Mohammad Samara Email & Phone Number

Kuwait

Kuwait

1-Steer Business Growth & Profitability: -Navigate IKEA’s retail growth, focusing on long-term profitability while aligning strategies with IKEA Kuwait's success as a top-selling location globally.2-Business Insight & Decision Making: Provide accurate, relevant, and user-friendly business information to enable effective decision-making. Analyze data to identify opportunities that drive business growth.3-Operational Accountability: -Responsible for logistics, service quality, and operational availability. Partner actively in the commercial and business planning process to ensure alignment with store goals.4-Business Development: -Act as an active business partner, contributing to development initiatives and projects. Establish mechanisms for tracking and following up on key projects.5-Cross-Functional Collaboration:-Work with various departments to ensure the alignment and flow of business information across the store, contributing to a seamless operation.6-Business Steering & Goal Achievement: -Secure that business steering processes run effectively, with management teams working towards clearly defined and agreed-upon goals.7-Leadership & Talent Development: Lead and develop leaders and teams within the BNO function, identifying and nurturing talent to secure future leadership and succession planning.8-Business Planning Leadership: -Lead the business planning process for IKEA Kuwait’s four branches, aligning financial dimensions with local challenges and opportunities. Proactively work with market data to understand customer needs and improve their in-store experience.9-Financial & Commercial Planning: -Drive financial business planning, ensuring that priorities are aligned with store challenges. Identify and evaluate commercial opportunities using business case analysis.

Jordan

1-Acting Store Manager:-Take full responsibility for the store's management in the absence of the Store Manager, ensuring seamless operations and decision-making.2-Operational Accountability: -Oversee the availability, service quality, performance, and costs of all operations, ensuring efficient processes and optimal resource utilization.3-Commercial & Business Planning Partner: -Actively participate in the store’s commercial and business planning process, contributing insights and aligning operations with strategic objectives.3-IKEA Values: -Ensure that IKEA’s core values are integrated into all work processes, fostering a strong, value-driven work culture.4-Talent Management: -Attract, develop, and inspire employees by working closely with the store management team to ensure financial and operational processes are in compliance with legal rules and standards.5-Growth & Profitability Leadership: Lead efforts to steer the store toward growth, optimal performance, and long-term profitability. Achieve this through a commercial focus, optimizing sales, developing people, and ensuring financial and operational alignment.6-Business Plan Development: -Contribute to the development of the store’s Business Plan, ensuring alignment with IKEA’s global direction, national priorities, and local market potential.7-Action Plans & KPIs: -Support the management team in creating actionable plans based on the store business plan, goals, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), ensuring that objectives are met efficiently.8-Financial Communication: -Summarize and communicate financial goals (including P&L) to ensure these are clearly understood by the management team and agreed upon.9-Scenario Planning: -Develop scenario plans to respond quickly to performance changes, ensuring flexibility in addressing better or worse-than-expected outcomes.

Amman

1-Financial Statement Preparation: -Prepare monthly financial statements in compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).2-Financial Reporting & Recommendations: -Provide comprehensive financial reports, interpret financial data, and offer actionable recommendations to managerial staff for informed decision-making.3-Data Analysis & Interpretation:-Analyze financial data to extract relevant information, interpreting it to assess past performance and predict future financial outcomes.4-Investment Strategy & Advisory: -Offer strategic advice on investment activities and financial growth opportunities, helping to optimize the company's financial health.5-Performance & Cost Analysis: -Evaluate costs, pricing, sales performance, and variable contributions, comparing actual results with business plans and historical data to identify trends and variances.6-Financial Projections & Trend Development: -Develop financial projections and identify trends to forecast the company’s future financial position and potential.7-Cost-Reduction Opportunities: -Conduct evaluations to identify cost-reduction opportunities, enhancing profitability through improved financial efficiency.8-Finance Department Oversight: -Lead the finance department, setting goals, objectives, and a structured framework to achieve these.Audit Liaison: Collaborate with external auditors to ensure the company’s financial practices are accurately monitored and compliant.9-Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Engage with various departments to discuss business plans, align on objectives, and agree on future strategies.

Jordan

1-Revenues Management:-Oversee recognition of prepaid revenue, ensuring accurate accounting treatments, including the preparation of journal entries and conducting comprehensive reconciliations between different systems.-Perform monthly reconciliations, comparing current results with prior periods, and providing detailed interpretations of any differences.-Develop and implement a tracking system to analyze and record revenue results, streamlining financial reporting processes.2-Accounting Subdivisions (Fixed Assets, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable):-Supervise and lead a team of accounting officers and senior staff, distributing objectives and ensuring tasks are completed within established deadlines using Oracle Financial System.-Create and implement efficient daily workflows, defining business requirements for Oracle Financial System, and coordinating with the IT department for execution.-Oversee assets impairment accounting and ensure accurate valuation of company assets.Conduct reconciliation activities between financial modules and the general ledger, ensuring accuracy and completeness.-Manage the accounting aspects of mergers and acquisitions, ensuring a smooth financial transition and accurate data integration.-Ensure that all accounting policies and procedures are correctly followed within the subdivisions, maintaining compliance with company standards.-Lead initiatives to improve and enhance system modules and job processes, ensuring continuous improvement in financial operations.-Manage general ledger entries, oversee closing periods, and ensure accuracy in financial reporting.Evaluate team performance, providing feedback and ensuring that performance meets or exceeds company standards.-Provide first-step approval for payment transactions, maintaining financial accuracy and compliance.Oversee payroll transactions and ensure accurate entry into the general ledger.

Amman _Joradn

Reporting Structure:-Reported directly to the Accounting Supervisor.*Key Responsibilities:1-Patient Accounting Activities:-Managed all aspects of patient accounting, ensuring accuracy and compliance with hospital policies and procedures.2-System Development Requirements:-Developed comprehensive business requirements for the hospital's accounting system, working closely with the IT department to ensure that these requirements were effectively communicated and implemented.3-Cash Reconciliation:-Conducted cash reconciliation between the Point of Sale (POS) systems and the accounting department, ensuring accuracy in financial reporting and the identification of discrepancies.4-Shift Schedule Development:-Created and maintained the shift schedule for accounting staff, ensuring optimal coverage and efficiency in financial operations.

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting, Good

Bachelor'S Degree, Technical And Scientific Communication