Certified International trainer, workshop facilitator, executive coach & motivational speaker
Training Institutes, Audit and Consultancy Firms, and other organizations
Total years of experience :48 years, 7 months
• Creative ability to draw up training plans, coordinate training activities, develop training materials, define evaluation criteria, deliver a wide range of training activities, including face-to-face, e-learning, experiential learning, coaching, mentoring, conferences and workshops using excellent communication skills, ensure meeting training needs and priorities and conduct pre and post assessments to measure efficiency and effectiveness of training activities.
• Performing job analysis and businesses' management consultation to identify training and development needs of trainees and customize training programs accordingly.
• Drawing up overall training plans, and choosing the relevant delivery methods and channels giving consideration to the relevance to business sectors specialty.
• Passionately looking for ways to develop training materials and delivery style that enable for better learning and talent development of trainees.
• Ongoing monitoring and review of trainees progress, assessing their skills and knowledge through discussions in order to tailor the training programs to suit the trainees' needs and requirements, and to enable them reach their full potential.
• Keeping abreast of local and international legislative changes that may impact learning and talent development process.
• Facilitating companies’ internal learning and training sessions, workshops, and speaking events taking in consideration the learning style of the diverse and multi-cultural groups of participants..
• Implementing the appropriate systems and processes that measure effectiveness of training activities as well as consider the long-term impact on the trainees' performance.
• Constantly monitoring and assessing own training performance for self evaluation, improvement and enhancement.
•.Regularly presented and offered varied courses, seminars and workshops in English and Arabic languages on professional topics through training institutes Such as Activity, High Quality, Zabeel, Alrowad, Zayed University, Institute for Community Engagement (ICE), Arab Experts Institute and many others.
• Courses presented to groups and individuals from government and corporations, such as ADWEA, ADMA, GASCO, ADHC, AMF, QAPCO (Qatar), ADAC, Ministry of Finance, Education Council, RTA & many more.
Training Courses included the following topics:
• The Six Thinking Hats of Edward deBono
• Corporate Annual Reports Skills
• Change Management Skills
• IAS/ IFRS
• CMA Exam Preparation
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Introduction to Risk Based Audit
• CIA Exam Preparation Course in English
• CPA Exam Preparation Course
• Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting
• Team Building and Motivation Skills
• Effective Time Management Skills
• Policies and Procedures Development & Management Skills
• CFE Exam Preparation Course
• Business Ethics Fundamentals
• Basics of Balanced Scorecard
• Train the trainer
• Creativity & Critical Thinking
• Conflict Resolution Strategies
• Art of Effective Delegation
• Fundamentals of Strategic Planning
• Essentials of Banking Operations
• Budgeting & Cost Control for Non-Financial Staff
• Effective Negotiation Skills
• Budgeting and Financial Forecasting Skills
• Sales, Marketing and Customer Service Skills
• Future Trends in Leadership and Innovation
• Managerial Accounting Skills
• Full Disclosure Financial Reporting Skills
• Effective Supervisory Skills (Advanced Level)
• Professional Project Management Skills
• Effective Communication Skills
• Risk Management, Internal Control & Corporate Governance
• Diversity Appreciation
• Problem Solving and Decision Making Skills
Aug 2004 - Present Chief Operations Officer (COO) for Treasury & Investment
\[Arab Monetary Fund ( http://www.amf.org.ae/) is a supranational financial and economic organization, it is the counterpart of International Monetary Fund for the Arab world, it follows almost the same policies and procedures & the same vision and mission of the IMF\].
• Efficiently managing & supervising a diverse activities including: treasury & investment operations settlement, bank reconciliation, investigation, problem solving, financial analysis, compliance, and risk management.
• Continuously demonstrating problem solving abilities utilizing superior negotiation and communication skills, result is fast resolution & closure of critical case files.
• Regularly initiating & supervising enhancements to internal systems, policies & procedures, result is time saving, smoothing and streamlining of operations.
• Actively supervised & contributed in teamwork for development of a new comprehensive investment portfolio management system, result was having a state of art system, effective and efficient flow of transactions and documentations.
• Excel in assessing & managing operational business needs & requirements in relation to people, processes & market, result is a best practice performance.
• Continuously maintaining proactive management style, result is maintaining an efficient processes, delivering cost effective services & sustaining a functional integrity of information systems.
• Interviewed & recommended for recruitment many of staff employees who later proved to be successful talents.
• Positively interacting, negotiating and establishing a good rapport with many banks, international & financial institutions (as counterparties & correspondents) which resulted in fast resolution of emerging issues.
• Maintaining a system of cash flow projection/ risk management/ internal controls monitoring/ and checks for good corporate governance.
• Actively contributing in training, supervision and evaluation of staff members. Result is having some of the pioneers in the industry.
• Providing support & cooperation to internal and external auditors in their interim & final audits.
• Daily reviewing & authorizing treasury & investment operations including but not limited to; settlement, investigation, confirmation & reconciliation, by using systems of SWIFT, BLOOMBERG, FINANCIAL ORACLE, and OUTLOOK EXPRESS.
