Hesham Hajjar, Planning & Budgeting Manager

Hesham Hajjar

Planning & Budgeting Manager

Mobily

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
Experience
23 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 4 Months

Planning & Budgeting Manager at Mobily
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2017

Analyze the customer base development, usage, trends and prices to prepare the annual targets and quarter rolling forecasts, prepare effective models to pro-actively foresee deviations and thus generate and integrate statistical baseline consumer unit operational plans into the business’s strategic financials targets and forecasts (in order to agree on the necessary corrective actions to projected revenue performance for individual product categories)

Section Head, Account Receivable & Fixed Assets at SAUDI ARABIAN MINING COMPANY
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2016 to December 2016

A leading position in a shared service organization providing support to multiple companies by Handling and managing proper invoicing and collection for customers, monitor aging of all overdue debits.
+Responsible for managing fixed asset transactions, tagging, monitoring and month-end closing procedures also ensuring proper accounting standards in the organization financial statements.
Key Accountabilities:
Receivable
-Assure timely collection of monies due to company. -Monitor and report on deviations from credit standards.
-Assure timely and accurate invoicing. -Manage cash application making sure all cash receipts are applied properly
-Conduct credit checks on all customer, establish and manage limits
-Make recommendations to improve quality of invoicing and collection procedures.
-Reporting of invoicing totals/aging totals/cash receipts/invoice adjustments Fixed Assets
-monitor a system of controls, procedures, and forms for the recordation of fixed assets.
-Recommend to management any updates to accounting policies related to fixed assets.
-Assign tag numbers to fixed assets.
-Track the compilation of project costs into fixed asset accounts, and close out those accounts once the related projects have been completed.
-Reconcile the balance in the fixed asset
-Calculate depreciation for all fixed assets.
-Review and update the detailed schedule of fixed assets and accumulated depreciation.
-Conduct periodic physical inventory counts of fixed assets.
-Represent the company during any audits by a government that involve fixed assets.

Supervisor, Budget & Cost Control at Ma'aden Gold Co
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2013 to March 2016

Responsible for leading and planning and preparing the company annual budget, monitoring overall budget commitments, and ensuring cost control throughout Maaden Gold Co.
Project manager of new system replacing manual Excel budgeting process with Oracle based system to enhance and improve the budgeting process.
Key Accountabilities:
-Coordinates the approval process in relation to department and project budgets and revisions.
-prepares budget cost tracking and forecasting reports for all cost center.
-Monitors project issues related to cost control and ensures corrective actions are taken to adequately address those issues. This includes monitoring the status of critical project communications between departments and contractors.
-Monitors monthly expenditures and variances from the approved budget.
-Serves as liaison between Finance and other Ma’aden Gold departments for the resolution of budget and expenditure related matters.
-Assesses workload, establishing priorities and explaining assignments, assisting in the smooth flow of tasks to assure timely completion.
-Provides budget and cost control recommendations to the Financial Controller.
-Implements cost control procedures throughout the affiliate to ensure that business activities are conducted with adequate cost savings, cost control, and efficiency.
-Reviews all purchase orders and contracts to ensure they are within the approved budget and financial limits of authority.

SALES SUPERVISOR at Ma'aden Gold Co
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2014 to December 2014

Responsibility for the gold and by-product sales, invoicing and shipping with all logistic and security coordination And Project manger of new mining system which was implemented successfully to manage sales and invoicing

Accounts Payable Supervisor at Maaden Gold Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • August 2007 to March 2013

Supervise the activity of payable team section. Organize the workflow of supplier payments and employee, ensure systematic and efficient delivery of payments based on supplier's payment terms and conditions..
Key Accountabilities:
-Control the GL accounts as well as activation, modification and deletion of new vendors in Account payable module.
-Maintain bank accounts of vendors.
-Reviews and validate all payments vouchers in Oracle, ensure the validity of supporting documents and correctness of accounting entries.
-Implements the financial procedures and policies of the company, ensure compliance at all time in relation to payments of suppliers, contractors and employees and in respect to terms and conditions of payments.
-Exercise internal control over payments of suppliers, contractors and employees.
-Ensure appropriate recording of all payable transaction including provisions and accrual of expenses.

Regional Accounts Manager at Savola - Afia International Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2001 to August 2007

Overall responsibility for Sales and Collection for the western region and monitoring the sales operation and setting targets, and issuing invoices.
Key Accountabilities:
-Overall responsibility for A/R transactions and their maintenance.
-Prepare bank reconciliations 2.Overall responsibility for the Customer Order Processing
-Review customer credit limits.
-Prepare collection target by salesman based -Follow up on overdue accounts
-Conduct quarterly balance confirmation for all customers.
-Ensure that Customer Accounts are reconciled by solving disputes
-Overall responsibility for ensuring that all regional BLGÆs are kept up to date and are of sufficient value to cover customers credit limits.
-Ensure that customer files are reviewed regularly. -Assists in the preparation of annual budgets for the region and
-Review the monthly payroll
-Prepare Display plan
-Record the cost of maintenance and running costs for all regional fixed assets.
-Overall responsibility for the Accounts payable and cash payments within the region.
-Send Monthly Disbursement report to Head Office by the 28th.
-Conduct monthly cash count of the petty cash float. -Overall responsibility for the receiving of cash within the region.
-Responsibility for all the regional assets
-Controls the overall flow of work within the team 7.2. Ensure that training standards for the team are met to improve their productivity.
-Overall responsibility for compliance to policies 10.Conduct monthly meeting with RSM on Cost Centres, Debtors, warehouse etc.
-Controls the overall flow of work within the team to ensure an even workload, providing 11.2. Ensure that training standards for the team are met to improve their productivity.
-Overall responsibility for compliance to policies and procedures in the region.

Education

Master's degree, LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
  • at LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
  • October 2015

Meirc Training and consulting

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at King Abdulaziz University
  • December 2000

Specialties & Skills

Customer Service
Project Management
Accounting
Annual Budgets
Hyperion, Oracle, Excel, Word, ,Access

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker
Turkish
Beginner

Training and Certifications

LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM by Meirc Training and consulting (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2015

Hobbies

  • caricature and comic art
    Drawing and publishing some of my comics with OKAZ news papers.