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Haitham Elgendy, Finance Manager

Haitham Elgendy

Finance Manager·Sedgwick Saudi Arabia Ltd.

Saudi Arabia

Bachelor's degree, Accounting

Work experience

Total years of experience: 21 years, 6 months

Finance Manager

June 2013 - Present

Sedgwick Saudi Arabia Ltd.

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

June 2013 - Present

Key Responsibilities:
- Reporting to Regional Finance Director, EMEA.
- Preparing forecasts, budget, periodic Variance analysis & company financial business plan.
- Presenting financial results and business direction giving reasons and recommendations to the board of directors.
- Controlling all aspects of operating income & work in progress with high analytical performance.
- Preparing, monitoring & reviewing daily transactions ensuring compliance with Company policies and procedures using Vanguard, SAP & BPC.
- Managing, developing & implementing the needed Controls.
- Handling monthly payroll.
- Work in both statutory and management books comply with GAAP & IFRS standards.
- Preparing taxes returns; with-holding taxes, vat taxes and approving auditor’s zakat & income tax return.
- Leading & handling the compliance of the company internally & externally with all government laws & regulations especially the compliance with SAMA (Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority).
Key Achievements:
- Improving output & meet deadlines: The commitment to all targeted deadlines for periods closing, submission of returns with the highest integrity and accurate level.
- Mitigated financial Risks: Identifying financial risks, evaluate, introduce and measure.
- Reduce Operation Costs: Acheived cost saving by improving our billing procedures, train staff & extensive use of available resources.
- Improving working capital: Reducing provisions and DSO average, collecting $275 of formerly recorded bad debt.
- Improving compliance on internal procedures: Identifying non-compliance issues, enforcing adherence to local and global regulations, providing guidance whilst enabling open reporting channels.
- Customer relation Improvements: Reducing Complaints, enhancing customers relationships.
- ERP shifting Process: Succeeded in the smooth shift from local system to global SAP accounting system.

Company industry:
Insurance & TPA
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Chief Accountant

April 2010 - May 2012

Mishwar group - chain of Restaurants

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

April 2010 - May 2012

Key Responsibilities:
- Reporting to finance manager.
- Managing finance team; assigning tasks, monitoring, reviewing & approving all routine transactions.
- Participate in building a good regulatory environment to raise the level of performance in the accuracy of financial management outputs.
- Dealing with our internal & external auditors regarding all matters.
Key Achievements:
- Establish with finance manager the financial System & procedures from scratch.
- Detecting the weak points in policies, discover manipulations & rectifying inventory errors.
- Motivate staff to maximum productivity and
control costs through the most effective uses of manpower and available resources.

Company industry:
Catering, Food Service, & Restaurant
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Senior Accountant

May 2007 - March 2010

Pico Energy Petroleum Services – Pico Logistics

Alexandria, Egypt

May 2007 - March 2010

Key Responsibilities:
- Reporting to CFO.
- Controlling all financial aspects in the branch ensures the compliance to the company policies and procedures.
- Prepared a variety of studies, & reports that have received attention by my superiors.
- Participate in the quarter & yearly Consolidation process for the group.
- Extensive use of different modules in ERP system (Oracle E-Business Suite 11i).
Key Achievements:
- The success in putting controls in place which have the good effect in raising business performance.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

accountant

December 2005 - April 2007

Subsea petroleum services

Alexandria, Egypt

December 2005 - April 2007

Key Responsibilities:
- Worked on full accounting cycle tasks starting from the preparation of journal entries to the preparation of financial statements.
- Worked on the assessment of new projects, preparing forecast and projects expense reports.
Key Achievements:
- Acted as the SME in the successful implementation of “Great Plains” ERP system. Switching from manual system to ERP system.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

accountant

January 2005 - November 2005

Marsa Alam Diving

Hurghada, Egypt

January 2005 - November 2005

Key Responsibilities:
- Worked on full accounting cycle tasks starting from the preparation of journal entries to the preparation of financial statements.

Company industry:
Sports & Outdoor Activities
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Accountant

February 2002 - February 2003

Al Sawa for Plastic

Alexandria, Egypt

February 2002 - February 2003

- Worked in all accounting tasks starting from the preparation of journal entries to the preparation of financial statements, handling several tasks regarding assessment of projects & forecasts.

Company industry:
Chemicals Manufacture
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Education

Tanta University

June 2001

June 2001

Bachelor's degree, Accounting

Egypt

GPA (rating): Satisfactory

GPA (rating): Satisfactory

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting 2001
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Skills

Managerial Finance
Expert
Managerial Finance
Expert
Multinational
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Multinational
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Risk Control
Expert
Risk Control
Expert
Budget Forecast
Expert
Budget Forecast
Expert
MIS Reporting
Expert
MIS Reporting
Expert
Best practise & bench marking
Expert
Best practise & bench marking
Expert
Financial Management
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Financial Management
Expert
Business Plan Implementation
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Business Plan Implementation
Expert
Business Restructuring
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Business Restructuring
Expert
Budgeting and Forecasting
Expert
Budgeting and Forecasting
Expert
Risk Management
Intermediate
Risk Management
Intermediate
Financial Reporting Management
Expert
Financial Reporting Management
Expert
Audit Management & Compliance
Intermediate
Audit Management & Compliance
Intermediate
Deep knowledge of laws and Regulations
Expert
Deep knowledge of laws and Regulations
Expert
Policy Design & implementation
Expert
Policy Design & implementation
Expert
month end
Expert
month end
Expert
planning
Expert
planning
Expert
analysis
Expert
analysis
Expert
annual budgets
Expert
annual budgets
Expert
team management
Expert
team management
Expert

Languages

Arabic

Native Speaker

English

Expert

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Cost Management
Oracle Certified Professional

Training
GCC VAT Training Course
Ernst & Young
Nov 2017