Consultant, Executive Director of Advisory Services Office
Qatar Development Bank
Total years of experience :19 years, 1 Months
Facilitate successful delivery of special projects by developing and implementing best practices in project management.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for taking new initiatives/ projects planning, initiation, implementation and follow ups relating to special projects.
- Keep all stakeholders in the project community informed (Stakeholders management), by providing and facilitating channels of communication of project status, risks, issues …etc.
- Member of special projects steering committee(s), coordinate meetings, set agendas, and maintain meeting records.
- Create and/or archive special project documentation.
- Review reports and translate from English to Arabic and vice versa.
- Attend meetings required by special project out of bank with different stakeholders.
- Maintain relationships with business, governmental agencies, and other related organizations in the eco system.
- Identify risks in various special projects and recommend actions to senior management to mitigate the risks.
- Provide support to the CEO for the convening of meetings related to special projects. Including undertaking research, tracking trends, preparing presentations, development of meeting agendas, drafting briefing papers and/or compiling pertinent background materials for attendees, preparing summaries of discussion, coordinating logistical arrangements, and ensuring appropriate and effective communications with participants, as needed.
- Ensure accountability to deadlines.
- Prepare SOW and RFPs related to special projects, conduct technical and financial evaluation on proposals received.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the bank CEO.
(1) Oversee all project management and technical aspects of EQ. (2) Leadership and management of the project management team. (3) Manage the design from schematic stage to tender documentation with technical and value recommendations. (4) Manage the project's budget and schedule. (5) Monitor and manage risks that may affect costs and schedule recommending mitigation measures. (6) Monitor and approve progress payments to contractors. (7) Lead the planning and implementation of project. (8) Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverable. (9) Define project tasks and resource requirements. (10) Conduct regular meetings with team members to know the status of project and also to make certain changes and improvements, if necessary, to achieve the desired results. (11) Help to develop consistent communication with organizations, government bodies and other related entities engaged in SME growth and development. (12) Engage stakeholders to achieve optimum results from the programs. (13) Develop direct mail programs, as dictated by the program and monitor roll-out of the campaign and check from success level at conclusion. (14) Provide insight into implementation of critical technology projects, perform capacity planning and analysis from an infrastructure and hardware perspective. (15) Analyze, triage and solve complex, multifaceted system functionality, performance and scalability issues. (16) Ability to interact with business operations stakeholders to ensure to translate business requirements into technical specification.
(1) Participate in conducting and reviewing the feasibility studies of projects and investments.
(2) Project Planning: Develop project plans for the new projects and setting performance goals for the existing projects in line with departmental objectives, and in preparing project schedules.
(3) Executing of projects: participate in executing planned projects.
(4) Monitoring and controlling applied projects and investments.
(5) Reporting of business & financial performances of projects.
(6) Resource Allocation: Allocate resources to the projects based on the project plans.
(7) Project Budgeting & Costing: Prepares project cost estimations and develops and administers project budgets and fiscal controls.
(8) Project Management: Ensures that projects are executed as per plan. Intervenes where required to manage contingencies and roadblocks.
(9) Managing Contract Relationships: Selects appropriate contractors based on qualification, quality and cost considerations. Enters into contract agreements in line with project specifications. Ensures that contractors perform works in accordance with quality, cost and time schedule requirements.
(10) Liabilities & Insurance: Research and prepare reports about property and liability insurance coverage needed with respect to projects and assets.
(11) Compliance: Ensures that all projects are executed within the requirements of legal and organizational policy requirements, with respect to financial management, accounting, health, safety and environmental domains.
(12) Planning & reporting: participate on development of plans and reports of projects.
(13) Review financial models/forecasts and preparing information memorandum for sales/capital raising Projects.
(14) Pitching proposals & Engagement Agreements.
(15) Production of quality deliverable within agreed timescales, briefing Directors.
(16) Undertake financial analysis, including preparation of complex financial models.
Corporate Finance & Transactions Advisory Services
Summary of Conducted Services:
(a) Financial & Operational Due Diligence Review:
- Detailed review of financial information including records & documentation for the agreed period,
- Data verification on sample basis to covering all major transactions,
- Examination of all important agreements,
- Circularization of balances of all major third party balances including legal confirmation,
- Cash balances confirmation, aging analysis of receivables, fixed assets registry analysis, accounts payables aging analysis…etc.
