Associate Director
National Bank of Abu Dhabi
Total years of experience :27 years, 2 Months
Dealing with Corporates and FI customer's.
• Recruited to visit customer and increase direct dealing customers to treasury portfolio
• Visited 60 customers in three months and converted 25 to direct dealing customers to treasury. Gained rating of 5 in half yearly appraisal for this.
• Added 5 customers to online platform for treasury. Gained 5 in appraisal for this.
• Appreciated in appraisal for customer friendly / satisfaction.
• Updating customers' on fx movements and booking deals in K-plus system.
• Conducting day to day business from treasury point of view of corporate and SME customers.
Current Job (Senior Corporate Dealer)-Natl Bank of Fujairah. Jul 2008- Current
• Managing portfolio of SME, Commercial and Services and Manufacturing customers for National Bank of Fujairah and concluding deals in spot, forward and swaps.
• Over achieved revenue target by over 30% in 2010 and 2011 from my portfolio of customer’s.
• Extensive knowledge of Fujairah based customers; including corporate and government companies’.
• Visiting customer’s to ensure smooth and friendly working relationship.
• Calling customers and updating them on market movements-current and future market trends.
• Writing daily commentary for NBF customers; update on currency trends.
• Writing weekly commentary for NBF customers; wrap up of currency trends.
Recent job (Treasury Sales Manager-Standard Chartered Bank-SME Banking. Oct 2006-Jun 2008
• Responsible for managing the banks SME customer’s and quoting and booking FX spot, forward and swaps deals. Later on shifted to servicing SME’s Priority segment for fulfillment of their FX business needs.
• Initially responsible for Increasing FX revenue from Abu Dhabi Customer's by over 200 percent in 3 months.
• Calling and visiting customers and updating them on market movements-current and future.
Back office/Treasury operations of a reputed local bank, Dubai APR-05/SEPT.06
Main responsibilities include:
Central Bank AED payments. (Knowledge of Central Bank fund transfer system)
Foreign currency SWIFT payment (Knowledge of Message maker system)
Verification of deals imputed by dealers (Knowledge of Kondor & KTP systems)
Deal Confirmation (Knowledge of Swift Accord)
Nostro reconciliation
Worked as a corporate dealer in the dealing room of a reputed foreign bank. Extensive knowledge of spot, forwards and swaps. Also basic knowledge of various derivative products the bank has to offer. Furthermore, having a portfolio of over 30 customers (including big multinational companies) and servicing and managing their foreign exchange requirements by way of spots, forwards and swaps. Responsibilities included:
• Calling customer's daily and updating them with market commentaries and future trend of currencies and preparing call report for the same.
• Visiting customer's to increase revenue /their share of business to the bank and preparing visit report for the same.
• Handling customer complaints pertaining to other departments in the bank.
• Doing industry research for customer's and updating them of market trends in their industry.
• Preparing daily rates for customer and branches.
• Updating Cash Management system with forex commentary and rates.
• Collecting and covering daily FX requirements by branches and dealers.
• Updating daily deals in the deal system, and tallying them with respective dealers and back office.
• Preparing monthly turnover and profit reports. Branch / Customer wise.
• Writing daily commentary for one week in a month.
• Writing weekly commentary once a month.
Cash management/Operations Coordinator/Treasury Operations- Global Corporate (06/1996-11/2000)
Support a large portfolio of the bank’s Cash Management corporate relationships. Responsible for
Day to day work responsibilities of the Corporate Bank.
. Experience in various sections of the Corporate Bank including Clearing, Outgoing International
Transfers (foreign and local currency), Drafts and the Cash Management Section
. Maintaining Departmental Control Function Check list
. Preparing various reports and proofs for department
. Expertise in USD payments including chips, Uid and Swift.
. For the past one year handling the PAYLINK section of the Cash Management department which includes:
Uploading messages from Bahrain to the main system in Citibank Dubai
Translation of incoming messages in FT
Auto authorization of messages
Processing/Printing of checks received through the system
Reconciliation of reports
Handling various customers inquiries
. Practical exposure of up to 6 months on every processing unit