Raed Daqa, Business Analyst consultant /Payment system expert

Raed Daqa

Business Analyst consultant /Payment system expert

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Location
Italy
Education
Bachelor's degree, Completed a bachelor Degree in Finance
Experience
22 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 7 Months

Business Analyst consultant /Payment system expert at Hidden
  • Italy
  • My current job since April 2015

My main responsibilities include the following duties.
1- Documenting the Business Requirement Document to get a better understanding of client's business processes of the projects using the agile methodology.
2- Writing detailed user stories with acceptance criteria and reviewing with the development teams
3- Developing use cases, workflow, screen mock-ups.
4- Providing feedback on solution design.
5- Performed GAP analysis of existing system and evaluated benefits of new system.
6- Validated technical designs created by IT developers against functional specifications.
7- Functional specification writing skills

Chief of payment systems division at Palestine Monetary Authority(PMA)
  • Palestine - Ramallah and Al Bireh
  • November 2010 to March 2015

My main responsibilities include the following duties but not limited to

 National payment system (RTGS).

1- Administrator of the National Payment System (RTGS)(BURAQ) in Palestine
2- Good experience in the RTGS and its functions.
3- Worked with the payment system team on the Implementation of the RTGS in Palestine.
4- Responsible to ensure that the system operations are carried out smoothly on daily basis and all issues are resolved in an extremely timely and efficient manner
5- Ensure a safe, secure and efficient National Payment System in accordance to applicable national laws as well as the systems' rules and procedures.
6- Monitoring the activity and reports of daily transactions, troubleshooting system problems; acting as an interface with other divisions of the central bank
7- Dealing with all client queries received by the central banks
8- Good knowledge in swift messages, also ISO standards
9- Perform different type of testing, regular, upgrading version, new releases.
10- Provide the necessary training for the member banks and employees.
11- developing all business rules, internal procedures, pricing policy and member agreements in collaboration with the team
12- managing a team of six people
13- Prepare the periodic reports and submit them to the management.

 CHEQUE CLEARING HOUSE.

1- Cheque clearing system admin.
2- Cheque clearing session manager.
3- Experience and knowledge of CHQUE Clearing systems and processes.
4- "Excellent knowledge in automated clearing systems". Since I start working in the PMA I played a
Significant role in testing and developing the new clearing solution … and I perform the following tasks:

a) Business Requirements, Definition & Analysis.
b) Solution Analysis, Design, Process mapping and documentation
c) Analyse, define, and translate business and functional specifications into testing use cases.
d) Planning and leading UAT
e) Preparing test cases, test environment, test tools and support testing process.
f) Execute tests and ensure results achieves documented goals and objectives.
g) Attend project meetings to report on status of testing, communicate issues
h) Participate in client business review sessions to influence decisions regarding use of technology to support objectives or address issues.
i) Provide training for member bank on the new CHQUE clearing solution



 ATM and POS National Switch Project

1- Worked on and prepared alongside with the team a paper about the strategy and way forward and presented it to the governor
2- RFP preparation
3- Business Requirements, Definition & Analysis and mapping the functional specification to the requirement and RFP using tracing matrix technique
4- evaluation committee member reviewing the tenders offers and advise the management accordingly
5- Performing and monitoring testing life cycle.
6- Design an efficient and effective procedure for software testing
7- As a key member of the team I represented the PMA in meetings, price negotiations and discussions with the supplier companies and International Cards scheme association (VISA/MC)
8- participated in a sightseeing visits to some regional central banks and exchanged experience with them regarding this project specifically

chief dealer and acting manager at Tulip financial investment comp. Ramallah
  • Palestine - Ramallah and Al Bireh
  • August 2007 to September 2010

My main responsibilities include the following duties but not limited to

1- Practiced professional in dealing with foreign exchange operations
2- Make sure that each transaction is cleared and settled smoothly and accurately.
3- Monitoring the activity and reports of daily transactions.
4- Troubleshooting systems problems.
5- Managing projects: analysing a system, identifying and specifying developments and improvements and coordinating the testing and implementation of new releases.
6- Acting as an interface with other divisions of the company.
7- Ensuring that client protection rules are adhered to.
8- Identify risks in back office operations and formulate and implement appropriate control.
9- Defines internal policies and the relation with the outside brokers and market makers.
10- Produce monthly Report highlighting areas of over/under achievement and reasons for same

Managing partner at Al-Thuraya Securities Co.
  • Palestine - Nablus
  • August 2004 to June 2007

My main responsibilities include the following duties but not limited to:

1- Responsible for helping manage the daily operation of the company, meeting with clients, brokers and market makers. .
2- Chief dealer
3- Generating new business to ensure revenue & growth targets are met.
4- fundamental and technical financial analysis report writing & auditing
5- Working with the client to identify investments objectives and provide investment advice that suit their risk profile.
6- Prepared reports detailing activities and needed improvements

senior dealer at Trend Line Investment Co.
  • Palestine - Ramallah and Al Bireh
  • February 2002 to June 2004

My main responsibilities include the following duties but not limited to:
1- Responsible for company operations and trades in international markets (Forex and Stocks),
2- Responsible to give Dubai business Channel the report about Palestine Stock Market.
3- Identify new business opportunities
4- Make recommendations to Investment Committee to improve portfolios risk and/or return profile
5- Educating Junior Dealers
6- Representing the dealing room manager on the weekly management meetings during his absence

senior dealer at Sahem brokerage & investment co.
  • Palestine - Ramallah and Al Bireh
  • June 2001 to January 2002

My main responsibilities include the following duties but not limited to
1- Senior trader in Palestine securities exchange.
2- Dealer in foreign exchange market and analyst.
3- During this time I got some training in accounting and human resource department
4- Working as part of a small team of programmers, creating a new desktop application for the financial services to support dealing room activates )

Education

Bachelor's degree, Completed a bachelor Degree in Finance
  • at Birzeit University Ram Allah, Palestine
  • September 2001

Completed a bachelor Degree in Finance, College of Economics and Administrative Studies

Specialties & Skills

Division Management
FX Trading
Payment Systems
Organizational
Computer skills:-
Interpersonal skills

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Payment Systems Workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
Organised jointly by the BIS / CPSS and the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
Date Attended:
May 2011
Payment and Securities Settlement Systems (Training)
Training Institute:
bundesbank-germany
Date Attended:
December 2012
SWIFT Standards (Training)
Training Institute:
swift
Date Attended:
January 2011