Head of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
RA International (R.A)
Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months
Group FP&A Manager covering Africa & Middle East region and new Area of Development (Construction & Life support Business) Key Achievements:
• Established the FP&A Department.
• Leading a Team of 3 Staff.
• Change Management of accounting and Process improvement.
• Cost savings on SG&A by 10% to 15%.
• Improve Profitability of the Projects (monthly review on Revenues & Cost)
• Implementing Annual Budgeting and monthly Forecast Cycles in collaborations with Head of Department and Project Teams.
• Improve in the Forecast accuracy of the Group
• Better visibility on the Group Cost and Variances explanations and actions items.
• Preparation of Project Budgets in remote site locations (in conflict zones).
• Modelling of the on-going contracts and newly awarded.
• Contract Analysis and recommendations to the Leadership/Management.
• Implementation of Monthly Variance Analysis and recommendations to Leadership/Management.
• Dealing with Operations Team on day-to-day basis.
• Monthly P&L & SG&A Over-run/Under-run explanations.
• Ad Hoc Reporting.
• Designing Templates for Budgeting/Forecasting purposes.
• Preparation of Functional Budget (SG&A) for various locations (Country Support Offices).
• Implementation of Functional Budget by Department/Cost Center.
• Daily Support of Senior Management & Sales Team.
• Costing/Pricing assistance for new Bids.
• Propose changes to current reporting and follow up.
Finance Manager for Major Long-Term contracts in Gas Turbine (Power) business in North Africa (Contracts Value +2 Billion$)
- Unprecedented Growth and Performance of the Portfolio.
- Leading Major contracts in Algeria and Power business Services.
- Annual Margin Review of the contracts with outstanding results.
- Improvement of Contract Margins.
- Modelling of the Contracts: Over-run/Under-run explanations.
- Cash Flow Preparation & reviews.
- Daily support of the business to achieve excellent results (Operations team and Dubai/US HQ) including CFOA preparation.
- FP&A Leader of the portfolio (Forecasting & Budgeting…)
- Variance Analysis.
- Weekly Pacing & regional Reporting for NAF/Africa region.
- Ad Hoc Reporting.
- Quarterly Closing of book & 130 Accounts Reconciliation.
Catering & Allied Services for the Country of Oman- more than 40 M$ Revenues Key Achievements:
•Prepare & submit all types of Offers.
•Costing and Pricing.
•Contract Negotiation & Signature.
•Review of Terms & Conditions.
•Contract Profitability review and actions.
•Monthly review of Contracts & Actions to improve Margin.
•Recommendations to Management for decision making.
•Sustain Current business & develop it.
•Acting as the main Contact person with Customers.
•Daily follow up with Operations to solve Clients issues.
•Cash support for Finance Department.
Financial Analyst in the Healthcare Business covering Middle & Africa region for 27 countries and 14 subdivisions for more than 150 M$ revenues.
+ Weekly Sales reporting for MEA region.
+ Advises to MEA General Manager while submitting weekly reports.
+ Forecasting & Budgeting for the MEA region.
+ Cost Center Analysis.
+ Ad-Hoc reporting and Analysis for the whole region.
+ Assisting the North Africa Director and Local Teams in monthly reviews (Report, Analysis, presentations…).
+ Finance responsible for Tunisia & Morocco Offices (Payments, external accounting, Audits…).
+ Internal Control Policies implementation.
+ Cash Coordinator for North Africa.
First Commercial Bid Manager in Tunisia (Area of responsibility: MEA region) in Fixed Networks business
- Prepare Commercial Offers & related documentation.
- Submit Successful Offers in time and with good results.
- Terms & Conditions review.
- Costing/Pricing.
- Contracts Analysis.
- Risk Analysis and Internal pre-approval (HQ in Munich).
- Identification of the Business Model of the Tenders.
- Assisting the new Commercial Team with the Daily tasks.
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