
Walid Ali
seeking a new opportunity or challenge
Maadi, Cairo, EgyptWork Experience
Treasury consultantPart Time
Freelance
Jan 2023 - Present -2 yrs, 5 months
- Job Details:I am currently working as free Treasury consultant.
Treasury DirectorFull Time
Sama Group / Sinai University
Sep 2016 - Nov 2022 -6 yrs, 2 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Responsible for managing treasury team and all treasury functions in two campuses of Sinai University in addition to managing treasury function in sister companies of Sama Group.
Treasury managerFull Time
Beyti (joint venture of Pepsico & Almarai)
Jul 2000 - Sep 2015 -15 yrs, 2 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details: Corporate Finance. Cash Management . Employ working capital strategies and tools to efficiently manage current assets and liabilities. Risk Management . Monitor , control & Manage corporate exposure to financial and operational risks. Trade finance , manage all kind of Trade finance transactions (All types of L/C’s , L/G’s , imported bills for collection , form 4 & reviewing payment terms in all commercial contracts .) Syndicated loans to finance CAPEX , Expansion & Mega projects. Building strong relations with banks & internal departments to facilitate day to day business. Troubleshooting of daily transaction issues and execution of foreign currency trades. Develop, implement and communicate global cash management policies and procedures, identifying strategic needs based on a global liquidity assessment, pursuing and evaluating best practices for funding and capital management. Direct cash management and borrowing strategies, providing insight and recommendations aimed at improving working capital and reducing Company interest expense where possible. Review, analyze and forecast cash collections/disbursements, coordinating month-end treasury reporting and cash forecasting. Evaluate bank services and fees, monitor bank performance and make recommendations for savings or added new or better services. Determine proper capital structure , manage costs of long term capital & quantitatively evaluate capital resources investments. Ensure sufficient funding for new projects , Expansions (CAPEX) & usual payables (WC ) are available on its due dates . Strong background in import & export procedures. Monitoring of receivables – review of aging, continuous follow up for collection of receivables. Ensure treasury transactions reports & cash position are presented on time to the CFO to assist & facilitate decision making. Build strong treasury team : coaching , motivating & directing my team to get the ideal performance out of treasury team through a positive work environment , active listening , close communication & taking them with me. Optimizing , managing & controlling unplanned financial Costs ( may resulted due to exposed to Foreign currency Fluctuation & interest rates fluctuations.) Ensure Stand-by Letters of Credit and Letters of Guarantee terms are valid . Perform annual review of credit limits & its terms . And recommend any necessary amendments. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Treasury Section Head at Beyti (International Co. for Agro industrial projects) one of (IGI ) International group for investments Company , since July 1999 till July 2006 Business Field: FMCG Location : Head office..Reporting directly to Managing director for financial affairs & director of finance as well. I have joined Beyti since establishing this Company & its plant for dairy & juice processing starting 1999 & was a part of a small team who finalized a deal of a syndicated loan of EGP 300 million to finance the process of building Beyti Plant in Nubariya city. - Manage all treasury functions under the supervision of Director of finance for IGI Group - Manage all trade finance transactions including L/C’s issuing for importing all Machinery , Production lines & Equipment’s needed for building Beyti plant . - Manage all daily operations with banks (syndicated loan parties). - Build strong relationship with banks. - USAID loans . - Cash management. - Insurance . - Treasury reports . - In addition to all other treasury functions.
Treasury section headFull Time
Beyti
Jul 1999 - Jul 2006 -7 yrs
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:- Follow up & manage several types of banking Facilities . - Cash Management . - Open L/C’s for importing billets & steel. - Manage day to day banking operations. - Build strong relationships with banks . - Follow up & prepare daily cash position & credit limits status. - Follow up daily cash deposits with big amounts received from clients directly into our bank accounts. - Proceed with daily payments & transfers in EGP or in Foreign currencies. -
Education
Technical Diploma in Treasury Finance
American Chamber of Commerce in EgyptJan 2015 - Jan 2016 - 1 Year
Technical Diploma in Treasury Finance
American Chamber of Commerce in EgyptJan 2015 - Jan 2016 - 1 Year
Technical Diploma in TREASURY
American Chamber of Commerce in EgyptJan 2015 - Jan 2015 - 0 Month
Skills
Languages
Arabic
FluentEnglish
Fluent