محمد السيد بغدادى

• Designed and implemented finance policies, approval matrices, reporting workflows, and internal control frameworks across
multiple subsidiaries.
• Financial Operations & Planning: Directed IFRS/GAAP consolidated financial reporting for 9 subsidiaries, acting as a crucial
liaison between executive strategy and departmental execution. Spearheaded ERP implementation and optimization across
group entities, including SAP, Odoo, and Pioneer systems, ensuring seamless financial data integrity and operational continuity.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Pioneered a new budgeting methodology that improved forecast accuracy by 8%, directly contributing
to enhanced cost control and financial performance visibility.
• Partnered with operations and commercial teams to evaluate pricing, margins, and profitability drivers, supporting strategic
business decisions.
• Worked closely with procurement and warehouse teams to optimize inventory levels, improve stock visibility, and strengthen
inventory valuation controls.
• Audit Management & Compliance: Spearheaded coordination of 12 internal and 15 external audits, closing 98% of findings
within 10 days, maintaining uninterrupted statutory and regulatory compliance.
• Team Leadership & Development: Identified and resolved the three most frequent reconciliation failures through targeted
training, eliminating bottlenecks and shortening daily verification time by 2 hours per analyst and elevating team competency.
Key
• Geopolitical Risk Mitigation (2026): Identified escalating regional conflict risk through geopolitical indicators and presented
preemptive inventory hedging proposals to leadership. Approved strategy ensured uninterrupted operations while
competitors faced critical supply disruptions.
• Financial Analysis & Decision Support & Risk Management: Advanced modeling and Forecasting, scenario planning models
(SWOT/PESTLE) that directly influenced key strategic decisions, boosting profitability by 15-20% annually.
• Cost Transformation & Savings: Achieved $100K in annual savings through a structured workforce development program,
cutting external consulting spending by 30% and building sustainable internal capability.

• Multi-Entity Accounting Operations: Harmonized full-cycle accounting across diversified business units (manufacturing, contracting,
real estate, transportation), ensuring accurate and consistent financial records.
• Month-End / Year-End Closing & Reporting: led monthly and annual closing, delivering management reports and statutory financial
statements within strict deadlines.
• AP/AR & Cash Flow Discipline: Enhanced cash flow visibility by implementing collection follow-up procedures, directly contributing to
a 10% reduction in bad debt write-offs annually and reducing the average collection period by 10 days.
• Costing & Profitability Analysis: analysed project expenses and revenue streams, implementing job costing procedures that
improved margin tracking accuracy by 25% for all business lines.
• Fixed Assets & Compliance Support: developed detailed depreciation schedules for 500+ fixed assets, resulting in a 15% reduction
in discrepancies during audits and enhancing overall financial reporting accuracy for compliance with regulatory standard tax/zakat

• External Audit Execution: Conducted substantive testing and compliance audits for major corporate accounts including Ezz Steel, SEKEM
Group, Amer Holding, and Dream Channels TV.
• Foundations: Built core expertise in forensic ledger review, working paper preparation, and financial discrepancy identification .