Solutions Consultant
WideVision FZCO
Total years of experience :14 years, 4 Months
Pre-Sales and Implementation of Kyriba® as a certified level II consultant. Certified consultant for Cash and liquidity, cash forecasting, deal capture, payments, cash accounting and Kyriba’s core setup.
Ensure success in the entire software implementation process from Pre sales to delivery for Kyriba and Blackline.
Kyriba’s pre sales demonstrations to the prospective sales lead. Prepare Proof of Concepts, responses to RFP’s for the potentially qualified leads.
Successful demos to Blackline to various customers in UAE; among the very few pre sales and solutions expert for Blackline in the region.
Lead implementation projects to enhance client’s treasury and finance processes and ensure that our products; Kyriba/Blackline are there to replace their manual processes, hence enhancing their efficiency.
Experienced Business Analyst - recognizes client needs, perform Data mapping, migration and propose solutions. Further, UAT support.
Lead the workshop for the blueprinting of solutions with the customer. Proactively coordinate with stakeholders to get the sign off.
Lead and moderate the discussions as a solutions consultant, for mapping the product(s) capacity and customers’ required configuration. understand and define customer needs, and ensure best possible solution is proposed to them.
Bridge the gaps between customer requirements and product development team on functional and nonfunctional requirements, in case of any bottlenecks. Suggest work arounds if necessary.
Backing up sales people by visiting leads whenever necessary and engaging with them in producing cost estimates, pre sales demo and in the industry events for our products’ promotion.
The Only Presales and solution’s expert for Blackline® in the company; responsible for training the internal staff for Blackline Modules and implementation.
❖ Explaining business and data requirement to customers for different Front Arena® Modules
❖ Lead the Business data consultancy in Front Arena - clients and counter party setup, vis-à-vis configuring Nostro and Vostro accounts, settlement and confirmation instructions formats (MTs) etc. Accomplished the setup as per mapping.
❖ Conducted Business and Risk Analysis for Credit Limits Tool in Front Arena - mapping counterparties data with Front Arena credit limits tool. Modelling credit limit exposure per counterparty and template development.
❖ Treasury Instrument Setup - Lead the setup for FX forward and options (plain vanilla) for the Front office. The setup included setting up UI, valuation parameters (volatility surfaces etc.), compliance limits and MO reports.
❖ Setting up valuation parameters - yield curves and volatility structures as per market conventions, Bloomberg and Reuters for FX and FI.
❖ User Acceptance testing (UAT) support for operations, accounting and back office modules of Front Arena.
❖ Worked on Python and SQL for configurations/set up and always in proactive communication with the FA core development team wherever the solution to an issue isn’t an out of the box.
❖ Worked closely with Project manager and keep him abreast of deliverable’s timelines. Keep smooth communication with all the stake holders regarding implementation. Discuss and solve any bottlenecks, as it may arise.
❖ Engage with customer in setting up VaR and CVA in Front Arena.
❖ Treasury Accounting Setup - Coordinated with the MO keeping in view IFRS 9 particularly for impairment modelling (PD).
ϖ Conducting risk assessment and establish a year audit plan. Further carry out review according to established audit plan to check control effectiveness
ϖ Conducting risk assessment and establish a year audit plan. Further carry out review according to established audit plan to check control effectiveness.
ϖ Carrying out process audit for the large child rights organization “Save the Children Fund”.
Going through the policies and procedures, discuss and communicate gaps within the processes with the customer. The findings were clearly communicated and documented. Suggesting improvement opportunities in the processes too.
ϖ Reviewing the risk policy of an asset management company to ensure its compliance with the Swedish regulator (Finansinspektionen) and further establishing code of conducts in an internal control engagement.
ϖ Identifying the segregation of duties conflicts after an analysis of the data of one of the largest family owned businesses in Sweden.
ϖ Conducted workshops for identifying risks present within the customers’ business environment. Conduct consequence and probability analysis and establish controls to mitigate these risks.
ϖ Modelling/Analyzing Group hospitalization portfolio for risk-based pricing. Conducted the analysis on past 10 years’ data and devised the rating structures based on statistical analysis of past trends.
ϖ Defined the template with variables (fields) significant for modelling of group hospitalization portfolio pricing.
ϖ Modeling and design of rating structures for motor insurance portfolio.
ϖ Portfolio / actuarial analysis of different classes (e.g. marine, property etc.).
ϖ Identification of grey areas based on data analysis and report improvement opportunities to management.
ϖ Internal audit of various classes of business. An audit includes, conducting data analysis prior to review and investigate the weaknesses identified during the data analysis.
ϖ Conducted thorough data analysis of the audit universe (for e.g. loss ratios, particular client’s loss patterns). Used statistical techniques to identify patterns in the data. Matlab and Excel were the tool for conducting such analysis.
ϖ It was to my credit that I started risk analysis before conventional process audit, by utilizing my background in actuarial sciences.
ϖ Worked closely with the IS/IT department to map and design the template for the data to be derived and to be used for analysis.
Trained the colleagues for usage of Matlab and advanced excel for data analysis.
ϖ Worked on updating/making of controls and Risk metrics (template) for Treasury, Foreign Trade with regards to Foreign Exchange Manual (FEM) of Regulatory Bank in Pakistan.
ϖ Coordinated with different departments to make sure that the risk metrics (template) is up to date. Any new regulations from regulator is adequately incorporated in it.
ϖ Make regular meetings with the departments staff (for e.g. treasury, foreign trade etc.) to communicate them about the new regulations and/or amendments in policies/procedures and if necessary, held the explanatory sessions.
ϖ Worked on regular regulatory compliance reporting to the State Bank of Pakistan, basically an administrative task.
ϖ Worked as coordinator from compliance department during the merger of PICIC and NIB. Made the project implementation plan, after consultation of the stake holders, and devised timelines for merger/integration of data and policies.
ϖ BASEL II implementation projects for standardized methodology.
ϖ Worked in calculation of Credit Risk (as per standardized approach), for the calculation of risk weighted asset and eventually using the results for minimum capital requirements.
ϖ Worked with different departments to make sure that the both qualitative and quantitative data is in adherence to communicated requirements, for calculating risk weighted assets and capital adequacy ratio (BASEL II).
ϖ Conducted gap analysis of credit risk, market risk and operational risk based on standard guidelines.