Mossab Saleh Shehadeh
Amman
Summary
Global Senior Manager - Financial Systems - Products Owner for SAP Ariba and FMS (UNIT4 & Oracle) with around 12 years of professional experience in System Implementations, building High performing teams who delivering impactful result , strong experiences on leading on high performing global account payable teams , experienced in delivering quality forecasting in countries like Turkey , Rwanda and North west Balkans , and strong experience in Financial control and compliance and leading on donor and statutory Audits in various countries like Jordan , Rwanda and Syria Response Office. And being the owner of the Global Financial Scheme of Delegation. SCRUM Master and Product owner courses (CSPO), CMA course, master’s degree in E-Business and bachelor’s degree in accounting.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Global Senior Manager – Financial systems
Save the Children International
06.2025 - Current
- System Sustainability: Through working with various stakeholders from Finance, Supply chain, IT and Transformation delivery team, one of the main accountabilities is to ensure performance sustainability for the current Financial Management system (UNIT4).
- System Improvements: being the key person to receive feedback from business, writing user stories for the development request and prioritizing the dev requests through working with the Scrum Master, supporting on related and leading on related testing (Functional and UAT) “being the owner for the system Improvements RoadMap”.
- System Transition: Leading on working stream during the Pre-design and design phase while SCI transitioning from the current FMS system (UNIT4) to the new FMS (Oracle) and working closely with the business stakeholders and the implementing partner throughout this Journey.
- Being a key member of Major Incident group to lead on the coordination peace between Business and IT which includes communications, building plans and milestones, close monitoring for the system performance, take the needed decision after detailed assessment with the IT colleagues. also being a key member of the Data Governance group.
Global Head of Finance Operation
Save the Children International
03.2024 - 05.2025
- Temporary leading on 2024 Year end closing for 3 regional offices (MENAEE, WCA and Asia) during the transition for the new structure (from Jan till May 2025), this includes the financial closing for those 3 regional offices, support staff located in those locations by processing their Salaries, Time sheet and processing their financial claims.
- Being the lead globally in reducing 70% of Auto Accrual globally where it hit the financial ledger in 2023 Year closing and it was one of the top priorities for the organization.
- Leading globally on improving Payment performance KPI from being 65% in average before 2024, to having it being at 80% average during 2024.
- Leading on identifying and recovered over $400,000 in duplicate payments (before 2024) made to suppliers through detailed analysis and reconciliation efforts.
- Improving the response time agreed in the SLA with over 50+ country office and coming with regular engagements with targeted country offices with performance challenges which lead to improving documentation quality and adhere to supplier payment terms and mitigate reputational risk.
- Managing +9 team members within the global account payable team who are supporting +50 country offices in more than 10K Financial transactions / Yearly (International Payment request for Suppliers and Partners).
- Developing RoadMap for the system & business improvements which include cross functional working with Business (Finance, operations, Awards, Supply chain) and with IT teams (Developers, Testing team, Infrastructure and L1 support team).
- Establish Champions Network and community of Practice. Create a very clear and detailed user guide (Scheme of Delegations, Managing Accrual process, Q&A document).
Finance Transformation Manager for MENAEE region / Global Training Lead
Save the Children International
09.2019 - 02.2024
- Leading on developing online training content for two Projects (New coding model & Account Payable model).
- Supporting MENAEE Country offices from the pre-kick off stage till we finalize the hyper care support period during implementations for the new project (New Coding model / Source to Paye system). This will include:
- Lead the coding kick-off calls and engagements with COs stakeholders, this includes gathering feedback about pain point and Automation opportunity that can support the design for the new projects.
- Lead on the Technical activities required from the country offices as prerequisites to the New HPO Projects, this includes data quality check on the content provided from CO’s.
- Support country offices in completing the UAT.
- Engagement and Training for the new HPO projects which include Post goes live support.
- Lesson learned session and action Plan, that will feed in the project team for the coming waves in the implementation and coming projects in Pipelines.
Deployed as Support Service Director for NWB CO
Save the Children International
02.2023 - 04.2023
- Preparation of the 1st forecast.
- Analyzing and understanding gaps in segregation of duties to inform future structure on the finance department.
- Analyzing ways of working with Program and cross functions and provide support needed and recommendations.
