Zaheer Abbas, IT Project Manager

Zaheer Abbas

IT Project Manager

Banque Saudi Fransi

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, MBA - General Studies
Experience
17 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 8 Months

IT Project Manager at Banque Saudi Fransi
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since November 2017

Project Mangaement - End to End Implementation.

Actively engaged in implementation of IFRS9 - ECL (Expected Credit Loss) application as per regulatory deadline and regular BAU of provisions submission to SAMA.

Intermediate Review and Remediation of IFRS9 Models (Moody’s).

Facilitated with vendors & suppliers especially with SAS.

Providing regular business support for the Risk business products like SAS - EGRC for Operational Risk, FRMS - Fraud Risk Management System & IFRS.

IT Project Manager at Almusbah Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • May 2014 to August 2017

¬ Manages multiple projects with deliverables from planning to completion by facilitating project meetings, develop and oversee work breakdown structures (WBS), managing project plans, schedules, resources,  project performance.
¬ Direct and manage the project development from beginning to end to certify the attended & unattended EFTPOS device for Saudi Arabian Market from SAMA (Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency), MTIP (Master Card) & ADVT (VISA).
¬ End-End testing using ASTREX simulator for offline certification.
¬ To integrate unattended EFTPOS in Auto Pay Machine(Italy) for Off street Parking & PnD Machine (Parkeon Pay and Display - France) for On street Parking.
¬ Co-ordination with VISA (ADVT) & Master card (MTIP) for EMV certification and SAMA for MADA Payment.
¬ Setting the Key Injection Facility as per SAMA guidelines.
¬ Co-ordination with Thales HSM vendor for key injection.
¬ To design, develop & deploy the Saudi’s first mobile application for parking. It’s a real time map based application for on street and off street parking. a) Mawgif App - iOS b) Mawgif App - Android
¬ Integrated eWallet payment & online recharge for eWallet using Visa and Master card with features like tokenization.
¬ Built mobile app team for various project.
¬ Point of contact for card reader supplier.
¬ Responsible for coordination and communication with outsourced vendor. Reviewed performance on a weekly basis, worked on change requests for scope/budget.
¬ Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents
¬ Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify risk and devise contingency plans
¬ Experienced in running both internal & external project & status Meetings.
¬ Highly effective in leading teams and driven for performance. Leader and Team player 
¬ Created the Vendor Assessment document contains the thorough analysis of Buy-Build analysis for Management decision making.

System Analyst at Samba Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2008 to March 2014

¬ Gathered detailed business & system requirements from various business team like Risk Management, Private Banking and HR.
¬ Created functional requirements documentation, use case and system design documentation.
¬ Worked as a liaison between development team and QA team and involved in all levels of application testing; SIT, Regression, UAT.
¬ Extensively worked with Risk & Customer Portfolio Management Unit to implement various risk and customer related products for bank.
¬ Moody’s KMV Risk Analyst - Configured and implemented the Moody’s Application, Model Development as per business inputs,
Providing support to business users in using the Moody’s Risk Analyst application to arrive at the Final Obligor Risk Rating (ORR).
¬ Relationship Management System (RMS) - Involved in offline programs development to fetch the collateral and exposure details from different system like Tadawul, Mutual Fund, Credit Card & etc. through ETL offline jobs. Impact analysis & Data Migration for Temenos T24 integration & migration.
¬ Created & Maintained the Business Objects universe for diverse report
¬ WMS -Wealth Management System - Developed daily offline programs to get the RMS data on T-1 basis to display in WMS system.
¬ Credit Work Flow - Provided then necessary data from RMS to CWF to process the work flow approval from Country Credit Risk.
¬ HRMS - Supported the existing application with enhancement and BAU Support for the entire modules like Payroll, Recruitment & etc.
¬ Basel II - Collected risk ratings from different rating agency like S&P, Moody’s & Fitch system to upload in to Basel data warehouse system.
¬ Fixed Asset System - Support the existing system and developed depreciation rate logic as per business request.
¬ Fixed bugs, performed unit testing, regression testing. 

Project Engineer at Stratycon Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • May 2006 to March 2008

¬ Web Application Development using ASP.Net.
¬ Test and maintain existing application.
¬ Trouble shoots the production issues and fixing them.
¬ Writing unit test methods to make sure that functionality is working
Fixed bugs, performed unit testing, regression testing.

Education

Master's degree, MBA - General Studies
  • at Annamalai University
  • May 2012
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
  • at Mohamed Sathak Engineering College
  • May 2005

Got GPA 75% Distinction

Specialties & Skills

Agile Project Management
Banking
IT Project Management
Business Objects
Sybase SQL
MS EXCEL,ACCESS
MF-COBOL
SAS Programming & SAS BI
Project Management
Crystal Reports

Languages

English
Intermediate
Tamil
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Urdu
Intermediate
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified Professional in .net (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2005
Valid Until:
January 9999
ITIL® 2011 Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
MS Excel Advanced Skills (Training)
Training Institute:
Samba Bank
Moody's Risk Analyst (Training)
Training Institute:
Samba Bank
SAS certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999
Anti Fraud Awareness - "Understanding and Managing Frauds" (Training)
Training Institute:
Samba Bank
Data Analysis and Reporting [DART] and LGD Tool Training (SIMAH) (Training)
Training Institute:
Samba Bank
Unattended Payment System Workshoop (Training)
Training Institute:
Globalcom - Italy
Information Security - World Security Challenge (Training)
Training Institute:
Samba Bank
The Anti-Money Laundering (AML) & Combating Terrorism Financing (Training)
Training Institute:
Samba Bank
Application Security Fundamentals (Training)
Training Institute:
Samba Bank
Personal Effectiveness (Training)
Training Institute:
Samba Bank
SAS OPRISK (Operational Risk) Work Shop (Training)
Training Institute:
Samba Bank