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FinTech academy
- Practice Director
2015 - maintenant
* Training and consultancy in Digital Transformation, Financial Technology, Regulation Technology, PDS2, AssurTech, Blockchain Applications
* Prominent Projects:
* Several workshops to create awareness in Lebanon and Arab countiries ;
* Training for Mobily in Riyadh, Saudi.
* Organized events to create awareness ;
* Structured the first FinTech academy ;
* Achievements in US$ KPI, turnover 2016 was 25k$ and in 2017 forecasted at 50k$
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Knowledge Practices International
- Director, Telecoms Practice
2015 - maintenant
Digital Transformation Training: Fintech, Telecom Revenue Assurance, Multi-Sourcing , Finance, Banking, SMS hubbing Management, Matrix-IMSI Roaming
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Detecon GmbH
- Procurement Expert
2012 - maintenant
(4 days per week)
Key Responsibilities:
* Providing consultancy and expertise on TOSP (Transformation & Operation Support Program, a consulting
program to assist Syrian Telecom for its transformation from a Public establishment reporting to the Finance
Ministry to a company following corporate laws and reporting to a Board of Directors.
* Involved in the drafting of set-up plans, processes and manuals for Finance and Procurement.
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Detecon
- Expert Finance et Expert Achats
2012 - 2012
Projet TOSP auprès de Syrian Telecom, Damas.
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Deutsche Telekom Consulting
- Senior Management Consultant
2011 - 2015
* Managed the delivery of three modules for TOSP project, Syrian Telecom, Damascus. Business Transformation from public establishment to commercial company abiding by private sector rules
* Prominent Projects:
* In Finance: Merging Accounting and Finance departments into one Finance Department. ;
* Applying of management accounting for reporting monthly actual vs budgeted results
* Merging facilities management and general services with Procurement, merging procurement under Finance
* Adding Asset management department under finance. ;
* CFO increased role to head merged finance and accounting dept, plus procurement dept plus Asset Management Dept.
* Reorganization of Wholesale voice and data department ;
* All new Policies and Procedures applied
* RFQ for purchasing Oracle CRM ;
* Had of the longest management consultancy contract among colleagues and all delivered on time. ;
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Deputy CEO Monty Holding SAL - Lebanon (Telecom Services)
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* Responsible for senior level decision making whilst overseeing day to day management by facilitating strategic direction to the organization over financial processes at Group's Companies based in Lebanon, UK and India and covering our teams of 140 staff. Finance team size 6 persons
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Spactron Ltd
- Partner
2011 - maintenant
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Monty Holding
- Deputy CEO
2010 - maintenant
Key Responsibilities:
* Heading and managing a team of 25 members and reporting to the Owner.
* Entrusted with the responsibility of managing Financial functions, Business Development, Contract Negotiation
and Organizing Training.
* Responsible for handling Int'l Voice Wholesale trading, SMS and Roaming services and Sales Management.
* Involved in enhancing and managing wholesale activities.
* Planning and conducting business development initiatives through direct contact with operators and through
events and forums.
* Key person for drafting set up plans, processes and manuals for Finance and Procurement.
Major Achievements:
* Successfully led RFPs/RFQs for telecom assets like solutions, applications, billing platforms, switch upgrades,
SMSCs and lately Multi-IMSI roaming platform.
* Instrumental in increasing the number of partners from 10 to 200
* Commended for achieving Direct interconnects, New Switch and Billing System.
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Discoverytel Communications
- President International Operations
2007 - 2010
* Operational, Financial and Commercial management of three operations in West Africa (Ghana, Guinea Republic and Nigeria) plus business Development in DRC and Liberia
* Prominent Projects:
* Preparation for an IPO on the AIM - London ;
* Reporting and consolidation procedures among operations using common chart of accounts and applying IFRS. ;
* Meetings and liaising with local auditors ;
* Business plans, revenue control, collection and cashflow management in multicurrency
* Setting new Policies and Procedures and Training staff on applying them
* RFP and vendor management
* One hundred staff members in 5 countries ;
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DiscoveryTel
- President
2007 - 2010
Key Responsibilities:
* Assigned responsibility of devising Business Plan and handling Project Management, Staffing / Recruiting and
Financing functions.
* Responsible for the Data network management, Corporate IT solutions, License negotiation and New Products
and Services.
* Tasked with the negotiations in Liberia and DRC, Structuring operations and managing New Licenses and Voice
wholesale development
* Assigned responsibility of functioning as Chairman of the Board of Directors of DiscoveryTel Ghana, and Board
Member of LT Mobile (Nigeria).
* Involved in the due diligence and license acquisition, business planning, tendering, purchasing, financing,
infrastructure rollout, organizing, staffing, commercial launching, and operations
Major Accomplishments:
* Successfully led International Operations with a team of around 80 employees distributed in Hartford (USA),
Lagos, Accra and Conakry.
* Instrumental in raising funds for DiscoveryTel projects in Africa, and led the financing of initiatives such as
Internet for Guinea public universities
* Initiated M&A prospecting activities for other licenses / operations in Africa and the Middle East; financial
modeling and valuation
* Negotiated and closed contracts with tier-1 and top tier-1 carriers international wholesale business development in
the MEA region
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DISCOVERYTEL Communications
- President
2007 - 2011
Président – Opérations Internationales, DISCOVERYTEL Communications International, une SA irlandaise.
Nous sommes opérateurs de WiMAX et de CDMA dans 4 pays en Afrique Occidentale.
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Asiacell
- Finance Manager
2005 - 2007
Key Responsibilities:
* Responsible for setting up Revenue Assurance department, Financial Reporting, Billing and involved in managing
Carrier Relations, Interconnect, Budgeting and Business planning.
