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AISSA TOUAHRIA, Group Strategy & Transformation Officer

AISSA TOUAHRIA

Group Strategy & Transformation Officer·Power International Holding

Qatar

Master's degree, MBA

Work experience

Total years of experience: 27 years, 8 months

Group Strategy & Transformation Officer

January 2020 - Present

Power International Holding

Doha, Qatar

January 2020 - Present

Company industry:
Electric Power Production & Transmission
Job role:
Consulting

Director - Strategy & Management Consulting - Africa Region

January 2018 - January 2020

PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

January 2018 - January 2020

Industries:
• FS: Financial Services
• Oil & Gas
• Energy & Utilities
• TMT : Technology, Media, Telecom
• I&S : Industry & Services
• IDO: International Donners Organisations
• Family Business

Role Duties:
Client responsibilities
• Manage a broad portfolio of projects/assignments across multiples industries and sectors
• Participating and leading engagements/assignments using my industry background/experience
• Manage financial aspects of client engagements including negotiation, planning, time management, billing and collection.
• Assist Managing Partners with generating new business opportunities and building client networks and relationships
• Position the company full service offerings and people capabilities and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients
• Manage engagement and delivery risk
• Train and coach on client site as well as team members, in the continuous improvement methodology

People responsibilities
• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff
• Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training professionals
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills
• Understand, follow and communicate workplace policies and procedures to all levels of staff

Company industry:
Business Consultancy Services
Job role:
Consulting

Consulting Director Africa Region

July 2015 - December 2017

Deloitte - Business Consulting

Algiers, Algeria

July 2015 - December 2017

Role Duties:
Client responsibilities
• Manage a broad portfolio of projects/assignments throughout Africa Region in Industry & Services sector
• Participating and leading engagements/assignments using my industry background/experience
• Manage financial aspects of client engagements including negotiation, planning, time management, billing and collection.
• Assist partners with generating new business opportunities and building client networks and relationships
• Position the company full service offerings and people capabilities and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients
• Manage engagement and delivery risk
• Train and coach Black and Green Belts on client site as well as team members, in the continuous improvement methodology

People responsibilities
• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff
• Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training professionals
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills
• Understand, follow and communicate workplace policies and procedures to all levels of staff

Company industry:
Business Support Services
Job role:
Consulting

Program Manager - Value Engineering & Business Tranformation

January 2012 - July 2015

SAP Middle East and North Africa Ltd

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

January 2012 - July 2015

• Business and organization re-engineering and transformation
• Assess strategic and tangible benefits of identified business opportunities
• Assess impacts on customer Business Challenges and Strategic Goals
• Provide deep business and industry knowledge to customers
• Evangelize the value of Business Transformation to customers
• High level roadmap planning for all identified performance improvement opportunities (Business Planning and Consolidation Concepts)
• Identify short to middle term business opportunities to empower and enable the sales force (solutions selling roadmaps)
• Build high level solution roadmap planning for all identified initiatives with the associated cost breakdown
• Achieve operational excellence while driving presales and sales operations
• Ensure solutions post implementation controls to maximize customer satisfaction
• Enhance field sales forces productivity
• Optimize resources mobilization through resources planning excellence
o prioritize opportunities
o orchestrate resources
o setup and manage centers of expertize (pools of shared resources)

Company industry:
Business Consultancy Services
Job role:
Consulting

Senior Associate

July 2007 - January 2012

McKinsey & Co.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

July 2007 - January 2012

Role description:

Supporting, coaching and advising teams engaged in client service & knowledge building .

• Apply a broad range of creative problem-solving skills, combining technical and analytical excellence to help solve their piece of the overall client puzzle
• Synthesize conclusions into recommendations and work directly with senior client leaders to implement change
• Broad toolkit of problem-solving skills, leadership capabilities and foundational knowledge
• Own the client problem, responsible for determining how to bring the best of McKinsey to the client
• Coach and mentor business analysts and associates in the team
• Identify areas of particular interest and work on developing deeper expertise to apply to assignments going forward
• Create new thinking and develop new approaches that can be applied to a variety of client challenges

Company industry:
Business Consultancy Services
Job role:
Management

Senior Manager - Strategy and Corporate Planning

October 1998 - July 2007

Sonatrach Group

Algiers, Algeria

October 1998 - July 2007

This position reports to:
• E&P Vice Chairman of SONATRACH.
• Board of Directors of E&P Division of SONATRACH Group
• Board of Directors of SONATRACH Group

Leading a team of 15 executives (BSc, MSc, MBA)

Role description:
• Elaboration of the Short (annual) and Medium (five years) Term Plans for SONATRACH E&P.
• Consolidation of the annual activity reports for SONATRACH E&P.
• Performance assessment and reporting on performance indicators.
• Investment opportunities evaluation: economic evaluations, profitability, added value assessment, risk assessment …..
• Direct and consolidate various long and short term corporate business plans.
• Assets portfolio management and global profitability assessment.
• Elaboration of projects Business Plans.
• Participation in investment opportunities negotiations, new venture acquisitions, etc.
• Formulating economic models by using data, which will help management to make critical investment decision;
• Analyzing fiscal terms and provide economic interpretation of Production Sharing Agreements and other legal tax documents for existing new ventures;
• Contracting negotiations, assessing new business ventures, identifying new projects as well as analyzing project finance/revenue;
• Providing regular or on request economic analysis and cash flow forecasts to evaluate specific investments and documents result;
• Preparing and researching Key Economic Data Sets to be used for Corporate cashflows;
• Continue developing on economic models and integrating with other corporate models

I successfully undertook the following
• Investment opportunities evaluation: economic and profitability evaluations, added value assessment, risk assessment
• Assets portfolio management and global profitability assessment.
• Elaboration of projects Business Plans/Economic cases.
• Participation in investment opportunities negotiations.
• Budget and Financial Statements consolidation.
• Financial screening, reporting, and control.
• Follow up on projects cash-calls
• Strategic and Operational Planning,
• Performance assessment and reporting on performances,
• Data Management and Decision-making systems,
• Diagnosis and modelling of Oil & Gas Value Chain as well as Re-engineering of Organizations.
• Solid knowledge of the Oil & Gas value chain: Upstream, Midstream and Downstream.
• Detailed knowledge in international Oil & Gas industry. Solid background in Oil & Gas economics and finance.
• Expertise in modelling opportunities in various projects from upstream, midstream and downstream of Oil & Gas industry.
• Expertise in Portfolio/Assets Management.
• Management of teams: managing team works by defining targets and milestones Strong communication, influencing, presentation and negotiation skills Proven experience in business negotiation
• Diagnosis and re-reengineering of Sonatrach Group Value Chain
o Mapping of business processes and workflows
o Identification of governance zones
o Identification of profit and cost centers
o Assessment of value chain performance
o Assessment of organization/value chain alignment
o Definition of organization performance improvement program
o Definition of value chain improvement roadmap and organization adjustment
o Organization and change program (design and execution)
• Consolidation of Sonatrach Group financial statements based on US GAAP norms: shifting from national counting norms to US GAAP norms (a full transformation program)
• Development of new overseas business development strategy (in Africa, Asia, and Latin America)
• Definition of new Exploration strategy

Company industry:
Electric Power Production & Transmission
Job role:
Management

Education

Ecole de Management de Lyon

December 2004

December 2004

Master's degree, MBA

France

IFID

December 2002

December 2002

Master's degree, Finance

Tunisia

Master Degree

USTHB

October 1998

October 1998

Master's degree, Master Degree

Algeria

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