Cheif of Business Analyst & Business Development Manager
SAMA
Total years of experience :19 years, 3 Months
Chief of Business Analyst & Business Development Manager. in SAMA, responsible for the Banking Operations Deputyships in SAMA, aimed to link the Technology with Business objectives. Driving the change to SAP Banking implementation. Along with the responsibility of all banking products/services for MOF and other Governmental Institution/Agencies. Roles and responsibilities cover:
• Managing the Business Development and Relationship for Banking Operations Deputyship in SAMA aligning Business and IT roadmaps.
• Digital Transformation advisory and consultation, along with driving the solutions delivery aligning Business and Technology teams
• Direct and manage teams of Business / Process Analysts to support business initiatives, process optimization and Innovation
• Responsible to deliver the change management to adopt the transformation program
• Manage the relationship with external organizations i.e. MOF and other Governmental Institutions for the technology and business streams initiatives and Innovation
• Select vender and evaluate the SLA & SOW.
• Develop employee’s knowledge and skills in specific areas of expertise, providing coaching and sponsoring training solutions where necessary
• Implement strong planning and resource forecasting techniques
• Manage staff development, assessment, training, motivation, discipline, recruitment and retention to assist the team in promoting the highest professional standards within the organization
• Member of the Core Banking transformation Executive, Program Leadership committees.
• Projects achievements:
o SAMA’s ERP (SAP) - ERP Business suite and part of it were the Bloomberg rates, payroll and AP payments which integrated to the banking operations: I'm responsible for the project scope, requirements, determine the dependencies, identifying process ownership that related to banking operations, lead & manage the prepare & explore workshops among SAMA’s IT, SAP and business.
o SAMA’s Core Banking (SAP) - support the following areas: Account Management, payment engine, CRM, payment reconciliation, Cash management, Cash distribution and LOC: I’m working with the team to select the products, vendors & the implementation approaches, working with the vendors to determine manpower & man-days, working with business & vendor to define the scope, best practice, solution design, cost, time and implementation approach.
o Single Treasury Account (part of Vision 2030)- utilize the technology & re-engineer the processes related to the government payment orders and revenues to enable MOF to have an accurate and instant cash positioning.
roles and responsibilities cover:
• Gather / analyze project’s requirements and write them down business requirement document.
• Analyze and understand the need for developing new products and services based on the market information/research and guidelines received from Tahweel Management.
• Represent manage and Coordinate with IT and other business group for any bank or Tahweel projects.
• Provide management with the needed information and reports for decision making process to Tahweel
• Interact with all business units and their feedback in improving Tahweel services. Improve the Tahweel process and map them to systemic way.
• Provide the support to the users of all Tahweel systems in addition to generate the needed users manuals that help the users of Tahweel systems.
• Use IT resources (Software & Hardware) to improve all Tahweel services.
• Projects achievements:
o Purpose of Payment & remitter/beneficiary data: Based on our correspondents banks & SAMA regulations, there should be a clear and specific purpose of remittance and some necessary details about both remitter and beneficiary for each payment. The idea of this project is to insure that Alrajhi System is smart enough to include all purposes that match the remitter type and beneficiary too, and smart enough to ask the remitter to provide the beneficiary details if it wasn’t available in the system. The information have to be accurate to achieve Anti Money Laundering & Combating Terrorist Financing (AML / CTF): I was fully responsible for the workshops, gathering the requirements, documenting Business Requirements (BRD), taking the approval from all concerned department, review and approve the vendor proposal and following up the project status with IT department.
o Tahweel on-line Remittance Portal: Currently Alrajhi send more than 1.5 mio remittance transactions to banks worldwide through E-pay (Covering about 68%) & Swift (Covering about 32%). Alrajhi need a faster way with less cost. Since many correspondents banks want to have arrangement with us to connect host to host, we came up with portal host to host connection. The goal of this project is it will save time and money for Alrajhi, the remittance will be instance and the cost will be less for the long term: My role was to come up and study the idea carefully, start making in advanced agreements with some of Alrajhi correspondents banks, assign the roles to the concerned departments, creating the accounting cycle for all different kinds of remittance transactions documenting Business Requirements (BRD) and business processes, taking the approval from all concerned departments, review and approve the vendor proposal and following up the project status with IT department.
roles and responsibilities cover:
• Gather / analyze project’s requirements and write them down business specifications document.
• Arrange and attend meetings with the Clients and suggesting the most appropriate design to match their requirements.
• Analyze and document business processes.
• Supervise integrating systems with SADAD Middleware solutions at client sides.
• Assist in enforcement of project deadlines and schedules.
• Projects achievements:
o Energy Efficiency Label Portal: The idea of this portal was to build a base for current and future Labels and Standards that is managed by Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Org (SASO), where applicants, consumer, retailers and researchers across the kingdom and worldwide will be able to interact and extract data as well as allowing the regulator to view trends and awareness campaigns results on the market.
I was fully responsible for documenting Business and Software Requirements Specifications (BRS & SRS), analyze and document business processes, covering needs for integrating Portal with SADAD through SASO Middleware. Also I was in charge for handling design and development teams output to meet customer needs.
Business Analyst in Customer Care & Billing System (ICMS) at Saudi Telecom Company (STC), role and responsibilities cover:
• Analyze, review and accept / reject business requests and change requests.
• Plan and structure business requests and change orders.
• Arrange and attend meetings with the Business Unit/ Vendors and suggesting the most appropriate design to match the requirements.
• Document Business and Software Requirement Specifications (BRS & SRS).
• Write testing scenarios for functions/changes.
• Test the new functions/changes and launch the system (With the Development Teams).
• Write user manuals to be the reference for training and how to use the systems
• Projects achievements:
o Fibers To The home (FTTH): It was a national scale project divided into four phases with a budget exceeding two billions Saudi Riyal. The objective was to make a transformational change in the internet connectivity for all users around the kingdom with a more robust and fast connection.
I was in charge of understanding business and technical requirements, suggest and design the best procedure to apply this service, link systems with each other’s through interface (API), write down the structure and the screens and test scenarios, apply new services (FTTH) functions, screens, files and the interface, test the new service and launch the system. Also, provide support for post-launch if needed.
o Integrate STC’s black list system with SIMAH: Objective was to connect STC with SIMAH to add/ delete STC customers into/from SIMAH information systems.
I was in charge of understanding the requirements, suggest and design the best procedure to link STC with SIMAH to add/delete STC customers into/from SIMAH Blacklist automatically, act as the main point of contact between STC and SIMAH and manage the process between them, write testing scenarios, test the system, and close the project after accept the final testing.
Accountant in Al Mousa Co. (for Contracting), roles and responsibilities cover:
• Prepare daily income/sales and Compile monthly report.
• Prepare authorized refund vouchers.
• Reconciles records with internal company employees and management, or external vendors or customers.
• Assist in configuration for Accounting Tools (Forms, Processes, Reporting, etc)
• Maintain and monitor the applications that used in purchasing process.
I was involved in some activities in the university and I join some small courses groups
