Mohamed Halawa, Head of Finance in a capacity of CFO

Mohamed Halawa

Head of Finance in a capacity of CFO

MAM FOOD Co.

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
Experience
30 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :30 years, 4 Months

Head of Finance in a capacity of CFO at MAM FOOD Co.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2016

Mohamed Aaly Maghrabi Wa Awladh Food Co (MAM Food Co) is a privately owned food company based in Dubai, UAE. The company was established to offer GCC consumers a holistic approach to their evolving needs, operates three core divisions - Restaurants, Manufacturing, and Distribution - which innovatively cater to identified opportunities in the GCC. (MAM Food Co) is a medium-large sized organization. They own, manage, franchise and sub-franchise portfolio consisted of 4 brands, 28 restaurant and food production facility sized of 282, 000 SQ Ft with about 500 employees and quarter of billion dirham investment.


Responsibil for overall management of the company’s accounting, procurement, logistic, IT, finance, treasury, credit and collections functions.


Acheivements:

- Significantly involved in Setting, developing, implementing and maintaining adequate policies and procedures to control and facilitate the operation, and to comply with the laws and regulations.
- Managed, controlled and developed the company achieving high end recovery of finance division and control over all the company in record time 6 months.
- Prepared, analysed and discussed financial statements for 12 months of 2016 along with business plan of 2017 in 6 months semi-automatically.
- By appling the new policies and procedure the company acheived sharp improvement in profit/loss and cash flow by 22% in August YTD 2017 compare to the same period in 2016 with forecast to close 2017 by 30% improvement in net profit/loss.
- Provided board of directors with analytical advises and directions that support business achieving sharp improvement in manufacturing sales by 25% in August YTD 2017 compare to the same period in 2016 with forecast to close 2017 by 40% improvement in sales.

Director of Finance at Aragon Building Maintenance
  • Canada - Ontario
  • April 2012 to July 2016

Aragon Building Maintenance is a small-medium sized enterprise, has management staff with a combined 25 years of cleaning, maintenance and renovation service experience. Provide a wide variety of services to a diverse group of clients, from condominium buildings to unique facilities in GTA (Great Toronto Area).

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

•Manage, control and develop the enterprise for 4 years, achieving 10% increase in revenue along with 15% improvement in net profit in 2014 comparing to previous year.
•Significantly involved in Setting, developing, implementing and maintaining adequate policies and procedures to control and facilitate the operation, and to comply with the laws and regulations

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  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • July 2009 to October 2011

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Director of Finance at Hyatt Regency Taba Heights Hotel & Resort
  • Egypt - Sharm el Sheikh
  • April 2008 to November 2008

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Assistant Director of Finance at Hyatt Regency Sharm EL Sheikh Hotel
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  • July 2004 to March 2008

Will be furnished upon request.

Assistant Controller at Hyatt Regency Sharm EL Sheikh Hotel
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  • February 2004 to June 2004

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Chief Accountant at Hyatt Regency Sharm EL Sheikh Hotel
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Chief Accountant at Sofitel Cataract Aswan Hotel
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  • September 1998 to August 1999

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  • June 1997 to August 1998

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  • March 1995 to June 1997

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Accountant at Sofitel Cecil Alexandria Hotel
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • January 1993 to March 1995

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Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Alexandria University
  • May 1991

Specialties & Skills

Financial Reporting
Accounting
Feasibility Studies
Budgeting
Cash Flow
Problem Solving
Communication
Computer's user
Organizational
Leadership & Coaching
Strong Analytical
Administration

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

CPA Ontarion (student)
  • Student
  • October 2012