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Waleed +96599696707 Abul Khier

CFO at Fajr Al Eman General Trad. Cont.

Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

  • CFOFull Time

    Fajr Al Eman General Trad. Cont.

    Oct 2010 - Present -14 yrs, 8 months

    Kuwait , Kuwait City

    • Job Details: • Partnering with the CEO on all operational and strategic issues as they arise and providing strategic recommendations to the CEO based on adequate financial analysis and projections, • Participating in the ongoing strategic planning process as an integral member of the senior management team, attending the Board and Senior Management Team meetings and representing the finance function on all key matters. • Overseeing the preparation and the implementation of the annual and revised budgets for the Company as a whole and for each department or project as well as monitoring the operations progress to present timely operational metrics and performance variances reports to reduce operational risk to the minimum. • Managing the cash flow forecasting by a reliable cash flow projection process and reporting mechanism that includes minimum cash balance needed to meet operating requirements. • Being the Company’s highest financial representative, therefore fully responsible to develop, optimize and to manage the high-level financial relations with banks to initiate the appropriate strategies to finance the company’s current and future operations. • Participating in exploring and developing new business opportunities as well as advising the CEO and COO on financing options for current and prospective projects. • Evaluating the overall financial performance of the Company and recommends improvements. • Overseeing the functionality of accounting and internal controls systems across the company, managing and coordinating all of the periodical reporting activities for the company including the monthly, quarterly and annual financials reports and seamlessly delivering the annual audited financials within the group delivery timeframes. • Supervising the company’s performance as a whole through the heads of departments across the company such, projects, purchase, information technology, legal and administration in order to assess the organizational performance against both the annual budget and the company’s long-term strategy. • Managing the developing of the needed tools and systems to provide the required financial and operational information to make actionable recommendations on both strategy and operations. • Applying the required mentoring and developing of the finance team, managing work allocation, training, problems resolution, performance evaluation, and the building of an effective and dynamic team.
  • Group Manager –Treasury, Consolidation & ControlFull Time

    Kout Food Group

    Oct 2008 - Oct 2010 -2 yrs

    Kuwait , Kuwait City

    • Job Details:The following is brief summary for some of my job responsibilities from the following aspects, Operational: • Establishing and maintaining relationships with banks and financial authorities to effectively managing the company’s fund requirements locally and overseas, • Overseeing the preparation of the monthly, quarterly and yearend consolidated financial statements with the needed management information reports. • Liaising with external auditors to prepare and finalize the consolidated audited financial statements accurately and on a timely basis. • Reviewing the quarterly reports and analysis of each department and subsidiary’s financial and operational performance to perform the needed corrective actions when required. • Managing the development and implementation of financial procedures and control tools; and to ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory standards (local as well as international) for accounting, financial reporting and regulatory provisions where applicable. Strategic & Planning: • Preparing the Forecasted Balance Sheet & cash flows for the local and the overseas business units, Ensuring the development and enforcement of guidelines in respect of financial planning, financial accounting, budgeting and financial control, treasury and financial reporting. • Ensuring that the financial planning is carried out to cover the projected financial needs of all divisions and subsidiaries. • Successfully implemented and automated SAP Treasury In-House Banking Functionality and The Business Planning & Consolidation modules (BPC) of SAP ERP system
  • Finance ManagerFull Time

    Mabanee

    Oct 2006 - Nov 2008 -2 yrs, 1 month

    Kuwait , Kuwait City

    • Job Details:• Successfully transformed the department from an almost manual based accounting system to a fully computerize financial one (GP Dynamics) with all the required settings that has helped in the early declaration of audited financials results by the adopting of presenting a consistent and professional complete monthly financials. • Setting up the required procedures and systems (Financially and logistically) to accommodate The Avenues Mall operations with the required preparations to have it fully integrated with the mall facilitates and property management systems. • Managed and supervised the treasury function of the group and successfully negotiated with banks to obtain the required financing products to build up the mall remaining phases with Hundreds of Millions of Dinars (more than 250 million KD) through conventional and non-conventional financing tools (Sukuk, securitization ...etc) as well as monitoring and accounting for an investment portfolios of local and foreign shares with the value of more than 60 million KD. • Successfully controlled and managed a number of facilities contracts with most of local banks, through financing, Letter of credits , Money market options (Foreign Currency Hedging), also prepared and presented number of reports and studies to establish or to increase local and foreign facilities. • Performed all types of cash flow reports, budgets & financial results forecasting. • Performed various feasibility studies for different investment opportunities using the DCF method of evaluation. • Improved and established the required policies and procedures to have an effective control over the operations and to accommodate any new expansions. • Managing, reviewing and approving of the companies stand-alone and the Group consolidated financials and designing the needed financial reports.
  • Education

    • B.Com in Accounting

      Menoufia University

      Jan 1987 - Jan 1991 - 4 yr

    Achievements

    • Managed and supervised the treasury function of the group and successfully negotiated with banks to obtain the required financing products to build up the mall remaining phases with Hundreds of Millions of Dinars (more than 250 million KD) through conventional and non-conventional financing tools (Sukuk, securitization ...etc) as well as monitoring and accounting for an investment portfolios of local and foreign shares with the value of more than 60 million KD.

    Skills

    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Fluent
    • French

      Intermediate

    Training & Certifications

    • IFRS Diploma

      Ernst & Young (E&Y) ·2007
    • FCE

      Cambridge University, UK·1992
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