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CFO Global Sales
Midas SafetyCFO Global Sales
Oct. 2024Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Regional Commercial Controller PC EMEA | Finance Director
AkzoNobelRegional Commercial Controller PC EMEA | Finance Director
Jul. 2024 - Oct. 2024Dubai, United Arab Emirates•Leading Finance for Protective Coatings business for Europe, Middle East & Africa region with a turnover exceeding €175m. •Active member of Board of Directors for UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain entities contributing to strategic decision-making and corporate governance.
Regional Commercial Controller M&P MEA | Finance Director
AkzoNobelRegional Commercial Controller M&P MEA | Finance Director
Dec. 2022 - Jun. 2024Dubai, United Arab Emirates•Leading Finance for Marine & Protective Coatings business, the largest business unit in MEA with a turnover exceeding €100m. •Representing Finance on the Board of Directors for UAE & Saudi Joint Ventures, contributing to strategic decision-making and corporate governance. •Developing winning strategies, negotiating, and ensuring financial alignment with stakeholders for business cases.
Sales Controller - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Middle East & Africa
AkzoNobelSales Controller - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Middle East & Africa
Nov. 2020 - Nov. 2022Dubai, United Arab Emirates•Managed Vehicle Refinishes for DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and MEA (Middle East & Africa) clusters. •Took lead in price increase initiatives across all regions amid growing raw material prices making sure that margins remain at acceptable levels.
Sales Controller - Middle East & Africa | Commercial Finance
AkzoNobelSales Controller - Middle East & Africa | Commercial Finance
Jun. 2019 - Nov. 2020Dubai, United Arab EmiratesResponsible for MEA Automotive and Specialty Coatings and ME Decorative Paints (€55m turnover). Key achievements include: • Profitability of MEA region (Vehicle Refinishes business) improved by 6 percentage points through effective management of margins and stringent control on operating costs. • Took the lead in several cost savings initiatives resulting in total commercial operating cost to reduce by 37% versus the prior year. • Successfully carried out restructuring for Oman Entity in close co-operation with Regional Business Director and local General Manager bringing the Decorative business close to break-even levels for the first time in 3 years.
Sales Controller - Middle East | Commercial Finance
AkzoNobelSales Controller - Middle East | Commercial Finance
Sep. 2018 - May. 2019Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAchievements: • Effectively handled additional responsibility of business partnering with Decorative Business director to drive business and financial objectives and custodian role for joint ventures in Middle East • Successfully implemented Business Intelligence (BI) consolidating sales data across 13 legal entities and in over 35 countries.
Business Analyst - MEA | Financial Planning & Analysis
AkzoNobelBusiness Analyst - MEA | Financial Planning & Analysis
Feb. 2017 - Aug. 2018Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAchievements: • In the absence of reporting manager, single-handedly managed and successfully consolidated Budget for MEA (across BUs) • Took the lead in the preparation of 5 years strategy handling complex requests from the global corporate HO • Developed advanced Supply Chain reports recognized outside the region, so that many of the MEA generated templates are now used as the global standard. • Developed advanced reports for margin analysis allowing optimal selling prices to be set and improving margins (+2 – 3%)
Assistant Finance Manager
AkzoNobelAssistant Finance Manager
May. 2014 - Jan. 2017Saudi ArabiaAchievements: • Developed complete Financial Management Report Pack linking it directly with ERP. Reporting time reduced by 33% with zero errors. • User friendly dashboard created to analyze functional cost improving cost transparency. • Prepared Inventory Management System for consumables; 1st of its kind in 35 years which helped Increase cost awareness in consumable spending and stock control. Spending reduced by 20%. Transparency on spending Consumables improved.
Finance Trainee Officer
AkzoNobelFinance Trainee Officer
May. 2012 - May. 2014PakistanAchievements: • Developed a file directly linked to SAP's functional cost report with Hyperion Ancore saving more than 4 hours of reporting time • A new procedure for stock count was devised which helped finish stock count within 4 hours involving less human resource

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