Yasmine Bassiouni

• Stuba is a leading accommodation wholesaler exclusively for trade, offering over 100,000 properties worldwide at competitive rates in real-time
• Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
• Reviewed UAE corporation tax implementation requirements and potential impact on the company, advising on company structure for tax efficiencies and to minimize costs
• Supported HR and Payroll with the creation of flow and publishing of onboarding new employees or contractors from a contractual and documentation standpoint
• Keeping up to date with local law changes in India, Australia, New Zealand, and UK, where the company has contractors or employees, including liaising with local consultants

Assigned in class to support children with special needs, including ADHD, learning difficulties, and dyslexia, to ease information intake and elaborate the teacher's words

• Relocation, , Egypt to Dubai
• Following relocating from Egypt to Dubai, I took time out to settle my family in the UAE, including aiding my son in joining the Inclusion Department of South View School, where I took a position as a Teaching Assistant.

• Established in 2010, Egyptian Steel manufactures and rolls steel to provide comprehensive solutions using the latest scientific & technological techniques with production and environmentally friendly technologies
• Process Implementation & Improvement:
• Joined when the accounting process consisted of 5 income statement lines and 6 lines of balance sheet, and all reporting was completed on Excel spreadsheets
• Implemented detailed financials, including income statement, balance sheet, cash flow variance analysis, comparative analysis with budget and budget vs
• Forecast, and production analysis
• Trained the Accounting team on new processes, including creating a financial manual elaborating on policies and procedures for use across the company
• Set the business plan for upcoming and in-progress projects, working with operations, procurement, sales, and HR to provide required data for valuation purposes
• Key team member for company-wide SAP implementation, including designing the organization chart, coding the production process, creating the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow chart and providing the reporting lines feeding the financial
• Worked closely with the executive management to recommend actions to save costs, including advising to plan maintenance time to match the market demand (e.g., Ramadan as demand is lower)
• Budget & Control Management:
• Designed budget models and prepared, controlled, and analyzed the budget, outlook, and monthly financials of the group’s operating business units, presenting them to the senior management
• Reporting monthly analysis of the production, commercial, and financial performance
• Identified the variances between actual and budgeted financial results at the end of each reporting period and challenged the involved departments
• Delivered and presented the financial plan and budget models to the VP of Finance for the operating steel companies and green fields of the Egyptian Steel subsidiaries
• Conducted the profitability analysis and financial data for the new projects/products
• Prepared and set the company’s consolidated actuals, budget, and forecasts

• Lafarge is a French industrial company and the world's largest cement manufacturer, specialising in cement, construction aggregates, and concrete
• Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
• Prepared, controlled, analyzed, and delivered the budget, outlook, and monthly financials for the holding companies in Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria, Iraq, Jordan, and the UAE
• Contributed to strategic management planning as a member of the dividend committee
• Set new procedures and followed up the cost reduction plan, including efficient inventory usage to be regional inventory to avoid redundancy of spare parts
• Set the process and reporting templates for the monthly management report, budget, and financial plan models, including creating standardized templates for use throughout the subsidiaries
• Contributed to the preparation of financial plans and budget models
• Analyzed and reported the monthly production, commercial, and financial performance

• Evaluated and set recommendations for new investment/M&A opportunities, including analyzing the target market, reviewing financial feasibility studies, and assessing the overall fit with OCI’s strategic goals.