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KARIM MENZLI

Senior Finance, Planning and Controlling Expert, MBA

KARIM MENZLI
Multidisciplinary Finance professional with a special attraction to Finance Planning and Analysis ( FP&A)

Senior Finance Officier with vision and smart work ( hard work as well).

Wide experience in different Finance roles.

Ability to implement innovative practices.

Communication skills and persuasive person

Looking for Decision making role or support to Decision by understanding the whole activity and focusing in the Financial side.

For more informations:
www.karim-menzli.com
40 years old
kmenzli@gmail.com +216 28 328 402
Citee Thanit, App-S1, CarthageTUNIS La marsaTunisia
Experiences
  • Implementation of operational and financial management strategies, adapts
    processes and procedures focusing on achievement
  • Ensures administration of budgets and functioning of the optimal cost-recovery system
  • Provides Finance support to operational Departments
  • Ensures proper CO Cash Management functioning
  • Preparation and traking of detailed functional budget
  • Cost variation analysis and implement cost optimization
  • Board meeting preparation and support
  • Financial monthly closing
  • Billing and cash calls to partners ( ETAP & SHELL )
  • BS and P&L statement analysis ( monthly)
  • Payment process and Bank relationship
  • Joint Venture Audit : Responsible for review, analysis and challenge of Audit exceptions raised by ETAP ( State partner )
  • Responsible for timely delivery of documents and answers to ETAP auditors during JV audit
  • Support timely and accurate monthly, quarterly and annual closings of tax and IFRS books.
  • Leading the BO Controlling Department's Investment controlling , budgeting and reporting activities including Mid Term Plan (MTP) and Economics, actively supporting the CFO to successfully meet the requirements, deadlines and standards of the department relating to Capital spending targets and investment controlling requirements.
    Controlling a budget of 1.200 MUSD related to Nawara Gas project

    Main tasks:
  • Track all relevant approval required relating to Capex expenditure on project basis and keep records as per requirements of the Investment controlling guidelines (Board motions and AFE's)
  • Advise all technical departments about the requirements of investment directives and approval requirements from OMV and JV partners
  • Actively take part in pre-closing review for every month and suggest improvement in Accounting and reporting and review bookings in SAP on asset level for correctness and advise
  • Financial Focal Point for the MTP planning process
  • Prepare Economics for all Projects during the MTP planning cycle as well as for other approval levels
  • Review, update and coordinate economics set-up in palantir
  • Develop, amend and maintain project economic models and support the planning process for Exploration and Developments
  • Prepare FYE estimates in consultation with technical input in order to report the Full Year / Quarterly Estimate Capex & Opex
  • Analyse monthly deviations actuals vs budget and forecasts based on AFE tracking reports on 100% basis
  • Perform the impairment tests according to OMV Guidelins and IAS 36
  • Financial focal point for ITT and procurement process
  • Check and Approve Purchase requisition for all capex project
  • JV cost control ( Operated assets) :
  • Budget implementation and cost tracking
  • Purchasing orders checks and cost release
  • Prepare meetings with state oil company (ETAP) and presentation of financial figures in order to get the approval of opex and Capex budget
  • Analyse variations for Actual cost Vs planned
  • Preparation of OMV cach planning forecast and upload it in TM1
  • Creation of work breakdown structure for new projects after getting the required approval from Tunisia BO and HO
  • Monthly tracking and analysis for OPEX cost
  • Support for accounting during the pre-closing period for an accurate accruals of costs
  • Support to technical department for Finance data and figures
  • Preparing annual budget and Business Plan;
  • Calculating and controlling the monthly costs and margin analysis ( economics )
  • Gathering various informations (Financial, maintenance,investement, KPI's) and variations analysis
  • Development of corrective actions and implementation of the "best practices"
  • Benshmarking of key indicators with CIMPOR companies
  • Monthly P&L statement and interpreting the most relevant variations
  • Reporting to the Board of directors and Executive committee
  • Preparing annual, semi-annual, monthly and Ad-hoc reports
  • Prepare profitability analysis ( economics ) and following investment expenses
  • Analytical monthly closing (costing and products valorisation process)
  • Punctual profitability analysis for purchased/manufactured materials
  • Following the Working capital (trade payable, trade receivable, stocks)
  • Following cash expenses
  • Supervising credit control
  • Preparing and analyse of Dashboard (commercial, industrial and financial)
  • Implementation and tracking of cost saving program ( opex )
  • Internship Masters memory relating to Basel II agreement and the impact on credit risk
  • Gathering information from the table of commitments
  • Balance the credit risk weight according the Basel II ratio
  • Calculating the ratio of Mc Donough (the new bank capital solvency ratio) and interpretation.
Skills

Business and Financial Analysis

  • Decision support to Top Management and Board
    Expert
  • Economics and margin analysis
    Expert
  • Budget and Business Plan implementation
    Expert
  • Deviation Analysis
    Expert
  • Tracking of expenditure
    Expert
  • Reporting and Dashboard
    Expert
  • Best practices implementation
    Advanced
  • Joint Venture Accounting
    Advanced
  • Auditing
    Advanced
  • Purchase to Pay process
    Advanced
  • Financial focal point for ITT and Procurement process
    Advanced

Management

  • Ability to interact in multicultural environment
    Expert
  • Public speech and effective presentation
    Advanced
  • Team building
    Good
  • Ability to maximize profit
    Advanced

Computer Skills

  • Using the ERP (SAP)
    www.sap.com
    Advanced
  • Using the software Quantrix for budgeting and analysis
    www.quantrix.com
    Advanced
  • Good skills of the office pack ( Advanced level in WORD, EXCEL, POWER POINT…)
    Advanced
  • Using few of the statistics softwares (STATA) et (SPSS)
    Good
  • Good skills of internet and related tools
    Expert
  • Adapting very fast any software and any computer tool.
  • IBM cognos TM1 for data analysis
    Advanced
Education

Master's Degree

ESSEC Tunis

September 2006 to January 2008
Management and Audit of Financial Risks

Bachelor's Degree

ESSEC Tunis

September 2002 to June 2006
Accounting

Finance & Controlling program for talents

OMV

2012 to 2014
OMV Finance Academy ( Integrated Graduate Development program ) :

Ability to interact, Introduction to Petroleum Industry Business, Reporting Database, Management Reporting IFRS,Oil & Gas accounting, Ability to maximize profits, Basic Economics, SAP JV accounting , Financial Planning, Performance and cost controlling, Investment/value oriented Controlling, Financing, Presentation Skills, Project Management, Risk Management,
Process Management & Internal Control, Audit.

MBA candidate

MEDITTERANEAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Interests

Arts

  • Portrait Photography
Portfolios

Strategic Career Self-Management

Website
Creation date
28 Jul 2022

UNDP SPARK PROGRAMME

MBA Group Picture -Allumni 2013

Winning Behaviour Certificate

IGD Finance & Controlling Diploma

IGD Finance & Controlling - Final day

Project Management certificate

Final Project Presentation

Master Degree Diploma

Academic program kick off - 2012

Certifications

Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management

18/18/2022
(View certification)
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