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Lauren Helmy Hanna

Administrative Officer

Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Administrative OfficerFull Time

    UN World Food Programme

    Dec 2022 - Sep 2023 -9 months

    Afghanistan , Kabul

    • Job Details:• Managing the Country Office overall premises leasing contracts, creating governance structures & partnerships with the lessor & sub-contracts for UN agencies sharing premises. • Responsible of all payment transfers to Lessor, restructuring the invoicing and payments workflow. Bi yearly reconciliation internally to WFP & Externally with Partners and Vendors. • Design tracking & monitoring tools to support/enable live information sharing & updates to cross functional units Admin, Security, Finance & HR. • Responsible of reviewing & posting monthly accommodation & meals Recoveries consumed by international staff. • Focal point with Budget and Programming Unit for creating Non-Donors grants. • Responsible of consolidating and reviewing Administration Unit budget in country office and field offices. • Develop and design fit for purpose SOPs in line with WFP rules and regulations, most updated directives and guidance notes. Crossing between WFP liabilities, staff entitlements, and wellness. • Responsible of coordinating Events, Workshops and Missions. • Managing team of two national staff who are working on, ARCHIBUS, Invoicing & Events Management. • Managing non-food goods and Services Purchase Requests and acting as focal point with Procurement unit. Prepare yearly Admin Unit Procurement Plan.
  • Executive AssistantFull Time

    UN World Food Programme

    Jul 2020 - Nov 2022 -2 yrs, 4 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:• Provide dedicated executive support for the Deputy Regional Director by maintaining agenda, assist in planning appointments, regular meetings. • Support to Business Process & Streamlining initiative in the Regional Bureau in Cairo and Country Officer • Handle travel arrangements including and not limited to Air Tickets, accommodation, Medical Clearances, logistics, security clearance & Missions' schedules. • Prepare and/or consolidate minutes of meetings and reports. • Oversee the maintenance of records to ensure information is organized, readily available & compliant with all relevant policies. • Working with Protocol & Event Management Team on planning & executing events & workshops. • Provides administrative support to the Budget & Programming Unit, Risk Management & Compliance Unit & Evaluation Unit. • Coordinate tasks of junior colleagues to ensure executive support services are delivered consistently & to the required standards. • Support Regional Bureau Senior Management Delegated tasks as needed.
  • Senior Sales Administrative AssistantFull Time

    Schneider Electric

    Jan 2017 - Jul 2020 -3 yrs, 6 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:• Executive Assistant to the Vice President. • Responsible of managing Business Unit Events, including monthly meetings, yearly events, team building activities • Responsible of travel arrangements inside & outside Egypt, Top Management visits to Egypt and Meetings Schedules, Customers visits to HQ in France, coordinating their training and meetings in different premises. • Preparing Presentations for C-Level Management & collecting data from stakeholders • Responsible of creating and following up on Legal Guarantees • Creating and managing Dashboards for different teams, following up on Sales Team Order Entries, Pipeline, Customer’s Visits and accuracy of registered transaction • Following up on Inside Sales Team Activities • Responsible of Onboarding Plan for new commers (Meetings with stakeholders, receiving laptop and needed tools) • Responsible of Business Unit Procurement (Safety Tools, Stationary, Business Cards) • Creating SAP Purchase requisitions & following up on release strategies, different transactions for business process flow • Provides administrative support to the Business Unit (50-70 team members); • Active member of First Aid & Fire Fighting Team • Carry out ad hoc tasks/projects as required.
  • Administrative AssistantFull Time

    Embassy of Switerland - Office for International Cooperation

    Mar 2013 - Dec 2016 -3 yrs, 9 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:• Organization of workshops, internal meetings, conferences and events together with the Administrative Officer; • Organizing hotel and accommodation for expatriate staff, as well as, flight and inland trips; • Coordinate office drivers’ schedule. Monitor the Office for International Cooperation Cairo vehicle log book and drivers expenses; • Coordinate missions schedules with National Programme Officers and Management (inside and outside Cairo) • Responsible to follow up on hotels corporate agreements and seasonal rates. • Maintain and update Internal Control excel sheets for office expenses on a weekly and monthly basis (hotel reservations, air tickets and all invoices received); • Permanent participant of Security committee, in charge of relevant administrative and procurement tasks; • Responsible for maintaining office procurement procedure s; • Preparing and corresponding to letters for Governmental and non-governmental partners; • Maintain and update inventory of all tangible assets covering the whole office; • Responsible of translating documents or financial reports received from partners; • Taking minutes of General Staff Meetings; • Acknowledgements (birthdays, anniversaries, etc) of the office employees; • Monitoring stationery, emergency, cleaning materials, visitors’ beverages stocks; • Provides secretarial support to the Office (15-20 national and international staff members); • Manage daily calendar of the Office team and coordinate schedule appointments within office, with the Swiss Embassy in Cairo and partner organizations; • Carry out ad hoc tasks/projects as required.
  • Education

    • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting Major

      Ain Shams University (ASU)

      Jan 2006 - Jan 2010 - 4 yr

    • High School - Thanaweya Amma

      Armenian Catholic Sisters’ School

      Jan 2006 

    Skills

    • Administration
    • Microsoft Powerpoint
    • Manager

    Languages

    • English

      Fluent
    • Arabic

      Fluent
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