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Dubai, Ae

United Arab Emirates

Notable Projects• Regulatory Compliance Program assessment for a prominent bank including KYC completeness and the soundness of the anti-money laundering and sanctions screening solutions.• In-depth review of Know-Your-Customer data, Transactional data and Compliance Systems data for a large bank in response to allegations of terror financing.• Reporting dashboards based on Power BI for efficient and automated information gathering across all departments for a large European bank.Key Achievements & Responsibilities• Delivered end to end engagements (including requirements gathering, data extraction, activity planning, communications with stakeholders and senior leaderships).• Managed a team of 5+ junior and senior data analysts on numerous engagements, overseeing operations at clients site either in Dubai or within the region.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure the timely delivery of our objectives.• Participated in business development initiatives by creating Request For Proposals (RFPs) responses, proposals and marketing materials (e.g. brochures and service sheets) to increase business exposure.• Developed BI Dashboards using tools such as Power BI including and interactive Power BI dashboard (coupled with Power Apps) to assist a large European bank efficiently and effectively track its numerous KPIs.• Leveraged libraries such as spaCy and Large Language Models to design and implement NLP models to address business needs, improve existing solutions and optimise team efficiency.• Conducted training sessions to junior and senior analysts to improve the team analytical capabilities on various subjects such as SQL, Python and Data Science.• Mentored and developed junior team members by overseeing their performance and career development.

Combs-La-Ville - 77380 - France

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United Arab Emirates

Notable Projects• Anti Money Laundering and Sanctions investigation• Financial irregularities and Commercial Bribery investigation• Review and assessment of a large bank operations, corporate and investments activitiesKey Achievements & Responsibilities• Led Data Analytics workstream on several engagements, both in Dubai and in the region.• Extracted, Transformed and Loaded structured and unstructured data from various sources such as core banking systems (e.g. Temenos, Finastra and Flexcube), ERP systems (e.g. SAP) and SWIFT.• Performed Advanced Data Analytics on customers and transactional data including [1] Conducting Network Analytics to uncover hidden and complex money laundering structures within financial institutions and [2] Assessing banks' compliance program by performing an independent Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and Sanctions screening.• Took ownership of daily interactions with clients ensuring clear, concise and consistent communications.• Created and presented weekly reports for senior management and/or clients, providing insights and updates on project progress and outcomes.• Supervised a team of 2-3 junior members across multiple engagements and business developments projects. This involved tracking overall progress, monitoring team members' tasks, providing constructive feedback and delivering regular reports to senior management to ensure timely projects completion.• Designed and developed a Fraud Detection engine to identify money laundering activities amongst millions of transactions powered by Machine Learning algorithms.• Performed Forensics collection of phones (Android and IOS), laptops (Windows and Mac) and emails.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Notable Projects• Redress scheme for mortgage arrears customers for a large British bankKey Achievements & Responsibilities• Applied Advanced Data Analytics techniques to prevent, detect, monitor or investigate potentially improper transactions, events or patterns of behaviour related to misconduct, fraud and non compliance issues.• Extracted, cleansed and transformed large amount of structured and unstructured data from a variety of data sources (e.g. databases, Excel files, text files, JSON, PDF, among others).• Created weekly reports for senior management and/or clients.• Created dashboards and KPI reports for clients from scratch using Python/Javascript or Data Visualisation software such as Tableau or Spotfire.• Delivered Python training sessions to team members (e.g. associates and senior associates) to encourage the adoption of Python in day to day activities.

Bois-Colombes

Notable Projects• Development of innovative products with regards to the Connected Vehicles of a major French automobile manufacturer.Key Achievements & Responsibilities• Designed, implemented and deployed Machine Learning models for the development of new user products using R, Python or SPSS.• Extracted, cleansed, transformed and analysed users' comments using Natural Language Processing (Sentiment Analysis and Named Entity Recognition).• Accountable to senior management for product progress, presenting regular reports and updates.