Abdulrahman Al-Yahya

CIO Chief Information Officer at KPMG AlFozan & Partners

• Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
• My current job since February 2019

Sr. Section Head SAP Competency Center at SAHARA petrochemicals company

• Saudi Arabia - Jubail
• June 2010 to January 2019

Designation Chronology:
 Oct 2017 - Present: Sr. Section Head SAP Competency Center
 Jun 2010 - Sep 2017: Section Head SAP Competency Center
 Sept 2007 - May 2010: System Analyst - HR


Highlights:
 Lead in the creation of an SAP practices and group, designed the overall SAP strategy in alignment with organizational mission and vision, worked with IT Steering Committee to determine business priorities, requirements and manage delivery expectation.
 Enabled effective strategic decisions throughout the business and provided the necessary controls to ensure appropriate execution through SAP.
 Proposed strategic methods to ensure the business gets what it requires in the most cost effective, time efficient manner in liaison with internal customers (BPO’s) as well as oversaw performance of SAP to minimize the SAP total cost of ownership.
 Managed IT department frequently and in many occasions during year-end closing and budgeting cycles.

Key Responsibilities:
 Supporting requirements capture from the key business areas, overseeing planning, and budget processes, managing day-to-day operation to ensure the business solution performs effectively.
 Maintaining integrity of processes, preparing performance reports and project status reports either on request or periodically for the IT Steering Committee.
 Keeping IT strategy aligned with the changing business needs, determining and managing priorities, staffing, scheduling and use of relevant technologies in accordance with IT objectives.
 Ensuring the technical landscape is appropriately robust, reliable and scalable; conducting contractual & technical reviews and negotiating favourable contracts with partners and vendors in accordance organizational Supply Management policies.
 Serving as an administrative liaison, overseeing effective utilization of resources (Human, Technology or Financial for the IT department) in addition to handling the SAP team activities related to Vacation planning, Training Planning, Grievance, etc.
 Providing technical leadership and management for the SAP team, formulating yearly objectives and managing the general oversight of the daily activities of the group to ensure that business objectives and plans are achieved while meeting SAP support and service levels.
 Offering scalable solutions for the SAP environment, acting as an escalation point for all SAP issues, mediating effectively with SAP heads in the region, attending regional communication and meetings to exchange knowledge and ideas to satisfy organizational requirements.
 Providing support and expertise for all business areas including operations, tactical changes and enhancements to SAP System and ensured consistent use of SAP across all business units.
 Engage in internal and external corporate discussions to achieve strategic objectives and improve operational efficiencies and financial performance. (i.e. SAHARA/ Sipchem TAKAMOL project and SAHARA/IBM IT Strategic outsourcing)
 Oversee the completion of assigned strategic objectives developed via our internal Strategy exercise for SAHARA 2021 “Minhaj”.
 Acting as a program manager for SAP related projects to insure successful, timely and on-budget completion.

Recruitment Specialist at Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)

• Saudi Arabia - Jubail
• July 2005 to August 2007

Highlights:
• Developed a comprehensive recruitment strategy including recruitment procedure, interviewed candidates, and managed the Yearly Recruitment Requirement.

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead organizational development process that plans, communicates, and integrates results of strategic planning throughout the organization and developed line of business recruitment strategies aligned to annual business goals.
• Interacted with all Shared Services Divisions to establish requirements for personnel and consolidated visa requirement designing recruitment guidelines. Recommending key HR policies and formulating KPIs.
• Provided active support in the selection of recruitment agencies which meet the corporate standard, searching for suitable candidates and conducting Job Interviews.
• Ensured timely recruitment of required level/quality of management staff, other business lines staff in order to meet business needs, focusing on employee retention and key employee identification initiatives.
• Managed all integrated HR functions from recruitment to job analysis, preparation of salary offers till the finalization of the Salary Offer Process.
• Managed and steered strategic projects towards fruition, devised HR policies and maintained cordial relations with Governmental Agencies.
• Oversaw all elements critical to the success of the HR function including formalities and communicating logistical information to respective department as well as drafting of Weekly Status Reports.
• Evaluated and checked invoices received from Recruitment Agencies and released them for payment. Attended KFUPM open day and career day as well as delivered Mass notification to Candidates through SMS.