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KARIM MENZLI

Senior Financial Planning Analyst, MBA

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

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

Wide experience in different Finance roles ( Industry, fossil Energy, Humanitarian sectors )

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
Key skills
Finance Analysis - Investment Advice
Budget & Buisiness Plan implentation
Key Performance Indicators
Dashboards Implementation and Analysis
Cashflow optimization
Infos
41 years old
Contact Me
kmenzli@gmail.com +216 28 328 402
Citee Thanit, App-S1, CarthageTUNIS La marsaTunisia
Professional Experiences
  • Implementation of operational and financial management strategies, adapts
    processes and procedures focusing on achievement
  • Monitor and track expenses following internal and IPSAS rules and ensure the compliance with Donor requirements.
  • 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:
  • Monitoring of all project expenses in a monthly basis, track progess and calculate earned value, analyse variation and eventually propose corrective actions
  • Track all relevant approval required relating to Capex expenditure on project basis and keep records as per requirements of the Investment controlling guidelines and Policy (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 Mid Term Plan process
  • Prepare Economics for all Projects during the MTP planning cycle as well as for other approval levels
  • Prepare FYE estimates in consultation with technical input in order to report the Full Year / Quarterly Estimate Capex & Opex
  • Financial focal point for procurement process : check and Approve Purchase requisition for all capex project
  • Prepare and maintain all documents related to the Investment phase ( Memo, Sheet term, Capex ranking , Presentations, Risk analysis, SWOT ... )
  • 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

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

Management

  • Ability to interact in multicultural environment
    Expert
  • Team building
    Advanced
  • Team Work
    Expert
  • Time Management
    Advanced
  • Public speech and effective presentation
    Advanced
  • Ability to maximize profit
    Advanced
  • Meet deadlines and work under pressure
    Advanced

Computer Skills

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

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

Spoken Languages
  • English
    Advanced
  • French
    Expert
  • Arabic
    Expert
Interests

Arts

  • Portrait Photography
Portfolios

Strategic Career Self-Management

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

18/08/2022
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