1. Ali El-Ali
Mobile: 00966-560001680
ali@alwedyan.com
EDUCATION
2011 MBA Degree – Major Accounting LAU-Lebanon
2006 Bachelor Business Administration IUL-Lebanon
1994 diploma Commercial Science Major Accounting STC - Lebanon
COURSES, TRAININGS & CERTIFICATION
1994 Auditing Works Beirut, Lebanon
1994 Microsoft Windows & Excel Beirut, Lebanon
1993 Certified Chief Accountant STC, Beirut
1992 Certified General Accountant STC, Beirut
ERP- CRM-SYSTEM EXPERIENCE
MS Word, MS Excel advanced level (Pivot table, Look up, Formulas) Internet explorer
Enterprise Resources Planning software JD Edwards (ACP modules) and Oracle Financial ACP)
MCBA system (GL, Inventory, Payable, Customer Order Processing, Inventory Control, Payroll and
Maintenance software)
Dolphin (Software for payroll and accounts)
SKILL PROFIE
• 21 years of professional experience in Accounts, Finance, Audit and Commercial.
• Provide positive leadership to the business by living the value and create and maintain the work
environment that delivers superior performance.
• Ability to maximize return on financial assets by establishing policies and procedures, control and
reporting systems.
• Goal-oriented individual with leadership and talent management capability.
• Organized, highly motivated, quick learner, initiator and work without any supervision.
• Help organisation to improve ways of accounts and admin and detail directed problem solver.
• Ever willing to shoulder additional responsibilities and be a good team member.
• Willing to travel abroad to complete the official responsibility.
• Loyal, honest to accountancy career and work within ethical framework and due diligence
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
1. I have extensive experience in accounts, finance, and audit. My experience consist of Financial management, Project
management, Implementation of new accounting software, Budget preparation, Credit Control, Debtors collection,
Bank, Cash, Loan, Mortgage analysis and reconciliation, Balance sheet and ledgers reconciliation, Profit/Loss, Trial
Balance Analysis, administrative functions.
2. Extensive experience in leading the organization in income generation from commercial sector, by setting targets and
managing the pipeline of the commercial operations also responsible for delivering cost, efficiency and business
improvement goals.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Aug 2007 to date Al-Wedyan National Co. for Food Products Ltd. Jeddah. KSA.
Financial & Commercial Controller
Reporting to CEO
Budget
• Liaise with all Head Departments assisting them in compiling their annual budget.
• Full involvement in preparation of forecast, budgets and gap analysis.
2. • Prepare the executive report and presented with the budget for the budget committee. .
• Represents the Finance & Commercial Departments during the budget committee meeting.
• Provide assurance to management on the overall assessment of internal controls, related risks and make
recommendations for the efficiency and effectiveness of the operations.
• Monitor financial performance versus budget so that the organization is aware of anticipated
cost/revenue areas of unsatisfactory performance and identify opportunities are capitalized upon.
• To implement budgetary control technique, prepare emerging strategy and KPI.
• To discuss guideline of budget with General Manager and allocate resources
Corporate
• Maintain banking relationship. .
• Carried out Segmental analysis of Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash flows.
• Supervise financial data and generate reports for the company’s financial systems.
• Reporting on financial analysis of company‘s balance sheet and trial balance.
• Carried out Loans and Leases.
• Supervise working capital management.
• Responsible for implementing and monitoring an appropriate financial control environment.
• Influence finance staffs to strictly follow the company policies and procedures.
• Ensure finance is aware and reflecting relevant changes to reporting standards and best practice if any.
• Preparing monthly business analysis report to analyze the overall health of the business.
• Ensure that all expenses are properly documented.
• Determining the company capital structure.
• Arrange for equity and debt financing.
• Responsible in target costing activities to create products that meeting predetermined price goals.
• Responsible in the determination of the product pricing offered and competitors pricing.
• Manage the capital budgeting process, based on constraint analysis and discounted cash flow analysis.
Property
• Ensure all property expenditure is providing in financial reports including insurance.
• Plan financial outgoing including cyclical maintenance expenditure with the concern department.
Management Team
• Financial co-ordination with all affiliates companies and the banks.
• Provide financial advise for the all head department and for management to assist them in decision
making.
• Review and monitor all departmental pending activities and assess performance
• Act as project leader and prepare and monitor the timetable
• Provide department heads with monthly analysis related to their respective department to enhance
awareness and efficiency
• Develop and contribute business planning
• Corresponds with the senior management regarding any financial decisions that are made
• Imbue all staff to be keen sense of controlling cost
• Working with management in determining the level of profitability of the company within a specified time
• Ensuring that the management understand the financial implications of any decision may they set on
regular basis
• Assisting Sales Manager in resolving contractual and commercial problems
• Assisting the Sales Manager in finalizing sales contracts
• Ensuring that the financial aspects and impact of a contract are clear to all parties
• Ensuring that all participants, such as administration, operations, and finance understand and adhere to
contractual obligations; reflecting them accurately
• Managing Daily Finance Operations.
• Assisting Management to set – short term & long term goals.
