•An influential decision maker with a strong track record of success in streamlining financial processes and supporting the decision making by recommending strategic financial advisory to Management and Board.•Skilled in integrating values, reengineering financial workflow, increasing performance metrics by developing a sustainable business financial operating model to achieve quality, compliance and people performance objectives.•Rescheduled a € 30 million working capital facility by improving the terms and conditions for a better tenor from 6 months initially to 11 months with a possibility to re-extend for another 11 months at a negligible increase in the finance cost, less than 1%.•Troubleshoot compliance matters related to banking transactions by implementing a strict compliance policy and procedures and forging close relationships with the banks compliance departments and officials for the $2Billlion Group Co.•Spearheaded led the supply chain team to ensure goods flow smoothly into our operating countries by partnering With international vendors and suppliers and leading logistics and freight forwarding agencies in Dubai, •Grew business in South Sudan as well as in East Africa region (Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Djibouti) by driving governance, developing SOP’s and partnering with KPMG and ENS Africa to ensure compliance and eliminate tax exposure.•Brought the books to an auditable level in compliance with IFRS by introducing a high level management accounts reporting in line with Coke international standards through a major data cleansing for DFI (Coca-Cola bottler in Khartoum).•Improved process efficiency by leading implementations of ERP systems through SCALA, SAGE, Microsoft Dynamics AX, etc.•Developed a solid business partnering network with general managers and other heads of departments to promote sales by availing the right funding, reducing costs by benchmarking activities and approaching new projects from finance and commercial angle.