Maria Gecile Comanda

I have extensive experience in administrative and coordination roles across diverse sectors. At Applus+ Velosi, I supported operations, training coordination, and project delivery—ensuring timely mobilization of inspection teams, managing client schedules, and supporting cross-functional departments. My role required close collaboration with major clients such as Qatargas, Saipem, and IKEA, maintaining service quality and compliance.

• Manages outstanding payments from clients as part of my responsibility of
customer relationship management.
• Handles the petty cash and expenses of staff.
• Manages and maintains courses performance and profitability analysis and
reports.
• Shortlists candidates for new and vacant positions, conducts first and second
interviews and contributes significantly to the Managements decision in
choosing the successful candidate.
• Supervises and supports the sales team in critical decisions related to discounts
and offers to customers and corporate clients.
• Manages channels sales and helping recruiting key accounts.
• Chooses hotels for training venue and manages relationship with them
including negotiating rates, contracts as well the performance of the venues
according to the client feedback. Makes decisions in changing the venues
according to the performance.
• Coordinates with examination institutes, partners, affiliates and suppliers to
keep and maintains strong business relationships.
• Prepares draft proposals and financial calculations for clients request for
trainings to be submitted to the management for review and approval.
• Manages and organizes travel flights, accommodations and visas for our
Managing Director, trainers and staff.
• Arranges and coordinates meetings to partners, affiliates, clients and suppliers
for the Managing Director and Lead Trainers.
• Maintains all the important documents and standard templates of the company
such as the company profile, courses factsheets, Quality Management manual,
accredited training materials, course registration form, feedback forms,
attendance sheet, attendance certificates etc. and keeping them up to date.
• Answers queries from partners and/or affiliates as well as important corporate
clients with regards to their training requirements and needs.
Achievements:
◦ Successfully managed projects with business-critical operational targets
under critical regulatory and time constrains:
◦ Changing the free-zone of the company, including the change of
the jurisdiction as well as moving the office to a new location.
◦ International re-assessments audits by the accrediting
organizations which were critical for the continuity of the business
◦ Improvement of the use of CRM solution
◦ Successfully managed the selection and timely recruitment of sales staff by
selecting candidates for first interviews, executing the first interviews,
recommending a short list to the managing director, and contributing to
the final selection by attending the follow up interviews.
◦ Recruited and established relationship with five new channel partners and
affiliates within the last business year.
◦ Created and maintained a system for marketing campaigns and managed
consistent marketing activities in support of sales.
◦ In capacity of operations management supporting sales; managed,
developed and maintained relationship with key accounts regularly
resulting in successful business deals with critical clients such as First Gulf
Bank (FGB), Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), Abu Dhabi
Investment Council (ADIC), Central Bank of Jordan among others.

• Ensuring the Technical proposal is in accordance to Client’s requirements and in parallel, preparing the HSE/QCP for submission to Planning Team for approval.
• Multiple projects where assisted for proposal and executed for the US Military and NATO in Iraq and Afghanistan. The project ranges from Labour Camps, Dining Facility, Container Based Troop Housing, Shelter, Support Services and Facilities, Temporary and Permanent Structures.
• Responsible for Project coordination on various stages.
• Managing the up to date list of Construction Projects, Pending Projects, Business Development Pipeline and PR/PO tracking sheet.
• Creating Purchase request and Purchase Order thru e-SAP.
• Providing administrative support to ensure the department will run smoothly.
• Initiate routine correspondence and get approval of the management, and type documents and any other matter as required, and ensure confidentiality of all work and correspondence handled.
• Organizes and maintains file system, and files correspondence. Performs other responsibilities associated with this position from time to time.
• Provides admin support to the management.
• Coordinates and ensures all management communications are distributed effectively.
• Transmit outgoing faxes, emails, and phone calls and distribute incoming to the concerned on time.
• Provide support with clerical duties according to the demand of the Company.
• Organizes and maintains file system, and files correspondence.
• Coordinates with Personnel Management regarding attendance, leave/business trip applications of the team and to Travel department regarding booking of tickets.
• Arranging meetings for our directors.

• Reconciles and handles schedules of accounts receivables
• Reconciles Web and ATM bills payment transactions of the bank
• Reconciles Web and ATM fund transfer including inter- bank transactions
• Prepares Sundry accounts payable monthly report for submission to Accounting Department
• Act as alternate Accounting staff 2
• Act as verifier in Inter-Office Reconciliation System
• Receives and checks monthly billing schedule from BancNet versus I-switch reports
• Act as alternate teller to post debit/credit advice received for various deposit account
• Reconciles Sundry GL account receivables to identify internal adjustment such as cases of debit without dispense, dispense without debit, rejected and timed-out transaction and partial dispense.
• Conducts tests (UAT) to different bank networks (BancNet, Megalink and Expressnet) for the new ATM systems.
• Handles/verifies client’s complaints (Unsuccessful withdrawals in ATM such as debit without dispense, dispense without debit, and short/over dispense transactions)
• Coordinates to other banks
• Process pay-outs (Payments intended to other banks due to cardholder’s unsuccessful withdrawals/transactions to ATM)
• Posting to accounts (Debit and credit to client’s accounts)