Al Zarooni Emirates Investments + 2 more · Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
An enthusiastic, energetic and hard-working Finance and Accounting Analyst who has a successful and consistent track record of achieving high returns for clients. Possessing extensive knowledge of global financial markets, including a wide variety of industries and sectors.Employing an evidence-based approach to all projects and experienced in assisting senior analysts and fund managers in writing accurate company-specific reports. Currently working as Investment Director at Alzarooni Emirates Investments.
Alzarooni Emirates Investments LLC is a Dubai family office investing across private equity, real assets, and public markets. Investment Committee member. • Lead the family's investment strategy and asset allocation; run the pipeline from screening and IC memos to term sheets, structuring, and closing. • Direct due diligence — commercial, financial, legal-commercial, and governance — with independent verification and downside scenario testing before capital is committed. • Own portfolio monitoring, valuation reviews, capital allocation and reporting to the principals. • Build governance around portfolio platforms: shareholder agreements, board and committee structures and investor communications.
• Consolidate and analyze financial data (budgets, income statement forecasts etc.) taking into account company’s goals and financial standing. • Assemble and summarize data to structure sophisticated reports on the financial status and risks. • Conduct business studies in the past, future and comparative performance and develop forecast models. • Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, the cost of sales, expenses, capital expenditures and non-financial key performance indicators. • Track and determine financial status by analyzing actual results in comparison with forecasts. • Reconcile transactions by comparing and correcting data. • Consult with management to guide and influence long-term and strategic decision making within the broadest scope. • Drive process improvement and policy development initiatives that impact the function. • Oversee and manage the continued development of Budgeting, Financial Forecasting, Operating Plan and Modeling tools. • Consolidate quarterly and monthly financial reports. • Prepare cash flow and annual budget models, monitor debt refinances, develop profitability analysis and cash projections.
• Utilized technical and fundamental analysis to establish trading positions. • Traded client accounts using multiple trading platforms including TWS (IB), MT4, AX1 and TOS. • Educated investors on FOREX market intricacies and informed about risk and reward potential • Analyzed multiple strategic risk assessment strategies to maximize portfolio performance and minimize downside exposure. • Understanding of a wide range of investment vehicles, including equities, structured products, foreign exchanges, and derivatives. • Closely examined equities and currency markets, evaluating trends and assessing data to find investment opportunities. Made suggestions to senior staff based on the information. • Present and deliver premium solutions and investment decisions tailored to client's best interest and investment objectives, by utilizing a wide spectrum of investments products such as structured notes, Insurance provisions, fixed income products, Offshore investments, Portfolio Bonds.
• Built complex discounted cash flow models to produce potential valuations of companies in the US Markets. • Prepared research reports and presented investment recommendations to portfolio managers. • Conducted financial statement and earnings quality analysis. • Skillfully utilized the FCFF model, and Multiples approach to accurately estimate a one-year price target for a biotechnology company. • Conducted all fundamental research including financial, statistical and economic modeling.
• Created accounting system that involved all the segments of accounting and financial management. • International Accounting Standards Proficiency. • Managed accounts and finance department that involved dealing with payables, receivables, payroll, budgeting and financial projections. • Performed financial modelling on key company data. • Analysis of receivables and preparing reports to discuss with sales department. • Preparation of the financial statement of the company on annual and semiannual basis. • Responsible for reconciliation of all the financial statements and confirming with the headquarters in Berlin. • Worked on Microsoft excel, Xero, Peach-Tree, QuickBooks and Oracle Financials software to manage all the company accounts. • Participated in all operational activities especially related to maintaining spreadsheets and extracting key information for future projections.