Ali Zaidi
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Gordon Scott-Brown
Ali is a pleasure to work with, providing consistent positive approach to the team's varied portfolio of projects. Ali has been a significant asset to business and technical projects as he constantly challenges the herd instinct with positive critical thinking and maintains an overall delivery focus. I would highly recommend Ali to any project that also requires well developed stakeholder management skills alongside well developed project management discipline and formalised business analysis
Kevin Byrne, SA-A, PMP, CSPO, CSM, SSM, CMFC
I worked with Ali on a large scale transformation programme - personable and professional, he impressed me with his ability to quickly assess complex problems, understand stakeholder requirements and present solutions and recommendations that resonated with a senior audience. With a results driven mindset, he was able to autonomously prioritize and balance demanding workloads to ensure delivery that exceeded expectations. It was a great experience working so closely with Ali and I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again.
Gordon Scott-Brown
Ali is a pleasure to work with, providing consistent positive approach to the team's varied portfolio of projects. Ali has been a significant asset to business and technical projects as he constantly challenges the herd instinct with positive critical thinking and maintains an overall delivery focus. I would highly recommend Ali to any project that also requires well developed stakeholder management skills alongside well developed project management discipline and formalised business analysis
Kevin Byrne, SA-A, PMP, CSPO, CSM, SSM, CMFC
I worked with Ali on a large scale transformation programme - personable and professional, he impressed me with his ability to quickly assess complex problems, understand stakeholder requirements and present solutions and recommendations that resonated with a senior audience. With a results driven mindset, he was able to autonomously prioritize and balance demanding workloads to ensure delivery that exceeded expectations. It was a great experience working so closely with Ali and I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again.
Gordon Scott-Brown
Ali is a pleasure to work with, providing consistent positive approach to the team's varied portfolio of projects. Ali has been a significant asset to business and technical projects as he constantly challenges the herd instinct with positive critical thinking and maintains an overall delivery focus. I would highly recommend Ali to any project that also requires well developed stakeholder management skills alongside well developed project management discipline and formalised business analysis
Kevin Byrne, SA-A, PMP, CSPO, CSM, SSM, CMFC
I worked with Ali on a large scale transformation programme - personable and professional, he impressed me with his ability to quickly assess complex problems, understand stakeholder requirements and present solutions and recommendations that resonated with a senior audience. With a results driven mindset, he was able to autonomously prioritize and balance demanding workloads to ensure delivery that exceeded expectations. It was a great experience working so closely with Ali and I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again.
Gordon Scott-Brown
Ali is a pleasure to work with, providing consistent positive approach to the team's varied portfolio of projects. Ali has been a significant asset to business and technical projects as he constantly challenges the herd instinct with positive critical thinking and maintains an overall delivery focus. I would highly recommend Ali to any project that also requires well developed stakeholder management skills alongside well developed project management discipline and formalised business analysis
Kevin Byrne, SA-A, PMP, CSPO, CSM, SSM, CMFC
I worked with Ali on a large scale transformation programme - personable and professional, he impressed me with his ability to quickly assess complex problems, understand stakeholder requirements and present solutions and recommendations that resonated with a senior audience. With a results driven mindset, he was able to autonomously prioritize and balance demanding workloads to ensure delivery that exceeded expectations. It was a great experience working so closely with Ali and I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again.
Experience
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Synpulse
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Switzerland
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Manager
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May 2023 - Present
Management consultant for UK Banking and Financial Services Management consultant for UK Banking and Financial Services
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HaiX AI
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Advisor
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Apr 2020 - May 2023
Advisory for an innovative AI fintech seeking to solve for industry challenges and deliver enterprise AI solutions to optimize real-time data insights, predictions, classifications, anomaly detection. Built on MVP for Financial Services, explored new use cases refined product-market fit and advised on early-stage growth strategy, now hitting 7+ figures in ARR. Advisory for an innovative AI fintech seeking to solve for industry challenges and deliver enterprise AI solutions to optimize real-time data insights, predictions, classifications, anomaly detection. Built on MVP for Financial Services, explored new use cases refined product-market fit and advised on early-stage growth strategy, now hitting 7+ figures in ARR.
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Credit Suisse
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Switzerland
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Sourcing - Finance Transformation Lead
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Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Finance / Reg Change supporting CFO organisation Programme / Project Management Finance / Reg Change supporting CFO organisation Programme / Project Management
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Deutsche Bank
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Germany
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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CIB Anti Financial Crime Programme - Central Team
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Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Project Manager covering a range of KYC strategic initiatives sponsored by the COO Project Manager covering a range of KYC strategic initiatives sponsored by the COO
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HSBC
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Manager - Global Risk Analytics Transformation
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Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
Deploying LGD/PD/EAD IRB models to the strategic risk architecture
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Project Manager - Wholesale Risk Models Transformation
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May 2015 - Jun 2019
Building an industry joint venture to create a shared infrastructure solution in the model development life cycle space - addressing cost and regulatory challenges
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Lead Project Manager – Model Validation Utility
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Sep 2018 - May 2019
Project lead to assess the potential scope and design for a model validation utility
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Project Lead – Financial Crime Transformation Programme
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May 2016 - Oct 2017
Developing and implementing the strategy for a $100mm+ transformation programme across the financial crime organisation (transaction monitoring, payments and customer screening)
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Project Manager - FRTB Strategic Transformation Programme
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Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
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Workstream Lead – Group Operations Landscape Review
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May 2015 - Dec 2015
Conducted a comprehensive review across risk, finance, technology and operations with an addressable scope of 50,000 FTE and $3bn to identify utility and IP monetization opportunities
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Grant Thornton UK LLP
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United Kingdom
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Accounting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Project Manager / Business Analyst
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Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Led a work stream to assess AML front to back opportunities for streamlining through strategic sourcing and industry innovation Led a work stream to assess AML front to back opportunities for streamlining through strategic sourcing and industry innovation
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Credit Suisse
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Switzerland
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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CFO / CRO IT - Data Sourcing Business Analyst / Project Manager
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Feb 2011 - Feb 2015
Full SDLC experience. Delivered migration for Moscow Branch onto strategic architecture and EMEA data sourcing for Basel III reporting Full SDLC experience. Delivered migration for Moscow Branch onto strategic architecture and EMEA data sourcing for Basel III reporting
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Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Lead Business Analyst, Emerging Markets Exotics Risk IT
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Mar 2010 - Dec 2010
Delivered upgrade of the legacy Emerging Markets technology stack. Documented business requirements and functional specifications for EM exotics trade life-cycle management Delivered upgrade of the legacy Emerging Markets technology stack. Documented business requirements and functional specifications for EM exotics trade life-cycle management
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Goldman Sachs
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Associate, Global Operations
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Aug 2006 - Mar 2010
Manager within Margin, Valuations and Pricing team covering equity, credit, fx and fund derivative products for reporting Manager within Margin, Valuations and Pricing team covering equity, credit, fx and fund derivative products for reporting
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Credit Suisse
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Switzerland
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Analyst
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2005 - 2006
Client Services Group Client Services Group
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Sunrise Brokers LLP
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Equity Derivatives Broker
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Apr 2002 - Dec 2003
Equity derivatives broker for FTSE index options desk Equity derivatives broker for FTSE index options desk
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Education
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The University of Manchester
BSc Management Science -
King's College School Wimbledon
A Levels, AAB (Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics) - GCSE 2A*, 6A, 2Bs
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