Faisal Ijaz Email & Phone Number

Karachi, Pk

Karachi, Pk

Karachi

•Developed and implemented General & IT Procurement strategies for the bank's various goods and services requirements, aligning them with organizational goals and objectives.•Identified potential suppliers through comprehensive market research and evaluated their capabilities to ensure optimal supplier selection.•Negotiated contracts and built strong relationships with suppliers to ensure the bank received quality products and services.•Oversaw the end-to-end procurement process, including identifying procurement needs, preparing purchase requisitions, and making purchase decisions while adhering to internal policies and regulatory requirements.•Conducted thorough cost-benefit analyses, negotiated prices, and implemented effective cost reduction strategies, resulting in significant savings without compromising quality.•Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated contracts with suppliers, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.•Managed contract renewals, amendments, and terminations in collaboration with the legal department to minimize risks to the bank.•Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry best practices in procurement operations.•Stayed updated with relevant regulations and guidelines, implemented necessary controls, and conducted periodic audits to ensure adherence to compliance standards.•Collaborated with internal stakeholders, including finance, legal, operations, and business units, to understand their procurement requirements and align procurement activities with their needs.•Provided procurement expertise and guidance to support their goals and objectives, fostering effective cross-functional collaboration.•Generated reports and analyzed procurement data to provide insights on vendor performance, cost savings, compliance metrics, and key performance indicators.•Presented findings and recommendations to senior management, contributing to the bank's overall strategic decision-making process.

Karachi

• Locate and identify company assets and general administration• Recommend, develop and implement optimum inventory management system for receipt, storage, issuance, and disposal of the Company’s inventory of parts and equipment items.• Supervision and management of purchasing and receiving.• Reengineering the procedures for receipt, storage, issuance, and disposal of the Company’s inventory of parts and capital items. • Weekly updates preparation of material status report for all major permanent materials and consumable materials.• To planning and schedule works activity, coordinate to supplier for the material delivery and proceed for processing billing due payment and proper documentation.• Maintaining Company Accounts and Expenditures• Make parallel A/c Receivable and A/c Payables for Sales and Supplies.• Correspondence and negotiating with International Suppliers for the provision of goods.

Karachi

Key Responsibilities:- To put-up Policies & Procedures to ensure smooth implementation of operation controls functions.- To lead, get feed-back and monitor the established Policies & procedures to ensure implementation of the functions down the line. - Coordinating/follow up with business & operations staff to resolve and provide necessary feedback on the manual alerts generated for transactions made by customers.- Ensuring consistency and uniformity regarding SAR filings, both in terms of the criteria used for selecting cases to report as well as the preparation and level of detail included in the narrative description of suspicious activity- Develop and implemented AML Scenario’s based report - Develop and implemented SWIFT MT103 monitoring procedures and report- To monitor changes in of local laws/ regulations- Providing information and recommendation to senior management on anti-money laundering and anti terrorist financing policies and issues.- To manage in-country Anti-Money laundering monitoring and Know Your Customer procedures as required by the policy including: Review of High Risk Accounts. - Review of Transaction activities in High Risk Accounts and Public Figure Accounts. Monthly review of exception based Anti Money Laundering monitoring reports.- Review confidentiality and integrity of employee and business information in compliance with organization policies, procedures and Regulatory body (SBP) Regulations.- Assist the country Head of Compliance for all matters relating to the compliance area as and when required.

Karachi

Key Responsibilities i. IT Security- All-Pakistan IT Security & Policy implementation- Reviewed and recommended solutions to IT infrastructure- Initiated Fire Drill Awareness Program & its compliance- Conducted business continuity of banking system- Visited Pakistan branches for conducting IT Compliance Review- Provided solution for standardization of User Security Profile- Introduced e-form for User ID & Profile creation- Software Compliance Review (Database, VSS, Email Server, ISA, SCC- Conducted UAT on banking applications- Monitored user activity on banking applications and report violationsii. Branches Compliance Inspection- Reviewed floor timings & 100% cash counting for South Branches- Inspected procedures for Account Opening, AML, KYC, Vouchersiii. AML Solution - Successfully implemented AML Solution (XM3) system- Initiated, participated and approved changes in XM3 system- Maintained customer profiles in XM3 system- Periodic MIS generation on aspects relating to AML and KYC- Analyzed and reported customer transaction history for any suspicion- Resolved and disposed alerts/cases from business departments- Coordinated follow-up with IT, Operations and business departments

Karachi

Key Responsibilities:- Call Centre setup & operations- ATM Operations and hardware setup - Generated & preserved Email IDs- Maintained wireless link b/w HO- Server Maintenance and installation- Country-wide online coordination- Documented records & branch inventory- Day end process for Fountain Branch- HR Deployment/Co-ordination (Bank Smart Module)- Network management with HO, Fountain Branch & Nacon House

Karachi

Key Responsibilities:i. F.I.D Operations: 2003 to 2004- Client Relationship and business development- Maintained daily, monthly and yearly volume reports- Maintained and budgeted FID- Handled claims and reimbursement issues- Authorized reimbursement via BTB system- Authorized direct LC payment (SWIFT MT202)- Authorized trade reimbursement payments (SWIFT MT742) - Authorized BARS after processing- Authorized & generated monthly volume reports for export lodgments- Installed, trained & supported EBC, BTB & BARS software.ii. System Administration: 1997 to 2002- Coordinated between b/w MashreqBank H.O. Dubai- Country-wide LAN support & maintenance, data backup- System administration & upgrade, staff training, online support- Analyzed & managed Income Tax System in Accounts Department- Designed tutorial and installation procedure of ITS (Income Tax System)- Developed in-house modules in FoxPro for Credit Admin Department- Developed advanced report on Mashreq Bank LAN/Wan environment- Installed & configured Windows NT Server, NT Workstations, BDC- Installed & configured MS Exchange Server & Clients- Installed & configured Banking Software: GLOBUS- SWIFT System administration, Installation & Maintenance of user profile- Monitor SWIFT System services and ensure its running- SWIFT System backup and recovery- Y2K roll out for Pakistan Branches

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