I’m Usman Badar Siddiqui, an experienced accounting and finance professional and team leader, strengthening financial controls, improving performance, and helping businesses make informed decisions.
20 years of accounting experience. A 20-person team led at Almarai. Now a Senior Accountant performing Acting Chief Accountant duties at Hill International.
I work across month-end close, payroll accounting, reconciliations, final settlements, fixed assets, and inventory valuation. I’m comfortable with budgeting and bring experience across multiple entities and approval workflows.
Alongside the numbers, I focus on the process: using Excel VBA, Power Automate, formula-driven workbooks, and AI-assisted development to make recurring finance work easier to manage and review.
Meet the person behind the experience in this short video introduction.
Practical finance projects I’ve worked on. These summaries describe the workflows without sharing employer data or internal files.
A Power Automate flow that monitors HR emails for terminations, resignations, and salary changes, then logs announcements to an Excel file on OneDrive.
HR email → identify announcement → log to shared tracker. Shared with HR and my manager; expansion to other entities and the Dubai branch is planned.
Macros that calculate final settlements, record each case in an FS History workbook, and email approvers automatically.
Calculate settlement → record case history → route approval emails. Supports the calculation, review, approval, and payment process.
An FS History tracker that follows settlements through a multi-level approval chain, with status updates moving from Outlook VBA to Power Automate.
Read-only access is planned so each approver can see cases pending with them. The Power Automate status update migration is in progress.
A criteria-driven Payroll JE workbook, with the consultant accrual JE being rebuilt using the same approach to replace monthly manual copying.
Monthly Independent Consultant fringe accrual journal entries for MSB and MSA, uploaded to Deltek. The consultant workbook rebuild is in progress.
Error-checking and audit tools for the monthly KSA payroll file, supporting review before payroll accounting is finalised.
Monthly consolidated payroll, payroll accruals, GOSI and medical deductions, and the 18th-of-month cutoff cycle.
Using AI to help build finance processes at Hill, bringing accounting knowledge into automation design and development.
Start with the accounting requirement, understand the review and approval steps, then build tools around the real workflow.
A hands-on foundation across recurring close activities, employee accounting, and balance-sheet controls.
Closing, accruals, journal entries, and financial reporting activities.
Consolidated KSA payroll, accruals, GOSI and medical deductions, and cutoff cycles.
Bank reconciliations and BlackLine account reconciliations.
EOSB calculation, review, approval routing, and payment.
Allocations across MSA, MSB, and MSC using HCM data; consultant fringe accrual entries.
Strong fixed asset experience, inventory valuation at Iantex and Almarai, and comfort with budgeting.
Riyadh · Project environment
FMCG · 20-member team · 10 years
Manufacturing · Accounting foundation
Company names and logos identify employment history.
Explore the areas I work across: control, cash collection, profitability and financial performance.
ILLUSTRATIVE ANALYSIS · Example figures demonstrate the approach; they are not employer results or personal achievement claims.
Clear responsibilities, supported transactions and reviewable records.
Identify overdue exposures, prioritise follow-up and connect collections to cash planning.
SAR 60k overdue in this example. Follow-up focuses on disputed invoices, promises to pay and older balances.
Connect revenue, direct costs and operating expenses to understand what drives profit.
My relevant experience includes product-line profitability, inventory valuation, costing and cost-benefit analysis at Iantex.
Compare performance, investigate the drivers and translate variances into actions.
Example: revenue is SAR 40k higher, while costs are SAR 30k higher. The net profit variance is SAR 10k favourable.
Interested in senior Accounting & Finance opportunities where reliable accounting and practical process improvement go hand in hand.
Senior Accountant
SOCPA Associate Member · MBA Finance · B.Com
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