(b) Business Valuation:
- Analyzing industries & developing analyses regarding an industry's influence on particular companies,
- Conducting comparable company analyses and industry research,
- Various other research-based and analytical tasks,
- Performing financial analysis of historical company information,
- Conduct normalization adjustments of financial statements,
- Performing discounted cash flow analysis;
(c) Sale/Leaseback Agreement:
-Buildup of the sophisticated model,
-Help in determining the portion of free up capital,
-Preparation of Group Financial Statements (AS-IS/TO-BE) in compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS),
-Follow up with client needs and updates.
Industries / Services Related:
During the work period at (RSM International) I was involved in details
of the following industries:
- Wood & Aluminum, contracting, Healthcare, Investment, leasing,
financing (Retail) industries, Software Development, Media &
Information Technology, Vehicles & Automobiles, and finally food Industry.
Core Duties:
Stock Dealing and Trading, Financial Analysis, Technical Analysis, Market/Industry Research.
Detailed Services:
1-Fair Dealing, (Treating the customers with high standards of honesty and integrity)
2-Duty of Loyalty, (The responsibility to always place the interests of the customer first)
3-Obligation of Disclosure (disclose all material information in connection with an investment recommendation)
4-Authorization for Trading, (The approval and authorization of the customer’s trade in advance)
5-Portfolio Management, (customer’s account management, analysis, recommendations).
As a part-time faculty member (in the Banking and Finance Department), I was involved in :
1- lecturing of some financial cources (Financial Management, Risk Management, etc...),
2- Assisting in preparing academic materials; and financial case studies on excel,
3- Assisting department professors in collecting Data for research purposes,
4- Supervision and conducting exams and assessing students performance,
5- Lab lessons and quizzes preparation.
CFA Level: Level I Exam Date: Sataurday, 5th June, 2011 Test Center: Dubai, UnitedArabEmirates - DXB.
CVA (Certified Valuation Analyst), 35 Credit Hours Kuwait Economic Society - State of Kuwait Institute: International Association of Consultants, Valuers & Analysts (IACVA), Toronto – Australia During the period January 13th, 2008 – January 19th, 2008 Course Level - Intermediate Course objectives: - Understand at an intermediate level the universal applications of and the fundamentals, techniques, and theory of business valuation, - Identify appropriate methodologies for use in business and professional practice valuations, - Communicate with clarity concepts applicable to business valuation practice, approaches and methodology.
Cummulative Average 85.2 Good Knowledge in Managerial Finance, international finance, Portfolio theory, Derivatives, Risk Management, Investment, Feasibility Studies, and International Finance. Track: Thesis, " The Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings: The Case of Amman Stock Exchange during 1990-2006"
Brokers' Certification & Training Program, 120 Credit Hours Amman Stock Exchange, Amman – Jordan During the period: March 12 – April 16, 2006 The subjects covered in the course are as the following: - Review of the financial markets and capital markets, - Brief description of Amman Stock Exchange, - Market players, stock brokers, investors, companies, - Details of bonds and stocks (Financial Securities), - Initial public offerings - capital market, - Listing requirements, and market regulations, - Fundamental analysis (Company) and Technical analysis (Stock Prices), - Bond and stock price valuation, - Stock trading via GL system (Trading program, used by ASE brokers), - Trading directives and Disclosure directives,
Departement rated as number 17 on the field in the year 2004 Cumulative average: 84.5 / 100 (Excellent Rating) Dean's List (4 of 8 Semesters) Research Project "The Efficiency of Managing Cash Flows in the Jordanian Industrial Corporations"
General Secondary Certificate
Windows and Dos Operating systems, 30 Credit Hours Yarmouk University, Irbed – Jordan During the period: July 2 – July 27, 1997 The course covered the following areas in computer, - General knowledge of computers and applications, - Windows and DOS Operating systems, - Microsoft office Word, - Microsoft office Excel, - Microsoft office Power Point, - Microsoft office Access, - Internet (E-mail, web search ...etc.).