Ahmed Mohamed Hussein Othman - CMA Al-Zahraa – Nasr Citry – Gouda Hasan St., Cairo, Egypt Mobile 01098982061 & 01006589872 E-mail marvelousahmed@yahoo.com Educational Background: Certified Management Accountant (CMA) December, 2007 – Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) May 1997: B.S.C of commerce – Ain Shams University Major in Accounting. General grade: Good Professional Experience: Feb 2011 – Till now: IDJ Region Control and Reporting Manager at PepsiCo Int'l My duties read as follows: Controlling: o Setup the control agenda for each market unit to reach better controllable environment. o Support each market units in control environment improvement with GCS cycles launches. o Review each market internal policies with the PepsiCo policies and set a plan to cover the gap and control the weakness points in internal processes. o Communicate any control deficiency to top management with remediation plan to avoid deficiency continuous. o Review the market units and region COSO test results and prepare the recommendations for any failure with the proper remediation plan Reporting o Present financials to region CFO and GM on a monthly basis, this help in achieving targeted profit and OCF through earlier taken actions. o Conduct monthly meetings with top management to share monthly and year to date results, this help in achieving targeted profit and OCF through earlier taken actions. o Review Local financials for compliance with local GAAP for each entity and USGAAP for compliance with PepsiCo o Follow up on internal and external audit remediation plans to assure timely completion in compliance with established audit processes. o Prepare and analyze cash flow statement, and communicate cause of change commentaries versus plan and prior year to top management and region. o Analyze monthly and year to date KPIs, and communicate cause of change commentaries versus year ago and latest forecast. o Review each market unit representative letter with detailed discussions with them and prepare the region quarterly representative letter including business accounting issues and code of conduct violations. o Fulfill the sector reporting agenda by consolidating the market units submissions after detailed discussions with all of them. o Conduct trainings to each market units for enhancing the performance and meet the sector deadlines. o Process on-boarding to new comers over the region including using PepsiCo systems, GCS and reporting agenda Planning o Review each market unit actual CAPEX spent versus the latest forecast and the expected balance of year spent to show the FY best estimate. o Review financial results analysis versus latest forecast and year ago numbers, and communicate to top management the cause of change and recommendations for fulfilling the YTD targets. -1- Business: o Conduct visits to region countries for business reviews and board meetings. o Review strategic plan with future investments ratio analysis. o Conduct trainings in each market unit for global policies, systems efficiency increase and finance trainings. o Share PepsiCo Best Practice Tools with each market units to enhance business performance. o Prepare and present MBR and QBR to top management. Apr 2008 – Jan 2011: North East Africa Assistant Financial Manager at PepsiCo Int'l My duties read as follows: Reporting o Create monthly financial check file to ensure the financial data accuracy and adjust the financial reports before the submission to reporting system (Hyperion), this minimizes the adjustments in the next month. o Present financials to CFO on a monthly basis, and to CFO and GM on quarterly basis, this help in achieving targeted profit and OCF through earlier taken actions. o Conduct monthly meetings with top management to share monthly and year to date results, this help in achieving targeted profit and OCF through earlier taken actions. o Prepare and analyze cash flow statement, and communicate cause of change commentaries versus plan and prior year to top management and region. o Analyze monthly and year to date KPIs, and communicate cause of change commentaries versus year ago and latest forecast. o Prepare the quarterly representative letter including business accounting issues and code of conduct violations. o Create new DII template and communicate any issues in addition to the future shipments recommendation with bottlers and top management, this minimizes concentrate expiration and out of stock problems. o Prepare A&M tracking reports (actual versus budget), and communicate the reports with the top managements and bottlers to ensure compliance with company's policies and earlier actions for budget BOY spent. o Prepare credit limits for each bottler by the beginning of each year, and request credit extension during the year based on any business attribute changes to save any shipping delay to the bottlers. Planning o Set up strategic plan, annual plan and quarterly forecasts financials based on sales, marketing and operations departments communicated data, challenge with sales and marketing departments the capability to reach the profit target and collect the