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Description

IT professional specializing in fintech and banking innovation, I leverage my strong technical skills and passion for the evolution of financial technologies to transform banking services. With a background focused on digital disruption, I combine organizational skills, agility, and excellent interpersonal skills to tackle complex challenges and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams in a constantly changing environment. Enthusiastic about bringing my expertise to the design of innovative solutions, I am determined to actively contribute to the digital transformation of the financial sector.

Languages

Arabic
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Spanish
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

Bank Al-Maghrib : Banque Centrale du Maroc
Head of Studies and Projects Department
BANKING AND INSURANCE
March 2021 - Today (5 years and 3 months)
Rabat, Morocco
Define, plan, and supervise structuring projects: system modernization, digitalization, new product development, etc.
Ensure alignment of projects with the Central Bank's overall strategy.
Arbitrate priorities between projects and ensure compliance with deadlines, budgets, and set objectives.
Implement effective project governance: steering committees, performance indicators, dashboards.
Monitor the design, testing, and deployment of solutions in collaboration with IT teams.
Produce progress reports for senior management and strategic committees.
Oversee the budgetary execution of projects.
Manage a multidisciplinary team: project managers, analysts, IT engineers, economists, etc.
Assign tasks and monitor individual and collective achievements.
Implement tools for monitoring workload and team performance.
Develop employee skills: training, coaching, individual support.
Lead prospective or sectoral studies related to the financial system and innovation (fintech, cryptocurrencies, digital payments…).
Identify innovation levers to integrate into projects (artificial intelligence, blockchain, open banking…).
Analyze regulatory and technological changes that may impact the Central Bank.
Produce recommendations for senior management to inform strategic decisions.
Ensure coordination with other departments: IT, banking supervision, risk management, etc.
Work with external partners: service providers, fintechs, regulators, international organizations.
Establish the department's annual provisional budgets and multi-year investment plans.
Governance Strategic Planning Innovation Negotiation Diplomacy
AL BARID BANK
Head of Operations and Flows Department
BANKING AND INSURANCE
August 2018 - February 2021 (2 years and 6 months)
Rabat, Morocco
Management:
Urbanize the application landscape of core-banking applications.
Monitor projects while respecting assigned objectives.
Validate the department's portfolio.
Evaluate project progress.
Write regular reports for management.
Ensure the quality of deliverables.
Document and standardize developed solutions.
Monitor the implementation of the SDM activity solution.
Manage the bank's anti-money laundering solution.
Lead the bank's permanent control solution.
Optimize accounting flows to Oracle EBS.
Reengineering of the BBM Mobile application.
Orchestrate partner APIs via API Manager.
Implementation of a project management application.
Project Management Strategic Planning Governance Leadership Data Analysis
WafaCash
Project Manager
BANKING AND INSURANCE
November 2016 - August 2018 (1 year and 9 months)
Casablanca, Morocco
• Audit information flows.
• Develop the convergence report.
• Write functional specifications accordingly.
• Lead convergence workshops.
• Validate production deployment.
• Prepare user training plan.
• Implement the Moroccan payroll standard.
• Standardize the database.
• Develop a client-inheritable repository.
Technologies: Java 8, JEE, JavaScript
Project Management Data Analysis Innovation Leadership Strategic Planning