Houssam Fakih, PhD
Executive Vice President - Finance at INT'LTEC GROUP- Claim this Profile
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Arabic Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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French Native or bilingual proficiency
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Credentials
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Certificate in Financial Due Diligence
The George Washington University -
Certificate in Legal Due Diligence
The George Washington University -
Certified Auditor ISO 9000:2000 Standards
Institute of Registered Certified Auditors -
Certified Cost Accountant
American Academy of Financial Management -
Certified Financial Manager
IMA | Institute of Management Accountants -
Certified Fraud Examiner
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) -
Certified Internal Auditor
The Institute of Internal Auditors -
Certified Management Accountant
IMA | Institute of Management Accountants
Experience
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INT'LTEC GROUP
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Saudi Arabia
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Executive Vice President - Finance
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Jun 1999 - Present
Directed competent team of finance within over 10 companies in three countries and oversaw various activities, including financial reporting, accounting and internal controls, and budgeting. Leveraged broad scope of industry knowledge towards supporting comprehensive financial operation, organised and implemented budgets. Headed month-end close process and forecasting, pricing, deal negotiations, due diligence, treasury, cash management and all finance-related activities. Steered and conducted valuation analysis, executed process for M&As, and arranged banking debt financing in KSA, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Egypt, Soudan, Lebanon, Turkey, India, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia. ♦ Organised bottom-line factors, including company vision, collaborated with board to define and enforce group strategy, and devise long-range strategic planning. ♦ Skilfully negotiated, signed and maintained financing contracts with annual amounts of 500M SAR with various banks within several locations, including KSA, UAE, Bahrain, Lebanon, and Austria. ♦ Managed significant challenges associated with an emerging business by pursuing business alignment and strategically maximising cost saving, finance controls, and accounting. ♦ Spearheaded internal and external audit process, including initiated audit systems, observed system implementation and directly report to the board regarding audit reports. ♦ Initiated adequate system of internal control by monitoring an average turnover of over 3B SAR. Show less
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Sale For Distribution and Communication Co.
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Riyadh, KSA
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BOARD MEMBER / MEMBER OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE
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Mar 2008 - Oct 2013
Commended by upper executive and designated as board member, controlled various duties to develop ground breaking and multi-faceted strategies to achieve corporate goals and objectives. Supervised organisation operations from conception to growth and acknowledged as the largest telecom distributor in the region. ♦ Played a vital and leading role as board member and rendered management expertise in enforcing and articulated the company’s strategic direction and executing corporate strategy. ♦ Competently delivered active functional support and integral participant in periodic forecasting, annual budgeting, and feasibility studies for specific growth projects, adopting the audit reports. ♦ Successfully built month-end procedure, appraised performance goals, delegated work responsibilities to personnel, and evaluated policies for senior management. ♦ Enlightened senior management in diverse financial matters, gathered and oversaw reports from the audit manager, built collaborative rapport with external auditor to confer overall control processes. Show less
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Education
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1998 - 2001
Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg, France
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Management Sciences, Finance -
1996 - 1997
Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France
Master’s, Business Sciences, Finance -
1994 - 1996
Saint-Joseph University, Lebanon
Bachelor's degree, Business Studies, Finance -
1992 - 1994
Saint-Joseph University, Lebanon
Accounting and Finance, Associate Degree
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