A dedicated professional (ACCA – Fellow Member) with 11+ years of experience in Finance Services and Financial Reporting mostly on leading roles at globally renowned organizations such as “Apex Funds Services Ltd” (top 5 Fund Administrator), Ernst & Young (one of the big 4 audit firm) and “Miras Investments and projects LLC” (a renowned family office in Oman - Royal Family).
Expertise:
- Periodic Accounts / Accounting Report / Management Reports
- NAV Report (Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Semi-Annually, Annually)
- Handling Complex matters / Calculations (Management Fees, Performance Fees, Waterfall, Carried Interest, Catch-up, Equalization)
- Regulatory Returns (DFSA returns, VAT returns)
- Financial Statements of 10-12 Funds simultaneously including Consolidation (Simple / Complex group structures - Group Accounting)
- Managing outsourced finance staff of different Locations (Amsterdam, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, KSA) including ACCA members and CAs.
- Evaluating AKSA ODD report and presenting investment appraisal to Investment Committee
Fields:
- Private Equity
- Real Estate including REITs
- Mutual Funds / Sukuk, UCITS
- Hedge Funds
- Equity, Derivatives & Crypto Funds
- Private Debt
- FMCG/ Trading
- Audit
Evaluation work / Compliance:
- Compliance check with rules and Financial Industry Practices
- ILPA reporting requirements
- Fund Administrator assessments
- Investment manager fees assessment
Designing and Automating process
- Designed tool in advanced excel that generated GAZT tax compliant Arabic Rent Invoice from fee Schedule.
- Designed different templates for the team (Cash Management tool, Expense schedules, Budgeting fund expenses, Variance analysis, Factsheet, emails templates, NAV pack generations using advance excel)
- System knowledge: SAP, Oracle, Aexeo, Qlik Dashboards, Geneva, Metrosoft KYC
Jurisdictions
Handled complex private equity funds and REIT structures. This includes consolidations accounting ensuring compliance with the local requirements
(Cayman, KSA, UAE- DIFC / DFSA, UAE - ADGM, Oman, Bahrain, Bermuda, Guernsey, BYI)
Networking:
- Access to networks of experts: big 4 auditors, big 5 administrators and investment managers
Portfolio
- NCB Capital (Eastgate Capital / AlAhli Bank / SNB Capital) – UAE
(Multiple Private Equity and Real Estate Funds)
- Jadwa REIT AL Haramain - Jadwa Investments – KSA
- Jadwa Saudi REIT – Jadwa Investments - KSA
- Bank Muscat Asset Management – Oman
- Gulf Islamic REIT / GII DIFC – DIFC, UAE
- Stonearb Capital – Cayman Island & DIFC, UAE
- Mashreq Al-Islamic Sukuk Funds - DIFC, UAE
- Arqaam Capital
- Miras Investments LLC