• Assist management in the formulation of its overall strategic direction
• Analyse and review company bottlenecks and recommend changes to improve the overall level of
company throughput
Staff & Admin
3. • To assist in hiring of competent staff (right people for right place)
• To supervise and guide subordinates and literate them according to requirement of department. Conduct
meetings with reporting staff discuss problematic issues.
• Manage the work load and plan to sort out back logs.
• Brainstorming meeting with staff to develop understanding of their needs for new information systems or
enhancing existing information systems.
• Setting individual objectives, managing performance, motivating staff, provision of formal and informal
feedback and appraisal in order to maximize departmental performance.
July 1999-August 2007 Arabian Diagnostic & Medical Co. Ltd.. Riyadh, KSA.
(Manufacturing Clinical Chemistry Reagent and Hemodialysis Solution and Powder for
Hemodialysis treatment).
Finance Supervisor
General Responsibilities
• All financial activities of the company
• Proper planning of jobs and supervision of accounting staff
• Accurate/ Fair presentation and safekeeping of all financial records
• Prepare Quarterly financial reports and submit for the Board of Directors
• Prepare monthly financial statement to General Manager
• All financial information forwarded to the Board of Directors
• All financial information forwarded to internal/external auditors
• Prepare annual budget with the related analysis schedule and discussed with the Board of
Directors for approval
Specific Job & Responsibilities
Budget
• Prepare annual budget and related schedules of:
• Sales Projection
• Manufacturing Cost
• Manpower cost by department
• Operating Expenses
• Capital expenditure
• Cash flow projection
• Projection Financial position
• Projected income statement
• Prepare summary highlights all assumption and principles applied in the budget.
• Represent the Finance Department during the Budget Committee discussion
Cost Accounting
• Review analyzes and approves cost production batches, production cost variance, landed cost
computation, assumptions and propriety of allocating distributing cost.
• Determine cost of inventory and monitor work in progress.
General Accounting
• Review and approves charging of transaction to proper cost center.
• Attends to. Communicate and deals with banks officials for the processing of bank
loans, guarantees, LC, export document, and other related matters.
• Ensure that all payment are dully supported with proper documents.
• Approves all voucher entries computerized in accounting system
• Prepare inventory instruction and supervises year-end physical inventory taking
• Review and singes payroll, deduction, additional
Financial Reporting
• Monthly financial statement to the G.M
4. • Quarterly prepare financial reports to the Board of Directors for discussion
• Monthly budget variances analysis to the G.M. including justifications.
• Monthly Trade Receivables & Cash balances submit to the G.M.
• Monthly Inventory aging to G.M.
• Reconciliations of ledgers vs. sub. Ledgers
• Zakat requirements
• Other requested reports by the G.M.
Other Tasks
• Computes product costs for the purposes of deterring optimum bid prices for government tenders.
• Assist External and Internal in their interim and final audit.
January – June 1999 Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi. (Publishers) Beirut, Lebanon
Accountant
• Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account
information.
• Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions;
resolving discrepancies.
• Maintains general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts; preparing a trial balance; reconciling entries.
• Summarizes financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss, and other
statements.
• Produces payroll by initiating computer processing; printing checks, verifying finished product. Completes
external audit by analyzing and scheduling general ledger accounts; providing information for auditors..
• Reconciliation of ledger balances and control accounts.
• Fixed Assets register maintenance. Carried out various bookkeeping duties.
• Avoids legal challenges by complying with legal requirements
• Secures financial information by completing database backups.
• Calculate Income tax and fill the tax declaration
Jan. 1994 – Jan. 1999 Sidnai & Co. Certified Public Accountants Beirut, Lebanon
Auditor
• Handling all accounting assignment for clients full accounting cycle up to generate the financial statements.
• Perform audit field in accordance with the audit plan.
• Report audit findings.
• Prepare working papers, Financial Statements and Income Tax.
• Gather information required in evaluating client’s internal control system and report recommendations to
enhance client’s internal control and operation efficiency.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Turn negative result into a positive one
• Turn result from losses to a profit in Al-Wedyan National Co.
• Turn result from losses to a profit in Arabian Diagnostic Medical Co.
Implementation of new accounting software
I have been assigned as Line Of Business (LOB) to represents food section in implementing Enterprise Resources Planning
software JD Edwards (ACP modules) and Oracle Financial ACP . Purpose of this Software changeover was for better
bookkeeping, internal and external reporting.
Project Manager
I have been assigned to prepare a feasibility study for a new factory and to submit all the requirements to Saudi Industrial
Development Funds (SIDF) in order to obtain loan, and result were great as the SIDF approved the study and provide us with
the loan.
5. PERSONAL SUMMARY
• Profile: Male, 40, Single
• Permanent Location: Beirut, Lebanon
• Current Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
ACTIVITIES
Diving, football and (economic, accounting & general) reading.
REFERENCES
a) Employer References will be given upon request.
6. PERSONAL SUMMARY
• Profile: Male, 40, Single
• Permanent Location: Beirut, Lebanon
• Current Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
ACTIVITIES
Diving, football and (economic, accounting & general) reading.
REFERENCES
a) Employer References will be given upon request.