• Effective & efficient management of corporate compliance and fraud policies and procedures to ensure it is used for integrity checks, conflict of interest management and enhancement of corporate fraud assessment, prevention & detection capabilities.
• Proactively developing, maintaining, communicating, training and monitoring of fraud and ethics policies & procedures. Result is mitigating external and internal fraud risks, helping in protection of organization’s assets & reputation, and high integrity of operations.
• A thorough knowledge of investigative techniques and processes of interviewing, evidence collection, and preservation, due diligence, covert operations and pretext analysis through training, education and tutoring.
Efficiently managing & supervising a diverse activities including: financial reports/ finalization of financial accounting / financial analysis/ planning and budgeting/ annual report.
•Regularly initiating & supervising enhancements to internal systems, policies & procedures, result is time saving, smoothing and streamlining of operations.
•Actively supervised & contributed in teamwork for development of a new comprehensive accounting management system, result was having a state of art system, effective and efficient flow of transactions and documentations.
•Effectively improved budget process, result was placing budget within a wider context of strategic planning in alignment with corporate objectives.
•Excel in assessing & managing operational accounting business needs & requirements in relation to people, processes & market, result is a best practice performance.
•Continuously maintaining proactive management style, result is maintaining an efficient processes, delivering cost effective services & sustaining a functional integrity of information systems.
•Maintaining an interdepartmental coordination & follow up system that leads to periodical and annual timely closing of financial records of ORACLE GL and financial reporting.
•Interviewed & recommended for recruitment many of staff employees who later proved to be successful talents.
•Positively interacting, negotiating and establishing a good rapport with many international organizations, financial & international institutions (as correspondents) which resulted in fast resolution of emerging issues.
•Maintaining a system of cash flow projection/ risk management/ internal controls monitoring/ and checks for good corporate governance.
•Actively contributing in training, supervision and evaluation of staff members. Result is having some of the pioneers in the industry.
•Providing support & cooperation to internal and external auditors in their interim & final audits.
•Daily reviewing & authorizing accounting entries and records.
•Effective & efficient management of corporate compliance and fraud policies and procedures to ensure it is used for integrity checks, conflict of interest management and enhancement of corporate fraud assessment, prevention & detection capabilities.
•Proactively developing, maintaining, communicating, training and monitoring of fraud and ethics policies & procedures. Result is mitigating external and internal fraud risks, helping in protection of organization’s assets & reputation, and high integrity of operations.
•A thorough knowledge of investigative techniques and processes of interviewing, evidence collection, and preservation, due diligence, covert operations and pretext analysis through training, education and tutoring.
\[Islamic Investment Company is a subsidiary of Dar Al-Mal Al-Islami a Geneva based group and one of the first financial institutions to present Islamic sukuk, Islamic investment and sharia-compliant products that adhere to Islamic law to the Arab world\]
Innovated & implemented effective & efficient management approach through employees motivational training and development, departmental reorganization, recognition of individual staff performance, improved customer relationship, multi-channel service delivery, successful marketing campaigns, meeting customer requirements & expectations. Results was improved productivity, continued customer satisfaction & retention, and achievement of corporate objectives.
Innovated & implemented effective & efficient management approach through employees motivational training and development, departmental reorganization, recognition of individual staff performance, improved customer relationship, multi-channel service delivery, successful marketing campaigns, meeting customer requirements & expectations. Results was improved productivity, continued customer satisfaction & retention, and achievement of corporate objectives.
(http://www.pwc.com/m1/en/countries/united-arab-emirates.jhtm)
\[Price Waterhouse is one of the big four international audit firms with a worldwide network and branches\]
Interim & Final Audits of many financial institutions, insurance companies, vehicle distributors, Computer manufacturers, Oil companies, manufacturing companies & some other various types of clients.
(Duties performed included responsibility for major sections of audit field work & English / Arabic translation of some parts of working papers & clients documentation, and consistently was complemented by superiors on the exceptional effort I put into assignments)
(http://www.bdc.com.eg/English/Pages/default.aspx)
\[Banque Du Caire (Cairo Bank) is one of major players in the banking industry in
Egypt with wide network coverage of all Egypt and branches in all Arab world plus joint ventures with many of the international banking and financial institutions\]
Operational exposure to various retail & corporate banking activities included;
Deposits, Remittances, Bills of exchange, Collections, Credit facilities, Internal
control, Foreign exchange, Letters of Credit & Letters of guarantee.
( Received an "A" rating in many of the bank training& performance programs)
Doctor of Business Administration (PhD)
Human Capital Management in Operations, Analytical Methods for Business, Managerial Technology in Business, Managerial Negotiations, Marketing Research and Analysis, Applied Corporate Finance, Dynamics of Corporate Strategy, Organizational Management and Change, Project Management in Enterprise, Research Proposal and Project, Field Work Experience- Applied Analysis, Master Thesis
CFE is an American Professional Certification and license that is globally renowned and respected for fraud risk examination, assessment & management , prevention and detection. It has become recently one of the most required certifications in the job market due to the increasing fraud risk in businesses and financial markets.
