Ahmed Abd Allah Mahmoud Allam Ahmed Abd Allah Mahmoud AllamEgypt – Cairo – El Golf City – behind UAE embassy

Hassan Aflaton St. 14 Ayoub Buildings, Borg el Golf. 6th Floor

Mobile # (+2) 010 17 36 55 56

E-Mail: ahmed.a.allam@gsk.com

O B J E C T I V ESeeking to broaden my Business scope by moving into a challenging career in a highly renowned

organization, this will enable me to contribute to the Organization utilizing my professional and personal

skills as well as develop my experience and exposure.

W O R K E X P E R I E N C E

Financial Section head (corporate reporting and general ledger) - April 2013 – Present

Job Responsibilities:

Responsible for the Unison submission for GSK Egypt entities.

Create, control & analyze all the inter-company accounts to ensure proper allocation, follow up the

outstanding balances, clear mismatches & provide the currency revaluated I/C balances for Unison

reporting.

Organize and coordinate with region entities and other financial departments the monthly, quarterly &

year-end closing process in order to meet the group reporting deadlines.

Ensure that the financial accounting transactions expenses are complying with group standard

operating procedures and satisfy local requirements.

Apply new reporting models to the company’s accounting system and update the chart of account to

meet latest group requirements.

Deal with external parties’ i.e. external auditors and support them with required report and supporting

documents and at the same time confirm the accuracy of their reports and that it matches with our

figures.

Any other duty that may be deemed necessary to achieve the requirements / objectives of the job.

Follow up rectification of any audit exceptions.

Maintaining the company’s computerized accounting package (JDE – AS/400) the chart of accounts

and apply the new reporting models.

Responsible for the car loan accounts including the preparation of monthly amortization, follow up

the movement with HR & appropriate reconciliations with the system.

Handling all fixed assets activities actual & budget.

Monitor of all SB Scientific office Accounting & Reporting on monthly basis including transactions

recording, accruals & regular reimbursement to GSK in addition to gathering & preparing proper

documentation for Tax purposes.

Prepare & enter all related month end adjustments; prepayments, accruals, etc, issuing all related

debit/credit notes, Sudan, UK-SFS and all other countries.

Create new accounts upon request whenever necessary to be added to the chart.

Reconciliation & analysis for assigned accounts on monthly basis.

Providing customer service to various finance departments for allocation & analysis purposes, provide

assistance to auditors during interim & year-end.

Develop the monthly payroll entry as per the personnel sheets in addition to the related reconciliation

for relevant accounts; social insurance, Bonus, etc

Developing & implementing financial policies, procedures and systems.

Ensuring the consistent application of financial policies & procedures.

Responsible for JDE set-up as a business partner

Responsible for Vendor master file and controlling all the process of the vendor creation along with

review all the supporting documents such as due diligence, bank letter, tax card, etc.

Prepare the back-end monitoring with KPMG.

Responsible for the Headcount form analysis required for monthly reporting.

Financial Section Head (Accounts Receivable) - January 2007 till March 2013

Job Responsibilities

Management of the accounts receivable and collection function .Responsibilities include Manage, monitor, ensure, review and follow up all the activities related to the commercial accounting to comply with the

company’s policies and procedures with the aim to achieve sound cash flow these responsibilities includes:-

Ensure the consistent application of company financial policies and procedures to maintain proper

control over local distributors and hospital sales and returns, and to eliminate the risks that result from

commercial activities in the market.

Ensure proper control on customer’s outstanding dues accounts in order to achieve the target of day’s

sales outstanding (DSO).

Review and follow up the sales invoices and returns for hospitals, army and distributors and report

detailed analyses of the overdue accounts to management in order to assist them in decision making.

Monitor the process of distributors and hospitals check settlements to ensure that they comply with

company credit policy and follow up on time collections.

Ensure accuracy of bonus reimbursement to distributors in compliance with authorized bonus

schemes. Monitor the wholesalers’ stock levels to ensure that they reflect the accurate status.

Match accounts receivable records versus the general ledger records to ensure proper allocation.

Review & check the reconciliation of accounts receivable balances with concerned customer and

records to reconcile the pending items.

Follow up & review checks under collection for distributors & licensors and issue periodical reports

that highlight the status of account receivable taking into consideration open drafts for customers.

Manage the process of releasing customers from hold status to ensure the collection of customer

debts.

Report monthly status of undelivered sales invoices and directs the physical count of sales invoices

issued by distribution branches.

Review the commercial accounts processes performed at the company’s distribution center to ensure

accurate and timely recording and handling of the financial records as per company policies and

procedures

Enhance the unification and consistency of the reporting system.

Prepare monthly reports pertaining to physical count results for dishonored checks, outstanding

invoices and branches inventory count results.

