Business Development Officer-Commercial Department
Hydra Properties
Total years of experience :12 years, 3 Months
- Holding a business development position in the commercial department reporting directly to the CCO
- Assisting in making studies on projects with detailed reports on cash flow, P&L, ROI, NPV and
valuations for feasibility study and investor relations
- Responsible for marketing, newsletter design and creation, and public relation presentation
- Responsible for communications with banks, brokers, and major invertors
- Took upon the task of auditing all the companies financials since inception
- Held an associate position with the audit department
- Preparation of annual, interim and consolidated financial statements meeting the required accounting and
auditing standards. In addition to casting and reviewing of financial information
- Deep involvement with the audit of the Telecommunication Duopoly in Lebanon being MTC and Alfa which involved tasks such as meeting group deliverable deadlines for Kuwait and Egypt respectively, correspondence with the Ministry of Telecommunications and quarterly reviews of their financial statements
- Audit of several high profile clients in Insurance, Banking, and Customer Service companies from planning, execution till completion and follow-up
- Led a team of less experienced associates involving assigning roles, mentoring on the roles at hand, and reviewing the finished assignments
- Shattered the perception of regular audit approach by turning it into a more amicable and cooperative relationship thereby building strong long-lasting bonds with clients. In addition was able to recruit
several clients to join the PwC academy for classes on several certifications
- Participated in all PwC sponsorships and promotional activities from Arab International Women’s Forum to ‘Big 4 and After’ event in the American University of Beirut and several media and social
events
- Underwent both Assurance 1 and 2 training with the company and gained reporting knowledge, techniques, and the required standards as well as attained all the online database certificates that cover both soft skills and conceptual technical skills (Fraud, Revenue, Assets, Liabilities, etc.)
- Attained a top rating after the performance appraisals being at the head of my fellow associates
Held a two month trainee-level position with the Institutional Sales Desk taking part in a variety of projects regarding the MENA region. Throughout the two month period, I gained vast knowledge in the field of investment banking. Being my first working experience it was invigorating to be in an environment which gave me the building block to my planned career in finance and Investment Banking. In that period, I was involved in three main projects across the Fixed Income Sales and Wealth Management desk. In collaboration with the Debt Capital Markets team, a shared initiative was launched to prepare Investor profiles for all clients in the MENA region tracking investor tastes, preferences and past transactions. In relevance to the Wealth Management desk, I engaged in creating an integrated database with the appropriate programming that generates and sends the quarterly performance sheets of structured products to the bank’s clients. In addition, I was exposed to negotiations in a Chinese private equity fund in the making. To say the least, a vast array of information that expanded my knowledge and understanding of the field that I am more than eager to keep developing in.
Through my projects, many day to day time consuming activities where cut down; performance sheet generation now takes 5 mins instead of 20 mins the process it used to take. In addition, the profiles provided a helpful standard for other HSBC branches which took the initiative and might indeed provide and international profiles for all the bank’s customers for future purposes.
Completed my bachelor degree in Economics with a minor in Business Administration and graduated with honors. Have a strong Economic background in Mathematics (Calculus, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra) as well as Statistics (Applied statistics in business and economics and econometrics). In addition to a variety of economics specialties such as Labor Economics, Economics of Petroleum and International Trade. Also, highly familiarized in both Financial and Management Accounting as well as Business Finance.