The person who has built one from scratch.

I am an operations manager in Dubai who advises and assists limousine company owners: company formation, RTA licensing, and fleet and driver operations. I also keep the books for real estate and limousine businesses accurate and current, run their payroll, and file their VAT and corporate tax on time.

My background runs across India and the UAE, through accounting, finance and business operations. I hold a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.) in Advanced Accounting & Auditing, and day to day I have handled real-estate brokerage accounting in Dubai.

But most of what I know about operations, I learned by running one. I set up a limousine company in Dubai from the ground up: company formation, RTA licensing and approvals, vehicle procurement and registration, and driver recruitment and visas. I still operate within that regulatory framework every day. Fleet businesses tend to measure performance in aggregate, but profitability is decided vehicle by vehicle, so I built reporting that attributes every cost, fuel, Salik, fines, maintenance and wages, to each individual unit. That is how you find out which vehicles are making money and which ones are quietly losing it.

I also advise people looking to buy an existing limousine operation, or sell one they own, calibrated to what they can actually spend, because I know from running one what a fleet, a licence and a driver base are really worth.

That is the difference between us. I have made payroll from the other side of the desk. When your cash is tight or a filing is late, I am not reading about it in a ledger. I have been the person it was happening to.

Most of the businesses that call me are not in crisis. They are growing, and the finance function that worked at five people has quietly stopped working at twenty. The books are late, nobody is certain what is owed, and the owner is doing the reconciliation at midnight. That is a solvable problem, and it is the one I solve.

Rahil Kherani Operations & Finance Manager