Egypt
"The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have purpose beyond profit" Richard Branson ► Who Am I ? ► Visionary Executive Leader with 24+ years of cross-cultural expertise driving Operational Excellence, Loss Prevention, Auditing, and Internal Controls for mega-scale retail chains, manufacturing, and consulting firms across MENA and Turkey. Proven track record in protecting profitability, ensure compliance, optimize operational efficiency, and enabling sustainable growth through world-class strategic oversight, cost optimization, fraud prevention and aligning operational integrity with business objectives . Trusted to design and implement robust control frameworks that prevent losses, strengthen governance, and drive sustainable growth. ►Specialties ► ► Operational Excellence ► Loss Prevention Management ► Internal Controls, Auditing & Investigation ► Governance, Risk and Compliance ► Business Planning & Budgeting ► Sales and Retail Operations Management ► Inventory and Shrinkage Control ► Revenue Assurance ► Fraud Management ► People Development and Leadership ► Projects Management
► SCOPE Full responsibility of the Finance Division, Reporting to CFO and heading a team of 22 members. Optimizing the company financial performance, controls and accounting accuracy ensure profitability and sustainable business growth. ► ACHIEVEMENTS ◄ ▪️Participated in cross-functional teams for various projects, such as new ERP system implementations (SAP) addressing potential control issues and streamlining business , budgeting process and risk assessments, to ensure internal controls considerations were addressed.
► SCOPE Full responsibility of the Sales & Operational Audit Department, Reporting to CEO and heading a team of 12 members. Providing sales and operational audits guidance to help ensure that operational risks in business are well defined, managed proactively and issues are dealt with in a timely manner. ► ACHIEVEMENTS ◄ ▪️Led initiatives that improved sales performance by 35% against last year through identified potential sales streams, enhanced sales processes and training programs. Designed and executed a comprehensive sales strategy that resulted in acquiring 16 new key accounts and increasing market share. ▪️Identified and implemented operational efficiencies that resulted in a 15% reduction in manufacturing costs, contributing to improved profit margins across all products categorizes. ▪️Successfully implemented and monitored sales and operational audit framework, resulting in reduction of financial errors and data inconsistencies by 50%, improving compliance rates by 25% and reducing compliance violations by 40%. .
► SCOPE Overseeing Loss Prevention Department including (objectives and budgets), with full responsibility of Inventory Control, Revenue Control and Store Inspection on the corporate level, reporting to CEO and headed 13 team members regionally. ► ACHIEVEMENTS ◄ ▪️Strategically oversaw and steered about 250 retails in 10 different countries with 900 thousand sales transactions annually. ▪️Intellectually Developed, Implemented and validated new loss prevention programs, systems and procedures that reduced shortage, increased profitability and decreased cash discount by 50%. ▪️Honorably chosen as “Project Champion” for a strategic cross-functional project “MAGRABI KPIs” to lead implementation, validate functional KPIs and assure results. ▪️Successfully developed and implemented shortage awareness program across all organization levels to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of operation management system.
► SCOPE Overseeing Operational Audit Department regionally on (Saudi, Arabian Gulf, and North Africa & Levant) on the corporate level, reporting to CEO and headed 10 team members. ► ACHIEVEMENTS ◄ ▪️Powerfully launched auditing programs for 220 stores that equivalent to about 500 auditing hour yearly, then published the first “Operational Audit Report (OAR)” that included about 200 findings with appropriate corrective actions to be taken. ▪️Successfully initiated first “Store Compliance Report (SCR)” that ensured effectiveness of loss prevention policies and procedures through compliance assessment and use of exception reporting that enhanced compliance percentage up to 90%. ▪️Intelligently reviewed performance of operation management systems and identify weaknesses and develop control mechanisms to ensure the functional integrity.
► SCOPE Overseeing Inventory Control Department regionally on (Saudi, Arabian Gulf, and North Africa & Levant) on a corporate level, reporting to CFO and CEO and headed 7 team members in different countries. ► ACHIEVEMENTS ◄ ▪️Powerfully developed and applied about 10 policies for Inventory Control such as (Shrinkage – Damaged handling policy – Fit for stock take – Physical count procedures etc.) in 1 year. ▪️Professionally played the liaison role between the company and external stakeholders regarding all related issues. ▪️Professionally developed and oversaw cycle counting strategy “SAP®” and conducted audit visits and security checks to 300+ retail and distribution centers to insure consistency, compliance and accuracy.