Ahmed Khalifa Dawood

• Managing the company’s funding projects (Long, Medium & Short Term Facilities, syndication, Vendor Financing, Over draft, multi purpose credit facilities and ECA’s).
• Managing negotiation and documentations of the company international syndication and credit facilities, securing the best borrowing rates, terms and security conditions in deals amounting:
- Closure of term & revolving club financing EGP 6.0Bn. (US$ 350m) 2016.
- Closure of international term syndication financing US$ 278m 2016.
- Closure of bilateral term financing US$ 120m 2015.
- Secured up to EGP 4.0Bn. of working capital facilities since 2013 to date.
- Closure of term & revolving Syndication financing EGP 7.2Bn. (US$ 1.3Bn.) 2011.
- Closure of term syndication financing EGP 4.7Bn. (US$ 850m) 2008.
- Closure of vendor financing US$ 205m 2008.
- Closure of syndciated bridge facility EGP 1.5Bn. (US$ 270m) 2007.
- Closure of Shareholders Loan EGP 6.8Bn. (US$ 1.2Bn.) 2007.
• Managing financial, legal & other advisers activities related to the financing agreements (local & international).
• Provide analysis and support for compliance with debt covenants (positive, negative & financial), and fulfillment of security legal documents and all creditors requirements.
• Secured overdraft and multi purpose credit facilities to finance our working capital requirements covering letter of credits, guarantees, IDC’s, foreign currency requirements & etc…
• Risk management implementation. Identifying the potential risks in foreign exchange, interest rates and liquidity, exercising hedging tools that mitigate risks affecting the company profitability.
- Closure of interest rate swap hedging USD 139M 2018.
- Closure of interest rate swap hedging USD 139M 2017.
• Exercised hedging tools other than banks derivatives, IE natural hedging, currency conversions (discounted advance payment), risk transfer etc..
• Managing operational cash forecasting alerting any potential deficit or surplus that allows best practice of cash management to allow maintaining debt at prudent levels and maximizing return on investment.
• Monitors and manages daily cash position, recommend and implement improvements to the current cash management strategy.
• Manage, control and report all Banking Operations & Trade Finance activities.
• Developed the mobile banking & payments financial solutions under digital banking applications and financial inclusion solutions with banks and financial institutions and related cash cycles implemented by National bank of Egypt, MasterCard, Fawry, E-finance and other aggregators and related use cases and add-ons including but not limited to (P2P transfer, cash in & out from dealers & ATM’s, virtual credit cards number, wallet payments, billers settlement etc..).
• Managing the business financial inclusion solutions implementation with banks and other financial institutions and related processes, controls and reports (Mobile banking, E-shop, E-payments, M-payments, Credit cards & Collection Methods).
• Managing the Initial Public Offering “IPO” of Etisalat Misr shares in local and international exchange, appointed by the board of directors as the investor relations manager for the transaction and handling all related issues (advisers hiring and management, due diligence, prospectus preparation, listing documentation and requirements, etc…).
• Review and development of treasury policies, procedures, operational controls and standards.
• Implemented controls assuring compliance with polices and procedures.
• Developing management and board of director’s treasury performance reports.
• Ensure commitment to timely and accurate processing (Oracle Financial) of treasury transactions in accordance with internal controls, and review monthly treasury closing and reconciliations.
• Established and maintained successful relationship with local and international financial institutions.
• Support internal and external customers by building and maintaining effective relationships.

• Managed negotiation, communication and documentation of establishing and restructuring the company credit facility amounting EGP 1.6 Bln. (US$ 300 M) and EGP 4 Bln. (US$ 700 M).
• Efficient management of the company credit Facilities and cash management in terms of meeting the requirements & maximizing the return on investments.
• Managed financial implementation of Mobile M-commerce (Vodafone Cash) with HSBC and EBC “Egyptian Banking Corporation”.
• Prepare the annual cash forecasting reports with all currencies, Identify the company cash requirements in all currencies (How much, When & how) define ways of financing and managing FOREX risk using hedging tools.
• Managed preparation, documentation, review and implementation of the company Bank Mandates, Banking Bill Payment methods and outsourcing cheque printing system in accordance with cheque law regulation.
• Prepare the required treasury reports to the senior management on monthly bases.
• Managing treasury system implementation requirement with Oracle Egypt.
• SOX (Sarbanes Oxley Act) Controller, applying controls required to assure compliance.
• Applies compliance Policy and Procedures with proper implementation, (comply with VF Group Treasury Policies).
• Managing relations with all relationship banks and assure applying the markets best rate in terms of cash investment and banking tariffs.
• Provide Vodafone staff with the best retail offers/services from banks and act as a cash management adviser for the company pension plan with Alico insurance Co.
• Group Custodian accounts management.
• Ensure that all the banking operations & trade finance transactions have been performed as required and executed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Conduct daily, monthly, annual reviews and accurate reports on the banking operations.
• Monitor the banking transaction through the electronic banking system, Maintain efficient banking transactions, and smooth banking operations.
• Monitoring the Banking reconciliation on the interest, fees and commissions on day-to-day basis and the ongoing enhancement to the pricing offered from banks.
• Work as a link among other finance areas and the relationship banks.
• Keep a very organized, updated and accurate filling system, to facilitate the information flow to the other departments.

Work under Customer Relationship Management (CRM), sales support, up selling products, services and promotions, provide excellent quality service standards.
• Achieving extraordinary customer relations-skills and strategies.
• Provide both External and internal customer relationships.
• Recognized and rewarded as a member of the Inbound Marketing Campaigns Management, prepaid renaissance and validity versus balance projects.
• Shared a before lunch UAT (User Acceptance Test) projects for the Call Tracking Application (CTA), the Computer Telephone Integration (CTI), the Contact Management (CM), the Enterprise Routing Solutions (ERS), the Customer Administration Server (CAS), the New Routing strategy and In view/CM integration project.

• Provide treasury and cash management support in areas such as fund management and financing, financial reconciliation, checks for collection, and wire transfers.
• Ensuring all transactions are properly authorized within set limits and conditions.
• Marketing CIL (COMMERCIAL INT. LIFE INSURANCE CO.) Products.