Sami Zailaei, Compliance Manager

Sami Zailaei

Compliance Manager

Gulf General Cooperative Insurance Company

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Diploma, Certified Compliance Professional
Experience
23 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 10 Months

Compliance Manager at Gulf General Cooperative Insurance Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since October 2015

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Supervise and manage the development, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of all internal systems and processes to ensure compliance with the laws, rules and regulations.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive and adequate compliance program, and annual compliance monitoring plan
- Review all the company policies and procedures and ensure its compliance with the rules and regulations.
- Review all company products and services, identify the compliance risks and gaps, advise on the mitigation and corrective actions, and ensure the implementation of these actions.
- Conduct monitoring visits to the company branches / departments and identify the current / future compliance risks and issues.
- Responsible for Company’s Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorist Financing Program.
- Provide a comprehensive reports to the audit committee and the company management on the compliance / AML issues and compliance level of the company.
- Acting as the point of contact in SAMA, CMA, CCHI, and other regulatory authorities regarding Compliance and AML issues

Senior Project Manager, Strategy and Corporate Development at AlJazira Capital
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2012 to October 2015

Job Purpose:
Manage the daily implementation activities of all business and technical projects, in order to achieve the overall objectives of Strategy and Corporate Development department

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Identify and adopt project management methodology, standards, guidelines and procedures
• Ensure that scope of the project is well defined and that roles and responsibilities of team members are identified
• Develop the business process flows, and policies and procedures
• Responsible for the overall creation, approval, updating and tracking of the projects plan
• Manage, lead, organize and control the project teams and activities
• Arrange for reviews and sign-off for documentary deliverables
• Report projects progress to the management
• Manage resources throughout the projects duration
• Develop project budget and time plan
• Review and evaluate proposals for all potential vendors
• Develop a project write up and evaluation report to the board management

Policies and Procedures Regulatory Compliance Manager at Bank Al-Jazira
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • June 2010 to January 2012

Job Purpose:
Analyze, and review all policies and procedures, Forms/Contracts, Products, and Services across the bank, and ensure its compliance with the rules and regulations of all regulators (e.g. SAMA, CMA, etc.)

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Prepare a comprehensive plan to examine and ensure that all written policies and procedures approved in the bank are consistent with, and conform to, all applicable compliance rules and regulations.
•Assist the Compliance Group Head and his deputy in building the strategy and the roadmap of Compliance Group with regards to rules and regulations including BAJ P&P reviews
•Obtain and maintain an inventory of all relevant compliance Laws, regulations and instructions (and all amendments thereof and rules issued thereafter) related to the bank’s operations and activities.
•Collect and keep an inventory of all bank policies and procedures, products, forms, and contracts.
•Review all BAJ policies and procedures periodically to ensure the bank’s compliance with the latest regulations and instructions related to all operations activities and Banking Legislations of the bank.
•Review all forms and contracts used by all departments and divisions of the bank, as well as advertising and promotion forms to ensure their conformity with the compliance rules instructions.
•Review and approve all existing and new banking products to ensure adherence to statutory requirements.
•Facilitate contact process for any bank employee seeking explanation on statutory requirements, instructions, reporting of irregularities suspicion of inconsistent operations.
•Participate in projects as assigned; provide system improvement recommendations as required.

Business Process Reengineering Analyst at Bank Al-Jazira
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2009 to May 2010

Job Purpose:
Analyze, document and re-engineer the existing key processes across the bank based on the BPR standards and methodology as well as to support BPR initiatives and ensure its alignment with the BPR standards and policies

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Develop Business Process Reengineering guidelines and standards
• Analyze and document the existing processes of all Business and Support Units across the bank
• Re-engineer the existing processes based on the BPR standards and policies
• Enhance BPR quality by reviewing the reengineered processes (as part of Afaq 2012 Programs) and aligning them with best practices
• Ensure compliance of the reengineered processes with BAJ and regulatory policies and guidelines
• Develop the requirements for BPR implementation (i.e. systems customization, forms, etc.)
• Validate & monitor the implementation activities of the reengineered processes
• Verify the implementation of the reengineered processes before the go-live

Achievements:
• Successfully managed, reengineered and delivered the following processes:
- Retail Account Opening Process
- Human Capital Recruitment Process
- IDs Expiry Notification & Blocking Process

Senior Project Manager at Bank Al-Jazira
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • October 2005 to December 2008

Job Purpose:
Manage the daily implementation activities of all business and technical projects of readymade solutions as well as internally developed applications, and to achieve the overall objectives of Special Projects department and operations strategy

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Identify and adopt project management methodology, standards, guidelines and procedures
• Ensure that scope of the project is well defined and that roles and responsibilities of team members are identified
• Develop the business process flows, and policies and procedures
• Responsible for the overall creation, approval, updating and tracking of the projects plan
• Manage, lead, organize and control the project teams and activities
• Arrange for reviews and sign-off for documentary deliverables
• Report projects progress to the management
• Manage resources throughout the projects duration
• Develop project budget and time plan
• Review and evaluate proposals for all potential vendors
• Develop a project write up and evaluation report to the board management

Achievements:
• Successfully managed and delivered the activities for the following projects:
-Voice Trading System
-Corporate Payroll “Rawatebcom”
-Anti Money Laundering
-Mobile Share Trading
-Implement RSA security tokens
-Shares Trading Segregation
-Alternative Delivery Channels (ADCs)
-Corporate Credit Application
-Corporate Centers Project
-IT Help Desk System (BMC Remedy)

MIS Specialist at Riyad Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 1999 to June 2003

Job Purpose:
Collect, analyze and produce reports related to Cards, ATM and POS transactions and settlement in order to be provided to the internal sections and higher management. In addition to design and develop internal application in order to enhance and automate the internal work and to achieve the overall objectives of Electronic Banking Services department.

Achievements:
• Successfully developed and launched “Branch Service Unit” system, and the policies and procedures
• Successfully developed a system to automate generating the monthly report
• Successfully developed and launched “GL-Entries Automation System”
• Successfully developed and launched “Captured Cards System”
• Participated as a Project Assistant Manager in the Electronic Banking Automation Project; the scope of this project is to replace the ATM & POS switch system, and to automate all back office operations i.e. Settlement & Reconciliation, Claims, Cards…etc.
• Participated as a Project Assistant Manager in the 'ATM VISA Acquiring' project

Computer Teacher at Ministry of Education
  • Saudi Arabia - Jizan
  • April 1998 to February 1999

I worked as a computer teacher in Al-Ma'abooj Secondary School in Jazan, Saudi Arabia

Education

Diploma, Certified Compliance Professional
  • at IAFM / LEORON
  • March 2011
Diploma, Certified Trainer for Managing People Concepts
  • at Bank Al-Jazira
  • October 2010
Diploma, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
  • at Best Practice Consulting
  • February 2010
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at King Abdullaziz University
  • January 1998
High school or equivalent, Natural Sciences
  • at Moa'ath Bin Jabal Secondary School
  • August 1990

Specialties & Skills

Instructions
Business Process
Banking
Naturalness
Visual C++, C#
Managing People
MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint
Project Management
Process Reengineering
Internet & Web Design
Networking
3D Graphics & Design, Image Processing
Visual Basic 6.0, Visual .NET
Compliance
Policies and Procedures Development

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Hobbies

  • Photography