ORIX founder

Sami Abu Zaid

CPA (USA) and Chief Financial Officer — ORIX founder and accountable author of its accounting method

More than 22 years in accounting and finance leadership: audit at Deloitte, Senior Manager at KPMG, CFO of a diversified holding group, then Senior Accounting Director at Red Sea Global, a Public Investment Fund project. He taught CPA candidates at Morgan International. At ORIX, professional experience is attached to named, accountable content rather than anonymous authority.

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Professional record

Credential: Certified Public Accountant — United States (2014)
Current post: Chief Financial Officer, Al Jazirah Development Factory for Concrete Products — since 2025
Red Sea Global: Senior Accounting Director 2018–2024: built an accounting team of more than 50, led SAP integration, and ran the VAT recovery and regulatory-compliance programme
Audit and advisory: Senior Manager at KPMG 2017–2018 and Audit Supervisor at Deloitte 2001–2007 — audit and advisory across the SOCPA, MOCI, and ZATCA frameworks
Teaching: CPA instructor at Morgan International, 2014–2015 — teaching experience that supports ORIX's applied method
Education: BA Accounting — Philadelphia University, Amman (1999)

What carries his responsibility inside ORIX

The applied accounting method, treatment explanations, worked journals and cases, output criteria, workbooks, Excel packs and source documents across the Career tracks. Naming the author shows who shaped the method, reviews its accounting logic, and accepts responsibility for keeping it current.

Why ORIX is built this way

A junior accountant struggles not only because definitions are missing, but because they have not followed a source from transaction to entry, balance, and evidence. ORIX therefore starts with a career map, connects Reference, tools, lectures and job roles, and closes each level with a reviewable journal, reconciliation or workpaper.

How experience appears in the product

Experience appears in the choice of cases, treatment accuracy, compared entries, review criteria, and files an accountant can reproduce. Rule-dependent treatment can be traced to its source and review date instead of asking a learner to trust an author's name alone.