Senior Data Scientist
Gulf International Bank
Total years of experience :7 years, 11 Months
• Roles and Highlights:
• Supervised a team of junior data scientists, allocating and monitoring tasks and duties contributing to the achievement of the bank’s overall vision and objectives.
• Drove the adoption of best-in-class processes and techniques for statistical analysis and modellingin the MIS department
• Led the roll-out of Big Data capabilities, consumer initiatives, and analytical frameworks based on current best practices in the MIS and Data & Analytics departments.
• Responsibilities:
• Built and maintained large-scale analytics infrastructure for applications across the business and drove improvements through consistent research.
• Designed, developed, and implemented data management systems and analytical frameworks for efficient utilization of business data.
• Created and delivered statistical models to meet various business analytics needs utilizing advanced statistical capabilities.
• Facilitated leveraging of substantial business intelligencelinked data in the organization’s databases by formulating new and creative ideas.
• Developed and executed state-of-the-art analytical algorithms for object detection, segmentation, classification, and recognition.
• Supported discovery of insights and identification of business opportunities by applying algorithmic, statistical, visualization, and data mining techniques.
• Worked closely with management to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of Support Services, evaluated through data and analytics.
• Evaluated and analysed data to provide recommendations on operational processes that contributed to organizational goals.
• Trained new and existing users on Know-how and uses of database applications.
• Created and maintained documentation on processes, policies application configuration and supported related materials for users as database applications were developed.
• Developed and created customized reports and dashboards
• Created and documented application requirements by working with program development team including program staff, programmers, strategic planning and analysis staff, and/or outside consultants as per set key performance indices.
Roles and Highlights:
• Worked closely with operational process owners to determine strategic objectives and process metrics and led process improvements in the areas of Payment, Trade Finance, Treasury, and Loan Operations.
• Led initiatives for continual improvements and standardization of in-scope processes to achieve best-in-class efficiency, schedule, quality, and overall maturity.
• Collaborated with senior leaders to define linkages between strategic objectives and process improvements using effective analytical tools and consulting techniques and enabled functional teams in re-imagining new/existing operations to build and execute associated roadmaps.
Responsibilities:
• Worked closely with the management and contributed to the improvement of operational systems and processes related to management reporting, information flow & management, and business processes.
• Provided data-driven and analytics-based strategic inputs to the management for enhancing effectiveness and efficiency of support services.
• Implemented action plans to improve the performance of each function as well as improved alignment between support services and business functions.
• Supported program enhancement and changes by creating and documenting of application requirements in coordination with end-users, programmers, strategic planners & analysts, and/or 3rd party consultants.
• Studied and evaluated key software features and functionalities of new team processes and recommended process improvements.
• Participated in weekly reviews with the director and other internal & external stakeholders and provided updates on project milestones/deadlines.
Roles and Highlights:
• Managed projects for implementation of credit risk systems (ACA/ACLM) - an enterprise-wide centralized and integrated system to enable reduction of risk through automated credit application management, credit facility management, collateral management, document management, and limit & exposure management - inception to delivery.
Responsibilities:
• Provided end-user support to IBM Algo Credit Administrator (ACA), Algo Credit Limit Manager (ACLM), and Cognos.
• Utilized technical, financial, and business experience in responding to end-user queries enabling uninterrupted operation of the division.
• Identified and evaluated potential malfunctions of ACA/ACLM and escalated them to the top management for the development of solutions.
• Designed and administered all operation management reports from ACA/ACLM using IMB Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects.
• Coordinated with system users and validated system changes by performing as-if and impact assessments.
• Monitored credit application turnaround time based on key performance indicators (KPI) covering average time taken for the end-to-end process from RM to compliance.
• Created special reports including customer information, financial statements, and customer exposure as required by Saudi Credit Bureau (SIMAH)
• Worked with the EDW team in migration and reconciliation of data from the ACLM database to the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).
• Designed diverse scenarios and procedures to validate data, ensure integrity and accuracy of content, and rules of fixing and stamping.
• Resolved technical issues related to credit risk systems in coordination with the IT department.
• Liaised with the IMD team for migration of data from the bank’s legacy systems to the ACLM database. Specified required data from systems like loans, OD, treasury, trade finance & overseas and utilized Informatica ETL tool for mapping data into ACLM.
Managed the delivery of the Microsoft Customer Immersion Experience (CIE) program covering students and teachers of top education accounts in the region
