Muzaffar Kazi, Senior Consultant Islamic Banking

Muzaffar Kazi

Senior Consultant Islamic Banking

Pennant Technologys

Lieu
Inde
Éducation
Baccalauréat, B.Com
Expérience
26 years, 10 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :26 years, 10 Mois

Senior Consultant Islamic Banking à Pennant Technologys
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • Je travaille ici depuis décembre 2014

Product Development, Requirement Gathering and Delivery Management, preparation of BRDS, Project Management and Product Implementation.
Pre- Sales Activities like RFP responses, Product Demonstration.
Co ordination to perform UAT activities till Go live and post go live support.
Product testing and defects resolution, Testingg and QA

Senior Project Manager and Islamic Banking consultant à Cedar IndiaBulls Technologys Ltd
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • août 2012 à octobre 2014

- Islamic Banking product consultant for Retail, Corporate, Treasury, Trade Finance and Investment. Banking.
- Project Manager/Senior Consultant for the Islamic Treasury, Islamic Banking, Islamic Trade Finance System and Islamic Wealth Management System.
- Successfully implemented Islamic Banking Core products in various Bank in Middle East on Different Software vendors like IMAAL Path Solutions, Software Evalaution from End to End, Project Management in ADIB Bank. UAE.on ITS and Sun Guard products.
- Involvement in Project Planning, Executing, Monitoring, Controlling and closing the project.
- Coordinate the detailed requirements about various products, characteristics, control and monitoring requirements, end to end process details and expected process improvements.
- Coordinate the detailed MIS requirements
- Review the documented deliverables at various project phases and coordinate the sign off from business stakeholders.
- Identify the customization requirements and develop detailed specifications and review functional design documents.
- Identify and document any gaps found during various phases and work with vendor consultants to develop the most appropriate approaches to address them.
- Review the end user activities and prepare detailed job cards.
- Prepare test strategy, test plan test scenarios, test scripts, test data and expected results covering all the testing phases and execution of UAT.
- Preparation of Test Plan, Strategy document for Entry and Exit Criteria, preparation of Test Calendar, Preparation and Review of Test Cases for CRM, Liabilities products i.e. Mudaraba Saving, Wadia and Qard Hasan Saving A/c’s. Mudaraba and Wakala deposit. Preparation of test cases for Assets Base products, Preparation of Test Scenarios and expected result for Murabaha Finance, Ijara Finance, Istisna, Salam, Mudaraba Finance, Diminishing Musharaka, Musharaka, Treasury products like Commodity Murabaha, Reverse commodity Murabaha.
- Provided Functional Inputs to the user team for various Islamic banking modes of Financing.
- Project Management for the Islamic Bank to get work done from different vendors with in pre scheduled/defined time/ period.

- Documentation of Business Requirement and solution
- Documentation for Test Cases and Test Scenarios and expected result.
- Preparation of Test Plan for QA
- Execution of Test Cases in UAT.
- Issue Tracking and solutions during UAT
- Research and analyzing to develop a new products.
- Sharia Compliance Products Development.
- Product Demonstration and presentation.
- Product Training to the different departments on Islamic Mode of Finance.

Product Specialist Islamic Banking à Craft Sillicon Ltd
  • Kenya
  • mai 2009 à août 2012

Product Analyzing Business Requirement analyzing and documentation, involve with developers in development of Sharia Base Islamic Financial Product and QAC activities to check accuracy of the functionality of product.

- Product Manager for the Islamic Treasury, Islamic Banking, Islamic Micro Finance System and Islamic Wealth Management System.
- Development and up-gradation of sharia base Islamic product in the existing software, requirement gathering from the client and documentation for the same with accurate functionality whichever is a fit for the product as per the sharia guidelines.
Provided Functional Inputs to the development team for various Islamic banking modules.
Interface between the client and the software development team to get work done from the developer on scheduled time.
- Documentation of Business Requirement
- Arbisation of Islamic Banking Product.
- Documentation for Test Cases.
- Preparation of Test Plan for QAC of the product.
- Research and analyzing to develop a new products.
- Deployment of the products.
- Demonstration of the products to the Clients.
- Product Training to the different departments.

IT Manager à Espry Software Pvt. Ltd.
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • octobre 2004 à mai 2008

- Provided Functional Inputs to the development team for various Trade Finance modules
- Designed a module that transfers the data fed into the front-office systems at Cat-A branches directly to the back-office systems implemented at the Cat-B branches and also generates outgoing SWIFT messages from it.
- Documentation of Test Cases
- Preparation of Test Plan
- Extensive amount of System Testing during development phase
- Requirement gathering & documentation for the Accounting module & for all RBI Reports such as R-Return Vostro, ENC Statement, Xos Statement, Overdraft Exception. These reports were sent to RBI at different frequencies of either fortnightly, monthly or semi-annually

- Data mapping & migration activities from legacy systems
- Extensive UAT. Co-ordinated with the development team & end-users for issues raised during UAT
- Implementation of Loans/Deposit Modules
- Catered to the initial teething issues in the post-implementation phase such as Tallying of Trial Balance, errors in reports, accounting entries
- Provided User Training

Business Analyst Islamic Banking à InfrasoftTech India Ltd
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • mai 2008 à mai 2008

Product Analyzing and development of Sharia Base Islamic Financial Product, Development and QAC activities to check accuracy of the functionality of product.

