✓Dr. Wissam Younes
Executive Advisor — Strategy, Finance & Transformation
About me
I am a Lebanese senior executive advisor with more than 24 years of experience in Saudi Arabia. I help organizations address complex challenges in financial management, business transformation, turnaround, corporate strategy, governance, ERP transformation and IPO readiness, translating executive priorities into practical and measurable outcomes.
Core expertise
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Professional experience
Executive finance, strategy, transformation and advisory leadership across construction, real estate, industrial manufacturing, chemicals, staffing and professional services.
Group Chief Financial Officer
- Established and modernized the group financial-management system.
- Focused financial leadership on value creation and owners’ wealth.
Director
- Advisory across business and digital transformation, ERP, IPO readiness and debt and equity restructuring.
Interim Chief Financial Officer
- Led turnaround planning, corporate governance and finance transformation.
- Reshaped technology infrastructure with Oracle and Microsoft CRM.
- Designed an investment approach for surplus cash.
Chief Financial Officer
- Led post-acquisition restructuring, strategy, finance-organization redesign and systems transformation.
- Supported fundraising, supplier negotiations and business-unit strategy.
Board Advisor & Interim Chief Financial Officer
- Supported business restructuring, cost reduction and supply-chain redesign.
- Led financial reengineering including debt restructuring, capital reduction and rights-issue readiness.
Chief Financial Officer
- Drove growth strategy, organizational redesign, banking access and potential IPO preparation.
- Reframed Oracle ERP delivery and achieved go-live for five major modules within three months.
Division Manager — Finance & Corporate Strategic Planning
- Led accounting, banking and ERP functions and contributed to major business growth.
- Helped establish new service and manufacturing companies and implement a multi-divisional ERP structure.
Financial Analyst
Accounting Manager
Expertise
Capabilities are organized around the service outcomes a client can request. Verification status can be displayed against each capability once supporting evidence is approved.
Strategy & business transformation
Enterprise direction, operating-model redesign and value creation.
Finance & CFO advisory
Executive finance leadership for complex growth and restructuring situations.
Technology, governance & risk
Business-led systems transformation with governance and control.
Commercial, supply chain & development
Cross-functional advisory connecting strategy to execution.
Training & executive development
Professional teaching and coaching experience.
Qualifications
Academic and executive-development records are displayed using careful credential wording and can carry verification badges after document review.
Doctorate in Business Administration
Grenoble Ecole de Management · Focus: Finance and Economy
Management Acceleration Program
INSEAD · Executive Education
Master in Finance & Treasury
ESCP — Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris
Master in Finance
ESA Business School / SDA Bocconi School of Management
BBA and BS in Audit & Business Control
Holy Spirit University of Kaslik · Honours List