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Riyadh, Sa

Managing the professional services offering (annual portfolio of ~100M$) where I have responsibility over the profitability of the sales & marketing, solutioning, delivery (Program/Project/Service Managers), resource development and allocation as well as local product development overseeing ~400 direct resources.Leadership & StrategyManaging the relationship with key customers/partners throughout the financial sector with key projects to implement banks strategies. Areas of applications include: ● Strategy & Strategic Financial Management ● Performance Management ● Financial Risk Management (with specific knowledge in credit risk, market risk, regulatory requirements)● Model-Augmented Decisions, Predictive Analytics & Business Simulations: implementing knowledge centers with state of the art Numerical, Algorithmic, Strategy-Based models.Digital Transformation – Enabling customers with operating capabilities for key areas like AI, Cross-Boarder Automation/integration, Hyper decentralization, product exploration, service optimization, and effective governance of the vision and design of innovative, enterprise-level applications on a country-wide scale. Portfolio, Program, and Project Management & Service Excellence with Architecture-Led Approach Banking and FinanceFunctional/Business knowledge in Credit/Market risks frameworks, ALM, M&A, Securitization and Wealth Management, Equity/Investment Research, AI-Trading. Astutely manages IT, commercial, and banking operations, Channel digitalization, innovation and optimization. Customer EngagementsMy team and I are responsible for building and operating 35% of all customer-facing branches and call centers in retail banking in Saudi Arabia with focus on CX strategy/Omni-Channel with Call Center, Chatbot, Internet/Mobile banking, Dynamic Pricing, Robo-Advisory (goal-based wealth, etc.).

Assumes primary responsibility in planning, directing, and providing oversight for the BFSI Sector, growing the business annually by ~30% above market growth. Winning the delivering an average of 30 projects and contracts annually managing the sales and delivery teams focusing on Channels for banks, B2B, Big-Data, Operational Excellence projects, Managed Services, Enterprise Risk Management, and Local Product Development (Some of which is considered a country-wide de facto standard for integration with central bank, national bill payment platform, RTGS).

Saudi Arabia

Developing Offerings for the banking sector with partners, local products, alliances and resource development for banking-specific or matrix-based resources. This includes the revenue and cost responsibility of customer engagements. Areas of focus included Customer Experience and Omni-Channel Management. Risk Management and Regulatory Reporting, Integration and Business Analytics Capabilities to customers.

Supervised program workflow and individual project progress for ALL Retail Banking at the 3rd biggest bank in Saudi Arabia, engaged in the analysis of potential return of project undertakings while submitting to highest quality outputs and timely delivery for project related to B2B, ESB, BPM, case management, CRM, Campaign Management, Loyalty Program Management, Data Mining Platforms and development of channel for new business models/products for SME/SMBs.

Entrusted to handle multiple projects and engage in the dynamic forecasting and elaboration of potential business development opportunities through strategic management philosophy, creating a vision of future, next-level products. Assessed gaps in the market and identified customers' needs and desires by specifying the research needed to obtain market information, eventually directing market development and execution of programs and strategies to grow the long-term profit and market share position for these products. Examples of the projects include Business Transformation for Retail, Budgeting & Planning, Corporate CRM, Strategic Management, Operational Optimization projects, Customer Insight, Transformation of Wealth Management, Internet Banking, Sales Process Re-engineering. I also participated in a number of projects in Financial Risk.

Working as a Business Information Officer in the IT department, which includes analyzing business requirements for IT-based projects, identifying & recommending solutions and managing project implementation for Business Intelligence and Marketing Analytics Services, and Data Analytics Tools, to external projects interfacing with clients like P&G, Nestle, National Commercial Bank.

Strategy Management, Disruptive Innovation

Digital Transformation

Professional Program, Financial & Numerical Modeling

Professional Program, Machine Learning

Open Courses, Open Courses, Open Courses In Finance, Econ, System Dynamics

Activities and Societies: OpenCourses Group, Numerical Modeling, Strategy Management - Financial Theory - Financial Markets - Economical.

Masters, Mba

Activities and Societies: Finance Engineering, Strategy Management. Taking concentration in: 1- Strategy Management: Including strategy.

Post Grad, Digital Strategies For Business: Leading The Next-Generation Enterprise

Leading Organization During Disruptive Teams