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Built inside operating businesses — not a consulting house.

Finlytica's expertise was forged managing treasury, trade finance, multi-entity reporting and finance automation for founder-led groups. That's a different starting point from a firm that learned finance from a textbook.

Our story

Formed to close a gap we kept running into.

Growing UAE groups tend to end up in the same place: a bookkeeper who can process but can't advise, an audit firm who appears once a year, a tax consultant who appears at a deadline, and an IT vendor who owns the system nobody understands.

Nobody owns the whole picture — and the founder ends up doing it. Finlytica was licensed in Ajman Free Zone in July 2026 to take that whole picture off the founder's desk: the processing, the controls, the filings, the reporting and the technology that connects them.

We're deliberately not a volume practice. We take on a limited number of groups so that the person who scoped your engagement is the person still reviewing your numbers a year later.

The firm

What Finlytica brings to an engagement

A chartered team combining Big Four audit discipline with more than fourteen years of hands-on finance leadership inside operating businesses — and an in-house technology capability most advisory firms subcontract.

  • ACCA and CPA qualified accountants, Big Four audit trained
  • Treasury, trade finance and multi-entity group reporting experience
  • Certified data analytics capability — dashboards built in-house
  • ERP implementation, business application development and AI automation
  • Established UAE banking and trade finance relationships

Founded and managed by Syed Zaigham Ali, ACCA, CPA.

How we work

Three layers of accountability, applied to every engagement.

The model is simple, and it's the reason clients stop chasing their own finance function.

Layer 01

Supervised processing

Every transaction lands in a defined chart of accounts and is reviewed before it becomes next quarter's reconciliation problem.

Layer 02

Enforced control

Approval limits, reconciliations, supporting documentation and related-party records that hold up to an auditor, a bank or the FTA.

Layer 03

Leadership oversight

A qualified finance lead reads the output, flags what matters, and is available before the decision — not after the year-end.

Clients

Groups we support.

Across hospitality, shipping and marine, mining, bitumen and petroleum, oilfield services, terminals and project management — sectors where finance has to keep pace with operations.

Client names shown with permission. Engagement details remain confidential.

Sectors

Where our experience runs deepest.

Sector knowledge matters more in finance than most firms admit. A shipping agency's revenue recognition, a bitumen trader's inventory valuation and a restaurant group's cost control are not the same problem.

  • Oil, gas & refining
  • Commodity trading & bitumen
  • Shipping, marine & agency services
  • Mining & minerals
  • Power & industrial
  • Hospitality & food service
  • Terminals, tank cleaning & logistics
  • Professional & project services
Registered details
  • Legal nameFinlytica Advisory & Services - F.Z.E
  • Licence number55705
  • Licensing authorityAjman Free Zone
  • Registered addressC1 Building, Ajman Free Zone
  • Operating office2213 Churchill Tower, Business Bay, Dubai
  • EstablishedJuly 2026
  • Areas servedUAE & GCC

Work with a finance team that stays after the filing.

Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll ask about your entities, your systems and your deadlines, and tell you honestly whether we can help.