Meraj Ahmed, Entrepreneur

Meraj Ahmed

Entrepreneur

self employed

Location
Kuwait
Education
Master's degree, MSc Business Analytics
Experience
5 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :5 years, 4 Months

Entrepreneur at self employed
  • Kuwait - Ad Dasmah
  • January 2016 to December 2018

Researching, analyzing and procuring high demand mobile electronic products in the international market to be sold in other markets across the world via online auctions or direct to consumers.

Respond to messages, emails and telephone calls from potential customers to inform them of product availability, features and ultimately price negotiation.

Utilize interpersonal and communication skills while providing exceptional customer service and engaging with customers with tailored advise and recommendations.

Create promotions and ads to place online highlighting key product features, condition and special pricing to catch the attention of potential customers.

Achieved a turnover of more than USD 30000 with a GM of ~25% mostly via Ecommerce platforms and local classifieds.

Officer at BOUBYAN bank
  • Kuwait
  • January 2014 to December 2017

•Gathering data and generating weekly and daily reports to support higher management based on the workflow status of credit card applications bank-wide
•Responsible for verifying relevant paperwork in order to issue vendors and/or supplier payments via different payment methods as applicable.
•Verifying and performing spot checks on internal documents before passing it on to external auditors. In-charge of handling the credit card application workflow system and also performing various reconciliation checks against the paperwork supplied (both electronic and manual).
•Dealing with customer early settlements (both partial and full) after thoroughly checking relevant forms and clearing payments on the system after due diligence. 

•Responsible for supervising the team that handles scans of historic and new paper documents into the system as and when required by any department in the larger banking organization. 

•Experienced in set up of automatic standing order batch payments by verifying and structuring the required data in the appropriate format for batch processing.

Document Controller
  • September 2013 to December 2013

2015
•Played a major role in a bank wide project with involved facilitating easy accessibility of customers’ financial documentation being made available to various members of staff across different banking systems.
•Maintained and organized an effective workflow system to keep track of important documents. Providing management with end of day reports to show status of financial documents received and unreceived.
•Received various rewards and letters of recognition for hard work, special efforts and great performance - this later led to my promotion to the role of Officer.

Education

Master's degree, MSc Business Analytics
  • at The Manchester Metropolitan University
  • September 2020
Bachelor's degree, Business Adminstration
  • at Open University
  • November 2018

courses: Oracle Database Workshop, 2012 NIIT, India PPL - Private Pilot’s License, 2012

High school or equivalent, Computer Science
  • at Carmel School Kuwai
  • November 2018

High school or equivalent, Computer Science
  • at Asian Academy of Aeronautics
  • January 2011

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Specialties & Skills

Interpersonal Skills
Personal Finance
Marketing
Aviation
Communications
COMPUTER HARDWARE
E-COMMERCE
MARKETING
BANKING
DOCUMENTATION
DUE DILIGENCE
FINANCIAL
LETTERS
PowerBi
Data modelling
Data management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

Querying Microsoft SQL Server (Training)
Training Institute:
LinkedIn
SQL: Data Reporting and Analysis (Training)
Training Institute:
LinkedIn
Intermediate SQL for Data Scientists (Training)
Training Institute:
LinkedIn
Power BI Data Modeling with DAX (Training)
Training Institute:
LinkedIn
Learning Microsoft Power BI Desktop (Training)
Training Institute:
LinkedIn
Querying Microsoft SQL Server (Training)
Training Institute:
Linkedin