Mahmoud Omar

Strategic Finance Leader at Amazon | Commercial Finance | FP&A | M&A| (Middle East, Africa, & Türkiye)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

Senior Finance Leader with 10+ years of experience across payments, fintech, and large-scale e-commerce platforms. Trusted advisor to senior leadership on capital allocation, long-range planning, and value creation, with deep expertise in FP&A, financial governance, operating plans, and financial modeling. Proven ability to scale businesses, optimize cost structures, and transform Fintech organizations into sustainable profit centers while driving disciplined growth across multi-country, regulated environments.

Experience

  • Amazon (9 yrs 3 mos)
    • Strategic Finance Leader
      Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

      • Leading the Finance team for Amazon Payment Business ( Amazon Payment Services (aka Payfort), Co Branded Credit cards, Gift Cards, BNPL, Installment, cost of payment and other BIG IDEAS 💡 ) across multiple regions, focusing on P&L, commercials, FP&A and M&A. • Spearheading cross-functional collaborations to enhance financial processes and operational efficiency. • Conducting comprehensive cost analysis and strategic financial planning, leading to improved profitability. • Acting as a trusted finance business partner to regional leadership, facilitating informed decision-making. * Led free cash flow initiatives by identifying working capital optimization opportunities, improving cash conversion, and partnering with cross-functional teams to drive sustainable cash flow improvements. * Developed AI agents across multiple business functions to automate forecasting, reporting, and provide instant responses to business-related queries. * Built an AI-powered forecasting agent that enables the business to generate daily forecasts and assess the impact of marketing and promotional campaigns, supporting faster and more informed decision-making.

    • Finance Manager ll
      Nov 2021 - Oct 2024 · 3 yrs

      Overseeing the Finance team for Amazon Payment Business across the AE, SA, EG, TR & ZA region, including Gift Cards, CC Installment, BNPL, CBCC, Instant Bank Discount, Cost of Payment, and Finance Operations teams within Amazon Payment services. - Key responsibilities involve quantitative analysis, operational planning, strategic partnerships, business case development, sales enablement, and process automation/efficiency. - Ensuring strong controllership of the business. - Leading Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly Business/ Financial reviews with the leadership team. - Payments Business Profitability plan. - Financial modelling for current and new opportunities to scale the payments business profitably.

    • Finance Manager l
      Sep 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Finance business partner for various Consumer Payments teams including Amazon Payment Services, Gift card and Mobile recharge (MENA Region) - focus areas include quantitative analysis, operational planning, strategic partnerships, business case development, sales enablement, and process automation/efficiency. - Controllership of the business. -Leads accounts receivable / Payable team at Amazon Payment services

  • Amazon Payment Services (9 yrs 5 mos)
    • Finance Manager III
      Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    • Finance Manager II
      Dec 2021 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Overseeing the Finance team for Amazon Payment Business across the AE, SA, EG, TR & ZA region, including Gift Cards, CC Installment, BNPL, CBCC, Instant Bank Discount, Cost of Payment, and Finance Operations teams within Amazon Payment services. - Key responsibilities involve quantitative analysis, operational planning, strategic partnerships, business case development, sales enablement, and process automation/efficiency. - Ensuring strong controllership of the business. - Leading Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly Business/ Financial reviews with the leadership team. - Payments Business Profitability plan. - Financial modelling for current and new opportunities to scale the payments business profitably.

    • Finance Manager I
      Sep 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Finance business partner for various Consumer Payments teams including Amazon Payment Services, Gift card and Mobile recharge (MENA Region) - focus areas include quantitative analysis, operational planning, strategic partnerships, business case development, sales enablement, and process automation/efficiency. - Controllership of the business. -Leads accounts receivable / Payable team at Amazon Payment services.

  • Junior Accountant at CASHU
    Dec 2016 - Mar 2017 · 4 mos

  • Junior Accountant at The Trust Company - Trust for General trading
    Jul 2016 - Dec 2016 · 6 mos