Amr Ahmed

Access to Finance and Credit Program Manager at Global Communities

• Egypt - Cairo
• My current job since March 2013

Development of SME outreach and communication plan

Identify the current outreach and communication approach,

Assess the effectiveness of current approach and identify relevant outreach and communication requirements for the listing process

Develop a tailored communication and outreach plan aimed at effectively engaging with SMEs

Develop a road map for plan implementation and performance benchmarks

Negotiations with the financial institutions, donors, governmental entities and any other related stakeholders.

Identify needs for start-up packages and non-financial business development services.

Lead the design and planning of entrepreneurship and MSME development and technical support components

Evaluate risks, returns and feasibility of the projects.

Business plan Management

Accounting & Financial Management

Strong analytical skills

Provides technical assistance and training programs to the beneficiaries, internal and all stakeholders managers and employees.

Developing internal systems needed for Enterprise underwriting, analysis and MEAL.

Monitoring trends in portfolio and reporting observations.

Recommend risk credits for approval by relevant authorities

Prepared SoPs for the Loan Guarantee Facility project in Egypt

Sound working experience within INGO, commercial banks, financial institutions, investment banking, and MSME sector.

MSMEs Business Advisor at GIZ

• Egypt - Cairo
• January 2022 to February 2023

- Assist with designing and implementing scale up strategies for small and growing businesses in chemicals and packaging manufacturing sectors.
- Clarifying the foundations of the financial analysis that each company must do
- Monitor financial performance and identify the pain points that must be dealt with in order to maximize profitability.
- Identifying pricing strategies, cash flow management, inventory analysis.
- Preparing the company with the explicit and tacit knowledge necessary to raise funds, whether from banks, non-bank financial institutions, or investors.

Senior Credit Officer at Global Communities

• Egypt - Cairo
• March 2013 to February 2016

Analyses credit proposals, evaluate risks, returns and feasibility of projects and assigning a credit risk rating

Ability to use judgment to arrive at a credit decision based on available information

Recommends the guarantees and the needed conditions in order to achieve the best safety measures

Endeavouring to generate an excellent deal flow constituted by acceptable loan guarantee requests from partner banks

Senior Credit Officer at National Bank of Egypt (NBE)

• Egypt - Cairo
• March 2008 to March 2013

Preparing credit packages and annual renewals.
•Analysis of various financial statements in order to evaluate credit quality and risks.
•Analyses credit proposals to evaluate risks, returns and feasibility of projects and Assigning a credit risk rating
•Ability to use judgment to arrive at a credit decision based on available information
•Revises the analysis of the client's financial status in order to ensure the security of status.
•Monitoring credit trends in portfolios and reporting observations to the Department Head and Managers.
•After considering of individual case merits, recommend credits for approval by relevant authorities

Banker at Misr Bank

• Egypt
• August 2007 to March 2008