Omar Khalifa

Senior Financial Analyst

Cairo, מצריים

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צור קשר

אודותינו

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To enhance my financial planning, reporting, and control skills in a dynamic work environment within a company that provides prospects for self-development, opportunities for career enhancement, and channels to apply my knowledge and skills.
Real estate

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I've been in numerous analyst roles within multinational conglomerates such as Pepsi Cola and JTI. I've worked in FMCGs (snacks & beverages), real estate, and tobacco.

מבקרי פנים

רואי חשבון, חשבים

נסיון תעסוקתי

פברואר 2017 - היום

Senior Financial Planning Analyst

JTI , Cairo, Egypt

o Support marketing with all financial and planning aspects related to launches, rebranding, and pricing initiatives.
o Build up, as well as timely and accurate submission, of the annual operating plan as well as quarterly forecasts.
o Enhance the quality and accuracy of all monthly management presentations internally and to the regional office.
o Increased involvement into BS, OCF, and entity P&L formulation and online submission.
o Providing high level of support to the accounting team in the month end closing through reviewing the P&L and highlighting major variances -if any- on monthly basis to ensure an accurate submission.
o Reinforce and implement internal controls through all financial processes.

יוני 2015 - דצמבר 2017

Financial Analyst

Visu Verum , London, United Kingdom

o Analyzing financial appraisals to evaluate the profitability of upcoming investments opportunities.
o Preparing quarterly investor reports on profit projections as well as any ad hoc reporting required.
o Constructed a financial model for each project reconciling the overall cash position and ensuring all expenses are booked accurately on the online accounting system.
o Assisting the development team in identifying when certain budget lines are exceeding the budget to ensure availability of sufficient funds.
o Re-coded 3 years’ worth of projects spending and costs for an accurate position to date against the budget.
o Restructuring the construction budget for bank loan revaluation submissions.
o Organized a tracking tool for unbudgeted running costs and accounted for their impact on the profit appraisals.
o Agreed with bank QS to fund upfront supplier payments on multiple projects reducing the working capital requirement significantly.
o Comparing senior & mezzanine lending terms for various projects along with the equity requirement.
o Analyzing actual spending against budgets and providing explanations for variances in relation to current projects
o Organizing data and analyses into reports for senior management.
o Updating actual cash flows and projections in order to identify future cash requirements from investors.
o Reconciling external book keepers’ entries to ensure accuracy of the accounting system.

נובמבר 2014 - יוני 2015

Commercial Planning Analyst

Pepsi Cola , Cairo, Egypt

Review and challenge the budgets with the department heads to ensure they are in line with the company’s direction and targets.
o Analyze business results vs. Plan/Forecast highlighting opportunities and risks to management.
o Proactive collaboration with the accounting team to identify profit and cash flow gaps versus quarterly forecast.
o Provide analytical and planning support to management using market trends and historical data to assess the profitability of new market launches.
o Plan and track G&A (General & Administrative), S&D (Sales and & Distribution), and A&M (Advertising & Marketing) budgets with senior team leaders.

ינואר 2011 - אוקטובר 2014

Financial Analyst

Pepsi Cola , cairo, egypt

o Timely and accurately delivery of all reporting requirements throughout the turbulent times of the Libyan revolution and the splitting of Sudan.
o Outstanding legal audit results from Baker Botts covering our business operations in Sudan (operating under an OFAC license) with zero red flags and/or violations over the past two years.
o Overachieved the expected financial reporting compliance rating during the last corporate audit.
o Led initiative to adopt a best practice used in Beirut’s office for automatically tracking all A&M (advertising and marketing) expenses via Microsoft access and applied it to our market unit.
o Led a balance sheet cleansing initiative in 2013 where all idle accounts dating back 5 years were traced and cleared along with all outstanding employee balances.
o Record month end closing entries on SAP; upload financials from SAP to online HFM.
o Consolidate and validate monthly financials on HFM across entities.
o Prepare monthly and quarterly business and balance sheet reviews for management.
o Monitor marketing expenses against budget and calculate monthly OCF impact.
o Provide management with monthly financial packages for volume trends and KPIs.
o Calculate monthly NWSP payables/receivables as well as quarterly reconciliations.
o Evaluating financial reporting processes as well routine and non-routine risk assessments
o Evaluate and update financial reporting processes on a quarterly basis.
o Complete quarterly COSO testing of all financial reporting audit testing.
o Ensure compliance and booking of all T&E (travel & related) claims.
o Maintain HFM system structure to ensure financial integrity.

תארים אקדמיים

יוני 2005 - פברואר 2009

Bachelors in BA

The American University in Cairo

Bachelors in Business Administration majoring in Finance and minoring in Economics.
Graduated with Honors.
3.45/4.0 GPA

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