The journey
From ledger entries to the system that makes them.
Every step below is a real role, in order — with the responsibilities I owned, the company, and where to find it. Scroll and the line follows you.
2013–2017
Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting
Cairo University · Accounting Department · Cairo
cu.edu.eg
- Four-year degree in accounting, auditing and taxation — the formal grounding under everything that came after.
- Built the core financial vocabulary: debits and credits, the statements, tax law and audit principles.
- Graduated into a market where finance was still run out of spreadsheets — which shaped where I took it next.
ExcelFinancial Accounting
2017
Accountant
Arab Organization for Accounting, Auditing & Tax · Tax & Audit Services · Cairo
- Ran monthly audits across every transaction for a portfolio of client companies in several industries.
- Prepared and finalized the taxation paperwork required to legally incorporate new companies.
- Learned to read a company from its books in a week — a diagnostic habit that never left me.
TaxAuditExcel
2017–2020
Accountant → General Accounting Supervisor
TEZ Tour Worldwide · Cairo & Sharm El-Sheikh
teztour.com
- Processed business transactions, invoices and outgoing payments through the ERP system.
- Reconciled the accounts payable ledger and chased every discrepancy back to its vendor statement.
- Managed expense accounts and cost centres, and issued accounts-payable status reports.
- Promoted to supervise the general-ledger group for the Sharm El-Sheikh branch.
- Supported budgeting and forecasting and worked with the Controller toward a clean, on-time year-end audit.
- Named Best Employee of the Year — twice, in 2018 and 2019.
Oracle EBSExcelInternal Controls
2020–2021
Senior Group Accountant
Tuwasol Group · Technology, Retail, Import & Export · Saudi Arabia · remote
- Consolidated the accounts of a Saudi import/export group across entities — fully remote, from another country.
- Prepared monthly VAT returns and handled the group's tax filing.
- Delivered accurate, on-time monthly, quarterly and year-end closing and reporting.
- Supported daily banking and monthly/quarterly bank-compliance activities.
- Redesigned departmental procedures for efficiency while holding a high accuracy bar.
ZATCAVATGroup Consolidation
2021–2025
Senior Financial Officer
Qualifications Development Bank (QDB) · Cairo
- Owned the full spectrum of financial and cost accounting: AR, AP, GL, forecasting and budgeting.
- Delivered timely monthly consolidated financial statements, payments and cash-flow reporting to HQ.
- Produced project cost forecasts and budgets, with cost tracking, monitoring and controls.
- Reviewed and approved payment vouchers and journal entries; issued project cost reports.
- Built the company's finance policy and procedures framework from a blank page (2021–2022).
Policy & ProceduresCost AccountingReporting
2021–nowEntrepreneur track
Founder — Tardel 3PL
Own venture · Third-Party Logistics · Egypt
tardel-eg.com
- Founded and run a 3PL company: 50+ drivers and 200+ trips a month.
- Built the entire operation on an ERPNext system I architected and still maintain myself.
- One system runs fleet, trips, invoicing, HR/payroll and WhatsApp notifications — no copy-paste between tools.
- Being the client, not the consultant, taught me more about ERP than any implementation brief.
ERPNextFrappeOperations
2023–2024
Certificate, Computer Software Engineering
Holberton School · remote
holbertonschool.com
- Went back to school mid-career: algorithms, data structures and systems in Python, C and JavaScript.
- Full-stack practice — HTML, CSS and React on the front; Node.js, Django and Flask behind.
- Git, Agile, Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD — the engineering discipline behind everything I now build.
PythonJavaScriptReactDocker
2025–now
Senior Accountant
Twasul Future Co. (شركة تواصل المستقبل) · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Own the full accounting cycle: journal entries, posting, ledger review and monthly/annual closing.
- Prepare the financial statements — balance sheet, income statement, cash flow — plus management reports.
- File VAT returns on the ZATCA platform and track tax and customs updates.
- Manage fixed assets, depreciation, payroll, advances and custody accounts, and periodic bank reconciliations.
- Set up and customized the accounting system on Odoo ERP, and built the executive dashboards leadership actually opens.
- Automated lease and contract schedules (with VAT and exempt-fee logic) that used to be rebuilt by hand every month.
OdooZATCAn8nDashboards
Certificates
CMA
Certified Management Accountant — in progress
Oracle EBS Financial
Certified
CFA Investment Foundations
Certified
References available on request. For any role above, I'm glad to put you in touch with the manager or colleague who can speak to my work — just ask when we talk, and I'll share the right contact directly.
