Maha Ali
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Experience
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United Gulf Bank
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Bahrain
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Investment Banking
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1 - 100 Employee
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Manager
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Feb 2007 - Present
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Assistant Manager
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Feb 2007 - Present
Handling office management on a floor management basis Performing all administrative functions necessary to maintain smooth workflow in the divisions and providing secretarial and administrative support to Heads of Investment Banking and Asset Management. Designing and communicating top management messages. Handling the public relations work for three years and took care of producing the annual report, bank's presentation, and other bank's publications. Dealing with the group public relations department to align with the overall strategy. Maintaining and updating the filing systems, handling all office operations and procedures, and anticipating and handling the needs of Head of Investment Banking and Asset Management. Drafting routine correspondences, providing overall work direction and supervision over the divisions’ activities. Carrying out various secretarial and administrative duties in the divisions, including answering telephone calls, taking messages, typing in Arabic and English, and preparing all travel arrangements. Supporting project work such as assistance on PowerPoint presentations, Excel & MS Word and assistance with institutional contacts. Conducting research in support of transactions, when required. Communicating with high-level individuals and corporate clients and preparing required proposals and briefs to the top management. Managing internal communications across the bank and mother group. Assisting other divisions of the Bank, when change is required. Analyzing and reviewing fund’s return and risk statistics and preparing investment recommendations. Preparing the quarterly investment reviews. Preparing investment subscriptions and arranging for the KYC documents required. Preparing weekly and monthly portfolio performance reports. Communicating with corporate entities and following up on various issues. Looking after the AGM’s responsibilities during his absence.
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Assistant
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2006 - 2007
Translating the documents for the C.E.O. Providing secretarial services to Investment Director, including typing, correspondence, filing, making travel arrangements such as visas, flight bookings and hotel accommodation. Managing the Investment Director diary, coordinating and scheduling appointments, as needed ensuring all parties are kept abreast of any meeting changes. Answering and screening telephone calls and taking messages. Establishing and maintaining organized filing system, correspondence and other records. Coordinating facility needs for all meetings. Assessing the Investor Officers in their presentations, Excel and other requirements.
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Ministry of Works
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Bahrain
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Construction
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700 & Above Employee
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Training Specialist
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2004 - 2006
Planning, developing, implementing and managing the training, education and organizational development programs. Conducting needs analysis and recommending, designing and implementing additional innovative training programs based on this analysis. Involving the Ministry's employees in their training strategy to highlight their strengths and weaknesses and feel their training needs that will allow them to meet their work target and therefore together to the overall organization's strategy target. Developing a means of measuring the effectiveness of training programs through testing and evaluations.
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Administration Technician, Undersecretary Office
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2002 - 2004
Establishing the Undersecretary's office database and internal communications strategy and maintaining effective communication channels and solid database. Making sure that the day-to-day administration of the office runs smoothly. Overseeing driver, office boys, and Admin assistant. Attending to citizens calls', complains, claims, and requests and communicating them to the concerned parties. Effectively following up with the concerned party to make sure a feedback is given to the citizen and the required action is taken. Maintaining efficient filing system (hard & soft). Ensuring incoming calls are answered in efficient manner and messages are clearly communicated to concerned parties. Ensuring diary appointments and travel itineraries are efficiently organized. Representing the point of contact between the Undersecretary's office and all other Ministry departments. Communicating office memorandums from Minister's office to all other Ministry departments and preparing a report summarizing the departments' results and issues to the Minister's office. Coordinating all travel arrangements: flights, car hire, hotel bookings etc. Preparing letters and any other required reports and documents. Maintaining contacts database. Undertaking other ad hoc projects as required Providing administrative and secretarial support, including, but not limited to, greeting visitors, receiving and distributing mail and correspondence, gathering data and compiling various report for management, conducting project and assignments, photocopying materials, maintaining files, ordering supplies and issuing correspondence. Undertaking the office-related HR and finance matters. Taking care of the Undersecretary’s personal requirements. Handling the petty cash and office budget management.
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Education
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University of Strathclyde
MBA, Business Administration -
University of Bahrain
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Business Information Systems