Finance Business Partner · Chartered Accountant
· CA · Dip IFRS (ACCA) · Dubai
Chartered Accountant and finance business partner in Dubai, now Financial Business Partner for the Middle East and Africa at Bacardi. Before that, three years as Finance Manager at Al Ansari Exchange and Country Controller for Puma Energy in Mumbai, with earlier years in financial analysis and statutory audit in the oil and energy sector. Holds the ACCA Diploma in IFRS, and has a habit of automating whatever the spreadsheet is doing by hand: VBA, Power Query, Power Pivot, Lean Six Sigma.
Finance partner to the Middle East and Africa business of a global spirits company: budgets and forecasts, commercial decision support, and performance reviews that connect brand and market investment to margin.
Three years managing finance at one of the UAE's largest exchange and remittance businesses: reporting, controls and planning in a high-volume, tightly regulated environment.
Country controllership for a downstream energy business in Mumbai: statutory and management reporting, IFRS compliance, and control over an operationally complex, asset-heavy P&L.
Reporting and reconciliation work rebuilt in VBA, Power Query and Power Pivot so that monthly close, variance analysis and management packs take hours instead of days, and produce the same answer every time.
Applying Lean Six Sigma foundations to finance processes: mapping the work, removing rework, and measuring cycle time and error rates the way an operations team would.
Global Fellow on a structured consulting programme mentored by former MBB professionals: problem structuring, client-ready analysis and the discipline of a recommendation that fits on one page.
Bacardi · Dubai (hybrid)
Al Ansari Exchange · Dubai
Blue Chapter · Remote
Puma Energy · Mumbai
Open to conversations about finance business partnering, FP&A and process-improvement work in consumer goods and energy — and to collaborations on Power Query, Power Pivot and VBA automation.