A boutique advisory firm with the technical depth of a global one
ECT Business Consulting was co-founded by practitioners who spent their careers inside global firms and regional groups. We built ECT to offer that expertise directly, at boutique economics, to organisations across the GCC, Jordan, Iraq and Syria.
What we have delivered so far
Answers that hold up
To give organisations in the GCC and the Levant technical accounting, actuarial and reporting answers that are correct, documented and defensible in front of auditors, regulators and boards, delivered by the people who scoped the work.
The first call for the technical question
To be the advisory firm finance leaders across the GCC and the Levant call first when a reporting, valuation or compliance question has to be answered right the first time, and to leave every client's finance team more capable than we found it.
Led by practitioners, not account managers
The people who scope your engagement are the people who deliver it.
Wesam Alzaghal
Co-founder of ECT. Wesam leads client relationships across the Gulf, business and management consulting engagements and the firm's operations in Bahrain, and oversees the finance managed services delivery centre in Amman.
- Co-founder; leads client relationships across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the wider Gulf
- Chief Executive of Bayt Plus, ECT's office in Riyadh
- Leads ECT's business and management consulting engagements: process redesign, governance frameworks, KPI design and business cases
- Runs the firm's operations in Bahrain and oversees the finance managed services delivery centre in Amman
- First point of contact for scoping, proposals and engagement delivery
Three offices, one team across the Gulf, the Levant and Europe
ECT Business Consulting is registered with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Kingdom of Bahrain under CR 163308-1. Our head office is in Manama, our Riyadh office operates as Bayt Plus, and our Amman delivery centre houses the finance managed services and modelling teams. Partners work on site with clients across Saudi Arabia, the wider GCC, Jordan, Iraq and Syria as each engagement requires.
We work with the regional headquarters and representative offices of European groups in the Gulf: local reporting, parent-company packs, zakat and tax, and IFRS support alongside the group's own finance team.
Kingdom of Bahrain
Registered head office and centre for technical accounting and actuarial work. Client engagements across the wider Gulf are led from here by partners who travel to the client.
HeadquartersKingdom of Saudi Arabia
ECT's office in the Kingdom operates as Bayt Plus and works with clients on site in Riyadh, Jeddah and the Eastern Province.
Riyadh officeHashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Bilingual CPA-supervised delivery team providing finance managed services, financial modelling and reporting support to clients across the GCC and the Levant.
Delivery centreOur engagement approach
Diagnose
Scoping call, data request and a rapid gap assessment against the applicable standard or regulation.
Design
Methodology paper, model architecture and accounting positions agreed with management before any numbers are produced.
Deliver
Models, valuations, memos and disclosures produced with full working papers and management review sessions.
Defend
We sit with your auditors and regulators, respond to queries and hand over a documented process your team can repeat.
What we hold ourselves to
Integrity
We give the technically correct answer, even when it is not the convenient one.
Rigour
Every number traces to a source, every judgement is documented, every model is reviewed.
Partnership
We build long-term relationships and transfer knowledge so clients grow more capable each year.
Results
Clean audits, timely filings and decisions made with confidence are how we measure success.