- Review financial gaps and discuss options and mitigation actions.
- Supporting recruitment and induction of new staff, including refresher on Scheme of Delegation and Budget Holder responsibilities for all staff.
- Support CD with any other business related to planning and budget prognosis for a planned CO restructuring.
Deployed as Acting Head of Finance for Rwanda CO
Save the Children International
02.2022 - 04.2022
- Financial Systems and financial reporting.
- Treasury function.
- Financial Accounting.
- Risk Management and assurance.
- Source to Pay Finance Lead.
- Staff management, mentorship and development.
- Networking with other departments for support and office coherence.
- Financial Planning and Analysis.
Deployed as Head of Finance and IT for Turkey CO
Save the Children International
06.2021 - 08.2021
- Managing the team members (two senior Finance officers, Finance officer, two Finance intern and IT officers).
- Accountable on successful closing for the Month End and delivering against KPI’s.
- Accountable and responsible to Prepare Master Budget 2nd forecast and initiate the Process for 2022 zero forecast.
- Managing the overall budget with +5M USD.
- Proposal Budgeting.
- Prepare CFR (Cash Fund Request).
- Leading on the Scheme of Delegation updates and Implementation.
- Annual Leave Balances and reconciliations + responsible on BS quality.
- Prepare the Budget allocations sheet to help all staff with what the codes they need to use on their TS.
- BAU: Approving PRs, reviewing salaries calculations, advisory role to my team, BVA review meetings and other daily tasks.
Regional Finance Coordinator
Save The Children International
01.2017 - 12.2019
- Leading on the preparation for the Master Budget, 1st forecast, 2nd forecast and SoF phasing for MENAEE Regional office portfolio with +7M USD, this is including the cross functional work with support service departments and Programme teams specially during the direct implementation for programs in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.
- Cash flow managements for +13 country offices in MENAEE region and working closely with Head of FCC in country offices to ensure that we have the right cash balances in Bank Accounts (having sufficient funds for Program implementation but not exceeding Cash target to avoid risk).
- Managing Balance sheet qualities and control accounts for MENAEE Regional office.
- Leading on delivering operational KPIs (Spending against forecast), also Balance sheet KPI and Cash Forecast KPI.
- Managing MENAEE RO Finance Team and Building their capacity, this includes FP&A, FCC and AP.
Regional Finance Officer
Save The Children International
01.2015 - 12.2016
Regional Finance Assistant
Save The Children International
01.2014 - 12.2015
Education
No Degree - Scrum Master & Scrum Product Owner Course
Scrum Alliance
01-2024
No Degree - Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
Sarh Training Center
Amman, Jordan01-2018
No Degree - USAID Rules And Regulations: Grants & Agreements
Inside NGO
01-2017
Master’s degree - Electronic Business
Middle East University
01-2016
Bachelor’s Degree - Accounting
Middle East University
01-2014
Skills
- Strategic financial team building
- Stakeholder engagement
- Organizational change management
- Cross-team communication
- Financial budgeting
- Performance analytics
- Experience with SAP, UNIT4, and Oracle
- Skilled in data analysis with PivotTables
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
Arabic
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Global Senior Manager – Financial systems
Save the Children International
06.2025 - Current
Global Head of Finance Operation
Save the Children International
03.2024 - 05.2025
Deployed as Support Service Director for NWB CO
Save the Children International
02.2023 - 04.2023
Deployed as Acting Head of Finance for Rwanda CO
Save the Children International
02.2022 - 04.2022
Deployed as Head of Finance and IT for Turkey CO
Save the Children International
06.2021 - 08.2021
Finance Transformation Manager for MENAEE region / Global Training Lead
Save the Children International
09.2019 - 02.2024
Regional Finance Coordinator
Save The Children International
01.2017 - 12.2019
Regional Finance Officer
Save The Children International
01.2015 - 12.2016
Regional Finance Assistant
Save The Children International
01.2014 - 12.2015
No Degree - Scrum Master & Scrum Product Owner Course
Scrum Alliance
No Degree - Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
Sarh Training Center
No Degree - USAID Rules And Regulations: Grants & Agreements
Inside NGO
Master’s degree - Electronic Business
Middle East University
Bachelor’s Degree - Accounting
Middle East University
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