MEET THE 2019 ADVISORY BOARD

The Accounting and Finance Show Advisory Board is comprised of the industry’s most credible and distinguished finance leaders.

Our Advisory Board counsels The Accounting and Finance Show on the strategic direction for the conference programme, provides insight into the research community and ensures only the highest quality of content is being delivered to attendees each year.

  Anshul Srivastav

Chief Information Officer and Digital Officer

Union Insurance Company

Sebastian Samuel

Chief Information Officer

  AW Rostamani Group

Mahar Afzal

Group VAT Manager

Galadari Brothers

Muhammad Khurram

Chief Finance Officer 

Dubai Asset Management

Tariq Sanad

Chief Financial Officer

Fetchr

Ahmed Gomaa

Regional Finance Supervisor

Amazon   

Mehrdad Talaifar

Associate Partner, Tax Technology and Transformation

Ernst & Young​

Mohamed Fayçal Charfeddine

Global Head of Tax 

Aujan Group Holding

Nauman Asif Mian

Chief Financial Officer

Bayt.com​

Nidal Abu-Maizer

CFO

 Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund  

Elena Sorokach

Director of Finance

Nueva Melt Water DMCC

Rachelle Roesler

Finance Business Partner 

LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics LLC

Carlo Kasparian

Group Financial Controller

Mina Group/ Mina Petroleum

Nilofer Shadan

Head of Risk, Compliance & Tax

Amazon

Fatema Haveliwalla

Head of Finance and Accounts

Fetchr

Bill Anderson

Group Chief Strategy Officer   

Gulf Tax Accounting Group 

 

Preparing for VAT auditing

2018 saw the introduction of VAT to UAE. One year on and the next challenge highlighted by our advisory board is the roll out of VAT audits on organisations. To help attendees overcome this challenge we have included several VAT workshops and panel discussions in our programme. 

The rise of automation and AI

Automation within accounting and finance is becoming much more prevalent. However an important point which was shared by our advisory board is that regardless of the level of automation, a human interface will always play an important part. Our agenda includes several sessions to help attendees understand how to combine automation with current infrastructure to drive process optimisation.

The cross industry VAT principles

Whilst VAT may be implemented differently across GCC, our advisory board explained that the variance in legislation will come mostly from industries rather than regions. The Accounting and Finance show will bring together key players from different industries to compare VAT similarities and differences and find out what different industries can learn from each other.