Experience

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  National Bank of Kuwait

  • Kuwait
  • Banking
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Chief Financial Officer / Head of Management Information Systems

    • Oct 2022 - Present

    Responsible for directing the fiscal functions in accordance with accepted accounting principles issued by accounting bodies. Responsible for group financial and management accounting and reporting. The role includes the compilation and analysis of periodic financial and management information, management of costs, filing of regulatory and tax related submissions, and overall financial activities within the institution, in accordance with internal policies, Central Bank of Kuwait and Central Bank of Lebanon guidelines, local regulatory governance requirements and accounting principles.Assist with the bank’s strategic planning process and participates, from a financial viewpoint, in discussions around the bank’s long-term goals.Provide timely and accurate analysis of budgets, financial reports and financial trends in order to assist the GM and international banking group CFO in performing their responsibilities; this includes monitoring of the liquidity position of the bank and advising on any actions to be taken to meet operating needs and/or improve efficiency.Skills and abilities:Thorough understanding of banking and financial solutions. Good interpersonal and excellent communication skills. Excellent numerical skills and working knowledge of banking software. Working knowledge of regulations and beat practices regarding personal, commercial or business banking.

  • Performance and Business Development - Senior Manager

    • Jan 2018 - Sep 2022

    Build and Enhance Corporate and Consumer assets and liabilities products; define, develop, analyze, report and recommend strategies, goals, pricing, product features, product programs, product campaigns and customer packages including fees and charges to maximize revenues and enhance portfolios; orchestrate activities associated with ensuring that product deliveries are relevant and meet customer requirements.

  • MIS - Senior Manager

    • Oct 2001 - Dec 2017

    Execute and analyze the sales dashboardsExecute the KRI’s standards for all business and operational unitsImplement 3 consecutive projects with our International Banking Group for both Lebanon and Iraq where was held responsible for Business analysis, system design, user acceptance test and system implementation on Equation noting that I was nominated as the pilot country and received a certificate of Excellence from IBG CEO for the great contribution and outstanding support :Credit Risk Management module, Additional Customer Information and Additional Account Information modules and FATCA new regulations.Head of team responsible for the upgrade of the banking system from Cashier to Equation Branch Automation and from Equation 3.6 to Equation 3.9:Coordinate with all business units to analyze and utilize the new functionalities to their upmostLiaise with the International Banking Group (IBG) located in Kuwait to set the appropriate action plan, roll out and roll back proceduresSet the linkage parameters for the core banking system (back office), the branch interface system (EBA) and for the correlation between the twoConduct quality assurance tests and provide appropriate sign-offCoordinate with all branches and subsidiaries, through IBG, to standardize the reports’ mappings and to generate international financial reporting packs as per BASEL II requirementsHead of the team responsible for the implementation, installation and training of NBK banking system in the overseas branches expansion and system upgrade project: Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq (Work via VPN from Lebanon)Profit Center” Accounting: Regular analysis and updates of requirements, implementation on the bank’s system and automation of statistical results

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  AUL kaslik

  • Kaslik

  • Teacher

    • Feb 2017 - Jan 2020
    • Kaslik

    Management Information Systems teacher. An introductory course for all majors.

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  National Bank of Kuwait

  • IT Analyst

    • Aug 1995 - Apr 1999

    Building an interface module between ATM and the bank’s internal systemSupervisor of SWIFT Alliance Access 4.0Responsible for applications on AS/400 systemAnalyst and programmer upon switching from the old bank’s system (Cobol / Novell) to the current system (AS/400 / Windows NT)Responsible for the preparation of IT manualsMaintenance of internal and external networkHelp Desk for users