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Gehan Diab

Executive Assistant / Personal Assistant / Office Manager / Executive Secretary

Madinaty, Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Office Manager - Business SupportFull Time

    MPR

    Feb 2020 - Present -5 yrs, 5 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:• Coordinating appointments, meetings and managing staff calendars and schedules. • Coordinating domestic and international travel, including flight, hotel, and reservations. • Purchasing office supplies and equipment and maintaining proper stock levels. • Producing reports, and composing correspondence • Creating presentations and other management-level reports. • Vehicle rental and transportation for employees / clients during events and conferences. • Managing the employees’ annual leaves, hiring processes and relevant HR issues. • Giving feedback on office efficiency and suggesting possible improvements for smoother workflow. • Track expenses and company expenditure • Following up on business communications, billing and ordering • Planning administrative procedures. • Keeping well-organized business activity files and records.
  • Executive AssistantFull Time

    Arden Consultancy

    Jan 2019 - Present -6 yrs, 6 months

    • Job Details:Administration: • Support in the daily needs of business including office supplies, requirements from departments. • Planning administrative procedures. • Giving feedback on office efficiency and suggesting possible improvements for s smoother workflow. • Organizing the company’s external seminars and events. • Managing the company’s collaterals with the marketing team. • Creating a reporting structure. • Managing clients’ contractual agreements and payment schedules. • Keeping well-organized business activity files and records. • Maintaining a software database with each department. • Following up on business communications, billing and ordering • Communicating & coordinating with suppliers and vendors. • Track expenses and company expenditure. • Writing and editing company correspondence. • Participating in office meetings and taking meeting minutes. Human Resources: • Creating Job Descriptions for staff. • Managing the hiring process of new staff and freelancers. • Creating the company’s internal policies and procedures manual. • Creating KPI / Appraisal system, and performance goals system for staff. • Keeping track of staff attendance and preparing it for payroll. • Managing staff leaves. Assistant Duties to the General Manager: • Assisting clients serviced by the GM. • Implementing a business plan and forecast with the GM. • Working on investors’ profile. • Implementing new projects related to the business as a revenue stream with all related departments (Sales, Processing, Finance)
  • Marketing ExecutiveFull Time

    Salam Holdings

    Feb 2016 - Jan 2017 -11 months

    Qatar , Doha

    • Job Details:• Promoting the company and its services. • Creating an annual Marketing strategy, communication plan aligned with the company’s objectives and targets • Managing the production of the company’s collaterals, • Responsible for social media; building brand awareness and recognition in Qatar. • Developing Annual Events plan; and managing the entire delivery from beginning to end logistically. • Ensuring spend is within agreed budgets including tracking and reporting of expenses. • Identifying and managing any PR opportunities. • Acting as the PR focal point for the company ensuring good relations with media and proper media coverage within planned. • Monitoring competitive environments and providing appropriate responses to competitor action plans emphasizing our rank in the Qatari market. • Providing post analysis, budget recap and participant feedback to incorporate learning for future events and activities. • Maintaining relationships with agencies and suppliers to maximize value • Managing and coordinating with the staff to ensure a smooth work flow and efficiency of daily operations.
  • Business Support ManagerFull Time

    Al Jazeera Network - Children's Channel

    Apr 2009 - Sep 2015 -6 yrs, 5 months

    Qatar , Doha

    • Job Details:• Supporting the Director and over 120 employees, freelancers and contractors. Working for two children's channels, I provide the key point of liaison and support between my staff and all the channels' divisions, expanding my work scope adding more responsibilities in addition to what I did previously as Financial & Divisional Administration and Personal Assistant to the Director. • Consultation involvement applying policies and procedures to insure a smooth workflow. • Contracts administration coordinating with the Legal Department in the preparation of contracts, extensions, and amendments, etc. • Screening and preparing internal/external correspondence, memos, reports and presentations. • Carried all day to day business related tasks, and provided full business support to the Director, Heads and Managers on continuous basis, including but not limited to (arranging visas, complex travel agendas, hotel bookings, minutes of meetings, holding meeting schedules, …etc) • Liaising with PR and Advertising Agencies for the channel’s campaigns, and handling the logistics of the roadshows and events. • Acting as the focal point of liaison between the division and all channels' departments: o Preparing the division's annual budget and monitored monthly actual expenditure versus budget and commitments and analyzing variances Capex & Opex) o Processing invoices and ensuring correct allocation of expenses to cost codes. o Insuring smooth payments to our suppliers with Accounts Department as per the policies and procedures o Monitoring monthly expenditure versus budget and analyzing variances. o Managing petty cash and expense claims. o Handling all hiring procedures for new employees and freelancers. • Coordinating the division’s purchasing: o Initiating purchase orders and requisitions and liaised with end users regarding specifications and cost allocation of the request. o Acting as the ERP/ ORACLE key user in the Division. o Following up with the purchasing department regarding progress and ensuring timely technical input from end users o Preparing business justifications. o Preparing RFP’s and tender documents for procurement to process.
  • Education

    • BA in English Comparative Literature

      Ain Shams University (ASU)

      Jan 1994 - Jan 1997 - 3 yr

    • High School - Thanaweya Amma

      AIS

      Jan 1994 

    Skills

    • Administration
    • Microsoft Office
    • Oracle
    • Coordination
    • Human Resources (HR)
    • Budgeting

    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Fluent
    • French

      Intermediate

    Training & Certifications

    • ORACLE ERP

      Inhouse Training-Raya·2005
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