IZARY's CV
IZARY AHMED MOHAMED HANIFFA
Assistant Manager Finance | Financial Reporting
Profile summary
Accomplished Assistant Manager in Finance with 14 years of professional experience specializing in financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and audit management across GCC environments. Core competencies include IFRS reporting, internal controls, and accounts receivable management. Committed to maintaining rigorous financial governance and ensuring strict adherence to regulatory standards established by authorities such as the CBUAE.
Career highlights
Receivables and IFRS Reporting: Led monthly and quarterly receivables and IFRS 9 ECL reporting for management and audit review, ensuring compliance with CBUAE requirements.
Financial Statement Preparation: Prepared monthly accounts reconciliation, recurring and ad-hoc reports, general ledger reconciliation, and posted journal entries for the month-end closing process.
Audit Management: Liaised with the Audit team and managed all accounts receivable related audit queries while providing support and access to relevant records and files.
Key skills
Professional experience
Shaped finance operations reporting directly to leadership, overseeing accounts receivable, audit processes, and cross-functional project implementations across the organization. Steered regulatory compliance for CBUAE requirements, treasury cash flow budgeting, and credit policy development.
- Prepared quarterly accounts receivable presentations for Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee meetings and managed all audit queries.
- Collaborated with the IT applications team on system change requests, automations, and integration workstreams during the merger.
- Analyzed monthly collection targets against actual figures to reduce bad debts and provided weekly and monthly budgets to the treasury team.
Managed financial accounting operations, directing cash position reporting and escrow account administration with financial institutions. Compiled management reports and financial statements while coordinating internal audit schedules and requirements.
- Prepared monthly accounts reconciliation, recurring reports, and general ledger reconciliations while posting journal entries for month-end closing.
- Managed accounts payable workflows, cash position reporting, and weekly payable reports for management review.
- Liaised with auditors to provide records and files, implementing audit recommendations within agreed timeframes.
- Identified key risks where financial statements failed to reflect economic substance or accounting was inaccurate.
- Completed all assigned audit work in a timely and competent manner.
- Evaluated internal controls and executed compliance testing, documenting significant findings for management review.
- Compiled audit working papers and conducted research on technical facts for partner consideration.
Education
- Level 1 Candidate