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Walid Ali

seeking a new opportunity or challenge

Maadi, Cairo, Egypt

Work 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 Egypt

      Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 - 1 Year

    • Technical Diploma in Treasury Finance

      American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt

      Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 - 1 Year

    • Technical Diploma in TREASURY

      American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt

      Jan 2015 - Jan 2015 - 0 Month

    Skills

    • Treasury Management
    • Trade Finance
    • Cash Management
    • cash management , short & long term borrowing
    • Treasury Operations

    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Fluent
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