
Timeline
About me
Head of Controllership In Asia Pacific Board Audit & Risk committee Member
Education

St. cloud state university
2007 - 2011Bachelor of applied science (b.a.sc.) accounting
Experience

Follett higher education group
Dec 2007 - Jan 2009Student worker•Developed interpersonal communication skills by assisting students in finding their course materials•Gained team work skills by sorting and shelving book shipments with co-workers •Displayed inventory in attractive and organized manner•Assist with fixed asset; take part in physical inventories and balancing

St. cloud state university
Oct 2009 - Jun 2010Member, search committee for director of international admission, scsuActed as a university representative for director hiring process •Reviewed and evaluated applicants according to search rubric•Compiled interview questions to be used for interviewers•Participated in group discussion and decision-making to determine best candidates •Developed excellent communication skills through contact of references

St. cloud state university
Jan 2011 - May 2011Intern (program assistant) /student organization•Assist Auditing student organizations on campus under the policy•Assist operating CollegateLink (organization management software) and new organization tracking •Assuming leadership roles during reorganization and supervisor’s extended leave•Orchestrating campus involvement fairs with organizations •Working with various students, student groups and professional offices to plan and facilitate events

Accountability minnesota
Jan 2011 - Apr 2011Tax preparer•Preparing single and joined tax returns within IRS guidelines :•Earning IRS (Internal Revenue Service) certification in order to be eligible to prepare taxes

Sabic
Oct 2011 - nowOrganizing and ensuring an effective internal control and governance for statutory compliance is maintained over all the affiliates, ensuring :• Provide regional controllership oversight for the MEA region, align controllership processes between affiliates, challenge and support MEA performance and controllership processes ensuring proper safeguarding of MEA accounts & assets • Keep updated on IFRS policies and Group accounting manual and Group statutory manual and ensure these are properly implemented in the region• Lead external audits and internal compliance reviews in the Mea region to ensure overall controllership oversight• Lead with internal stakeholders ( corporate function) for MEA controllership reviews • Maintain Statutory Financial Reporting Manual executed during statutory reporting of MEA legal entities, monitor its progress• Drive controllership awareness for the region teams including training of accounting policies to shared service finance team and controllership awareness session to cross function teams• Lead budgets and forecasts of the function and lead performance reviews Show less •Gap assessment and implemenation of IFRS 16•Identification of accounting and reporting matters•Completed position paper to document the existing accounting practice vs. IFRS accounting practice •Identify and conclude on the differences between current accounting at SABIC and IFRS•Completed contracts and agreements evaluation for any financal impact•Calculate and preform impact assessment of IFRS convergence •Prepare skeleton Financial Statement IFRS base parallel to SOCPA Financial Statement•Quality review of deliverable•Implement the changes in the system to adopt IFRS by 2017 Show less SABIC, Corporate Finance-Financial Accounting & Reporting•Prepare financial statements in line with SABIC Unified Accounting Policy, Saudi Organization for Certified Public Accountants & International Accounting Standards •Prepare and preform the month-end and year end closing activities•Ensure effective product costing •Monitor interfaces between General Ledger and other SAP system modules•Reconcile and correct all General Ledger accounts to ensure no abnormal balances are reported in trial balance•Coordinate and accommodate internal & external auditors inquires•Support data analysis for management•Coordinate with customer’s engineers for projects settlement to finalize the Capitalization process•Perform the preparation of monthly, quarterly and year-end closing and reporting of regional accounts carried out as per established accounting practices and procedures•Create, dispose, maintain and analyze Fixed Assets register for customer •Organize Monthly Customer Meetings Show less
Head of Controllership In Asia Pacific
Apr 2024 - nowSenior Manager Controllership MEA
Dec 2020 - Mar 2024Workstream Lead Controller Function Project New Journey (SABIC and Aramco)
May 2019 - Mar 2021Sr. Manger Fin Accounting & Reporting
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020Core Member and Team Lead of SABIC IFRS Convergence Project at SABIC
Nov 2015 - May 2019Sr. Accountant & Controlling
Oct 2011 - Mar 2019Accountant, Shared Services
Oct 2011 - Dec 2016

Saudi european petrochemical company (ibn zahr)
Dec 2023 - nowMember of board audit and risk committee
Licenses & Certifications

Sap courses (systems, applications and products in data processing)
Mar 2012
Microsoft certified application specialist for microsoft access
May 2010
Microsoft certified application specialist for microsoft excel 2007
Mar 2010
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Bassel AltarrahCum Laude St Cloud State University May 2011
Languages
- arArabic
- enEnglish
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