Meet Mohamed
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My journey started when I was 7, I left my native country Djibouti to Belgium. I had to face a new culture, environment and language. Thanks to my adaptation abilities, I managed to learn French quickly which allowed me to integrate Belgian culture and have a classic educational trajectory.
Background
Finishing secondary school, I decided to pursue a career in the economic sector. Therefore, I started a bachelor degree in business administration at HEFF (Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer).
This first experience made me learn financial basics, new economical skills and comprehension such as in the micro and macroeconomics, economic conditions.
I also reinforced my knowledge in the analysis in the financial statements which helped me to improve my critical mindset, my attention to details and also to figure out what’s behind everything I was working on. At this point, I already had an overview of what was the work as an auditor which would be my following step in my student career.
Before ending my bachelor, I had the opportunity to take part in an entrepreneurial project. Indeed, with the help of four other students we raised funds and school furniture in order to help a non-profit organisation based in Morocco whose purpose is to take care of single mothers and orphans. We had the chance to visit their facilities located in Morocco and meet all different people that we were trying to help. On one hand, it brought me entrepreneurial skills, organisation skills, social skills but on the other the most important is that this experience made me grow as a person and understand how lucky I am.
After my bachelor graduation, I decided to join ICHEC (Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales) and start a master’s degree. I had to make a choice between multiple areas of learning and my heart made me go for a master’s degree with the option of chartered accountancy and auditing.
During these two years at ICHEC, I extended and deepened knowledge that I already had acquired while I was in Francisco Ferrer. Throughout this academic journey, I had a lot of practical work to provide that taught me to collaborate with teammates, to respect deadlines, to defend my opinions but most of all to listen to others and accept that people may have different ideas than me.
I assume that all this learning was made to get me ready for the working environment and the different types of work I would be in charge of.
In order to complete my academic career successfully, I had the possibility to pursue a professional internship in auditing.
During this internship, I got the chance to put into practice all the knowledge that I acquired in the past. It was at this moment that I understood that there was a gap between the professional world and the world of studies.
As a matter of fact, even if I had a strong economic background thanks to the classes I took, I had to confront the theoretical part of my learning with the practical aspect of the work.
It was thus quite naturally that I adapted to this new environment. It seems to me that is this way that I developed new skills that I couldn’t have learned at school such as; to think out of the box, time management, to multitask and be able to manage several files at the same time, and I think one of the most important is the customer relationship.
Indeed, the reason why I think the customer relationship is one of the most important qualities in the business world is because we interact on a daily basis with them. We need to be aware that they expect a lot of us, they count on our experience to provide an optimal service but also to suit their expectations.
In the light of these factors, being aware of all responsibilities that are required, I gave my best to fulfil the customer needs. In order to achieve my goal, I improved my accountancy knowledge, I became familiar with financial analysis tools that I needed to use and finally I worked on my communication skills aiming to make it easier to understand the issues they could face within their businesses.
After my internship and my graduation, I had the chance to keep working in the same audit company for one year and a half. Actually the length of the internship was not enough, that is the reason why I immediately accepted the offer to continue working. Obviously I was thirsty for learning but it was also the work environment I had and especially the trust and the respect I earned from my superior.
Armed with this first successful experience in the audit field, I was ready for a new professional challenge. That was the moment that I discovered Novutech and I recognized myself in their values and their vision. As new technologies represent a massive part of this business, I always wanted to combine my economics’ skills with them.
That is why I decided to join Novutech as a business analyst.
@Novutech
My journey at Novutech started on August 2021, the 9th. I was surprised by the warm welcome that the company reserved me. I was immediately put at ease by all the collaborators that were already warned from my coming. Everything was made to make me comfortable so I could take my bearings quickly. My greatest astonishment was to know that a team building was planned a month after my arrival so that the new members of the team could get to know the old collaborators better.
My first two weeks were dedicated to external and internal training which allowed me to get a first overview of the NetSuite ERP and a lot of its functionalities. Besides the fact that they provided me with numerous support for my acclimatisation, they made themselves available to answer my questions.
My arrival coincided with the one of a new customer for which we had to implement the NetSuite ERP and this project was assigned to me. This gave me the opportunity to follow all the steps from scratch to the final product. What better way to get into my new position? Currently I am still working on this project.
Aside from this project, I am also involved with other clients on optimization and support topics. It consists in providing solutions to questions that could arise from the use of the system. This aspect of my function allows me to be confronted to special cases and thus to increase my NetSuite knowledge.
What I appreciate the most in my job is the contact with the client, the fact of being able to meet their needs by trying to simplify as much as possible their understanding of the tool that we are using.
I recognize myself in the values of Novutech such as transparency, team spirit, excellence. In my opinion these are the prerequisites for the exercise of my function.
Career perspectives
At first, I aspire to become as quickly as possible autonomous in order to provide an irreproachable service and especially to be able to advise the customer as well as possible. Once this objective is achieved, I would be ready to perform new functions requiring greater responsibilities. Finally, in the medium-short term, I aspire to evolve within the organization.
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