Abraham Thomas

Background

About Abraham Thomas

Qualified Chartered Accountant and seasoned finance professional with over 29 years’ insightful experience in the field of Finance, Accounting & Auditing, across UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman and India. • Skilled in providing excellent financial leadership to the team, managing budgets, and assessing internal control systems to manage the financial health of the company. • Adept at providing strategic advice to the executive management on the financial and operational implications of business activities and improving business performance in a sustainable way. • Proficient in developing a budget, allocating resources to each function and monitoring adherence to monetary provisions in the budget; monitoring variance & implementing corrective actions during the next budget cycle. • Proven expertise in project finance including appraisal, design & execution of pre- & post-project finance, preparing project feasibility reports of new ventures for submitting to financial institutions to obtain new facilities. • Adept at providing timely, relevant and accurate analysis of company’s financial performance against historical, budgeted and forecasted results to facilitate decision-making towards the achievement of budget & strategic plan. • Visionary and decisive leader, able to build and develop a high potential finance team to drive disciplined growth and strengthen controls. • IT Skills: ERP Packages such as Microsoft Navision, ORION by 3i Infotech, SAP (FICO Implementation Process Owner); MS Windows (98, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); Computerized Accounting Packages such as DAC Easy, Ace Gold Accounting.