Zain Elabden Zaki Abden

Investment Research ManagerFull Time

• Job Details:FITAIHI HOLDING GROUP, Saudi Arabia 2004 – Present Fitaihi Holding Group is a highly reputable and well-known company in the Saudi joint stock market, the main business focus being retail jewelry, health care and investment management in the Middle East. Received Fitaihi Outstanding Performance Award for Business Process Efficiency FP&A, Investment Research Manager (2011-Present)  Manage capital allocation among investment strategies & business operations cash flow.  Covering MENA region especially Egypt, Saudi Arabia & Dubai Financial Market.  Leading financial & investment team to satisfy timely, accurate, relevant and value-add decision support, responsible to promote stuff knowledge, awareness.  Mainly my responsibilities including IFRS9, IAS39, IAS28 implementation of internal controls, execution focusing on a monitor the transactions in treasury & portfolio management department.  Compilation of financial and investment equity analysis, bonds, and other investments instruments using technical analysis tools and bond reports, economic forecasts, financial periodicals, securities manuals, company financials and communicate with top management to strategic enhancement.  Deputy CFO Member in IT Steering committee to oversight, directive IT projects starting from choosing the vendor to govern the deliverables with all business processes.  Strategic analysis performance; SWOT analysis identification, Strategic planning & IPO readiness.  Responsible for financial system solution design, controls, integration among applications.  Provides design support for the development of BI solutions to complex, cross-functional IT  Develop and maintain tadawul.com.sa announcements consensus about Fitaihi’s quarterly and annual performance as well as any mandatory material financial information or business strategy.  Communicate with potential and existing investors and analysts clarifying any misconceptions.  Maintain Corporate Governance practices encounter any conflicts of interest occur due to lack of full-compliance to submit proposals to the Board of Directors for improvement  Evaluation & monitoring financial risk, financial forecast preparation, financing scenarios and other fund documents relative to capital budgeting & corporate liquidity management.  Financial statement preparation according to IFRS, with compliance assurance of accounting standards.  Directly negotiating with banks, suppliers for securing appropriate credit facilities and financing at the optimum rate, payment schedules & financial leverage.  Sales incentive design for employee motivation & achieving management objectives.  Oracle R12 implementation team leader for supply chain, inventory, Point Of Service, Financial, landed cost, discrete manufacturing, etc.; IT audit administration. Investment Analyst, IT Consultant (2008-2011)  Mainly sectors under my competency to cover Real estate, Agriculture, Banking, Retail consumer goods, Manufacturing (Carpet, Ceramics), Health Care (Hospitals).  Team member in Transaction Support group performing buy-side due diligence & reviewing the deal structure and purchase price mechanisms to advise private equity funds.  Investment instrument historical performance measurement and expectation.  Portfolio performance review reports and presentation for the Investment Committee and the Board.  Corporate Investment policy statement preparation identify risk appetite, tolerance & liquidity needs  Forecasting of operations changes impacts on corporate financial performance for each business unit.  Corporate acquisition with due diligence package preparation; financial model development.  Finance and trading extraction and analysis; preparation of business analysis project plan.  Conflict management, Stockholder communication, and business process implementation.  Investment opportunity recommendation report sector allocation, diversification & risk mitigation.  Portfolio management performance measurement (applying GIPS Standard), dividend CF and analysis. Financial Controller (2006-2008)  Company operations budget preparation; achieved target monitoring, variance reports, improved performance recommendation & cost reduction analysis.  Monitoring accounting functions, Audit planning, operations risk assessments; internal controls.  Financial statement and audit schedule footnote and disclosure preparation.  Development and preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual reporting packages for internal (Senior Executives and Board of Directors) and external purposes.  Policies and procedures preparation and maintenance; identification of controlling enhancement.  Management report preparation based on inventory & credit customer aging, profitability.  Implementing "Activity Based Costing" production for discrete manufacturing products.  Responsible for mandatory reporting activities, verifications, disclosure to Capital Market Authority (CMA), (Tadawul),