Syed Faisal Hasan Bukhari

Experience

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  DP World

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Management Assistant
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  Bank Al Habib Limited

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  Accounts Assistant
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  Hilton Pharma Limited

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2002

  Management Assistant
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  AbbuSys Limited

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Accounts Assistant
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  P&O Ferries

  Jan 2005 - Jun 2005

  Analyst
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  Association of Accounting Technicians

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2010

  Working Capital Assistant

  Key Contributions & Achievements:- Successfully managed sales ledger and reported to Directorate for Data Cash activity, unallocated credits, debt position, failed payments reporting, arranging refunds to students and colleges.- Assisted in reconciling supplier statements to ensure that all supplier invoices have been correctly accounted for.- Performed debt management, credit control and assisted in the month and year-end closing of AR books and annual audit.- Effectively processed purchase ledger invoices, expense claims and managed creditors accounts.- Processed weekly payments via BACS which included payment authorization, banking cheques and international payments.Key Projects:- New COA finance system project based on ‘paper-free environment’.- Integrated AAT subsidiaries debt with AAT UK debt management system in COA along with other departments. - Setup of financial accounts (debtor’s ledger) for AAT South Africa. Show less

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  Vital Soft Limited

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2016

  Head of Technology Operations & Finance

  Key Contributions & Achievements: - Conducted financial scrutiny to project plan, budgets, expenditure & performed adequate resourcing to ensure timely projects delivery.- Successfully identified risks and provided input to overcome them while ensuring proper financial controls throughout business units.- Effectively managed treasury and performed accurate cash flow forecast monitoring.- Contributed extensively as part of a Commercial team to develop business and achieve sustainable growth.- Assisted in the planning of new product development and services for the current market and coordinated with all relevant stakeholders.Key Projects:- Worked on the Genting casino project with the commercial team.- Restructuring of Global HR services.- Initiate and planned Personal Management process across the company “Growth with Participation”.- Designed reports on the Product Audit Feature of ‘CMS’. - Launched new services for the CMS; “Loyalty Points Program" and developed CMS Mobile billing system. - Integrated customer’s product licenses with online payment and companies finance system and added up new features in the invoicing system and integrated it with reporting. - Project management procedure for CMS devs ad system architect.- Member of a team of ‘e-VIMS’ project on financial instruments. - Member of UBER type product planning team. Show less

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  Bank AL Habib Limited

  Jan 2016 - now

  Key Contributions & Achievements:- Successfully completed functional & technical documentation of the AHBS Core Banking System and implemented AHBS JAR Release SDLC documentation.- Trained users on the different technological platform for OBDX and AXIS Petty Cash Management System.- Led the project in 2017 to set up a centralized documentation unit to document the last 25 years of in-house core banking system technical and functional documents including surround system. Key Projects:- Documentation Management Unit (DMU).- School Payment Portal (SPMS) Development.- ORBIT Core Banking White Papers.- Common Reporting Standard.- Litigation Management System (LMS). - AHBS Functional & Technical Documentation based on JAVA tools including Enterprise Architectural Diagrams, ER diagrams and other technical documentation covering the entire core banking system. - Innovation and Automation through documentation registration system on TFS, In-house development of SPHERE, document management system with workflow and DocBox. - Value-Added activities in the unit through professional sustainability initiative, adoption of greener approach, introduced cultural change inventiveness by hiring a disabled person as part of a CSR initiative. Show less Key Contributions & Achievements: - Successfully designed the School Management System to connect schools, parents and bank in a single platform and increase the coverage of school fee and the customer’s base. - Led the development of AL Habib Mobile Wallet and proposed a creative design to introduce new technology and value-added facilities to the customers. - Proposed the CRS design for tracking money trail, minimizing tax avoidance and getting CRS to sign off from all new customers. This was successfully implemented in 2017 within Pakistan and overseas.- Ensured that all projects and deliverables were completed on time, and exceeded stakeholders’ expectations.- Adhered to all relevant bank`s SOPs and policies. Show less

  • Senior Chief Manager - IT Governance/PMO - DMU Bank AL Habib Limited

    May 2022 - now

  • Chief Manager - IT Governance DMU

    Jan 2016 - Oct 2023

  • Senior Manager - Lead School Banking Team

    Jan 2016 - Jan 2017