ABDALKAREEM HUSSEIN

🔹Financial Planning, Control & Reporting

Managed budgeting, variance analysis, and financial reviews to ensure alignment with strategic goalsو Led accurate monthly and year-end closings in compliance with IPSAS. Ensured proper accounting for OPEX and CAPEX, including asset amortization.

🔹ERP Systems & Automation

Represented Finance in the Digital Transformation Committee, driving system enhancements. Led automation of payments and tasks using Power Automate, SharePoint, and Excel. Improved ERP reporting and efficiency through process reengineering.

🔹 GL & Financial Control:
Maintained and governed the Chart of Accounts, assigned GL ownership, and set reconciliation frequencies. Conducted User Access Reviews and Balance Sheet Substantiation. Prepared Exception Reports and managed month-end/year-end closings across AP, AR, FA, CM, and GL.

🔹 Budgeting & Reporting:
Played a key role in the budgeting by reviewing spending plans, tracking cash flow, and refining forecasts. Ensured financial performance remained aligned with government common KPIs and internal balanced Scorecard with strategic division.

🔹 Banking & Related Party Management:
Managed relationships with banking partners to ensure seamless operations. Oversaw related party dealings with a focus on compliance, transparency, and strategic alignment.

🔹 Audit Coordination:
Served as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for external auditors, ensuring timely, accurate responses and a smooth audit process.

🔹 Financial Reporting:
Prepared Financial Statements and Notes in full compliance with IPSAS and internal policies, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and audit readiness.

🔹 System Development & UAT:
Led finance’s role in system development and enhancement. Collected requirements, collaborated with developers, and oversaw successful User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

🔹 Policy & Process Development:
Drafted the department’s first policies, procedures, process maps, and templates, standardizing workflows and strengthening internal controls.

🔹 ICFR Implementation:
Supported the rollout of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) across key finance functions: AP, AR, GL, FA, Payroll, and Period-End Closing.

🔹 GL & Sub-ledger Reconciliation:
Reconciled General Ledger with AP, FA, and Cash Management sub-ledgers in Oracle EBS R12.5, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and timely issue resolution across financial records.

🔹 Expense Reporting & Budget Monitoring:
Prepared detailed expense reports and management statements to support strategic decisions. Monitored monthly budgets vs. actuals, performed variance analysis, and reviewed allocations from the Ministry of Finance to ensure alignment with internal forecasts.

🔹 Leasing & Vendor Reconciliations:
Reviewed and recalculated leasing contracts, including EBOR and interest components. Led reconciliation of historical vendor balances with Class A suppliers, resolving long-standing discrepancies and improving supplier relations.

🔹 Tax Compliance & Transaction Oversight:
Performed VAT input reconciliation to ensure compliance and recoverability. Reviewed and approved payment vouchers and financial transactions, upholding financial accuracy and adherence to internal policies.

🔹 Cost Center Analysis & Financial Control:
Analyzed operating expenses by cost center and division, providing insights to support financial control and planning. Oversaw transaction reviews across multiple finance functions to maintain governance and operational integrity.

🔹 Procure-to-Pay (P2P) & Supplier Coordination:
Collaborated with Procurement and operations teams to streamline the P2P process. Supported supplier follow-up for invoices and payments, and ensured accurate cost allocations in requisitions and external deals.

🔹 Expense Monitoring & Project Forecasting:
Controlled and forecasted income and expenditure for media projects. Reviewed monthly expenses and ensured accurate booking and timely payment processing.

🔹 Accounts & Ledger Management:
Prepared account analyses, maintained the general ledger, and posted transactions in Oracle EBS R12.5—ensuring accuracy and completeness across journals and records.

As a Group Senior Accountant at Noon Group—an entity owned by Mohammed Alabbar and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF)—I led end-to-end financial operations across multiple subsidiaries, driving accuracy, control, and digital transformation in a high-growth environment.

🔹 GL & Financial Operations:
Recorded entries for assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses by analyzing account data. Oversaw GL reconciliations against sub-ledgers (AP, AR, FA, CM), intercompany settlements, and clearing of prepayments, accruals, and provisions.

🔹 Accounts Payable & Vendor Management:
Supervised AP records including PDCs, payments in transit, and uncleared items. Led vendor reconciliations, managed employee claims, and approved payment vouchers. Led reconciliation projects for Class A vendors.

🔹 Cash & Banking Operations:
Handled banking activities including payroll (WPS/Non-WPS), vendor/intercompany transfers, and utilities. Performed monthly bank reconciliations for all entities.

🔹 Financial Reporting & Forecasting:
Assisted in preparing financial statements (P&L, BS, CF) and monthly reports. Developed expenditure forecasts, monitored budgets vs actuals, and supported cost analysis.

🔹 Fixed Assets & Capital Projects:
Controlled CIP accounts and capitalized assets monthly. Managed asset retirements, prepaid amortization, and monthly depreciation reviews.

🔹 Payroll & Compliance:
Coordinated payroll processing, system updates, and reconciliations. Maintained payroll records and supported internal and external audit readiness.

🔹 System Implementation & ERP Enhancement:
Contributed to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP implementation. Gathered requirements, supported user testing, and ensured smooth process transitions.

🔹 Standard Costing & Cost Analysis:
Maintained and updated standard costs, analyzed product cost structures, and reviewed cost variances including material, labor, and overhead. Ensured accuracy of costing data in Oracle EBS R12.5 and aligned it with actual performance to support cost optimization strategies.

🔹 Inventory & WIP Accounting:
Supervised inventory accounting activities, including stock movement analysis, WIP transactions, and aged inventory reporting. Reconciled physical inventories, monitored DIO to improve working capital, and updated inventory system transactions.

🔹 Manufacturing Operations Support:
Prepared and audited BOMs and routings, processed daily discrete job closures, and reviewed high-variance work orders. Controlled joint and separable costs, managed outside processing costs, and ensured timely cost of sales approvals.

🔹 Financial Closing & Reporting:
Handled month-end closing for manufacturing and inventory modules, updated GL entries, and supported MIS reporting. Prepared reports on raw material consumption and monitored production performance to drive cost-efficiency and profitability.