Finance Director and valued Business Partner with experience across international business environments at Global and Regional levels, bridging between creative, highly demanding commercial ambitions and a risk averse, compliance based, safeguarding finance line of defence.As a transformational/change agent, I challenge the status-quo and strive for continuous improvement; while as a people developer, I provide trusted leadership based on respect, empathy, and accountability for colleagues and team members.I bring contagious high energy and the ability to articulate and deliver a strong sharp message as well as a passion for putting structure into working methods in order to deliver valuable financial insights that enable Finance to be the voice of TRUTH and the facts-bringer allowing management to make informed strategic decisions.Currently, I actively support the Global Commerce agenda at HEINEKEN including governance cycle orchestration on a Global level and providing, via my team, the highest level of business partnering to our 300 Global Commerce colleagues supporting their plans and the compliant healthy financial delivery of results.My versatility of experience, language skills, cultural richness and style, give me an edge when working in developing markets with high levels of uncertainties (and resources) as in Egypt or developed markets with high competitive complexity and maturity, or elevate the game to Corporate levels. Throughout my career I have become known for:• High level of agility while remaining true to values and integrity• Dedication and ownership of results delivery• Ability to build connections through trust, empathy and logic • Developing strong autonomous teams and helping individuals grow• Working seamlessly at both ends of the spectrum, at high level strategic thinking for multi-billion plans, and in meticulous improvements of financial processes• Bringing financial governance and value creation to business proposals