Samir Abid Email & Phone Number

Saudi Arabia

Riyad, Arabie Saoudite

Riyad, Arabie Saoudite

My role as Chief of Staff / CFO at Systra allowed me to help chart the financial and operational course of the company while ensuring that we have the people, processes, and partnerships to create organic values. My overall scope was to create and lead the Finance, HR, logistic and GRO departments in order to create shared services to support the business lines across the different locations in kingdom. As part of the executive team, I helped in creating the foundation for Systra to capture the market opportunities and keep its growth in terms of competences & profitability.Key Achievements: * Helped the business to capture USD +300M of new projects / Yearly turnover from USD 50M to USD 150M* Implemented standardized processes for the entire support functions with a fully digitalized solution * Led the required change management strategy across the disciplines in terms project controlling & reporting.* Preferred business partner in the partnership relations but also HR partner in leading the company transformation

Al-Riyadh Governorate, Saudi Arabia

* Leading the Finance control for the Joint Venture Thales / SAMY from Tax & Treasury, Corporate Development, IT/IS, administration and supply chain management. * Supporting financial targets, Long Range Plan and Budgets in accordance with the strategy determined by the Board members and chairmen.* Manage the company’s policies regarding capital requirements, debt, taxation, equity and acquisitions.

Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia

* Leading the country Accounting and Controlling team in KSA* Business partner to support the organic growth in KSA * Leading the digitalization of the accounting department across the Middle East. Created and led the Finance Shared service dept for the entire region through ERP enhancement, process standardization and change management.

Leading the overall consolidation of Thales KSA in terms of reporting, financial tools and controlling.

Région De Rouen , France

Middle-East (Greater Gulf Countries)

- Providing performance analysis, budget follow up, cost analysis and reconciliation analysis between local distributor systems and Sanofi-Pasteur systems.- Ensuring both Account receivables & payables- Key contact between local distributors and the HQ for the closing periods (Accruals, sales adjustments).- Opex analysis and sales forecasts (long range plan)- Financial analysis on P&L lines - developing accurate and enhancing the reporting (Opex, budget, headcount, monthly statements)

Région De Paris , France

Developing accurate, consistent and enhancement to the inventory reporting structure.Providing explanation of discrepancies between SAP statements and local warehouse systems (Analysis, action plans and reports)Performing financial adjustments on the inventory accounts through a reconciliationRunning a series of reports on a monthly basis and perform a detailed analysis of item performance.Developing Systems improvement to avoid and explain dicrepancies (Financial project : process mapping and improvement)

Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte D’Azur, France

Reporting controller helping the branch directors to :* achieve their commercial targets* monitor the risks within their branch and action recovery plans* understand the market analysis, the forecasted results and pilot their overall monthly performance.

Master Of Science (Msc), Finance

Activities and Societies: Association Alizé - Soutien scolaire

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Ba Honors), Accounting And Finance, First Class Honors

Activities and Societies: DMU Football - Association sportive

Bac +2, Prepa Hec