Marghana Sharq Sayed MA, MBA

Experience

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  United Airlines

  Sept 1999 - Nov 2001

  Financial Analyst/ Accountant

  Developed year 2001 budget for functional areas such as Indianapolis and Oakland Maintenance center, Airframe, line, component and United Services. • Developed a financial model, which measured the productivity of the company’s performance based on several factors, such as number of direct employees, available seat miles, number of departures, etc. • Independently supported and interacted with senior executives to develop different financial analysis reports. • Prepared various periodic internal reports on consulting financial results such as: Corporate forecast, monthly head count, plan variances, senior executives’ flash report, and monthly cost analysis. • Worked directly with different functional areas to develop monthly and weekly Organizations Expense Report based on fifth cycle analysis, and compared actual financial performances to the plan in order to analyze trends and variances. • Interacted actively with several departments specially accounting on process issues. Analyzed and recommended improvements in certain maintenance operations, and in evaluating financial performance. Worked with internal and external customers regarding accounting data, internal audits and customer invoicing- billing processes in the area of component, and damaged aircraft. Audit engine invoices with estimated revenue of $ 2.5 M. The billing process comprised depreciation methods, general ledger and journal Entries. Consulted in several diversified projects to reduce expenses, improve consistency, and enhance procedures: • Facilitated the addenda process for outside-vendor purchase orders, by altering the United Airlines’ regulations. • Improved the process of rectifying damaged aircraft billing collections by traveling to international and domestic stations. • Recommended in the altering of Airframe’s whole-volume expense method to accruals which eliminated errors in forecasting. Show less

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  The Walt Disney Company

  Dec 2002 - Mar 2006

  Financial Planner/ Sr. Accountant

  Achieved the financial objectives of the Disneyland Resort by contributing in the execution of the Downtown Disney and Lodgings monthly forecast process and the Resort's major recurring activities such annual operating plan, fiscal year plan, and Capital Plan. Analyzed historical and foretasted Line of Business performance, drivers and trends as well as provide analytical support on special projects for senior management. Prepared the following reports: • Downtown Disney’s weekly Sales Flash report, with detail variance analysis. • Weekly Room forecast which assists the operators to book their labor hours for the future weeks. • Labor and Other Expense report for Disneyland resorts three hotels. • Monthly forecast with detail analysis. • Support the Downtown Disney and Lodging with their ad hoc reporting. • Supports Financial planning team with Downtown Disney and Lodging’s monthly input. Show less

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  Disneyland Resort

  Dec 2002 - Sept 2004

  Sr Accountant

  Senior Accountant : Primary responsibilities includes 1) accounting for non-monetary transactions "barters," and the Disney dollar program 2) department point for assigned accounting projects 3) maintaining changes in the revenue flash reporting systems . • Represent the Disneyland Resort’s finance team for the Store Value Card Project. Received recognition award for developing a process overview of the Company Wide Gift Card Program, and delivering an excellent presentation to the Planning Vice President. • Complete the barter accounting responsibilities and maintain the related SOP. Prepare reconciliations, and forecast for assigned balance sheet accounts. • Responsible for LMS hotel system set-up: room rates, billing profiles, wholesale master accounts. Maintain the related SOP. • Handle the monthly Disney dollar accounting, forecasting, and marketing responsibilities. Review the overall process, annually, and provide recommendations to ensure strong internal controls and adequate reserve balances. Suggested marketing strategies which were implemented by the resort. • Received recognition award for developing a financial presentation of the “The Disney Store Sale” impact on the Disney Dollar program, and excellent verbal presentation to the division Vice President and Senior Vice President. Developed a new inventory analysis report for the CFO, which supported the marketing and the operation departments to enhance their inventory analysis process. Initiated the Overhead One-liner report which improved the audit process, and helped the upper management to manage their cost and meet the plan. • Supported the Sales department by providing the Telesales report monthly. • Prepared the financial statement, and the balance sheet for Canada. • Provided several deliverable at the quarter end to Disney Consumer Product, such as fixed assets, depreciation, inter-company profit, negative cash flows and etc. Show less

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  Ariana Worldwide Shipping Corp

  Sept 2008 - Aug 2016

  Director of Finance

  Developed Ariana’s Financial models: Fiscal Year Budget, Fiscal Year Plan, Forecast Variance analysis, Operating plan, and Business Analysis reports. • Manages the global Finance team to support operations, and crucial business decisions. • Leads and directs routine functions, such as budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and strategic planning, as well as overseas the P&L and Balance Sheet. • Provides Financial guidance to the CEO on business expansion, national and international, opportunities. • Coordinate with other business partners to improve revenue, reduce cost, and prepare timely financial reports. • Leads all the customer service issues related to the major financial decision. Show less

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  PCC Structurals, Inc.

  Sept 2016 - Aug 2017

  Finance Manager

  Streamlined local, division, and corporate reports such as: Weekly Package, Month End Package, quarterly reports, headcount, Cap Ex and Sales reports by Engine, Customer, Country, and Industry- resulted in more consistent, accurate, and time effecient reporting.Converted manual reporting to Hyperion retrieval-which enhance the process of forecasting and planning; reduced report delivery time by 98% and provided detail analysis to the executivesIdentified and tracked plant shipping cost, which provided management with key information to reduce shipping cost.Performed accounting duties- For Carlton and Arcturus. Fixed Asset, depreciations, critical spares, and Capital expenditure, in FAS. Account reconciliation in Black-line. Journal entries in Oracle. SOX Controller- for the above accounts. Show less

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  Eorbiz

  Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

  CEO/ Founder

  Eorbiz - The mission of our company is to provide opportunities for small local businesses around the world to enter the global marketplace through Eorbiz.We support the local merchants to sell their authentic products via Eorbiz.comThis FALL - Eorbiz will launch in the international market!

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  Divine Healing Saffron

  Aug 2018 - now

  Founder / President

  Founder of Multiple Award-winning Saffron Company. Imports the world's highest grade Saffron from Afghanistan. Hundreds of international Chefs from the International Taste Institute in Brussels awarded Divine Healing- Saffron with 3 Star - world's best Saffron. The mission of Divine Healing Saffron is to HEAL! The company is 100% Woman Owned Small Business which provides jobs for women in Afghanistan and contributes 11% of it's profit to the victims of Physical Abused. The packagings and final quality checks are done at California's FDA registered Facility, USA. The company supports farmers to stop growing Opium, and instead grow Saffron. In the USA 20% discount offered for those who use Saffron for: depression, anxiety, Alzheimer's, asthma, ADHD, or vision. For the first time, Divine Healing Saffron is introducing Gold Saffron to the USA market. Divine Healing Saffron introduces Saffron Mood Booster for depression, anxiety, ADHD, memory, and weight loss- It's 100% pure ground Saffron - no extract! For more on studies on Saffron please visit healingsaffron.com Show less