Walid Ghannouchi Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

We offer professional services specialized in:• Program Management & Leadership:Experienced in managing complex, high-stakes projects from inception to completion, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery with a strategic focus on maximizing impact and efficiency. Serves as a bridge between business and technology stakeholders, driving alignment, clear communication, and cross-functional collaboration. Skilled in risk management and regulatory compliance to support seamless change initiatives and sustainable growth.• Financial Technology & Payments:Expertise in banking operations, intraday liquidity management, and payment systems, delivering innovative, real-time solutions that enhance operational efficiency and strategic alignment. Utilizes data analytics to inform decision-making, optimize processes, and meet evolving industry needs with precision.• Digital Transformation & Business Agility:Proficient in agile methodologies (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), fostering a culture of continuous improvement to accelerate time-to-market and enhance organizational agility. Embeds human-centered design principles to ensure solutions align with user needs, with a strong focus on measurable results and regular engagement with C-suite stakeholders.

Co-Founder and Executive Coach with a neuroscience-based approach, empowering financial services leaders. Specializing in strategic goal setting, leadership development, and performance enhancement for sustainable, impactful growth through trust and experimentation.

London, England, Gb

Transformation Director for Digital Channels & Client Analytics, leading digital transformation across 100+ teams, reducing average time to market by 15% year on year, leading 20% in cost optimization, and achieving strategic alignment through human-centered design and C-suite collaboration.

London, England, Gb

Programme Manager with expertise in Treasury Transformation, managing 5 million+ portfolios to enhance intraday liquidity management and reengineering Nostro banking operations across 50 countries, achieving cost savings, risk reduction, and strategic alignment with C-suite stakeholders.

London, England, Gb

Orchestrated Oracle Enterprise Case Management deployment for Financial Crime Compliance across eight countries. Championed stakeholder engagement, impact assessments, and user readiness, ensuring successful implementation. This collaborative, detail-oriented approach significantly enhanced compliance capabilities region-wide, balancing technical success with organizational harmony.

London, England, Gb

Led change management for the Murex FX and ALM trading platform across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau, overseeing a 100+ person team and a Command Center for 1,200+ users to ensure seamless implementation and high user satisfaction.

Founded and led Efficept, a partnership boutique consultancy serving clients in the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region with a primary focus on business model design and strategy.

Central, Hk

Led the operational risk management function for the Asia Pacific Region. Held a regional oversight role, designed the transformation roadmap, coached local businesses (senior management and risk teams) to embed the governance framework, and ensured quality assurance

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

Managed key banking client accounts with a focus on revenue growth and client development and directed consulting projects on process reengineering and operating model design, boosting efficiency and client satisfaction.

Founded an organization uniting government officials and business leaders to build strong public-private partnerships within the World Green Building Council network. Developed the council’s vision and strategy, enhancing industry awareness through impactful events, conferences, and seminars.

London, Gb

Paris, Fr

Crafted and delivered a bespoke operational risk curriculum with tailored use cases and interactive learning activities, enabling 350+ global professionals to grasp and apply key concepts in their daily work, thereby enhancing risk management and providing lasting value to my client.

Rome, Lazio, It

Benchmarked and modelled the cost, revenue and profits efficiency financial institutions and established the causality between financial institutions’ efficiency and macroeconomic growth – measuring institutions’ financial deepening.

Paris, Fr

Managed the operational risk incidents process at the group level within the Security and Anti Fraud department, covering Asia Pacific, Europe and Americas zones.

Bangor, North Wales, Gb

Ph.D. (Philosophiæ Doctor), Banking And Finance

M.Sc., European Economy And International Finance

Bachelor, Accounting Sciences