Follow up overdue accounts and undelivered invoices with branches to achieve revenue recognition.

Recording and monitor all legal checks’ collection.

Review and update customer master file.

Following up the sales module to post the company sales transactions to general ledger, ensure its

accuracy and resolve the errors for the un-posted transaction.

Preparing monthly reconciliation for all receivables accounts between sub system and General Ledge

and resolve the variances.

Reviewing the distributors’ commissions, bonus and commercial discount claims.

Reviewing the sales invoices and ensure customers acceptance, receiving and legalize.

Enhancing the process and resolving the issues for internal and external customers.

Timely updating / controlling ACR / CSH transactions and process as per the company policies

through monitoring all payments, settlements and reviewing all documents in order to comply with

applied polices.

Reviewing the credit limits days and amounts for the customers.

Support & working with colleagues to serve customers issues to achieve timely objectives.

Developing the way of work to control the cash management.

Prepare monthly bank reconciliations for the branches.

Monitor the performance of branch accountants.

Provide top managements with the below Account Receivables reports:

Accounts receivables aging report (current-overdue).

Cash and commercial discount report.

Returned sales report (scrap and resalable).

Sales bonus analysis.

Top 10 Customers (legal and dishonored checks).

Accounts receivables collections analysis (Wholesalers, Hospitals and pharmacies).

Bad debt provisions’ analysis.

Financial Senior Accountant (Accounts Payable) - November 1998 till December 2006

Job Responsibilities:

Review and process the presented claims ensuring proper allocation of the accounts, financial authorizations and payments terms according to the company policies & procedures for the following

transactions :- Petty cash – all types of taxes payment - car repair &lease payments - travel insurance

- Medical Care - Local and Foreign Freight payments - scientific & distribution offices - Scrap sales

- travel advances - cash advances - fuel coupons - All payments related to contracts: Courier - IT

software - Cleaning and security -Casual Labor – Hotel claims – preparing IDC entries -

Constructions payment - Repair and maintenance-Reimbursement of procurement custody

Follow up on the outstanding suppliers invoices /accruals to ensure proper recording of the company

liabilities

Assist in the monthly closing process through preparing the required manual journals for monthly

accruals and related advances settlement

Preparing monthly reconciliation between the subsystem and CEA (ledger) balances.

Sign on Staff clearance report on behalf of financial department

Paying the monthly payment related to payroll for both casual and permanent

employees. In addition to this all related matter to the social insurance while making

adjustment journal for manual social insurance

Responsible on GSK Sudan medical representatives expenses as well as all there distributors and

advertisements stuff related to Sudan ‘s business

Responsible for the payments that are related to the Egyptian distributors and promotion companies

such as (commissions and fees etc….)

Prepare, recording & follow P2P Cycle (Purchase to Pay) starting from purchase cycle Po’s and MRR

receipt till 3 way or 2 way matching.

A C H I E V E M E N T

Account Payable: Discover fraud case related the payments of the financial controller which leads to safe the gsk asset and

kicked out of the company.

Provide study of freight project to save about EGP 1 million per year.

Assist moving the company system to BPCS system.

Accounts Receivables:Full Physical count of six distribution branches done in 4 days before shut down,

Follow up with the dishonored customer and collect the overdue collections of EGP 2.5 million,

Decrease the bad debts by EGP 1 million.

Assist moving the company from BPCS system to JDE system.

General Ledger:Discover fraud case and save EGP 4 million before releasing the payment from GSK which lead to fire the

IT manager,

Clear the differences between the subsystem and General ledger account through creating integrity report to

validate the monthly differences.

E D U C A T I O N

Bachelor of Commerce November 1998

Faculty of Commerce, MNF University

Accounting Department

C O U R S E S & T R I N I N G A T T E N D E D

Business Management and Strategy

Intangibles assets

Long term employee benefits

BPCS user training

JDE supper user training

Unison supper user training

Finance Essentials

Prevention of Corruption

Presentation skills

Process improvement

Write Wright

Prevention Corruption

S K I L L SComputer & Software. Windows

Microsoft office Applications (Excel, Word, Lotus notes - Outlook and PowerPoint)

Internet usage and browsing

BPCS AS/400 (Business planning & Control System)

Unison

JDE system

eFORMS

eSP

Language Arabic: Mother Tongue

English: very good written & spoke

QUALIFICATIONS & ABILITIES

Coordination and Follow Up with various Departments.

Maintain a high degree of communication with internal and external customers and answering any

acquirements to ensure delivering a high quality of service and solving problems facing them.

Helping the management in collecting any required data to help in decision making.

Excellent communication and negotiation skills.

Works well under pressure and deadlines.

Ambitious and willing to learn.

P E R S O N A L D A T A Marital Status : Married Nationality : Egyptian

Date of Birth : 10 March,1976 Religion : Muslim