Professional finance leader with extensive experience in financial planning, budgeting, and analysis. Known for driving financial performance and fostering collaborative team environments. Reliable and adaptable, focused on delivering results through strategic financial management.
Hi, I’m
ABAID ULLAH ANWAR
FP&A|Director Finance | VAT & Corporate Tax Expert
Dubai
Summary
Overview
14
years of professional experience
4
Languages
Work History
Umniya IVF and Infertility Center
Finance Director
12.2025 - Current
Job overview
- Lead overall financial strategy and planning for IVF clinic, specialty clinic, pharmacy, and laboratory operations.
- Develop annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-term financial models.
- Monitor revenue performance by service line including IVF cycles, consultations, diagnostics, procedures, and pharmacy sales.
- Conduct variance analysis (budget vs. actual) and recommend corrective actions.
- Oversee revenue cycle management including patient billing, insurance claims, approvals, and collections.
- Ensure compliance with corporate tax, VAT, and healthcare regulatory requirements.
- Lead preparation of financial statements and coordinate external audits.
- Manage 13 week cash flow forecasting and analyzing the variance against the actual.
- Evaluate IVF cycle costing for cash packages, medication margins, and package pricing profitability.
- Implement cost control initiatives to improve operational efficiency.
- Strengthen internal controls and financial governance frameworks.
- Supervise multi-entity accounting consolidation and intercompany transactions.
- Lead ERP implementation and integration between HIS, pharmacy, lab, and finance systems.
- Provide financial dashboards and strategic reports to CEO and Board.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the finance and billing teams.
Blue Ocean Health
Manager Strategy & Financial Analysis
03.2024 - 11.2025
Job overview
- Aggregating and sanitizing the key financial and operational data to be used for the preparation of annual budgets.
- Suggesting improvements to existing business strategies to drive growth.
- Supporting the preparation of strategic business cases and presentation materials.
- Assessing market trends and competitors.
- Assessing threats and opportunities relevant to the business.
- Analysis on financial performance, operational KPIs with monthly review decks for each.
- Analyzing monthly physician performance against their compensation and allocated costs.
- Monthly comparison vs. budgets prepared per business plan targets, preparation of variance analysis with explanations.
- Putting together the 52-week cash flow projections and comparison with actuals.
- Bespoke analysis for any support on performance improvement measures such as break-even analysis or profitability of enhancement in services.
- Support on budgeting preparation for new projects and services with proposed recommendations.
- Conduct break even analysis for the projector new services.
- Aggregating data and information for analysis.
- Identify risks related to budgeted plan including from competitors, regulatory changes, cost disruptions et al.
- Conduct impact analysis from any adverse impact on pricing or costs.
- Provide guidance, and mentorship to relevant finance staff as applicable, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
- Promote collaboration, communication, and knowledge sharing within the relevant team members and across the organization as applicable.
Emirates Hospital Group
Business Analysis & Strategic Initiatives
11.2021 - 03.2024
Job overview
- Analyzing data and identifying trends, patterns, or other notable information to identify emerging issues or opportunities for improvement.
- Provide analytical, forecasting, reporting, and project support to senior management.
- Produce monthly/weekly reports, which include key metrics, financial results, and variance reporting.
- Spearhead the annual and quarterly budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Creating Targets for facility manager across the group and evaluating the performance with respect to given targets.
- Conducting data analysis on patient cases or clinical trials to determine patient outcomes and treatment effectiveness.
- Interpreting data and developing reports and presentation to communicate findings to senior management on weekly and monthly basis.
- Analyze current and past financial data and performance.
- Analyzing and interpreting data from multiple sources to identify potential problems and make recommendations for improvement in operations.
- Analyzing Doctor Performance on monthly basis at multiple levels.
- Identified workflow bottlenecks and implemented new and improved processes and policies.
Sehteq Medical Billing
Senior Finance Manager
05.2018 - 09.2021
Job overview
- Preparing the Investor Pitch and Coordinating with the Investors for any queries.
- Arranging a Finance Facility for a company.
- Monitor the day to day financial Operation within the Company, such as Payroll, Invoicing and other transaction.
- Review & Manage Monthly Closing Activities like Accruals, Depreciation and Amortization etc....
- Review financial data and prepare Group & Separate Management accounts for each company on quarterly/Interim/Yearly Basis.
