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Egypt

Saudi Arabia

Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

► SCOPEFull responsibility of the Finance Division, Reporting to CFO and heading a team of 17 members. Optimizing the company financial performance, controls and accounting accuracy ensure profitability and sustainable business growth

Cairo, Egypt

• ► SCOPEFull responsibility of the Internal Control & Audit Department, Reporting to CEO and heading a team of 12 members. Providing technical audits and internal controls guidance to help ensure that operational risks.
• ️Successfully implemented and monitored an internal control framework, resulting in a reduction of financial errors and data inconsistencies by 50%.
• ️Spearheaded the integration of new ERP system, identifying and addressing potential control issues and streamlining business processes.
• ️Collaborated with leadership team to identify areas of process improvements, leading to a 20% increase in operational efficiency.
• ️Implemented new compliance training programs and policies, improving compliance rates by 25% and reducing compliance violations by 40%.
• ️Participated in cross-functional teams for various projects, such as system implementations, budgeting process and risk assessments, to ensure internal control considerations were addressed.

(MENA & Turkey)

• ► SCOPEOverseeing Loss Prevention Department including (objectives and budgets), with full responsibility of Inventory Control, Revenue Control and Store Inspection on the corporate level, reporting to CEO and headed.
• ️Strategically oversaw and steered about 250 retails in 10 different countries with 900 thousand sales transactions annually.
• ️Intellectually Developed, Implemented and validated new loss prevention programs, systems and procedures that reduced shortage, increased profitability and decreased cash discount by 50%.
• ️Honorably chosen as “Project Champion” for a strategic cross-functional project “MAGRABI KPIs” to lead implementation, validate functional KPIs and assure results.
• ️Successfully developed and implemented shortage awareness program across all organization levels to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of operation management system.

• ► SCOPEOverseeing Operational Audit Department regionally on (Saudi, Arabian Gulf, and North Africa & Levant) on the corporate level, reporting to CEO and headed 10 team members.► ACHIEVEMENTS ◄
• ️Powerfully launched auditing programs for 220 stores that equivalent to about 500 auditing hour yearly, then published the first “Operational Audit Report (OAR)” that included about 200 findings with appropriate.
• ️Successfully initiated first “Store Compliance Report (SCR)” that ensured effectiveness of loss prevention policies and procedures through compliance assessment and use of exception reporting that enhanced compliance.
• ️Intelligently reviewed performance of operation management systems and identify weaknesses and develop control mechanisms to ensure the functional integrity.

• ► SCOPEOverseeing Inventory Control Department regionally on (Saudi, Arabian Gulf, and North Africa & Levant) on a corporate level, reporting to CFO and CEO and headed 7 team members in different countries. ►.
• ️Powerfully developed and applied about 10 policies for Inventory Control such as (Shrinkage – Damaged handling policy – Fit for stock take – Physical count procedures etc.) in 1 year.
• ️Professionally played the liaison role between the company and external stakeholders regarding all related issues.
• ️Professionally developed and oversaw cycle counting strategy “SAP®” and conducted audit visits and security checks to 300+ retail and distribution centers to insure consistency, compliance and accuracy.

Qatar

• ► SCOPEFull responsibility of Inventory Management and Warehouse including Inventory (Planning – Controlling – Costing – Reporting) for the group (Paris Gallery retail – Gulf Beauty whole sale), reporting to CFO UAE.
• ️Successfully Established 5 policies and procedures for inventory management system and successfully implemented on “Oracle” System, in 6 months.
• ️Accurately established inventory management process that assures the actual stock; achieving more than 90% of stock accuracy.

Post Graduate Diploma, Sales Management, Excellent

Bachelor’S Degree, Bachelor Of Commerce , Accounting Major, V.Good