CBClearBooksAccounting & Tax Advisory
Team

Five directors and thirteen professionals who do the work.

Eighteen people total. Every engagement has a named director who reviews the file personally. There are no anonymous review rotations and no white-labelled outsourcing.

Directors

Zara Ahmed FCA
Co-founder · Managing Partner
ICAEW (2009) · ACCA

Zara qualified as a chartered accountant with Grant Thornton UK in 2009 and moved to Dubai in 2013 with PwC, where she spent seven years in audit — including the 2017–18 UAE VAT implementation work for two of the region'

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Adeel Hussain CPA, MBA
Co-founder · Tax Partner
CPA Pakistan · MBA Cass Business School · FTA Tax Agent TAAN-30041897

Adeel trained with KPMG in Karachi and transferred to KPMG Lower Gulf in 2015. He spent four years on VAT implementation across retail and logistics groups in the UAE. He was the first person in ClearBooks to file a UAE

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Mariam Saeed
Director · Bookkeeping & Outsourcing
ACCA finalist · 11 years UAE experience

Mariam joined as the firm's first senior manager in 2021 and now leads the eight-person bookkeeping team. She built the firm's month-end close template that takes ClearBooks clients from transaction capture to management

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Omar Riaz
Director · Corporate Tax
ATT (UK) · UAE Corporate Tax Diploma

Omar joined in June 2023 specifically to build the corporate tax practice ahead of the first UAE filings. He's the firm's expert on qualifying free-zone person analysis and runs quarterly CT readiness workshops for the c

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Hina Qureshi
Compliance & Risk Lead
AML/CFT Compliance Officer · FIU-registered DNFBP contact

Hina is the firm's designated compliance officer. She runs the client-onboarding KYC framework, quarterly AML/CFT risk assessments, and the annual DNFBP declaration with the Financial Intelligence Unit.

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Supporting team

Fatima Al-Bloushi
Senior Manager, Audit
Joined 2022
ACA
Rahul Menon
Senior Manager, Bookkeeping
Joined 2021
ACCA
Sameer Sharma
Senior Manager, Tax
Joined 2023
CA (India), ATT UK
Lara Haddad
Senior Manager, Payroll
Joined 2022
PHRi
Bilal Ahmad
Accountant
Joined 2021
ACCA finalist
Sana Khaled
Accountant
Joined 2022
ACCA finalist
Karthik Iyer
Accountant
Joined 2023
CMA finalist
Nadia Rahman
Accountant
Joined 2023
ACCA finalist
Omar Samir
Tax Associate
Joined 2024
ACCA, UAE CT Diploma
Ayesha Khan
Tax Associate
Joined 2024
ACCA finalist
Ethan Brown
Audit Associate
Joined 2024
ACA
Priya Ramesh
Audit Associate
Joined 2024
ACCA
Rahim Tahir
Client Operations
Joined 2022