
mohammed Khater
About Candidate
Strategic and results-driven Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with 15+ years of experience in banking, financial leadership, and digital transformation within local and international entities. Adept at driving business transformation, optimizing financial performance, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Proven ability to lead high-performing teams and implement ERP, driven efficiencies while fostering governance, transparency, and investor confidence.
Moreover, I excel at:
· IPO and ESG readiness, ensuring compliance, governance.
· Financial reporting, modeling, and analytics.
· Overseeing financing, accounting, taxation, and administration.
· Project financing, performance monitoring, and business controlling.
· Developing and implementing financial policies, internal controls roles.
· Building and leading high-performing, diverse teams.
· Engineering and implanting digital transformation “ERP”.
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Work & Experience
Holding | 20 Entities | Engineering | Technology | Construction | Contracting |Livestock | Real State | Medical Center | Soil Lab | Chemical Lab | Oil & Gas | Environmental | Law | Trading | Retails | Automotive Workshop | Trunkey Project | Industrial | Consultation | Supervision | • Managing IPO readiness and investor relations for the group. • Implementing ESG governance roles within the group. • Reviewing investment opportunities and potential growth for the group. • Supporting group strategy, planning, goals, and necessary implementations. • Leading bank relations for all group entities and financing mega projects. • Preparing consolidated financials and reviewing group entities' financials. • Overseeing the year-end audit process and ensuring proper filings to the authorities. • Preparing investment plans and modifications for stakeholders and managing investor relations. • Enhancing the skills and techniques of the group finance team.
3 Entities | Offshore | Maritime | Oil & Gas | Subsea | Services | • Overseeing daily operations of the Finance Unit in UAE and Saudi entities. • Managing banking relations in Saudi for facilities and solutions to meet operational needs. • Preparing financial reports and leading board reviews. • Supporting strategy planning and implementation to achieve company goals. • Continuously reviewing project costs, technical progress, contingencies, and other KPIs. • Research and reporting on factors affecting business performance.
Holding | 3 Entities | innovation hub | Renewable Energy | Research and Development “R&D” | Manufacturing | Investment | Storage Systems | • Overseeing daily operations of the Finance Unit in the German entity, Saudi factory, and Holding entity in Saudi Arabia. • Controlling cash flows, working capital, and predicting future trends. • Liaising with banks and Sabic Treasury Team for project financing. • Preparing financial reports and leading board reviews. • Preparing and implementing required policies and procedures. • Continuously reviewing project costs, technical progress, contingencies, and other KPIs. • Preparing investment plans and modifications for external users and managing investor relations. • Leading the year-end audit process with L&Y Auditors and Sabic Audit Team and ensuring proper filings to authorities In Germany and Saudi. • Supporting strategy planning and implementation to achieve company goals.
Manpower | Engineering | GIS | Urban planning | Construction | Trunkey Project | Industrial | Oil & Gas | Survey | PMO | Digital | • Implementing ERP (ODOO). • Overseeing daily operations of the Finance Unit (team of 11 members). • Supporting strategy planning and implementation to achieve company goals. • Assisting Holding in closing financial periods and consolidation reports. • Controlling cash flows, working capital, and predicting future trends. • Liaising with banks for facility agreements to meet company requirements. • Research and reporting on factors affecting business performance. • Preparing monthly financial reports and conducting management reviews. • Interpreting financial performance and recommending corrective actions. • Continuously reviewing project costs, technical progress, contingencies, and other KPIs. • Managing EPC and long-term contracts. • Assisting in bidding activities, cost, risk analyses, pricing and margin. • Organizing and preparing the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and reporting to management. • Analyzing budget/forecast variances, explaining them, and suggesting corrective actions. • Leading the year-end audit process with Deloitte and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, preparing yearly financial statements, and ensuring proper filings to authorities. • Maintaining relationships with banks, sub-contractors (local and international), and clients. • Creating KPIs for finance and projects and implementing policies and procedures to enhance quality and efficiency.
Engineering | Manpower | Supervision | Oil and Gas | Digital | Industrial | Nuclear | Civil | • Implementing accounting software (QuickBooks & Focus) and ensuring proper policies and procedures. • Overseeing daily operations of accounting, procurement, and project controlling departments (team of 5 members) and conducting necessary training. • Managing and controlling cash flows, working capital, and predicting future trends. • Researching and reporting on factors influencing business performance, including cost reduction analysis and financial impact simulations. • Supporting strategy planning and implementation to achieve company goals. • Preparing monthly financial reports, conducting management reviews, and interpreting financial performance with recommended corrective actions. • Creating KPIs for finance and project controlling departments and maintaining a manual of internal controls and financial policies. • Managing EPC contracts and long-term projects with continuously reviewing project costs, technical progress, KPIs, and budget variances. • Assisting in bidding activities, cost and risk analyses, and pricing and margin. • Organizing and preparing annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and analyzing variances. • Leading year-end audit processes with KPMG, Deloitte, and Morison, preparing yearly financial statements, and ensuring proper filings to authorities. • Implementing VAT declaration and registration processes and managing reporting liabilities for WHT, VAT, and other governmental levies and taxes. • Maintaining relationships with banks, sub-contractors, clients, and overseeing insurance. • Managing and preparing monthly salaries for 500 staff members. • Monitoring and managing relations with banks, clients, and suppliers.
Food and Beverage “F&B” | Retail | Warehouse | Distribution | • Recording daily accounting entries. • Reconciling and tracking intercompany flows. • Preparing accruals/prepayments and bank reconciliation reports. • Conducting periodic physical inventory checks.
Food and Beverage “F&B” | Retail | Warehouse | Distribution | Plastic | Transportation | • Recording entries in the accounting system. • Preparing bank reconciliations. • Conducting periodic physical inventory checks.
Audit | Tax | Financial Consultation | Investor Relation | • Assisting Senior Auditors and Supervisors with audit fieldwork. • Recording daily transactions in the accounting system.