Hussain Al Alawi, Operational Risk Manager

Hussain Al Alawi

Operational Risk Manager

Saudi Hollandi Bank

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
22 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 8 Months

Operational Risk Manager at Saudi Hollandi Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since February 2013

 Reporting to the Head of Non-Financial Risk.
 Handling primary responsibility to introduce the GRC system along with configuration of framework for losses, incidents, deficiencies, control objectives, and controls among others.
 Coordinating setting/documenting of authorization of various user types including control unit users and business users.
 Providing adequate technical/functional support for different banking departments pertaining to GRC application.
 Ensuring optimal training of control unit users pertaining to the usage method of GRC applications.
 Assisting the review and improvement of RCSA with enhanced efficacy and curtailed exposure of operational risk.
 Piloting ORAP reviewing process to back stakeholders for scrutinizing and mitigating risks.
 Conducting review and investigating the root causes of various incidents and losses.
 Partaking in IT assets review for focusing on requisite action plans along with discovery of deficiencies.
 Participating in the IT change advisory board “CAB” weekly meetings for approval/deferral of possible system modifications.

Senior Product Manager at SHB- TBG
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2008 to February 2014

Products Management:
 Presented reports on product performance at monthly, semi-yearly, and yearly intervals.
 Developed reports and scrutinized customer transaction behavior indication.
 Managed diversified cash and IT relationships along with conduct of market studies.
 Examined and introduced diversified customer requirements.
Product Support Management:
 Provided adequate training the product support team.
 Established diversified processes and procedures to offer product support.
 Managed responsibilities as the 2nd line of support on behalf of for the clients.
Sales Support:
 Handled attendance related to client calls and meetings.
 Imparted product training to the sales team, while reporting and tracking sales performances.

Project Manager at Information Technology) – Derayah
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2007 to June 2008

 Reported to the Development Head and mentored a team of 3 staff.
 Verified the front-end system to assist price dissemination and customer management (AWAN) issues.
 Monitored the back-office team issues to assist the stock trading system.

Product Manager at SAMBA GTS
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2006 to June 2007

 Reported to the Cash Management Head.
 Managed the major corporate cash management product, Samba Access, by totaling and restoring functionalities.
 Handled business requirements, with negotiations and prioritized projects within the IT Department.
 Coordinated B2B integration solution along with SWIFT MA-CUG services.
 Provided backing to clients with solution of above business issues.
 Attended business calls for documentation of client’s requirements.
 Imparted training to newly hired staff on various cash management products and services.

Senior System Analyst at Al Ahli
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2001 to September 2006

E-Banking Group:
 Scrutinized diversified business requirements along with support production.
 Verified errors and creating test scenarios for fresh releases and new services on behalf of Al Ahli e-Corp.
Payments Unit:
 Managed the administration issues pertaining to the payment system.
 Assisted B2B services “Web Methods” with diligence.
 Monitored the reporting tools for analyzing the payments against the OFAC checking.
 Acted as a successful quality team member for modifying outgoing international transfers.
 Contributed as a member of the development team to assist migration from SWIFT to SWIFT Net.
 Offered training to users and quality assurance agents pertaining to admin functions of the payment system.
 Imparted training to various QA agents with practical exposure on payments handling.

Major Accomplishments:
 Enhanced the payroll processing cycle, with the process speed increased by 30%.
 Implemented the Payment Authorization Sub-System (PASS) to enable the bank from collecting payments for ARAMCO across various channels like IVR, SARIE, Branches, and Online Application.
 Increased the automation level in the payment system by re-routing conditions and mapping rules, with a safe hour usage for spending each day to en-route incoming transactions between various networks.

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Operational Risk Manager at GRC
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Reporting to the Head of Non-Financial Risk.
Handling primary responsibility to introduce the

Senior Product Manager
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Reported to the Cash Management Head.
Products Management:
Presented reports on product performance at monthly, semi-yearly, and yearly intervals.
Developed reports and scrutinized customer transactional behavior indication.
Managed diversified cash and IT relationships along with conduct of market studies.
Examined and introduced diversified customer requirements.
Product Support Management:
Provided adequate training the product support team.
Established diversified processes and procedures to offer product support.
Managed responsibilities as the 2nd line of support for the clients.
Sales Support:
Handled attendance related to client calls and meetings.
Imparted product training to the sales team, while reporting and tracking sales performances.

Major Accomplishments:
Managed products including corporate internet banking, cash-in-transit, SWIFT MA-CUG, dividend distribution, payroll, and real estate units selling on maps.
Enrolled the bank in SWIFT corporate services (MA-CUG) and enrolling 4 major corporate organizations in the service.
Introduced dividend distribution services via usage of existing payroll application introducing a sum of SAR 1, 200, 000.00 as net income.
Launched real estate selling on maps along with signing of the 1st contract for the bank with expected inward funds of SAR 750, 000, 000.00.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
  • January 2001

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Specialties & Skills

Leadership
Team Player
Teamwork
Self driven
Analysis
AUTOMATION
BANKING
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
MIGRATION
PAYROLL PROCESSING

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

IABFM
  • CORP
  • May 2015

Training and Certifications

Prince2 Fundamentals Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013
Valid Until:
May 2018
Certified Operational Risk Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2015
BWise Certified Functional Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2014
Project Management Program (Training)
Training Institute:
SHB Academy
Date Attended:
June 2010
Duration:
40 hours
Accounting and Financial Analysis (Training)
Training Institute:
SHB Academy
Date Attended:
March 2011
Duration:
50 hours
Fraud Prevention (Training)
Training Institute:
SHB Academy
Date Attended:
October 2011
Duration:
16 hours
Financial Accounting 1 (Training)
Training Institute:
SHB Academy
Date Attended:
March 2012
Duration:
24 hours
Prince2 Practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013
Valid Until:
May 2018

Hobbies

  • Gemstones collection