Head of Finance North East Africa
Resume:
Ahmad Samir Khalil
Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.
Mobile: +20-100**-*****
E-mail: *********@*****.***
SUMMARY:
Over 20 years of broaden experience in business partnership supporting management achieving sustainable and profitable business growth, this includes more than 10 years of managerial experience. I'm looking for new challenges thus effectively utilizing my experience that is useful for a progressive organization that needs an experienced Business Manager. Specialties: Business Management, Negotiation, Liaison with legal, audit and authorities, Planning and Budgeting, Quality compliance and internal controls, P&L management, EDUCATION:
B.Sc. of Commerce, Accounting department
- Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University, May 1996. General Grade: Good PERSONAL INFORMATION
- Date of Birth: 07/07/1974
- Nationality: Egyptian
- Religion: Muslim
- Marital status: Married.
SKILLS:
Soft Skills:
Windows7 - Microsoft Word - Microsoft Excel -
Microsoft outlook - Microsoft PowerPoint -
Microsoft Projects
- Others:
Lotus Notes
Languages:
Arabic “Mother Tongue” – English “Fluent”
Awards:
Honors and Awards Score for Philips
Lean Six Sigma Champion for Africa
“Best in Class” in Finance Process
ERP Systems:
- SAP Oracle DB, R3, R4.
BCS.
- MS Great Plains, SQL DB
- Doplin, SQL
- Quickbooks
- Others
.
COMPETENCIES:
- Delivers short term results while committing to long term investments based on granular plans.
- Takes and provides freedom of action to take sensible business decisions.
- Delivers results by setting measurable targets and clear responsibilities.
- Builds diverse team to ensure breakthrough thinking.
- Holds self and others accountable for delivering high performance.
- Challenges the status quo in order to improve results.
- Recognizes and rewards success at any scale.
- Strives for improvement by benchmarking internally and externally.
- Eliminates roadblocks by finding alternative solutions.
- Collaboration across end-to-end customer value chain and matrix organization. Page 2 of 3
Professional Experience:
- March 2016 – Jul 2017 Service & Operations Manager at Philips North Africa
- Responsible for building and implementing the company operations strategy and ensure strategic objects accomplishment.
- Manages all facets of customer retention (CRM) including participating in the resolution of customer concerns and defining and developing a customer contact strategy.
- Ensure full compliance with global and country requirements of global quality and regulatory authorities and ensure that company quality management systems (QMS) is fully compliant to required ISO certification for healthcare sector.
- Analyzes operational processes, escalation procedures and performs training needs assessments for identifying opportunities for service delivery improvements and value add to the customer/clients.
- Develops customer service department procedures. Liaises between customers and manufacturing, sales, field service, order processing and accounting to resolve status, production, delivery and billing inquiries.
- Develops and manages return materials authorization (RMA) processes for ensuring customer returns, exchanges, service and repairs are done with speed and accuracy and all client/customer service delivery issues are resolved.
- Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
- Set priorities in the workload of FSE, authorize overtime and expenses
- People Management of all Field Service Engineers (FSE) of the district. Reporting to: Africa Commercial Operations Director
- April 2015 – February 2016 Head of Finance at Philips Egypt (Healthtech) JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Responsible for the planning & control cycle: Strategic Plan, AOP, RoFo, LV and month end closing
- Reviews & steers business performance & realization of Integral Gross Margin, and EBIT
- Setting up the standard operating procedures (SOP) for the direct business operation process.
- Preparation of the organization annual operating plan (AOP) and Quarterly forecasting and ensure forecast accuracy.
- Controlling the monthly GM and EBIT and budget tracking to ensure results are aligned with the AOP and latest forecasts.
- Controlling disbursements and revenues and prepare monthly, quarterly and annual budget comparison reports.
- Ensures the accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting and analysis to the business.
- Review credit control process, and authorizing credit limits and terms for customers based on references & customer’s financial records analysis.
- Monitoring of Cash flow and NOC of the organization.
- Manages the required accounting books and financial records, both for operating purposes and as per statutory requirements.
- Negotiation with Financial Institutions, Internal and External Audit firms.
- Initiation of Financial solutions to support the business plan and ensure business growth sustainability. Reporting:
Reporting to: Africa Market head of finance.
- March 2007 – March 2015 Finance Controller at Philips Egypt, (Healthcare Sector)
- June 2005 – December 2006 Finance & Administration Manager at Photint Venture Group FZ LLC – Dubai Internet City, United Arab Emirates.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Set up the accounting system, prepare the chart of accounts and establish the accounting structure for the Company.
- Establishing the company's rules, Policies and regulations.
- Preparing the annual revenue forecast and expenses budget.
- Control all required accounting books and records. Page 3 of 3
- Supervising daily posting of all accounting transactions.
- Controlling disbursements and revenues on daily basis and prepare monthly, quarterly and annual budget comparison reports.
- Preparation of monthly payroll and disbursement of wages and salaries.
- Preparing the financial reports with supporting analysis and management reports on monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
- Controlling the purchases and the relative documentation on daily basis.
- Ensure company’s accounts and records are adequately protected and safeguarded.
- Preparation of monthly reconciliation of all subsidiary books, i.e. Bank, Cash, Receivables, Payables, etc. Reporting:
Reporting to Board of Directors (CFO, CEO & COO).
- October 2003 – December 2004 Accounting Manager at Mindware FZE – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Reporting:
Reporting to Saudi branch manager, HO Financial Manager,
- June 2001 - To October 2003 Chief Accountant at Middle East Computer Megastore Company (CompuMe),
Riyadh Branch, Head office of KSA branches. One of CompuMe Computer Megastores, which lie in Dubai, Jeddah, Al Khobar and Cairo.
Reporting:
Reporting to Store G.M, Group Chief financial officer, group finance director, VP CEO and VP COO.
- June 1999 - To May 2001 Commercial specialist at the Egyptian International Shipping Agencies and Services Company (E.I.S.A.S) - Cairo. Reporting:
Reporting to Agencies' G.M, Group finance Director, GM & Group VP.
- September 1996 - To May1999 Accountant at Golden Group Company (central air conditioning systems' contractors), a certified dealer of CARRIER for air conditioning.
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