Walid EL-Rayes, CFO

Walid EL-Rayes

CFO

UPL Logistics FZCO.

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
Experience
23 years, 7 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 7 months

CFO at UPL Logistics FZCO.
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since November 2019

Partnered with executives’ team to establish a new startup logistics business in Postal, Fright Forwarding & Ecommerce services. Along with first awarded contract on “BOT” base to develop and Operate IRAQ Post and launching FF service in Dubai by April-2020 further expansion plans in progress to open branches in Egypt, Jordan, China before end of 2020.

CFO at DHL Express
  • Oman - Muscat
  • August 2014 to September 2019

Progressively partnered with executives’ team to identify and deliver value enhancing strategies aligned with overall business objectives with full responsibilities to lead, robust and bringing financial structure and functions to scalability and excellence to drive organizational and profitability growth. This include directing the areas of financial reporting, budgeting, treasury, accounting policies, OTC billing and collections, investment proposal evaluations, fiscal related and risk management matters.

Deputy CFO / Sr. Financial Manager at DHL Express
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2008 to August 2014

Controling, Reporting & Budgeting

Accounting Manager at Haif Contracting & trading Co
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • September 2007 to November 2008
Accounting Manager at Soukhna Refinery & Petrochemicals Co
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2007 to September 2007
Chief Accountant at Al-Othaim Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2004 to April 2007
Senior Accountant at Gulf Catering Co.
  • Saudi Arabia
  • October 2003 to October 2004
Accountant & Production Coordinator at Elixir Artistic Group
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2000 to October 2003

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Suez Canal University
  • June 2000

Bachelor of Accounting

Specialties & Skills

Budgeting
Business Management
Financial Accounting
Planning
Team Management
ERPs - (JDA®, Axapta®, SAP®, Oracle®, SUN®)
BI - IBM Cognos Analytics
MS Office - (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Memberships

Institute of Management Accountant
  • Active : international member at large
  • October 2005

Training and Certifications

Successful 21st Century Manager - Certified Manager (Training)
Training Institute:
Deutsche Post DHL Group
Date Attended:
March 2013
Duration:
24 hours
Living Focus - Certified Manager (Training)
Training Institute:
Deutsche Post DHL Group
Date Attended:
November 2014
Duration:
24 hours
Coaching for Success - Certified Manager (Training)
Training Institute:
Deutsche Post DHL Group
Date Attended:
April 2016
Duration:
24 hours
21st Century CFO - Certified Finance (Training)
Training Institute:
Deutsche Post DHL Group
Date Attended:
November 2017
Duration:
8 hours
Professional Leadership Development Program (Training)
Training Institute:
Corporate Learning Solutions (CLS)
Date Attended:
September 2017
Duration:
80 hours