Salim Habchi, CFA, Group Financial Analyst

Salim Habchi, CFA

Group Financial Analyst

SABIS

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Master's degree, Corporate Finance
Experience
16 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 0 Months

Group Financial Analyst at SABIS
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since December 2015
Financial Planing and Analysis at M1 Group
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • December 2012 to November 2015

• Calculating projects profitability, Performing Financial Due Diligence and Valuing takeover potentials (NPV, IRR, Scenario and sensitivity analysis).
• Preparation of business plans for new projects and update existing ones in order to help maintaining the company’s financial plan.
• Collection and preparation of budgets in order to make sure that budgets prepared are in line with the group policy & procedure
• Compare BU financials to budget allocation in order to analyze variations and optimize it.
• Follow up with BU the periodic reports in order to make sure that all reports are timely updated and submitted according to set targets and objectives.
• Analyse and consolidate the reports received and come up with conclusions.
• Assigned as HFM administrator as of October 2013.

Valuation Analyst at Staryeast Company
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • October 2010 to June 2011

• Worked as an outsourced financial analyst to Staryeast, a management consulting company in Lebanon, analyzing financial information on various projects, identifying project profitability and offering financial feasibility studies to be used for bank loan request.
• Built business plans, forecasting, scenario analysis, Sensitivity analysis.
• Calculated projects profitability (NPV's, IRR's...).

Financial Analyst and Reporting at Allianz-SNA
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 2009 to September 2010

• Analyzed trends and profitability of products and presented the analysis to the manager of the finance and reporting department who then presented it to the board of directors.
• Radically changed the system that identified cash flows from operations and product profitability to improve management awareness of cash available and of products performance.
• Worked on improving the systems that enabled management to read management reports and ensured that reports were broken down by line of business and by product.
• Used SAP system to upload all the company’s financial statements so they can be used by the parent company in Munich.

Accountant at Aishti
  • Lebanon
  • August 2007 to June 2009

• Booking fixed assets and running their monthly depreciation.
• Following different suppliers of fixed assets
• Study of banks interest rates, Calculating provisions for future interest, taxes and other payments.
• Working daily transactions (Purchases, Sales, Expenses, Payment vouchers, receipt vouchers and Bank advices).
• Reconciliations (Cash, Bank, Credit Card, Suppliers and Customers).
• Preparation of checks payment and receipt of checks from daily sales.

Teacher at Prime institution
  • Lebanon
  • November 2006 to June 2007

Taught Math and Sciences for children after school up to grade 9

Education

Master's degree, Corporate Finance
  • at EDHEC Business school
  • December 2012

• Ranked in the top 15% of the 2012 class •. Received 30% scholarships. • Took courses in corporate finance, Strategy, international finance and risk management, advanced excel and visual basic, Real option valuation.

Diploma, Chartered Financial Analyst
  • at CFA institute
  • June 2009

• June 2007-June 2009 passed the three levels of the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) examinations.

Bachelor's degree, Finance
  • at Notre Dame university
  • June 2006

• Spring 2006 graduate with distinction. • Maintained a 3.63/4 major GPA and a 3.41/4 cumulative GPA. • Earned a 25% scholarship; Achieved Dean’s list honors five times.

Specialties & Skills

Presentation Skills
Analysis
Profitability Analysis
Financial Statement Analysis
Ms excell
MS word, 50 wpm
MS powerpoint

Languages

English
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French
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Arabic
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Hobbies

  • Basketball, football, Ski, Ping Pong