* Tasked with setting up revenue assurance department. ;
* Conducting financial analysis & valuation of a mobile operator in Central Africa, with bottom-up financial
modeling and formulating KPIs and job descriptions, recruitment and providing knowledge transfer and training.
* Responsible to build capabilities and designing detailed processes related to financial control, revenue generation,
collection, credit management, fraud management, financial reporting and analysis.
Major Accomplishments:
* Successfully planned and achieved reduction in the International calls cost.
* Instrumental in achieving reduction in the Decreasing CaPex expenditure by RFP and RFQs and increasing
terminated minutes.
* Successfully launched the Post-paid and effectively conducted Capex negotiation and introduced new policies and
procedures for strategic purchases
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Asiacell
- Revenue Assurance Manager
2005 - 2007
under CFO (Mobile Telecom Operator) Asiacell, Kurdistan, Iraq
* Created a revenue assurance department from scratch, including billing system , credit management, fraud management and strategic RFQs
* Prominent Projects:
* Increase wholesale revenue from 300k$ per month to 15 million $ ;
* Saved 25 million $ in CapEx on RFQ negotiations ;
* Prepared business plan for License bidding of 850 million $
* Applied KPI's on collections, technical progress, fraud reduction and budgetary planning.
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Solution Micro System
- DAF
SAINT PIERRE DES CORPS
2002 - 2005
CFO
Key Responsibilities:
* Responsible for managing Accounting & Treasury functions, HR & Administration, Logistics, Financial
Reporting, Budgeting and Procurement.
* Entrusted with the responsibility of cost optimization, Reducing transport costs, planning the abolition of
factoring costs, Staff reduction by restructuring and bringing company to break-even.
Major Accomplishments:
* Commended by the Management for bringing down fixed costs by more than 25% from the original levels.
* Instrumental in redefining policies & procedures for materials management, collections and reporting
* Successfully set the credit policy, improved the banking relations and negotiated payment terms with main
suppliers.
* Achieved reduction in inventory and fixed assets costs, and optimized ROI and ROE
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Solution Micro System SA
- DAF
2002 - 2005
Reduction des charges, restructuration, post-merger, reporting, budgeting, treasury, collection
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SMS RT2i groupe
- DAF
2002 - 2006
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Africell
- Mobile Operator
2001 - 2002
* Start-up, creating the operation from scratch to launching to leading market position ;
* Prominent Projects:
* Creating and setting-up of the finance and admin departments, policies, procedures, system, forms, templates, recruitment, training.
* Banking, auditor, vendor, legal, HR, regulator. ;
* Business plan, Budgeting, Cashflow, revenues and collections management ;
* Reporting to Beirut head office for consolidation
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Africell
- Chief Financial Officer
2001 - 2002
Key Responsibilities:
* Responsible for the start-up of GSM operation and formulation of corporate strategy and policies.
* Involved in the planning for the control of operations and defining financial policies affecting budgets and
expenditures.
* Responsible for ensuring preparation, review and submit of annual budgets, business plan and operations reports
and managing performance against set KPIs.
* Involved in setting up C&B policies & schemes in compliance with applicable regulations.
* Maintained inventory control records at the right levels, examined and analyzed direct costs and turnover
* Acting as the main corporate liaison with legal counselors, bankers, government auditors, and other financial and
governmental institutions.
Major Accomplishments:
* Effectively planned and prepared cash budgets and forecasted cash requirements
* Successfully led AR and AP and negotiated LOC and guarantees with the suppliers.
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Africell Gambia Ltd
- DAF
2001 - 2002
Création et lancement.
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Alcatel Contracting - Lebanon Branch (now Alcatel-Lucent)
- Director
1999 - 2001
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Vivendi Water Systems - actuellement Veolia Environment Systems - Liban
- DAF
1999 - 2001
Appels d'offres au Liban, Syrie et Jordanie, suivi de projet de construction d'usine de traitement / d'assainissement d'eau.
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Veolia Water Technologies
- DAF
Wissous
1998 - 2001
Veolia (Vivendi Water) - building water plants - Lebanon Covering Jordan, Syria and Kuwait
* Budgeting, accounting, HR, reporting, consolidating, admin, expats, policies and procedures, project management and costing.
* Prominent Projects:
* Consolidating the projects accounts in several territories and cost allocation, 7 projects in Lebanon, 3 in Syria, 2 in Jordan and 1 in Kuwait.
* Reporting to regional head office and to main head office in France on JD Edwards ;
* Contract management, collections, banking relations and Audit. ;
* Payroll and support for projects ;
* Post merger management with US Filter, new procedures ;
* Multi-cultural and strict reporting rules
* Budgeting, forecasting, cost accounting ;
* Tendering and answering RFQs. ;
* Managing OECD protocol of 75 million euros with CDR ;
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Alcatel Contracting - Lebanon Branch (now Alcatel-Lucent)
- Administrative and Financial Manager
1994 - 1999
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Alcatel Contracting
- DAF
1994 - 1998
Prior assignments at Alcatel Contracting Lebanon Branch (1994 - 1998) , DDB Needham I&C advertising agency (1993 - 1994), Byblos Bank (1988 - 1993) and Alex Siman & Co (1987 - 1988)
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DDB
- Finance Manager
1993 - 1994
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I&C DDBNeedham
- Bank Advertising
1993 - 1994
DDB Needham I&C advertising agency (1993 - 1994) , B
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Byblos Bank
- Credit Officer
Genève
1989 - 1993
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Byblos Bank SAL
- Credit Officer
1988 - 1993
Byblos Bank (1988 - 1993)
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Ernst & Young
- Financial Consultant
Courbevoie
1987 - 1989
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Bdo
- Junior Auditor
Paris
1987 - 1988
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