Moataz El Soufy

Going Beyond being a learning and development Egyptian company to breakthrough MEA region, bearing community responsibilities to radiate finance know-how knowledge

The CFO is more than a financial steward in today’s dynamic & changing world during & post Pandemic. The contours of cost, compliance, and transformation have expanded astronomically in this challenging time. They command a bird’s eye view of the organization and lead as strategic business partners to the CEO.

As clients demand solutions to enhance their corporate treasury activities, banks are increasingly partnering with fintechs and software players. Cash and liquidity have long been considered key indicators of corporate financial health, and the pandemic has confirmed the continued relevance of this fundamental metric.

The Agile CFO Leading from the front.
An Agile CFO is characterized by the incessant quality to produce timely and impactful analysis to drive growth, highlights Cox, driven by values and financial capabilities.

The FinTech Godfather is moving raising the bar high, a new digital age for Egypt Post, vision and mission to the market

Treasury Transformation has its challenges, particularly in relation to technology. Technology has become the backbone of effective treasury management and treasury applications have become indispensable to most treasurers, but this dependency is a double-edged sword.
Despite the many benefits of a treasury management system (TMS) or the treasury functionality in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, they won’t always rise to the occasion.

FP&A is growing more attractive to accounting personnel with good reason. FP&A has fewer regulations to follow, making it less of a bureaucratic maze. That leads to the second reason, which is that FP&A is more conceptual, making it attractive to accountants who are seeking the intellectual challenge of forecasting and planning while reducing compliance burdens.

Is it EINSTEIN or PICASSO?
FP&A professionals must learn to balance both science and art when building a financial model and understand when which approach is more applicable to a particular use case.
Management consultants transitioning to FP&A are trained to be strategic and creative, and are likely more apt to tackle financial models that are more like an art.
Whereas accountants transitioning to FP&A and trained FP&A practitioners will be more comfortable tackling financial models that are more like a science. CFOs will expect FP&A teams to build financial models that incorporate both elements.
Let’s dive in to explore when as a FP&A practitioner you must channel your inner Einstein versus your inner Picasso.

Egyptian consumer finance market still covering lower than 1% of qualified buyers in Egypt, opportunity or credit trap

Lenders are increasingly tasked with making good lending decisions quickly. Such decisions require the ability to combine different types of information. Lenders typically rely on purely financial information to assess the credit risk of medium-sized enterprises.
SMEs are so differing from corporate credit usual decision making.

Unintentional insider vulnerabilities
One cyber security weakness of the banking and finance sector comes from insider vulnerabilities.
This is where staff within a banking or financial organization inadvertently leave the company open to attack.

Our eight predictions about digital technology for financial professionals We’re looking towards the future with eight predictions for the finance function of 2025. The technologies needed to reimagine Finance are here and they will only get better. It’s crunch time.

Contrary to popular belief, the financial sector incorporates a huge range of careers requiring a diverse set of skills. No two jobs are the same, and not everyone would prosper in each field; those who employ the decisiveness to thrive in investment banking, for example, may not possess the leadership skills needed to work in management. So what do L&Ds need to understand to talk like finance and be better for training finance people?

Corporate Financial Strategy provides an excellent and accessible overview of corporate finance by placing financial strategy within the broader context of corporate strategy.
but how banks understand this, straggling between feeling risk and being a business partner, what could be a back door for financing usual needs out of usual credit tracks, playing the Squid Game between credit and corporate finance.