Farid Badarneh
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Credentials
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Investment Administration Qualified Program
Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI)
Experience
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Kamco Invest
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Kuwait
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Investment Management
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200 - 300 Employee
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Manager
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Dec 2019 - Present
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Global Investment House
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Investment Management
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500 - 600 Employee
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Manager - Fund Administration
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Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
● Preparing extensive "Request for Proposal" for newly acquired fund administration software and playing a major role in the implementation of the chosen fund administration software ‘PROSPERO – SAGE’● I was part of the operations restructuring team during the company’s restructuring its debts which required us to coordinate and liaise with more than 50 banks in order to transfer assets registered in different jurisdictions to the creditors. This specifically involved reconciliation of the assets and transfers within specific deadlines as well as conduct in-kind liquidation of transferred assets and prepare transfer cards.● Resolving considerable legacy issues at the operation’s department at Global Investment House – Saudi Arabia to ensure consistency with the headquarters and other regional offices. I relocated for 2 months to the company’s office in Riyadh to establish and manage new operations team.● Implementing and building the requirements to ensure compliance with Capital Market Authority ‘CMA’ new regulation relating to investment funds.● Assist management in procuring the ownership documents and requirements for seamless transfer from registrar / depositories / custodian for restructuring due diligence and transfer of assets respectively. ● I played a major role in a project to build a tool to extract information’s from the company’s internal system and upload to Ci Net.
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Assistant Manager - Fund Aministration
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Mar 2013 - Mar 2017
● Timely preparation of NAV calculation along with supporting documents, processing of subscription and redemption forms and updating the client's data.● Coordination with other departments including fund managers to ensure accuracy of fund's performance calculations and conduct all administrative work related to assigned funds for entire team.● Ensuring fulfillment of regulatory requirements including fortnightly, quarterly and annual regulatory reports (eg: CBK, CMA, KSE, CMA SA and CBB).● Prepare trial balance for the CMA in Kuwait. ● Liaise and resolve queries raised by fund's external auditors and internal auditors in order to complete all audit requirements.● Ensure that the draft FS is in compliance with prospectus, respective regulations and applicable accounting standards. ● Liaise with fund custodians, administrators and registrar & transfer agents to ensure fund support and administration functions.● Monitoring our branch in Saudi Arabic on a daily basis.● Process loan transactions in our system at client and company level, maintain and update account records, assist credit department in evaluate client credit worthiness, justify decisions (approvals/rejections) and set up payment plans.● Training, developing and mentoring junior team members responsible for fund support. ● Conducting weekly meetings with team to plan for coming activities and discuss & plan how to resolve unsolved issues.
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Team Leader - Fund Administratio
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Mar 2010 - Mar 2013
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Sr. Officer - Fund Administration
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Mar 2008 - Mar 2010
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Officer - Fund Administration
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Mar 2006 - Mar 2008
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Accountant
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Feb 2004 - Mar 2006
● Prepare all accounting functions and operations.● Handling monthly closing and adjusting of entries.● Banks reconciliation with daily control of the payments and collections. ● Maintaining and controlling the accounts payables & accounts receivable.
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Business Analyst
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Apr 2003 - Feb 2004
● Gathering requirements from clients to customize core product to client's needs.● Training clients to use the new system.● Managing the troubleshoot and support services provided to clients.
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Assistant Financial Analyst - Research Department
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Jun 2002 - Mar 2003
● Supporting financial analysts to compile weekly and monthly reports for the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) and Palestine Stock Exchange (PSE)● Analysis of financial statements of companies covered by our research team in the ASE and PSE
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Education
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Yarmouk University
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Very Good