Chalhoub Group
Waqas Ahmad is a qualified Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in finance and accounting, currently serving as a Senior Finance Manager at Chalhoub Group since October 2013. In this role, Waqas manages a shared services team of 30 and oversees the accounting functions for the UAE, KSA, and Jordan markets. Key responsibilities include monthly management reporting, audit coordination, preparation of financial statements in accordance with IFRS, advising on complex IFRS matters, and managing accounts payable across 70 legal entities. Prior to this, Waqas worked at Ernst & Young from June 2009 to May 2013, where roles included Senior Consultant, focusing on statutory audits, internal controls, and process improvement. Waqas holds ACA credentials from ICAEW and a Chartered Accountant degree from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan, complemented by an F.Sc in Pre-Engineering from Govt. College University Lahore.
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Chalhoub Group
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For over six decades, we have been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear. Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer. Today, we stand for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®. To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles. Website: chalhoubgroup.com Careers site: chalhoub.me/jobs Instagram: instagram.com/chalhoubgroup