job, ensuring these are carried out in accordance

with project plan.

• Obtaining an understanding of client’s business objectives and strategies in the context of industry and

environment in which client operate.

• Planning and performing project activities.

• Planning project deliverables.

• Finalizing and agreeing scope, project base line with business users.

• Conducting Steering Committee meeting’s to review project work.

• Liaison, conflict resolution with Functional Team and with business users.

• Managing project team to achieve timely delivery of project baseline.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES – AUDIT AND ASSURANCE

Operations

• Conducting and reviewing a number of assurance assignments which include planning, budgeting,

organizing, controlling and reviewing the entire job, understanding internal controls and conducting system

reviews with the objective of recommending improvements.

• Planning and scheduling of audit programs and ensuring timely completion of audits with the use of KPMG

Audit Methodology and the software i.e. e Audit.

• Reviewing the working papers of the audit team members and getting it reviewed by the engagement manager

and partner.

• Extensive application of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS’s) and Local GAAP’s and

reviewing financial statements to ensure compliance therewith.

• Promoting firm’s quality control procedures and policies in order to ensure compliance with independence

and ethical requirements as issued by IFAC.

Business

• Managing job costing, preparation of bills and follow up on their collections. This includes monitoring of

engagements for incremental billing by tracking 100% out of pocket and budget deviations for additional

billing and reporting to senior manager/ directors on a timely basis

• Identification of issues on job to bring more business to the firm in the form of new engagements

• Managing client relationship, seeing issues and challenges from their perspective, focusing on addressing

their needs to the mutual benefit of client and the firm and to be viewed as a key contact by the client. Also

acting as a focal point among the audit staff, client management and the upper hierarchy of the firm

• Assisting senior management in submitting and presenting proposals for new business, preparation of reports,

management letters and other client communication

• Establishing good professional relationship with the client’s management and assisting them to resolve

technical issues relating to specific accounting treatments

• Liaising with client, firm experts, external experts, Directors, Partners, and other global offices of the firms.

People

• With respect to my audit team members, my responsibilities include fostering an environment where people

with diverse background and experience can grow and succeed. I ensure that knowledge is shared

appropriately to enable the team to work effectively. I also participate in assessing the newly recruited

graduates at the Graduate Assessment Centers

• Ensuring clear and timely feedbacks enabling team members to work effectively

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS :

Client: Sector

Ferrari World Abu Abu Dhabi Running only dedicated Ferrari Theme park in World in Abu Dhabi.

(Themes Park LLC)

Yas Water World Running water park in Yas Island Abu Dhabi

Farah Leisure Parks Management Management company for Ferrari, Yas Water World, Warner Brothers.

LLC

Warner Brothers Setting up new theme Park in Yas Island Abu Dhabi.

TAMKEEN Abu Dhabi LLC Mandated with making of New York University, Abu Dhabi Campus.

Punjab Industrial Estate

Development and Management Construction, real estate and development of industrial estates.

Company

Service Industries Limited Tire Tube, Footwear Manufacturing

Descon Oxychem Limited Hydrogen Peroxide Production

Descon Chemicals (Pvt) Chemical Manufacturer

Mahmood Textile Mills Limited Textile Company having spinning and weaving units.

Riaz Bottlers Limited Beverage Industry – Regional PEPSI Franchise Holder

Wateen Telecom Limited Wireless telephone and internet provider.

Agritech Limited (Pak American Production of fertilizer i.e. Urea, Single Super phosphate.

Fertilizer Limited)

Berger Paints Limited Paint manufacturing.

Kashf Foundation Pakistan Micro Finance Bank

DG Cement Company Cement Manufacturing.

ACCOMPLISHMENT :

All papers of ACCA passed in First Attempt.

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PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS ATTENDED:

• Oracle Financials, SCM, ODM and OPM Training – KPMG

• Oracle Controls and Security Training – KPMG

• Code of Conduct Training Mubadala Group UAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION

• CN I C #: 365**-******* 3

• Date of Birth 09 June 1988

• Marital status Single

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