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Dubai, Ae

United Arab Emirates

• Responsible for adoption and innovation within the BFS practice of the region - ME• Work with Global delivery teams on developing, delivering and deploying customer centric solutions.• Drive organization GTMs to the largest BFS clients in the region.• Continuously contribute towards assessment and evolution of various BFS solutions• Assist in penetration and adoption of a Digital culture within the regional BFS clients.• Responsibilities include P&L for two of the largest BFS clients in Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates

• Deputed to spearhead an extremely ambitious, multi-million-dollar Payments Transformation Program that encompasses the complete payment landscape for one of the largest Islamic bank in the UAE. Scope includes - • Redesigning the IT architecture for the payments landscape through cloud enablement & future proofing it for current and future payment process volumes• Adoption to ISO 20022 standards• Optimizing the current integrations with Reg-Tech solutions to ensure payments are released STP while maintaining global payments compliance standards• Systems included as part of the payments transformation - SWIFTUAEFTS, UAEIPIUAEWPSUAEDDS

Muscat Governorate, Oman

Core Banking TransformationBusiness Transformation Lead for BankDhofar’s Core Banking Transformation Program – Bank of the Future – Finacle® Core Banking (V11.x) Includes Finacle Treasury, Finacle Omnichannel & Finacle Payments.Development of Target Operating Models (TOMs), Re-designing lean processes using six sigma and lean methodologies and reassessing overall business parameters aligned to the bank of the future model.Team Size - Established and led a team of ~25 skilled individuals from various Lines of Business in order gather conclusive user stories & drive and deliver the Core Banking Transformation ProgramEnterprise Transformation (M & A)Spearheaded the pre-due diligence phase of the potential merger with National Bank of Oman (NBO)Retail Banking TransformationSpearheaded BankDhofar’s enterprise CRM Strategy definition & Implementation of a best in class CRM application.Transformation OfficeInstrumental in establishing the EPMO from scratch which included defining the program management principles and standards along with building a 100% capable and energized Omanized team of project managers in order to manage and deliver the Transformation streams

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Second to ‘Head of Demand Management’ (HODM). Portfolio included Central Operation Applications, Compliance Applications, and all UAE Central Bank Projects.Responsible for ADIB’s Central Operation (Payments & Workflow) applications and Compliance applications. Assessed system performance to advise on possible updates and improvements.Single Point of Contact for all Central Bank Initiatives from ADIB. Represent Bank in various UAE Central Bank forums, workshops and meetingsEnd to End Program Management using Waterfall and Agile process i.e. from Requirements Gathering to User Acceptance testing to Go LiveSpearheaded the revamp of the KYC & Onboarding process for ADIB.Was responsible to evaluate a new AML & FRAUD Management application for ADIB.Team Size - 2 Project Managers and 2 platform owners and 5 IT application support officers with a portfolio of 8 major applications.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Demand Management - Information Technology, Initially Responsible for management and delivery of all UAE Central Bank projects -UAEDDS (Direct Debit), UAEFTS (Fund Transfer) & UAEWPS (Wage Protection System)Second to ‘Head of Demand Management' (HODM) with indirect reporting to ‘Chief Information Officer' (CIO)Spearheaded the Barclays U.A.E Retail Portfolio Merger with ADIB from the Technology Work stream ($7 million IT Budget)End to End Project Management through AGILE Project management process & rituals i.eGathering of user stories, fortnightly sprint planning, weekly sprint reviews, retrospection, etc.Team Size - Led a team of 10 project Managers and several product owners in order to ensure a seamless “BIG-BANG” transition of the Barclays-UAE Retail portfolio.

Abu Dhabi

Responsible for management and delivery of all UAE Central Bank projects - o UAEDDS (Direct Debit), UAEFTS (Fund Transfer) & UAEWPS (Wage Protection System)End to End Project Management through AGILE Project management process and SDLC process i.e. from Requirements Gathering to User Acceptance testing to Go Live

Rakbank, Dubai, Uae

Part of a 12-member team dedicated to identify, gather and realize Personal Banking business requirements that can be fulfilled by system changes/enhancements.Played a vital role in the enhancement/improvement of the project and change management process including managing integration of various surround systems to the new Finacle Core Banking (V 10.1).Plan, Monitor, Control & Deliver the following initiatives across RAKBANK’s E-Channels Portfolio which included - RAKBANKDirect.ae, Implementation of Web Trends (Web Analytical Tool) for RAKBANKDIRECT.ae, Enhancements on RAKBANK Mobile Banking , Kiosks, ATMs and Outbound Dialer primarily for the tele sales & Collections (250+ agents seats).

Mib, Masters In International Business & Business Administration

Passed out with a Distinction

Bba, Business Administration