Soukaina Labziz

- Lead financial oversight for the Group’s Moroccan operations, ensuring alignment with Group financial strategy, governance standards, and business objectives. - Oversee Group accounting and intercompany reconciliations across international entities, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and integrity of financial information across Morocco, the U.S., UAE, Hong Kong, Japan, and Ireland. - Lead and supervise the Group year-end closing process, coordinating financial teams and stakeholders to ensure timely closing, accurate accounts, proper reconciliations, and readiness for statutory and external audits. - Drive tax planning and optimization across the Group, identifying opportunities to improve tax efficiency while ensuring compliance with applicable tax laws, regulations, and reporting requirements. - Ensure financial and regulatory compliance across Group entities, strengthening governance, policies, controls, and reporting practices to mitigate financial and operational risks. - Oversee Group-level financial reporting and consolidation activities, ensuring reliable financial information and effective communication of financial performance to senior management. - Lead banking and financing initiatives, including securing and maintaining credit lines and financing facilities to support the Group’s liquidity, working capital, and investment requirements. - Manage relationships with banks, auditors, tax advisors, and other external financial stakeholders, supporting financing, compliance, audit, and tax matters across the Group. - Strengthen financial risk management, identifying potential exposure across entities and implementing appropriate controls and mitigation measures. - Provide senior management with financial analysis, recommendations, and strategic insights to support investment decisions, business planning, cash management, and sustainable growth. - Drive continuous improvement in Group finance processes, reporting, controls, and governance, improving financial visibility, accuracy, and efficiency across international operations.

- Manage financial operations including budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, accounts payable/receivable, financial controls, expenditures, and variance analysis across international operations. - Secured $5M in financing for a major real estate project, coordinating stakeholders and supporting the financing strategy and loan acquisition process. - Improved financial accuracy and control through oversight of journal entries, payments, reconciliations, cash management, Travel & Expense controls, and financial expenditures. - Developed and monitored budgets and forecasts, analyzing actual results versus budget and preparing variance reporting to support management decision-making. - Implemented cost-control and cost-management initiatives that generated $250K in savings in 2023, while supporting profitability and operational efficiency. - Forecast cash-flow requirements, borrowing needs, and available funds for investment, supporting effective liquidity and financial planning. - Oversee profitability, sales, costs, cash handling, and financial risk management while supporting broader business growth initiatives. - Coordinate financial activities across Morocco, Ireland, and Hong Kong, ensuring appropriate controls over payments, purchasing, contractual services, and financial transactions.

- Managed daily finance and accounting operations, supporting accurate financial reporting, compliance, reconciliations, and financial controls. - Prepared and reviewed financial information, consolidated reports, tax returns, accruals, journal entries, fixed assets, and depreciation schedules. - Improved accuracy and integrity of financial data through review of intercompany records, account reconciliations, accounting corrections, and financial reporting processes. - Partnered with senior leaders on operating budgets and financial planning, providing financial analysis to support business decisions. - Identified and implemented cost-saving opportunities while maintaining quality and operational performance. Supported global finance controls and ensured compliance with accounting policies, tax requirements, and internal procedures. - Collaborated with external auditors, banks, and tax specialists on statutory, banking, and tax matters. Contributed to process improvement and systems enhancement initiatives, including accounting corrections and BlackLine activities.

- Managed purchasing activities, including requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, supplier procedures, and vendor relationships. - Developed and implemented purchasing strategies focused on process optimization and cost reduction. - Researched market trends and identified cost-saving opportunities to improve purchasing efficiency. - Developed and monitored supplier performance and cost-savings metrics to support procurement decisions. - Resolved vendor disputes and purchasing discrepancies while ensuring compliance with company and supplier procedures.