Fahad Alhimms

Turned around family business of chain of jewellery shops; designed and executed strategies that adapted to financial crisis and impact on gold price.  Resolved critical cash flow issues  Achieved 400% return on key real estate investments over three years  Identified, obtained and developed high potential new properties

Built best practice departments.  Built robust accounting department from the ground up;  Provided leadership during successful $4BN IPO  Instrumental to $6.1BN licence bid win,  Enhanced business partnering;  Motivated productive teams of up to 25;  Designed and led revenue operations department;  Enhanced payment operations;  Built new Taxation department from scratch;  Won prestigious employee award

The first private jet and low cost airline in Saudi Arabia and the largest private aviation company in the MENA region.  Enhanced organisational design;  Saved SR 6Mpa; proposed simple change in operational business module with major cost impact.  Promoted to lead accounting,  Boosted IT efficiency;  Change-managed staff turnover issue;  Coached and trained high performing teams of up to 13;

hired to drive efficiency in Group consolidation, budgeting and financial analysis team; reconciled $4.2BN at multinational conglomerate across nine OBCOs.  Reduced month end production time from 12 days to five; improved financial statements processes and developed workflow chart with authorisation matrix.  Saved $2.4Mpa cost; conceived and led complexity reduction initiative that drove efficiency and productivity across the group.

joined as a student intern and headed productivity review that reduced cost by $500K; analysed Pampers brand production; identified alternative cost-saving processes.

Investment, M&A, Corporate Valuations and Structure Financing

Accounting and MIS