IT & Finance Manager · Amman, Jordan

Abdallah Nezar

I run finance and IT for a multi-brand restaurant group.

IT & Finance Manager at a multi-brand F&B group in Amman. I run month-end, budgets and FP&A, and I own the company’s Odoo 18 ERP end to end: 16 modules I built, 30 more I maintain, and the integrations and apps every branch uses daily. Founder of Mihwar and FinaCast.

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digital checklists completed: 2,500+
stock requests processed: 8,000+
automated tests behind the apps I run: 3,000+
Odoo modules I built in-house: 16

01 — What I do

Finance and technology, run by the same person

Most companies keep finance and IT in separate rooms. I sit in both, so the numbers, the systems and the people who use them line up.

Finance & FP&A

Close the books, plan the year, and know where the money goes — every day, not every month.

Month-end close, sales-tax (GST) filings and the external audit
Annual budget, monthly targets and daily management P&L by branch
Cost control on food, waste and purchasing, tracked daily
Annual budget model built from the ERP’s own P&L, with an input file for each branch manager
Sales-tax (GST) reconciliation for every filing period, and a daily reconciliation routine
Hired, onboarded and trained the accounting team

Odoo ERP

Odoo 18 Enterprise, set up and extended to fit how the business actually runs.

Functional and technical: POS, inventory, purchasing, MRP, accounting, HR
16 modules built in-house (stock counts, inspections, checklists, branch report, staff meals, dashboards), 30 more maintained and ported
Integrations: KayanHR, bank card terminals, kitchen screens, delivery platforms
Hosted on Odoo.sh; changes rehearsed on a production copy, rolled back by default, shipped at quiet hours

Software & automation

Production apps built with AI coding agents and held to a QA standard.

Written spec, plan, automated tests and review before release
Python, PostgreSQL, Odoo OWL/JavaScript, FastAPI, Next.js
AI with a person in the loop: AI drafts, a person approves

02 — Selected work

What I’ve built and fixed

Two products I founded, the ERP a restaurant group runs on, and five problems from the live system.

Products I founded

F&B operations platform

Mihwar

An Arabic-first operations platform for multi-branch restaurants, cloud kitchens and small factories: checklists, scored inspections, AI-drafted ordering, scheduling, work orders and regulator inspection packs (SFDA, Dubai Municipality, JFDA, HACCP).

AI that turns paper forms into bilingual checklists
Organisations can bring their own AI key, stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM)
Free tier and paid plans; recruiting design partners in Riyadh and Amman

Founder — product, architecture and delivery

Visit mihwar.tech

Financial forecasting & FP&A

FinaCast

Upload a P&L in Excel or CSV and get dashboards with 25+ ratios, anomaly detection, scenario planning and forecasts with confidence intervals. A model-selection engine backtests 20+ models per account.

Built for CFOs and FP&A teams in MENA

Solo founder — product, architecture and deployment

Visit finacast.up.railway.app

The ERP I run

Odoo 18 Enterprise

The ERP behind a restaurant group

Inspections, checklists, stock counts and requests, staff meals, dashboards, a staff academy and a sync engine — built or rebuilt by me, and run in production.

modules built in-house: 16
automated tests: 3,000+

Case studies

Case study 01

0prices changed across 3,267 products

Re-coding 3,267 products while the tills kept selling

A new category tree and product-code scheme for the whole catalogue, shipped live with zero accounting or price changes.

Case study 02

599 → 48 mstill-open time after the fix

Why the tills felt slow

22 days of logs and 890,000 requests showed where cashiers really waited — and it wasn’t the database.

Case study 03

125–357split tickets a day after a second screen, up from 0–58

Kitchen-screen orders that came back after the bill was paid

Paid orders kept reappearing on the kitchen screen. The cause was how Odoo split a ticket between two stations, not the network.

Case study 04

476checks against the raw data

One report for waste and hospitality

Waste and free items lived in two systems that never met. One self-checking workbook brought them together, and found a loss nobody recorded.

Case study 05

187 → 23code-quality warnings after the overhaul

Moving money between two ERPs safely

Before trusting my own sync engine with more of the books, I audited it end to end, then rebuilt it so every write has a name on it and nothing is written twice.

03 — Experience

Where I’ve worked

2022 — now
IT & Finance Manager
Jahangir for Operations & Management (Jaha.co) · Amman, Jordan · Feb 2022 – Present
- Run month-end, sales-tax filings, the external audit and the annual budget; moved management P&L reporting from weekly to daily.
- Own the Odoo 18 ERP end to end: 16 modules built in-house and 30 more maintained, backed by 3,000+ automated tests, and apps every branch uses daily instead of paper (2,500+ checklists, 8,000+ stock requests).
- Built the 2027 budget model from the ERP’s P&L by cost centre, with an input file for every branch manager and department head.
- Hired the accounting team and wrote how it works: onboarding plan, handbook, Odoo starter guide and the full financial and operational cycle.
- Re-coded 3,267 products while six tills traded, with 0 accounting or price changes; traced slow tills and returning kitchen-screen orders to their real causes from production logs.
- Launched staff e-learning with AI-drafted courses built from company SOPs.
2017 — 2022
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Wolf · London, UK (remote) · Jul 2019 – Feb 2022
Quality Assurance Engineer
Baaz / Allmuze · Amman, Jordan · Apr 2017 – Jun 2019
- Tested iOS, Android and web apps across many releases, wrote test plans from requirements, and signed off releases in Agile sprints.
- Built Selenium automation for web regression testing, cutting cycle time and widening coverage; tested APIs with developers before each release.

04 — Skills & learning

What I work with

Finance

ERP

Development & AI

IT & infrastructure

Quality & delivery

Languages

Education & certifications

2017BSc Software EngineeringAl-Zaytoonah University of Jordan
2026Planning, Budgeting and ForecastingKPMG Jordan
2025CMA Exam Preparation ProgramKPMG Jordan · 6-month intensive program
2024Financial AnalysisKPMG Jordan
2023Qualified Accountants for MarketSARH International

05 — Contact

Hiring, or need finance systems built?

I’m open to roles where finance and technology meet, and to projects for businesses that need Odoo, reporting or operations software done properly.

Email me LinkedIn GitHub

abdallahnezarabdallah@gmail.com