/ ABOUT

A small firm.
Built for serious work.

FW Global Consulting is a Dubai-headquartered advisory firm founded by Big-Four-trained partners. We are engaged where the questions are difficult and the answers consequential; cross-border restructurings, contested transactions, distressed turnarounds, regulatory exposure, and the board-level decisions that determine whether an enterprise scales or stalls. Each engagement is led by a partner with the technical depth, commercial judgement, and operating experience to deliver solutions that hold up under scrutiny.

/ HOW WE WORK

Principles, not posters.

01

Senior people, on the work.

The partner you meet is the partner who runs the engagement. We staff lean — no pyramid of juniors, no hand-offs after the kickoff.

02

Independent advice.

We don't take referral fees from software vendors, banks, or auditors. Our recommendation is the one we'd make if we were sitting in your seat.

03

Cross-border by default.

UAE, KSA, the wider GCC, plus North America and South Asia — through partner relationships and direct presence. We don't pretend a market we haven't worked.

04

No theatre.

We don't sell decks. The artefact at the end of the engagement is something operational — a control framework, a tax position, a working model, a clean set of books.

05

Plain language.

We translate regulation, accounting and tax into operating language. If your COO can't act on it, we haven't finished the job.

06

Long horizons.

Most of our work is repeat. We choose engagements where we can be useful for years, not quarters.

/ OUR OPERATING PHILOSOPHY

Three A's. In that order.

Most engagements move through these three modes — sometimes in a week, sometimes over a year. The order matters.

A.

Assure

We safeguard trust. Through assurance, compliance and forensic work, we help organizations operate with confidence and meet regulatory expectations across jurisdictions.

A.

Advise

We bring clarity to complexity. Combining technical knowledge with commercial insight, we advise leadership teams and boards on strategy, transformation and performance.

A.

Accelerate

We turn insight into momentum. Through automation, innovation and forward-looking advisory, we help businesses move faster, operate smarter and scale sustainably.

/ LEADERSHIP

The people doing the work.

Big-Four-trained partners with operating experience across the GCC, North America and South Asia.

/ MANAGING PARTNER · ASSURANCE

Arshad Iqbal

FCA · CMS

Seasoned assurance leader with 20+ years of Big Four experience, specializing in complex, multi-jurisdictional audits, governance, internal controls, and financial services across global markets.

Ex-EY (USA) Partner. Areas: Financial Services, Energy, Cross-border Group Audits.

/ PARTNER · TAX & TRANSFORMATION

Muhammad Bilal

FCA · ACA · CGDA

Finance transformation and tax leader with 15+ years of experience in automation, analytics, and IT-enabled advisory, including Big Four and regional leadership roles.

Areas: UAE/KSA Corporate Tax, E-Invoicing, Finance Automation.

/ PARTNER · ADVISORY & FINANCE

Shahid Iqbal

ACMA

Advisory and finance leader with 10+ years of experience in risk management, internal controls, IFRS/US GAAP reporting, performance evaluation, ERP implementation, and building finance functions for startups and growth-stage organizations.

Areas: ICFR, ERP Implementation, Growth-stage CFO.

/ PARTNER · BPO & OUTSOURCING

Ayesha Ashraf

CA

BPO and finance advisory partner with 13+ years of experience delivering outsourced accounting, assurance, and CFO services to global clients across North America and the Middle East.

Areas: Outsourced Finance, Cross-border Operations, Fund Administration.

/ THE OFFICE

Business Bay,
Dubai.

Headquartered in Business Bay overlooking the Dubai Water Canal, with delivery teams in Lahore and Islamabad. We serve clients across the Middle East, UK and North America.

ater Canal. From here we serve clients across the GCC, with regular travel to KSA, Bahrain and Qatar.

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Headquarters
2008 The Regal Tower
Business Bay, Dubai, UAE
Back-office
Lahore & Islamabad,
Pakistan
Markets served
Middle East · UK · North America (USA & Canada)
Founded
2024
Partners
4
Languages
English · Arabic · Urdu · Hindi
Memberships
ICAEW · ICAP · IMA · ACCA
Time zones
GST · GMT · EST · PST
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