Accomplished Treasury Manager with 15 years of superior financial performance at various companies , adept in cash management and risk mitigation. Demonstrates strategic thinking and effective communication, ensuring financial stability and growth. Excelled in optimizing banking relations and financial reporting, contributing significantly to operational efficiency and cost reduction.
*Ensure the ability to meet current and future financial obligations in a timely and cost-effective manner.
*Maintain access to short term credit facilities to finance working capital while minimizing lending costs.
*Maintain access to medium- and long-term debt and equity financing to support planned asset expansion and the existing asset base.
*Identify,measure, analyze, and mitigate exposure to financial risks (interest rate,foreign exchange).
*Coordinate functions and communicate effectively with other departments and business units to help ensure that cash is efficiently utilized.
*Manage relationships with external stakeholders, including banks, customers, and suppliers, to effectively use financial assets while minimizing risk and expense.
*Negotiate and manage debt agreements, including loans and credit facilities.
*Optimize debt terms to minimize interest costs.
*Prepare and present regular reports on cash flow, liquidity, and treasury activities.
*Develop accurate cash flow forecasts to support financial planning and decision-making.
*Supervise and mentor treasury staff, if applicable.
*Oversee the day-to-day operations of the treasury department.
*Collaborate with auditors during financial audits.
*Manage banking activities for multiple banks.
*Establish policies and procedures, and implement strategies to manage operational cash balances while providing adequate liquidity. Invest excess cash balances to protect principal—and generate interest income, if possible—or use excess cash balances to pay down debt in order to reduce interest expense.
*Direct & review the payments according to the available cash funds.
*Carries out the cash management process in EGP and foreign currencies.
*Issue & review the cash plan (Forecasted) in monthly basis.
*Issue & control daily cash position.
*Follow & review all day to day operations with more than 10 banks.
*Follow & control the annual renewal process for the bank credit facilities .
*Follow and review export and import letters of credit ( LCs ) , CADs , Collection Docs , Direct transfers to the foreign suppliers and all other trading transactions.
*Follow & control the collection process and manage all cash in transactions including notes receivable, Cheques under collection and how to direct it to settle or finance our utilization.
*Follow & control the finance expenses to make sure all expenses within the special prices we got from the banks.
*Reporting according to the reporting package in convenient (time, quality, presentation).
* supervise all of the treasury & banking staff and review all reports.
* Ensure the availability of the insurance coverage for all the company assets.
*Handle daily operation with banks (Cheques; LCs; LGs; Cash; Transfers;…etc).
*Ensure that all banks transactions recorded & maintained in the system.
*Assist in closing of accounts during month closing .
*Prepare monthly bank reconciliations.
*Directing the collectors and bank representatives on daily basis.
*Dealing with banks & Responsible for daily banking transactions.
*Review Interest and bank commission charges.
*Review company payments and issue cooperate checks and transfers.
*Processing foreign currency payments.
*Enter the Daily transactions in the system.
*Prepare the checks to the vendors.
*Reconcile the banks accounts with our accounting books.
*Reconcile the petty cash record with our accounting books.
*Prepare the daily, weekly, monthly and annual reports.
Cash management
Risk management
Communication
Forecasting
Banking Relations
Strategic thinking
Financial reporting
Problem solving
* Reduced cost of finance :
Maintain a win win concept relations with the banks enable me to reduce the cost of finance by 10% in one of the companies .
*Tenor mismatch correction :
One of the companies i worked to , financed its capex from the working capital resources , this caused a tenor mismatching in the financials , i succeeded to correct this fault.
*Reduced the banks' service commissions :
Managed the utilization mix over the banks enabled me to reduce the overall banks' commissions.
* SLAs with all banks :
To ensure that we get the best services from all banks , i issued , reviewed and finalized SLAs with all of them.
*Increased the credit bank facilities portfolio :
succeeded to increase the credit bank facilities from 500 m to 1 billion EGP to cover the working capital needs at one of the companies i worked to.