Barcelona, Spain
The finance function, built from a blank sheet.
I build the costing, reporting and planning systems behind capital projects — turning operational reality into numbers leadership can act on. Finance and operations across construction, manufacturing and banking, from Kuwait to Barcelona.
It answers from my verified professional records — the projects, the decisions behind them and where my experience transfers. Faster than a CV. How it works.
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Selected results
Forecast variance, €100M+ infrastructure project
Monthly variance analysis and rolling re-forecasts against a live cost baseline, reported to the C-suite.
18% to ~4%
Monthly close
Rebuilt the close on Power Query pipelines and structured workbooks, migrating Excel logic into system workflows.
7 days to 3
Manual reporting effort
Led the finance automation rollout across IT, Finance and Risk, moving recurring reports out of manual production.
−40%
Misallocated GL transactions, Doha Bank
Rebuilt the GL-to-regulatory mapping and reporting logic at Doha Bank using Excel, Power Query, VBA and Power BI.
−80%
Recurring finance reports automated, Doha Bank
More than ten recurring regulatory and management reports moved out of manual production into automated workflows.
more than >10
Audit findings resolved, United Boubyan
Contributed to resolving 17 audit findings covering process-control weaknesses, reporting inconsistencies and policy breaches.
17
Standard-cost accuracy vs actuals, cable plant
Production cost standards calibrated from approximately 8% away from actuals to approximately 2%.
~8% to ~2%
Copper scrap and recovery, cable plant
Copper scrap and recovery performance improved by approximately 15% at the automated cable plant.
~15%
About
I work where the numbers meet the operation: the seam where a costing model, a production line and a management report all have to agree.
I started in the numbers — a BSc in Accounting and Finance at the University of Bristol, then a graduate traineeship at Doha Bank, where I automated the mapping of balance sheet items into regulatory returns and presented the business case to the CFO. It taught me early that the interesting work is rarely the report itself. It is the system that produces it.
At United Boubyan Company in Kuwait I moved from General Accountant to Project & Cost Accountant to Finance & Operations Manager in two years. Along the way I owned P&L and rolling forecasts on a €100M+ infrastructure project, partnered daily with engineering and procurement, and took on the job I am proudest of: building the entire financial and costing operation for a new €20M automated cable plant, from the costing logic on each production line to the management reporting on top, with no ERP in place.
In 2026 I completed my MBA at ESADE in Barcelona to add the strategy layer to the operator's toolkit. What I want next is straightforward: a finance, FP&A or strategy & operations seat in a company where the numbers still need building, sharpening or connecting to real operational decisions. I work in English, Arabic and Spanish, and I move comfortably between Europe and the Gulf.
Experience
Finance & Operations Manager
United Boubyan Company · Construction & cable manufacturing, Kuwait
Building the full costing, budgeting and reporting infrastructure for a €20M greenfield plant with no ERP, on an architecture where every new production line feeds the same product-cost model. Owns the CapEx plan and the monthly management pack; leads a team of three across finance and operations.
Apr 2026 — present
Project & Cost Accountant (FP&A)
United Boubyan Company
Owned P&L, annual budgets and rolling forecasts on a €100M+ infrastructure project, reporting monthly to the C-suite, and business-partnered engineering, procurement and operations to price change orders in real time.
Apr 2025 — Apr 2026
General Accountant
United Boubyan Company · Kuwait City
Ran monthly, quarterly and annual closes across the group's construction activity, led the finance automation rollout across IT, Finance and Risk, and built Excel and VBA models linking cash flows, cost-to-complete and scenario analysis to funding needs.
Apr 2024 — Apr 2025
Graduate Trainee, Finance
Doha Bank · Banking, Kuwait
Rebuilt the GL-to-regulatory mapping and reporting logic, prepared and automated monthly CBK regulatory and liquidity reporting (LCR, NSFR), and mapped reporting friction with the CFO into a prioritised automation roadmap with CEO exposure.
Dec 2023 — Apr 2024
Selected work
Greenfield finance build, automated cable plant
Designed the complete costing model across production lines, the management reporting pack, and manual-first data capture for a €20M plant operating without an ERP.
Priced and reporting from day one
Close acceleration and reporting automation
Rebuilt the reporting stack with Power Query and structured, governed workbooks feeding the monthly cycle.
Close 7 days → 3 · manual −40%
Regulatory mapping automation
Automated GL-to-regulatory mapping for LCR, NSFR and CBK returns, validated through parallel-run testing before full handover to production.
Misallocations −80%
Standard costing calibration
Tuned production cost standards against actuals line by line, so variance reporting measured real performance rather than a stale baseline.
~8% → ~2% off actuals
Skills
Finance & planning
FP&A · Opex & topline planning · Budgeting & rolling forecasts · Run-rate & variance analysis · CapEx planning & tracking · Product & project costing · Month-end close · Management reporting · Finance business partnering
Data & tools
Financial modelling · Advanced Excel · Power Query · Power BI · VBA · SQL Server · AI-assisted analysis & automation
Strategy & stakeholders
Business planning · Operating model design · Market research · Executive presentations · Stakeholder management · Cross-functional team leadership
Education
MBA
ESADE Business & Law School, Barcelona · scholarship
2024 — 2026
Doing Business in China
CEIBS (China Europe International Business School), Shanghai
2026
BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance
University of Bristol · scholarship
2020 — 2023
Beyond the day job
Global equity investing
I run a hand-picked equity portfolio across European, US, Gulf and Asian markets, backed by my own research and a multi-decade financial planning model built in Excel.
Own research, own capital
Personal finance talks
Gave talks to fellow students on personal finance management. Early practice at translating finance into plain language for people who don't live in spreadsheets.
Public speaking
AI-assisted personal tools
I build my own tools with AI coding agents, including the operations dashboard that runs my job search end to end — and the assistant on this page.
Claude Code · Codex
A small clothing line
Designed and sold my own line of vests while still in high school. My first run at product, pricing and getting strangers to pay for something I made.
Early entrepreneurship
Otherwise: padel whenever I can get a court, the gym, and 71 countries so far, 36% of the world. The first came via a music camp scholarship in the US; the most recent stamp is Shanghai.
Contact
Finance, FP&A and strategy & operations enquiries are welcome.