Counsello's Team
Furkan Zafar
Chief Financial Officer
ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS, Glasgow UK
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY, Oxford, UK
BSC Honors in Applied Accounting
ADVANCED LEVEL – University of London
GCE Accounting, Economics and Business Studies
LHC INVESTMENTS LLC DUBAI UAE | Group CFO/Senior Financial Controller
- Reporting to the Managing Director and CEO on all finance and accounting matters.
- Presenting budgets, projections, forecasts to the Board
- Presenting monthly financial results to the Board
- Preparing monthly MIS reports, including variance analysis, ratio analysis and receivables aging analysis including income, COGS and OPEX etc.
- Monitoring liquidity and funding requirement
- Finalizing books of account from incomplete records
- Preparing stand-alone and consolidated financials, including trend of operations, entity level reviews for group subsidiaries.
- Establishing internal controls and ensured compliance
- Responsible for filing regulatory and tax returns
- Developing policies for key business processes
- Processing payroll including commissions and bonus
- Reviewing financial models and investment planning
- Supervising user access and system configurations
- Creating a financial authority matrix
- Devising basis for inter-company expense allocations
- Mentoring and training team members
- Monitoring and presenting trends for company sales revenue and cost centers. Defining and monitoring key drivers and KPI’s and developing a suit of KPI’s to be used by the management to measure overall efficiency and identifying areas for improvement.
AMAZON.AE | Group Finance Manager
- Reported to Group CFO and CEO of the Organization on all relevant matters while coordinating finance, accounts and new investment matters of the organization.
- Liaised with IT to implement and Business Analytics.
- Presented strategic business plans at board level
- Managed the budgeting process for Board approval
- Analyzed and interpreted investment opportunities
- Facilitated operational team in achieving targets
- Consolidated group budgets, monthly financial reports and management accounts including trend of operations, entity
- level reviews for group subsidiaries, finalized annual external year-end financial audits of the company and its subsidiaries.
- Reported on the monthly performance to the Board
- Improved month-end close process
- Focused on collections and escalated when required
- Managed data analytics related to customers
- Aligned and improved inter-company processes
- Developed and implemented policies
- Ensured compliance with internal controls
- Coordinated with internal and external auditors