Senior Business continuity planner -Sevice Continuity Section
Arab National Bank
Total des années d'expérience :19 years, 8 Mois
Key Responsibilities:
• Managing the Project of replacing the LDRPS
with new BCM software
• Managing in review/monitoring of ITSC Memo,
Business Case and Impact Analysis
• Managing the Project of business continuity
assessment for all critical vendors
• Review and monitor clarity projects and prepare
periodical reports.
• Follow-up in conducting live switchover as per
the plan
• Follow-up in testing of Phone Banking IVR
upgrade project
• preparation for Scenario Exercise
• Participate in completing renovation and re-
allocation of seating
• Participate in testing new phone banking setup
using ANBI
• Coordinate in testing all new sites based on the
new seating allocation
• Quarterly review of the DRC operational activity
Key Responsibilities:
• Managing the Project of Upgrade the Business Continuity systems (LDRPS, BIA & Incident Manager).
• Managing the Project BCM Review for Business Units.
• Managing the Project RCSA Review for all Business Units.
• Review/update the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) documents for all Arab National Bank business units.
• Managing data gathering and data analysis including identification of critical business functions, internal/external dependencies and quantitative/qualitative costs of disruptions in operations (Questionnaire)
• Preparing Business Impact Analysis (BIA) reports highlighting findings; listing critical IT and business functions, potential loss of revenue and market share, and recommendations pertaining to selection of feasible recovery methods.
• Determining recovery time/point objectives, alternate processing contingencies and regulatory requirements impacting the banking operations to prioritize minimum down time and loss of data in the occurrence of unforeseen events.
• Spearheading risk and vulnerability analysis to support designing of contingency strategies aligned with risk probability, expected scope of damage, and customer service impacts to confirm safeguarding of tangible and non tangible assets.
• Keeping abreast of technology and regional trends, and changes/additions in business units, to ensure the focus of efforts towards fulfillment of corporate vision.
• Participate in getting the ISO-22301 certificate for Arab National Bank in 2014 and 2015
• Review/update the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) documents for all ANB business units.
• Arranging & conducting the annual Business Continuity exercises and tests.
• Participate in passing the External Audit review that was performed by SAMA 2015
• Conduct Trainings & awareness sessions for ANB staff.
Highlights:
•Played a key role in attaining consistent targeted profit for the FX desk in the bank.
•Successfully achieved complete compliance with zero error audit reports regularly in every quarter.
•Played a pivotal role in attaining above the FX desk yearly target in the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
•Efficiently augmented the profit in Telemoney (Transferring money) from an amount lower than 8 million in 2008 to above 15 million in 2012.
Key Responsibilities:
•Maneuvered investment options, providing strategic analysis and inputs for turnkey financial solutions and recommending currencies, options and fixed incomes plans including securities, equities and commodities.
•Responsible for performing detailed technical analysis, thereby foretasted market trends to make the management aware of the open opportunities for arbitrage or earning profits.
•Extended effective foreign exchange advisory services to the sales dealing team in the bank to ensure proper investment in the profitable currencies at the right time to enhance profitability.
•Efficiently executed trades including GCC and G7 currencies as instructed by the bank management within the specified time.
•Liable for trading in G7 currencies, gold and silver to earn profit on the investments and return a greater ROI to the bank.
•Accountable for managing the foreign exchange flow for maximizing bank’s profit, resulting in achievement of bank goals.
•Coordinated with sales traders/clients/inter bank dealers on market movements and price quotation to attain the most profitable quotation for the bank.
•Prepared strategies for tracking investment product movement in the market to enhance profit and international brokerage.
•Participate in Immigrating from Opics plus application to Murex application.
Treasury System Analyst 2007 - 2008
Responsibilities:
• As a functional user of treasury services software, was entrusted for testing & verification of the new platform Opics Plus.
• Wrote the test scripts for each desk in the treasury.
• Based on the scenarios, enter deals in both AS-IS (Opics) and TO-BE (Opics Plus) system, test and compare the results and report any error.
• Followed up with the product vendor resolution of open issues & regression testing for successful closure.
• System & Network Maintenance with business continuity planning for Trading Desk.
Achievements:
• Smooth migration & deployment of the Opics Plus system with very less end user observations.
• User training & change management to ensure user adoption of the new Opics Plus platform.
• 99.99% uptime of the trading system with congestion free connection for super fast trade execution.
SAUDI BRITISH BANK, RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIYA
Recovery Officer - Card Products (1996-1998)
Responsibilities:
• Performed loss mitigation and recovery activities for delinquent credit card accounts in accordance with Bank and Legal guidelines.
• Followed up card members through different contact channels, negotiated on the final settlement to pay their dues by restructuring their payment schemes and finally issuing no-due letters.
• Attained individual, department and bank wide goals to minimize loss and enhance loss recovery.
• Participated in the early, mid or late stages of the collection process to include loss mitigation, foreclosures, repossessions, pre charge-off, charge-off, recovery, and agency liaison collections.
• Performed a variety of routine daily tasks - review reports, prepare correspondence; participate in special recovery camps.
• Reported the black list to SAMA, the Central Bank to take action.
Achievements:
• Reduced Credit Card NPA’s by 12% within 6 months.
• Promoted to supervisor grade within 1 year.
• Improved Branch Profitability by 7%.
GPA 2.7 Out of 4.0 Scholarship from Ministry of Higher Education of Saudi Arabia
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