• Over 14 years experience within Operational Risk. Also covered Market & Credit Risk. • Experienced with generic Risk Measures such as Initial/variation margin, VAR, Pillar, Greeks, Stress testing, KRI's, RCSA's and Credit scoring.• Experienced with trading strategies and concepts across all asset classes: Refinement & distillation processes, purity, hedging, Greeks, spreads, differentials and correlation.• Advanced user of MS Excel (Macro/ VBA/ Dashboard/ PowerPivot) and MS Access (building Queries, SQL, Reports and Interfaces). Advanced user of all MS applications. Competent with HTML and programming languages.• Built Market and Operational Risk functions and quantitative models covering Oil & Gas (Energy), Agriculture, Equities/Indices, Fixed Income, Precious Metals, Ags, Base Metals and FX. • Built Operational Risk function across global entities to mitigate exposures (RCSA's, KRI's, KPI's, Risk Maps and Incident Logging).• Built Market Risk function in Dubai office to cover the Middle East, Asia and Far East region (EMEAA) and act as a regional proxy for Global Head of Risk.• Created, streamlined and automated processes/reports/queries to cover KRI’s, margin calls, and other mandate requirements to mitigate exposures.• Handled Market and Counterparty Risk for portfolios consisting of Options & Futures on Equities/Indices, Fixed Income, Commodities & FX. • All major Indices and Equities covered as well as Emerging Markets. ETN/ETF and CFD’s covered also.• Commodities covered include Energy, Agriculture, Base Metals & Prec. Metals. • Fixed Income covered includes Buxl/Bund/Bobl/Schatz, Gilt & T-Bonds/T-notes and STIR’s.• Studying Risk in Financial Services - Chartered Institute for Securities & Investments (CISI): Level 4. • Languages: English – Fluent native speaker (UK), Arabic – intermediate.• Highly efficient with all mathematical concepts, data analysis and problem solving.