Razan Ali, HR & Platform Director for Middle East and Africa

Razan Ali

HR & Platform Director for Middle East and Africa

xFusion Digital Technologies LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, biochemistry
Experience
9 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :9 years, 0 Months

HR & Platform Director for Middle East and Africa at xFusion Digital Technologies LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since December 2021

Key Responsibilities:
• Partnered with the Management team and line managers to develop and expand business
in Middle East & Africa.
• Fostered relationships with the Management team and Team Leads to identify workforce
needs, evaluate performance and provide recommendations to drive productivity for
employees.
• Managed the end-to-end employee cycle, including recruitment, onboarding, intratransfers and exits of five other organizations within the Xfusion Group portfolio across
world.
• Collaborated with HODs and the Finance team on budgeting and forecasting for periodic
workforce and succession planning.
• Led talent development initiatives, including employee skills assessment, knowledge
sharing activities, training plans implementation etc.
• Fostered a high-performing work culture through cyclical performance management,
reward and recognition frameworks, and job enrichment processes.
• Deployed the company's Human Resource Management System (HRMS), which
simplified most HR-related processes for staff and minimized time spent on HR
transactional activities.
• Help in business setup for all the business department in the company.
• Draft and Set the HR policies and HR company regulations.
• Led strategic talent management activities, including recruitment, deployment,
development, engagement, retention, and promotions for employees.

HR Director for Middle East and Africa at Huawei Technologies LLC
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • August 2017 to May 2022

Key Responsibilities:
• Partnered with the Management team and line managers to develop and expand business
in Middle East & Africa.
• Fostered relationships with the Management team and Team Leads to identify workforce
needs, evaluate performance and provide recommendations to drive productivity for
employees.
• Managed the end-to-end employee cycle, including recruitment, onboarding, intratransfers and exits of five other organizations within the Xfusion Group portfolio across
world.
• Collaborated with HODs and the Finance team on budgeting and forecasting for periodic
workforce and succession planning.
• Led talent development initiatives, including employee skills assessment, knowledge
sharing activities, training plans implementation etc.
• Fostered a high-performing work culture through cyclical performance management,
reward and recognition frameworks, and job enrichment processes.
• Deployed the company's Human Resource Management System (HRMS), which
simplified most HR-related processes for staff and minimized time spent on HR
transactional activities.
• Help in business setup for all the business department in the company.
• Draft and Set the HR policies and HR company regulations.
• Led strategic talent management activities, including recruitment, deployment,
development, engagement, retention, and promotions for employees.

HR Specialist for UNAMID and UNISFA at Gulf Catering Company, Dubai
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2016 to August 2017

Key Responsibilities:
● Responsible for performing a variety of human resource support duties.
● Assists in maintaining the human resource database and all employee records and files.
● Handles payroll processing and tracks and reports payroll information.
● Completes assigned reporting functions involving attendance statistics, termination, hire
and transfer data, and other information assigned.
● Provides recommendations regarding the development and administration of human
resource policies and programs.
● Assists in informing new employees of human resource policies and programs as needed.
Performs general office support functions and assists area personnel as necessary.

HR Account Manager at Zebian Services Company
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • July 2016 to July 2016

Key Responsibilities:
● Daily following up with the staff, sending weekly report, monitor daily attendance.
● Investigate and understand absence of staff.
● Monitor scheduled absences such as holiday or travel and coordinate action to ensure the
staff absence has been adequately covered.
● Checking overtime and leave applications, following up the medical insurance, provide
advice and assistance to the staff.
● Administrating payroll, keeping employee’s records, outdoor representative.
● Insurance coordinator and responsible for outsourcing staff for SAYGA, Nile Petroleum
Co., CAPO, GAID, Safola Oil.
● Payroll Analysis, KPI, Training Staff, Interview and hiring new staff.
Promoted as HR Training &Development Manager:
● Set Training assessment needs.
● Annual training plan & set a budget for training and development of training programs.
● Assisting line managers and trainers to solve specific training problems, evaluating
training and development programs.
● Working in a team to produce programs that are satisfactory to all relevant parties in an
organization, such as line managers, accountants and senior managers at board level.
Promoted as HR Project Manager for Huawei Technologies Co.:
● Payroll and benefits controller.
● Payments Controller, finance follow-up (Bank Cheques, Payment for supplier, Social
Insurance payment, Medical insurance payments).
● Responsible for Outsource staff Daily attendance, Business trip.
● Weekly reports, recruitment, medical insurance follow-up, Social Insurance.
● Overtime calculations and preparation of payroll, KPIs, Budget controller and benefits
controller. Responsible for Zain FM Project & MTN MS Project staff in Gadraf, Kassala,
Port Sudan, New Halfa and Sankat.
● Responsible for Cash Advance for site engineers and offset.
● Responsible for organizing business trips and business trip allowance for the site engineer
for various Zain Project in Atbra.
● Organize events for the staff like birthday parties, welcome parties, welfare and training
course. Create e-invoice and payment organize.

HR at Hiba International Recruitment & Manpower Supply Company Ltd.
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • June 2013 to June 2014

Key Responsibilities:
● Daily following up with the staff, sending weekly report, monitor daily attendance,
investigate and understand absence of staff, monitor scheduled absences such as holiday
or travel and coordinate action to ensure the staff absence has been adequately covered.
● Checking overtime and leave applications, following up with medical insurance.
● Provide advice and assistance to the staff.
● Administrating payroll, keeping employee’s records, outdoor representative, insurance
coordinator and Key Account for outsourcing staff for Organizations like UNICEF, GCC,
Huawei.

Education

Bachelor's degree, biochemistry
  • at Helwan University
  • May 2013

Specialties & Skills

Development Of Policies
Human Resources
Compensation and Benefits
HR Business Partnering
Human Capital Management
Team Leadership
Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS)
Talent Management
Organizational Culture
Performance Appraisal

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

CHRP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2022