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wael mahmoud Diab

Senior Manager, Collection, AR & Treasury Head. at Philips Lighting Co. Saudi Arabia

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Work Experience

  • Senior Manager, Collection, AR & Treasury Head.Full Time

    Philips Lighting Co. Saudi Arabia

    Mar 2017 - Present -8 yrs, 4 months

    Saudi Arabia , Riyadh

    • Job Details:- Implementation of Credit and collection policy for kingdom wide. - Controlling 3 entities ( Saudi Lighting, Nardeen & Inara) - Setting collection targets for the sales associates. - 7 direct reports ( Credit Analysts) - Incharge of approving the Sales orders workflow. - SME for all credit and collection related issues. - Approval Matrix for Credit Limits, payments terms, Scoring and SIMAH implementation. - Visiting key customers with Sales managers. - Credit and collection trackers and Dashboards. - Heading the biweekly credit committee. - Negotiating and resolving payment plans. - Provision analysis and reduction. - Prioritization on the target achievement from provision reversal. - Review and approve short, Medium and long term loan contracts with banks. - Meet and negotiate with Banks on banking facilities. - Incharge of insurance policies for Vehicles and General Liabilities policies. - Reporting to CFO.
  • Credit & Collection ManagerFull Time

    Hilti AG

    Oct 2014 - Feb 2017 -2 yrs, 4 months

    Saudi Arabia , Jeddah

    • Job Details:- Prepared and implemented the credit and collection policies for Hilti Saudi Arabia. - Ownership of approving the orders and release of material. - Review and consolidated the cash inflow report by territory and by region. - Collection Target setting by territory and by collection team member. - Setting balance confirmation target by collection member. - Responsible to ensure proper Cash application to the correct details. - Bad Debts report analysis and setting the target for each collection team member. - Partnering with the Area Sales managers to resolve all disputes for Key customers. - Visiting Key customers to renegotiate payment terms and credit limits. - Shifting Key customers from Credit line to LC payment method. - Weekly meeting with sales and collection teams to resolve pending issues. - Reduced the DSO from 296 to 237. - Directed 10 Collectors and 6 credit officers and 2 controllers. - Reporting to the CFO.
  • Credit Manager.Full Time

    Samir Kodak, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ( Samir Group).

    Oct 2010 - Oct 2014 -4 yrs

    Saudi Arabia , Jeddah

    • Job Details: Review & approve credit limits of dealers, wholesaler, and sub agents.  Review & approve bids and tender contracts with Govt., Semi govt. & private sector.  Costing & margin calculations of lease contracts.  Minimize the DSO’s from 169 days to 109 days  Bad debts provision review and approval.  Cash/ fund Application of receivable collection & advance payments.  Customers LC’s reviews and acceptance.  Discounting of LC’s.  Setting the collection target for the collectors/ branches.  Monthly and quarterly cash reports.  Confirmed balance with key customer (Public & private) and solved disputes.  Application of credit notes/ Debit notes.  Collections of sales leads.  Directed 12 collectors in the kingdom.  Reporting to CFO.
  • Credit Controller kingdom wide.Full Time

    General Electric Healthcare. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

    Feb 2007 - Oct 2010 -3 yrs, 8 months

    • Job Details: Led the application of 97% payments collected.  Controlled & achieved the collection target for 2009 by 105%. (All Kingdom)  Confirmed balance with key customer to reach 100% accuracy between our books and their books.  Directed 7 collectors in the kingdom.  Solved most of disputed invoices by periodic & planned visits to customers & Aligning with operation.  Reporting to MEACAT Credit controller (France)
  • Education

    • BA in Business Administration

      King Saud University

      Jan 1980 - Jan 1984 - 4 yr

    Achievements

    Dear Sir/ Madam. This letter is to express my interest in the position advertised on your website portal. Based on my work experience and academic qualification, I am confident that I will be a great addition to your team. I have attached my resume to provide a summary of my qualifications. I have over 16 years of experience in the field of collection, and credit management where I have achieved super results in the organization where I have worked mainly focusing on improving the working capital, DSO and the cash conversion cycle. I am currently working as Sr. credit control manager at Philips Arabia. I have also worked for some of the great companies in the world such as GE, Kodak as well as Hilti where all my results speaks for itself. In addition to that, I have a bachelor degree in Business Administration from King Saud University. I believe my hands-on experience and practical working knowledge in leading companies and academic qualification will be well suited to meet the goa

    Skills

    • Communication
    • managment
    • dynamic
    • Adaptability to changes
    • leader
    • planned and organized
    • Goals setter
    • problem solver
    • responsible
    • work under pressure

    Languages

    • English

      Fluent
    • Arabic

      Fluent
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