reasons behind achieved results. o Create financial trends template to check that the planning data is accurate before the submission to planning system (Hyperion). o Analyze year to date financial results versus latest forecast and year ago numbers, and communicate to top management and bottlers the balance of year actions to achieve latest forecast targets. Controlling: o Identify internal risks (COSO), and set actions to control the risk which support heavily the controllable environment. o Communicate any control deficiency report to top management with remediation plan to avoid deficiency continuous. Business: o Conduct visits to North East Africa countries for receivable and A&M reconciliation, these visits minimized the issues with bottlers. o Follow up bottler's compliance with the exclusivity bottling agreement, helping bottler in understanding agreement practicing. -2- o Share company's financial benchmarks with bottlers for improving their business performance. o Prepare and present MBR and QBR to top management and region sharing any business initiatives. Apr 2006 – Apr 2008: North Africa Accounting Controller at PepsiCo Int'l My duties read as follows: Reporting (responsible of the reporting agenda) o Manage period end close and reconciliations processes. o Ensure accurate monthly financial data before submission to reporting system. o Responsible of submitting the financials (Actual, Plan and Forecast) on Hyperion system. o Prepare commentaries reports on P&L, BS and CF statements on a monthly basis. o Prepare P&L, BS and CF reports including recommendations to have better results. Finance o Prepare monthly P&L, BS and CF statements (consolidated statements for North Africa countries. o Prepare and analyze the data in preparation for the balance sheet review of certain liability and prepaid accounts. o Prepare and analyze KPIs. Planning o Set up strategic plan, annual plan and quarterly forecasts financials based on sales, marketing and operations departments communicated data, challenge with sales and marketing departments the capability to reach the profit target and collect the reasons behind achieved results. o Create financial trends template to check that the planning data is accurate before the submission to planning system (Hyperion). o Analyze year to date financial results versus latest forecast and year ago numbers, and communicate to top management and bottlers the balance of year actions to achieve latest forecast targets. o Work with Franchise, Sales & Marketing Managers and bottlers on setting up the plan and forecast. o Build up G&A annual budgets and track monthly actual numbers against prior year. Nov 2005 – Apr 2006 : Bussiness Consultant at Matrix Co. (Oracle Partner) (Part time) My duties read as follows: Help the customers in preparing the Accounting policies, Accounting Procedures, Filling system, Manual system. Train Axiom system - Based on Oracle – users at customer site for all of the system’s modules. Make regular visits to customers for any explanations or urgent visits for solving any problem in using the system. Nov 2004 – Feb 2006: Accounting Controller at OCTA Group – One of the promised groups in the Medical Field (BMB, M.A. and R. Korayem) My duties read as follows: Set up the Accounting policies, Accounting Procedures, Filling system, Manual system and Electronic system under Oracle. Prepare Cash Flow statement, and communicate cause of change commentaries versus forecast and prior year. Determine Payment and collections policies. Prepare Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Indirect statement of cash flow and the other related financial statement. Prepare financial ratio analysis and the suggestions for improvements. Prepare yearly budget for all departments and prepare the variances (Favorable or Unfavorable) report with explanations. Set up costing system for each business unit in the group. -3- Apr 1999–Nov 2004: Account Payable section Head at DSD Egypt (Dillinger Stahlbau GMBH)[Multinational German Steel Structure Co.] My duties read as follows: Analyze suppliers and subcontractors’ accounts. Prepare direct statement of cash flow (Outflow). Prepare payables maturity report. Determine payments for suppliers & subcontractors. Share in preparing Balance Sheet and Indirect statement of cash flow. Oct 1997 – Apr 1999: Financial Accountant at El-Nesour Co.[Securities Brokerage & Book Keeping] (Financial Dept.) My duties read as follows: Prepare payables and banks’ journal entries. Prepare daily bank situation & bank reconciliation. Prepare trial balance & Share in balance sheet preparing. Courses: June, 98 - Money Market” from American University. Nov, 05 - Negotiation with banks” from Banking institute. Oct, 06 - Hyperion Financial Modules Jun, 07 – Total Quality Management Apr, 08 – Situational leadership style Computer Skills: Excellent command of MSOffice, Oracle & Internet. Language Skills: Arabic (Mother Tongue). Excellent in English. Fair in French. Personal Data: Date of Birth Place of Birth Nationality Marital Status Military Service : April 4th 1976 : Cairo : Egyptian : Married : Exempted -4-