REHAM ABDEL-BASSET

PERSONAL DATA Date of birth: June 19th, 1978 Nationality: Egyptian, Eligible to work in the UK. CAREER SUMMARY AND OBJECTIVE Extensive financial experience in strategic and operational planning, Shared Service Center management, Cost and supply chain finance, legal entities restructuring, SAP system integrations, standard costing, budget analysis, project management, change leadership and auditing, for both developed and developing markets. My objective is to further develop my financial expertise and nourish my sense of achievement by delivering on new challenges every day, in a way that enables me to achieve my career goal and the organisations goals. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE PROCTER & GAMBLE Co. Cairo Plants Finance Group Manager Jun11 Egypt and UK, Jul00- Jun11 Cairo, Oct09 Gender: Female

Led the Finance and Accounting team (c15 people) in two of the largest multi-category manufacturing sites in the Middle East with 200 million USD turnover and 1000+ co-workers, producing laundry detergents, dish liquids and paper products for local and global export markets (e.g. Ariel, Fairy, Pampers, Always). Delivered accurate and timely financial planning and management reporting for all the manufacturing legal entities, in accordance with local and US GAAP reporting requirements. This includes Cost, Capital and fixed assets accounting, Inventory forecasting and analysis, Standard costing, Variances forecasting and analysis, Reserves Management, Investments analysis and Regional/Global Benchmarking. Key member of the Plant Leadership Team; led the Plants economics management scorecard, controls governance, and financial KPIs reporting and analysis. Developed the sites 5 year economics, including capacity analysis, new initiatives assessments (250 million USD) and annual savings targets (20 million USD annually). Successfully managed the financial and controls complexity of the biggest capital spending in P&G Egypt history; New Paper Plant (150 Million USD) during construction. Procurement controls, asset safeguarding and construction costs. Strengthened my leadership in driving better controls, cost reductions and productivity improvements. Enhanced my ability to analyze and interpret complex financial and operational data, and to identify control risks. Exercised my interpersonal skills to successfully collaborate with others and drive change in business processes and initiatives. Europe New Business Integration Finance Group Manager Newcastle, Sep07 Sep09 Led the Western Europe SAP integration project across the different Gillette and Wella European plants (Germany, France, Spain, Poland and Nordics). Implemented the standard procedures and controls in the new sites. Achieved project success criteria across all modules. Managed the accurate migration of all financial and commercial data. Led the Customer Reporting and Controlling Tools implementation team (c10 people) across Europe. Successfully provided integrated reports on Revenue, Margin, and Sales Operational Expenses. Provided technical and business support to the Business Unit Managers. Delivered all financial reporting tools of the newly integrated legal entities', trained c50 Finance End Users teams. Liaising with the Group finance in the USA to enable accurate monthly/quarterly forecasting and reporting processes in accordance with US GAAP and in compliance with local statutory requirements Effectively managed the full accounting for the Gillette legal entities (UK GAAP and IFRS) in the Shared Service Center (SSC) before and during transition. Working on different accounting cycles and systems. Built mastery in SAP system, Project and People Management skills. Learned Shared Service Center Management and Customer Service skills. Further developed my accounting knowledge, effective collaboration within diverse working cultures.

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Senior Global Internal Auditor- Financial Accounting Services Newcastle, Jul05 Aug07

Led global, regional and country specific audit teams across the three SSCs and perform risk assessment and develop audit and consulting approaches in the financial areas of SOX compliance, Treasury, Banking, Fixed Assets, Real Estate, Procurement, Third-Party Governance, Employee Benefits and Information Technology. Planned and executed the First Global Real Estate Consults in the company. Deployed Control Self-Assessments (CSA), standard strategy, objective setting, budgeting, monitoring of performance and management reporting flows across the three SSCs. Collaborated with Third-Party Real Estate Agencies to renew contracts and service level agreements. Partnered with the P&G senior management and business experts in South Africa subsidiary to drive alignment on controls risks, identifying emerging risks and designing mitigation plans. Led major controls improvements in the credit control, payables, market support spending and distributors agreements. Led the Global Selling, Research and Administration Accounting audits in the three SSCs, reviewed and adjusted CSAs. Identified control risks in the travel and relocation expenses, which led to major changes in current processes. Developed my controls awareness, auditing and supervising skills. Strengthened my upper management written and verbal communication skills. Further developed my Project and People Management skills. Learned how to handle diverse work cultures and extensive travel schedules.

Cairo Plant Senior Cost Accounting Manager

Cairo, Feb03 Jun05

Led the accounting team (c5 people) for Cairo plant, responsible for SOX compliance roll out and reinforcement of processes related to accounting, budget management, intercompany structure, forecasting and analysis. Successfully managed the transition to SAP R/3 for all manufacturing legal Entities, coordinated the accounting process integration into the Manila Shared Service Center. Documenting business requirements versus standard processes. Unit and integrated testing; creation of training material End-users; Data migration; and post implementation support. Led the Accounts payable outsourcing to third party, reassigning the personnel, and managing out non-performers. Learned USGAAP accounting, standard costing and variance analysis which enabled my deep understanding of the manufacturing processes. Formulated my SAP knowledge, project management and people management skills. Sales, Marketing and Manufacturing Financial Analyst Cairo, Jul00 Jan03 Led financial planning and analysis, including price planning, trade channel value creation, promotional analysis, budget management, standard costing and variance analysis for Feminine and Baby care Brands (Always, and Pampers). Finance manager of the five exclusive distributors across Egypt. Developed standard reporting, joint business planning, effective truck load structure, and deployed new automated sales handhelds as part of multifunctional Team. Led the first initiative to identify a standard distributors back margin system, based on detailed understanding of the distributors ideal cost structure, and ROI analysis of investments requirements. Developed my financial planning and analysis skills to understand the brands and the market. Enhanced my leadership skills while working with Third-party to lead big changes. Extensive use of teamwork and collaboration. EDUCATION B.Sc. Foreign Trade, Class00 (Good).Helwan University - Commerce & Business Administration. (English Section). IGCSE, EPS Class94 United Arab Emirates SKILLS AND INTERESTS

REHAM ABDEL-BASSET
Languages: Arabic-Native Fluency.

Systems: SAP R/3 and R4.5-Certified P&G SAP trainer for FI/CO/SD/MM modules. Platinum and Hyperion (Finance related modules). English-Fluent. French-Fair Conversational Ability. Interests: Member of the Alzheimers Association in UK.