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

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

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

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

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

Management and Audit of Financial Risks

Accounting

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.

Spoken Languages

English

Advanced
French

Expert
Arabic

Expert

Portfolios

Website

https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/XBFKJXNDGR5M

Creation date

28 Jul 2022

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KARIM MENZLI

Senior Financial Planning Analyst, MBA

Sr Finance Associate

Finance Analyst

Senior Audit and Tax Expert

Senior Project & Planning Controller

Operations Cost Controller

Financial Controller

Trainee at "Al Baraka Bank"

Business and Financial Analysis

Management

Computer Skills

Master's Degree

ESSEC Tunis

Bachelor's Degree

ESSEC Tunis

Finance & Controlling program for talents

OMV

MBA candidate

MEDITTERANEAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Arts

Strategic Career Self-Management

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

Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management