Khalil Sayed

Dynamic financial management professional with extensive experience in ensuring regulatory compliance and accuracy across diverse industries. Proven ability to streamline financial processes and lead comprehensive accounting operations, leveraging advanced reporting skills to inform strategic decision-making. Strong background in team leadership complements expertise in optimizing workflows, driving efficiency, and achieving organizational success.

Adept at utilizing social media platforms to enhance brand visibility and engagement through compelling content creation and data-driven strategies. Effective soft skills. I am a native speaker of Arabic and English, with professional proficiency in Spanish and Portuguese.

Chief Accounting Officer at Zee International Logistics (2025-05 – Present)

• Lead month-end and year-end closing processes, including financial statement preparation, reconciliation, and analysis
• Develop and implement financial policies, ensuring compliance with GAAP, local regulations, and tax requirements
• Oversee the annual budget preparation, track expenses against budgets, and analyze variances
• Supervise, mentor, and allocate work to the accounting department staff
• Coordinate and liaise with internal and external auditors for statutory audits
• Monitor cash flow, liquidity, and financial performance metrics, ensuring accurate financial reporting
• Ensure the accuracy of the trial balance to reflect the real picture of the company financial position
• Prepare monthly Balance Sheet analysis
• Work with the internal & external auditors to provide the relevant documents ensuring that all queries are accurately advised

Social Media Specialist at PhioDenx London (2024-05 – 2025-06)

• Build and execute social media strategy through competitive research, platform determination, benchmarking, messaging and audience identification
• Generate, edit publish and share daily content (original text, images, video or HTML) that builds meaningful connections and encourages community members to take action
• Set up and optimize company pages within each platform to increase the visibility of company's social content
• Moderate all user-generated content in line with the moderation policy for each community
• Create editorial calendars and syndication schedules
• Continuously improve by capturing and analyzing the appropriate social data/metrics, insights and best practices, and then acting on the information
• Collaborate with other departments (customer relations, sales etc.) to manage reputation, identify key players and coordinate actions
• Use data to analyze what's working, what's not, and reinforce or refocus key messages accordingly
• Work with designers, write copy, manage social communities, and analyze data
• Help convert brand fans into loyal customers with engaging, responsive, responsible, surprising, and captivating social media interactions

Senior General Accountant at Horeca Smart (2023-05 – 2025-05)

• Verify, allocate, post and reconcile accounts payable and receivable
• Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results
• Analyze financial information and summarize financial status
• Spot errors and suggest ways to improve efficiency and spending
• Provide technical support and advice on Management Accountant
• Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures
• Manage accounting assistants and bookkeepers
• Participate in financial standards setting and in forecast process
• Provide input into department's goal setting process
• Prepare financial statements and produce budget according to schedule
• Assist with tax audits and tax returns
• Direct internal and external audits to ensure compliance
• Plan, assign and review staff's work
• Check stock levels regularly
• Update stock information on the computer system
• Compare items received against items ordered

General Accountant at White Hygiene (2020-01 – 2024-04)

• Examine costs of production to determine the most efficient methods of production
• Ensure accurate classification of expenses under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Research material costs to ensure the accuracy of the information in the company's accounting system
• Analyze manufacturing costs and prepare periodic reports comparing standard prices to actual production costs
• Participate in physical inventory counts to ensure the accuracy of inventory records
• Monitor the accumulation of all direct labor, overhead and other manufacturing-related expenses
• Collect and analyze data about a company's operational costs
• Set standard costs of manufactured goods
• Develop and analyze cost standards
• Carry out cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis, including for small businesses
• Establish costs of business processes such as administration, labor, shipping, etc.
• Perform account reconciliations
• Prepare audit reports and present findings to management
• Recommend changes to the company's processes and policies to reduce cost and maximize profit
• Advise executives and upper management on appropriate costing based on financial data
• Manage the company's balance sheet and accounting books
• Support other company accountants with invoicing and capital expenditure

Bachelor's Degree in Commerce with a major in Accounting – Cairo University (2015-09 – 2018-06)