- Liaise with auditor to ensure appropriate monitoring of company finances is maintained.
- Reviewing & Managing E Filling of VAT for all companies.
- Establish & Maintain Financial Policies and procedures & adhere to Financial Regulation & Legislation.
- Preparing a procedure to control Anti Money Laundering & Terrorism financing over the organization for IA.
- Prepared cash flow projections, cost analysis and monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
- Assessed expansion plans and present costs to forecast trends and recommend changes.
- Consulted with representatives of regulatory agencies to complete accurate filings and uphold strict compliance.
- Researched and drove integration of software to increase efficiency of accounting systems.
Sani Service LLC
General Accountant
02.2017 - 04.2018
Job overview
- Preparing Annual/monthly reports for decision making.
- Reconciliation of company GL accounts with banks, suppliers and customers.
- Coordinating with banks for corporate financing.
- Manage budgets, forecast and compare with actual results together with reasoning of variances.
- Reconcile inventory at multiple warehouses and adjust journal entries to balance general ledger.
- Reporting of administrative expenses on monthly, quarterly basis and managing petty cash.
- Follow Up through aging analysis in outstanding payments & receipts of company.
- Preparation and monitoring domestic & international bank transfers through online Banking system.
- Coordinating with auditors for annual/interim audit.
- Registration of a company for VAT purpose.
- Responsible for implementing the procedures following the Executive Regulations of Federal Decree Law on VAT
Polymer Group of Industries
Manager Accounts
05.2014 - 12.2016
Job overview
- Supervision of all functions of Accounts & Finance department.
- Participating in designing & implementing systems, policies & procedures to facilitate internal financial control.
- Participating in the preparation of Annual Budget and forecasting trends.
- Participating in inventory valuation in all sections.
- Preparation of budgets & forecasts and comparing with the Actual.
- Preparing & presenting reports to management for decision making.
- Managing Cash Flow.
- Assisting the management on designing different policies and internal controls for the company.
- Managing and controlling the whole cycle of Purchase and Payment.
- Preparation & filling of tax returns with FBR (Federal Board of Revenue).
- Preparation of salary register for contribution of EOBI & Social Security
Faraz Foods Ltd
Accounts Officer
09.2012 - 04.2014
Job overview
- To Prepare and verify the payables and purchase variances analysis for monthly budget.
- To prepare sales and recovery analysis on monthly basis according to the requirement of General Manager.
- Prepare and Maintain working for final accounts on monthly basis.
- Prepare and maintain complete working for monthly sales tax return.
- To prepare and verify the landed cost sheets with purchase orders as well as Goods Declaration Form.
- To prepare bank reconciliation statement on monthly basis.
- To check and confirm the purchase orders as per decided production plan for next month.
- To check and confirm the party payments schedule.
- To check and manage the stock taking of components stored.
- Implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems.
Education
Institute Of Certified Public Accountant
Certified Public Accountant from CPA
University Overview
Association of Taxation Technicians
GCC VAT Compliance
University Overview
ACCA Global
ACCA
University Overview
Institute of Certified Public Accountant
Post Graduate Diploma from Public Accountancy
University Overview
ACCA Global
Certified Accounting Technician
University Overview
Skills
Forecasting and planning
Advanced Excel modelling
Data mining
Data analysis
Operations analysis
Business analysis
Financial Analysis
Project budgeting
LINK
LINK
- Https://www.linkedin.com/in/abaid-ullah-anwar
Timeline
Finance Director
Umniya IVF and Infertility Center
12.2025 - Current
Manager Strategy & Financial Analysis
Blue Ocean Health
03.2024 - 11.2025
Business Analysis & Strategic Initiatives
Emirates Hospital Group
11.2021 - 03.2024
Senior Finance Manager
Sehteq Medical Billing
05.2018 - 09.2021
General Accountant
Sani Service LLC
02.2017 - 04.2018
Manager Accounts
Polymer Group of Industries
05.2014 - 12.2016
Accounts Officer
Faraz Foods Ltd
09.2012 - 04.2014
Association of Taxation Technicians
GCC VAT Compliance
ACCA Global
ACCA
ACCA Global
Certified Accounting Technician
Institute Of Certified Public Accountant
Certified Public Accountant from CPA
Institute of Certified Public Accountant
Post Graduate Diploma from Public Accountancy