Ahmed Abdallah

Experience

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  Alkan CIT

  Jan 2012 - Feb 2014

  Senior Accountant

  Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Egypt HQ.Achievements;▪ Lead the collection of $0.3M bad debt In Ghana.▪ Succeed in getting importation license for the 100% foreign shareholder legal entity in Ethiopia.▪ Saving $0.25M establishing a new 100% local entity for importation thus Opex saving,▪ Manage to collect 15% VAT extra above the contract conditions from the customer that were enforced byregulation.

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  Bank Audi

  Mar 2014 - May 2015

  Senior Teller

  Achievements;▪ Creating a template that circulated the bank later on for cash management.

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  MSD

  Jun 2015 - Mar 2019

  Achievements;▪ Renovate the planning tool for more accuracy, time saving and easy navigation▪ Automating submission (uploading data from Excel to the systems)▪ Automate the accrual process (more accuracy, audit compliance, and time saving)▪ Automate the credit note process through a well-designed Excel template▪ Account reconciliation award (Cleaning AR aging for more than 900 days)▪ Q4 2017 Tafawoq Award▪ Saving Millions of dollars by renewing all contracts with existing customers and harmonizing the compensation scheme across all of them. Show less Achievements;▪ Responsible of creating a KPI template to report to MEA management the work of the Hub Team who covers NWA, GCC, and Egypt performance.Duties• Review all invoices for appropriate documentation and approval prior to payment,• Respond to all vendor inquiries,• Reconcile vendor statements, research and correct discrepancies,• Managing purchase orders submitted by NWA in order to match the SOP,• Process the payments within the deadline while adhering to Merck policy in the invoicing process,• Assisting my colleagues in ATR in the bank reconciliation process. Show less

  • Acting as Planning Manager

    Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

  • Sr. Financial Planning Analyst

    Feb 2017 - Sept 2018

  • Accounts Payable Specialist (North, West Africa French speaking region)

    Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
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  Novartis

  Apr 2019 - Nov 2019

  Planning Manager, EMT (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia)

  Achievements;▪ Provides finance business support to local management/leadership team.▪ Develop Monthly Sales performance report.▪ Maintain Quarter Management reporting.▪ Lead monthly Sales force Effectiveness reporting “covering a vacant position”.

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  CyShield

  Dec 2019 - Dec 2020

  Financial Planning Manager

  Achievements;▪ Implementing low level account planning.▪ Introducing ERP implementation.▪ Introducing dimensional chart of accounts.▪ Introducing purchase flow process.▪ Introducing SOP needed for business operation.▪ Redesigning Pricing template (less input and auto calculate).

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  Gennecs Pharmaceuticals

  Jan 2021 - now

  Finance Manager