Khaled Choucri, Business Intelligence Manager

Khaled Choucri

Business Intelligence Manager

Okhtein Designs

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Master's degree, International Business
Experience
6 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :6 years, 6 Months

Business Intelligence Manager at Okhtein Designs
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since January 2020

 Monthly business performance reporting through Power BI integrated with Odoo.
 Assisted migrating operational data from four different silos into Odoo to form a functional data warehouse.
 Performed data cleansing on Odoo database to reconcile data to the true values while removing redundant entries reducing data quality issues by 80%.
 Supervised and trained financial analysis team.

Financial & Data Analyst at Okhtein Designs
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2019 to August 2021

 Monthly cash reconciliation with bank and treasury to track budget-actual performance.
 Built powerful dashboards using Power BI to supervise sales activity, set targets, monitor profitability, and promote data literacy and integration into decision-making.
 Analyzed product manufacturing, logistics & depreciation to establish optimum pricing strategies for new collections and calculate profitability, improving margins by more than 20% as a result of improved pricing.
 Budgeted financial year 2020 for a consolidated group of four companies to determine liquidity needs and forecast performance.

Business Intelligence & Data Analyst at Microsoft
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2018 to September 2020

BI & Data Analyst - MEA HQ
 Designed 6 different Power BI reports serving the greater MEA region, covering Enterprise as well as Small & Medium Business.
 Implemented Fuzzy Lookup Algorithm with parallel processing on a dataset of 3.7 million rows to deduplicate account names.
 Hosted three training workshops attended by a combined 100 Microsoft MEA employees covering Power BI reports and analysis techniques.
 Contributed to best practices sharing sessions with worldwide BI teams on report-building and data maintenance.
 Extracted relevant data through complex SQL queries to more than 30 different data sources.
 Developed extensive technical and business knowledge of the tech and cloud industries.
 Notable Projects: Automated Week over Week Analysis with Power BI, Power Platform Integration with Azure Synapse

Analyst at EMI
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2019 to June 2019

◼Analyzed economics for an Oil & Gas Concession in the Western Desert region valued at $25 Million.
◼ Modeled alternate scenarios for capital structure to identify optimal debt/equity financing for investments.
◼ Conducted financial due diligence on several acquisition targets.
◼ Designed management presentations and teasers to solicit external investors and debt financing sources.
◼Researched external company financial data as well as international economic data to explore potential investment opportunities.
◼ Carried out company valuation through discounted cash flow and free cash flow analysis.
◼ Forecasted financial results to determine expected risks and returns from investments.
◼ Created business models and go-to-market strategies for FMCG, Medical Insurance, and Fintech industries.
◼ Conducted field research on acquisition targets.

Market Researcher at Agrimatic Farms
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2018 to February 2019

 Mentored and trained colleagues on data analysis techniques in various software packages including Microsoft Excel, Power BI, KNIME, and R, to increase their research and analytics capability.
 Used forecasting tool to prepare feasibility studies for new vegetable product lines.
 Conducted research and analysis on international trade in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAP) and the size of the potential market as part of the company’s expansion plan.

Director of Research, Co-founder at Blockchain Research Center
  • United States - Massachusetts
  • August 2017 to March 2018

Education

Master's degree, International Business
  • at Hult International Business School
  • August 2018
Master's degree, Finance
  • at Hult International Business School
  • March 2018
Bachelor's degree, Actuarial Science
  • at The American University in Cairo
  • February 2016

Specialties & Skills

Management
Business Intelligence
Finance
Economics
Data Analysis
Power BI

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Native Speaker
Japanese
Beginner

Memberships

Delta Phi Epsilon
  • Member
  • February 2013

Training and Certifications

Deep Learning with Tensorflow (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2020

Hobbies

  • Reading
  • Cooking
    Hoping to have my own restaurant one day
  • Gardening/Agriculture
    Hoping to have my own farm one day
  • Guitar
    JCIMAL Concert 2015 AUC Opened for Sharmoofers Band AUC Concert 2014 Opened for Hamza Namira AUC Concert 2013 Played at Sakyet el Sawy Culture wheel in 2012 with Blues Attack Band
  • Video Games