- Product Head for the Islamic Treasury, Islamic Banking and Islamic Wealth Management System.
- Development and up-gradation of sharia base Islamic product in the existing software, requirement gathering from the client and documentation for the same with accurate functionality whichever is a fit for the product as per the sharia guidelines.
Provided Functional Inputs to the development team for various Islamic banking modules.
Interface between the client and the software development team to get work done from the developer on scheduled time.
- Documentation of Business Requirement.
- Documentation for Test Cases.
- Arbisation of Islamic Banking Product
- Preparation of Test Plan for QAC of the product.
- Research and analyzing to develop a new products.
- Deployment of the products.
- Demonstration of the products to the Clients.
- Product Training to the different departments.
- Successfully Implemented four project at Islamic Banks like Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Doha (Qatar) and Bahrain.

IT Head (Manager) à Kokan Bank Ltd
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • octobre 2003 à septembre 2004

Implementation of Core Banking Solution: Agielfinsol

- Key Banking Features: Cash Management, Inward/Outward Clearing, Payable at Par, Service Charges, Remittances, Term Deposits, Advances, Customer Management, Begin Day/End Day Activities, Standing Instructions, Centralized Batch Processing of all Account Statements
- Furnishing technical inputs to the business initiatives of the branch by way of system feasibility study, defining of priorities and timelines, monitoring of milestones and ensuring their implementation within the given deadlines
- Interfacing with various groups such as Operations, Internal Audit and Business Products team as well as Systems support team, Data Center and Development teams who have a dotted line reporting to me
- Setup of ATMs and their inter-connectivity between 2 branches and the Corporate Office
- Documentation of the systems (design, database, user manuals), UAT result sets, process flows, operational procedures
- Actively involved in vendor interaction and liaison, providing them with Bank’s business needs, evaluating the constraints and capabilities of their product, handling key areas of customization requirement study, holding status update meetings
- Data Migration from legacy system to the agielfinsol by way of field mapping and automated processes
- Training to Branch Staff

IT Officer à Development Credit Bank (DCB),
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • septembre 1999 à octobre 2003

- Production support, Customization & overall Maintenance of INFOREX
- Enhanced the system capability of INFOREX by way of adding the Export Crystallization Bill module
- Auto-uploading of reports to RBI from the INFOREX system
- Functionality Mapping & data migration from Inforex Cat-A system to PowerDealer as well as from Inforex Cat-B system to Finacle
- Extensive UAT of all the modules
- Implementation & Production Support of PowerDealear at FIBD
- Documented the Business Requirements & Specifications (BRS) for Multi-Currency Forward Contracts and Export Bills module
- Implementation support for the Trade Finance module of Finacle by way of seed data creation, defining of processes, ledger accounts & accounting entries, branch-specific checks & validations
- Design and Development of the PowerDealer database in Sybase. Required a feasibility study and a comparative analysis between the architecture of the legacy system (in FoxPro) and Sybase.
- Timely changes in the RBI reports so as to keep them updated with the latest RBI guidelines
- Extensive amount of database designing, parameterisation and normalization
- Documentation, design and development of the Vostro accounts module of PowerDealer
- Prepared the BRS for Packing Credit Loans, Import LCs, Import Bills & Guarantees for Cat-B branches
- Training to the end-users

Programmer à Fast Track System Inc.
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • juin 1996 à juillet 1999

Fast Track System supplied software for trade finance and back office tereasury to so many banks in India such as Abudhabi Commercial Bank Ltd., Vijaya Bank, Central Bank Of India, Banq National De Paris, Centurion Bank and Development Credit Bank Ltd.
1) My role in this company as a programmer to Impliment, Customize Inforex product.
2) User leverl support.
3) Functionality Testing.

Éducation

Baccalauréat, B.Com
  • à Mumbai University
  • avril 1993

B.Com, Specialised in Finance and Accounting, Audit, Costing, Industrial Business Management, Urdu and Mass Communication

Specialties & Skills

Banking
Project Management
Treasury Functions
Islamic Banking
Trade Finance
Power Builder, Sybase, Oracle9i DBA , Unix, Foxpro 2.6
Oracle SQL, PL SQL
POWER BUILDER
Project Management, Islamic Banking Product Development, Business Analysis

Langues

Arabe
Moyen
Anglais
Expert