Financial Analyst
Commercial International Bank
Total years of experience :6 years, 8 Months
•Preparing monthly financial highlights including performance and profitability analysis for different customers segments
•Finding and creating new methods for achieving maximum profitability through deep analysis of financial statements and bank KPIs
•Always cooperating with business partners and business customers to meet their expectations.
•Delivering monthly financial reports to different managerial levels including effective rates and trends for different financial periods (monthly, quarterly, annually) and actual vs. budget.
•Creating financial reports using crystal and discoverer reporting tool as well as spreadsheets
•Assisting in the bank budgeting and planning process.
•Research and prepare variance analysis and explanations.
•Team member responsible for performing special projects to improve process efficiency and performance
•Supporting & implementing Oracle Financial Application (OFSA) including troubleshooting and response to end user questions regarding how to use the software.
•Supporting management by developing financial reports using Discoverer and Crystal Reporting tool such as:
Bank’s Customer profitability reports using the different banking dimensions (P&L reports)
Bank’s Customer position and performance patterns (Balance Sheet)
Transfer Pricing and Rating reports
•Assessing user requirements for different systems, including changes in business processes, cost benefit analysis, security and creating an implementation schedule
•Studying and reporting on unused functions of the financial management software.
•Developing and testing new or modified report formats, customized programs to manipulate data, or changes to file structure.
•Creating or updating functional specifications for new or modified reports and applications.
•Coordinating with lead user and developer to test and implement new or modified programs as needed.
•Testing different mapping between the core financial database and the end user systems
•Responsible of gathering all the basic requirements for the initiation phase of any new project.
•Performing the business analyses & writing the requirement documents for the project to be developed by the technical manager.
•Responsible of finding new tools and solutions to improve the performance and the work life of the company’s employees
•To be updated by the new technologies released in the area of software and business solutions and perform periodical internet researches.
•Involved in various activities of the project like information gathering, analyzing the information gathered, documenting the functional or business requirements.
•Taking the responsibility of identifying new process, finding out gaps in existing process, arranging training modules for new process development and implementation
•Improved efforts of sales personnel & marketing staff by analyzing end-user needs and creating intuitive.
•Some of the projects with which I have been involved include:
Great Plains Business process improvement for the supply chain
Microsoft CRM System testing from the business point of view
•Meet regularly with management at all levels to coordinate activities, provide project status reports, recommend company-wide improvements, and efficiency reviews of internal and external service delivery, order management, provisioning & troubleshooting.
•Acting as primary point-of-contact for Client.
•Masters and maintains vast knowledge of client's business, competition, and latest industry news and trends.
•Preparing periodical reports to monitor the customers’ purchases patterns and act upon them.
•Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships through regular close contact account management which will include regular face to face meetings, telephone and email communication
• Interacting effectively with other departments including the sales team when handling campaign start ups
•Producing weekly, monthly and quarterly status reports to each client
•Ensure account plans for each client are updated ongoing with all current and relevant information concerning the client and the campaign, from the point of handover from the business development & the marketing managers.
•Actively seeking to increase the services offered to my customers’ portfolio and increase the income generated in conjunction with the cross-sell and up-sell reward scheme to targets.
•Some of the key accounts I was handling were:
Orascom Construction Industries (OCI)
Ahram Beverages Company (ABC)
DHL
Orascom Telecom (OT)
Microsoft
Egyptian Cement Company (ECC)
English Accounting Major along with the american curriculum for business, finance, cost accounting & taxation, banking & Economics
All scientific and mathematical materials were in French since kinder garden and first language was French