Muhammad El-Sayed Baghdadi, CMA

Key Highlights: ▪ Designed and implemented finance policies, approval matrices, reporting workflows, and internal control frameworks across multiple subsidiaries. ▪ Financial Operations & Planning: Directed IFRS/GAAP consolidated financial reporting for 9 subsidiaries, acting as a crucial liaison between executive strategy and departmental execution. Spearheaded ERP implementation and optimization across group entities, including SAP, Odoo, and Pioneer systems, ensuring seamless financial data integrity and operational continuity. ▪ Budgeting & Forecasting: Pioneered a new budgeting methodology that improved forecast accuracy by 8%, directly contributing to enhanced cost control and financial performance visibility. ▪ Partnered with operations and commercial teams to evaluate pricing, margins, and profitability drivers, supporting strategic business decisions. ▪ Worked closely with procurement and warehouse teams to optimize inventory levels, improve stock visibility, and strengthen inventory valuation controls. ▪ Audit Management & Compliance: Spearheaded coordination of 12 internal and 15 external audits, closing 98% of findings within 10 days, maintaining uninterrupted statutory and regulatory compliance. ▪ Team Leadership & Development: Identified and resolved the three most frequent reconciliation failures through targeted training, eliminating bottlenecks and shortening daily verification time by 2 hours per analyst and elevating team competency. Key Achievements: • Geopolitical Risk Mitigation (2026): Identified escalating regional conflict risk through geopolitical indicators and presented preemptive inventory hedging proposals to leadership. Approved strategy ensured uninterrupted operations while competitors faced critical supply disruptions. • Financial Analysis & Decision Support & Risk Management: Advanced modeling and Forecasting, scenario planning models (SWOT/PESTLE) that directly influenced key strategic decisions, boosting profitability by 15-20% annually. • Cost Transformation & Savings: Achieved $100K in annual savings through a structured workforce development program, cutting external consulting spending by 30% and building sustainable internal capability.

Key Highlights: ▪ Multi-Entity Accounting Operations: Harmonized full-cycle accounting across diversified business units (manufacturing, contracting, real estate, transportation), ensuring accurate and consistent financial records. ▪ Month-End / Year-End Closing & Reporting: led monthly and annual closing, delivering management reports and statutory financial statements within strict deadlines. ▪ AP/AR & Cash Flow Discipline: Enhanced cash flow visibility by implementing collection follow-up procedures, directly contributing to a 10% reduction in bad debt write-offs annually and reducing the average collection period by 10 days. ▪ Costing & Profitability Analysis: analysed project expenses and revenue streams, implementing job costing procedures that improved margin tracking accuracy by 25% for all business lines. ▪ Fixed Assets & Compliance Support: developed detailed depreciation schedules for 500+ fixed assets, resulting in a 15% reduction in discrepancies during audits and enhancing overall financial reporting accuracy for compliance with regulatory standard tax/zakat