Name: Yazan I. Al-Sabe’

EDUCATION

University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA)

A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management (June 1999)

MBA; Emphasis: Finance & MIS; GPA: 3.75

Honors: Teaching Assistantship, Managerial & Cost Accounting and Productions & Operations Management. Awarded the AGSM Fellowship (98-99)

University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan)

Bachelors of Science in Accounting; GPA: 3.04 (June 1997)

EXPERIENCE

Banque Saudi Fransi (Jeddah, KSA)

- Senior Corporate Relationship Manager (08/09 up to date)

- Corporate Relationship Manager (01/07 to 08/09)

- Corporate Relationship Officer (04/05 to 01/07)

• Applying the relationship management concept to a portfolio exceeding 20 corporate accounts with total facilities over SAR 4.5Billion, with an emphasis on Relationships in the Contracting Industry.

• Improving portfolio profitability during 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 by 28%, 20%, 26% and 17%, respectively.

• Introducing marketing & sales plans for existing & new relationships.

• Developing new business relationships and enhancing the profitability of the existing customer base. Recent transactions include the following:

* Arranging for a club deal to finance one of the major projects in Riyadh, with our share being 50% of the total facilities exceeding SAR 1.65Billion.

* Financing the expansion of a manufacturing plant, with total facilities reaching SAR180Million.

* Providing financing for the construction of a new mall in Jeddah (the biggest in KSA). Facilities exceeded SAR120Million.

• Cross selling bank products from the various departments to existing & potential clients including Corporate Finance, Private Banking, Asset Management, Retail Banking and Treasury.

• Providing backup for team members and Unit Head during their absence & annual leaves.

• Preparing the annual budget and setting targets for the coming period for each corporate relationship within my portfolio at product level.

HSBC Bank Middle East (Amman, Jordan) (4/01 to 4/05)

- Commercial Banking Relationship Executive (4/03 to 4/05)

• Applying the relationship management concept to a portfolio of 50 accounts with facilities reaching JOD50mio.

• Introducing marketing & sales plans for existing & new relationships.

• Identifying cross-sell opportunities for Personal Banking, Treasury & Financial Planning related issues.

• Improving quality of portfolio assets & assuring the adherence to the set Corporate Lending Guidelines.

• Enhancing profitability from existing customers and ensuring the growth of corporate deposits.

• Maintaining good relationship with Trade Services, Personal Banking Services and Treasury Department to improve services.

- Resident Manager Trainee (4/01 to 4/03)

Joined HSBC’s “Resident Manager Trainee” program, rotated in different bank departments while assuming various posts and attended a two month “Executive Training Program” in Bricketwood, U.K. By the end of the program I was appointed as a Bank Executive in the Commercial Banking Department.

National Link, Inc (Covina, CA, USA)

- Financial Analyst/Systems Developer (1/99 to 11/00)

• Created a database to replace a manual process of generating monthly statements. As a result, the statements generation time cycle was reduced from 3 weeks for a small number of statements, to less than 24 hours for an unlimited number of statements.

• Utilized database to generate monthly & quarterly reports, to evaluate the performance of the ATM terminals and assess relocation decisions of company owned terminals.

• Managed all accounting functions, analyzed monthly reports for financial performance evaluation.

• Departmentalized, and implemented accounting principles.

• Prepared pro forma and prospective financial statements to be used for a business plan for raising venture capital.

• Determined credit worthiness by analyzing credit statements for potential clients.

HJR Accountancy (Riverside, CA, USA)

Senior Accountant (1/98 to 1/99)

• Held various training sessions for clients to provide instructions on the use of the accounting software.

• Setup and maintained cost accounting systems for manufacturing companies.

• Prepared individual and small business tax returns.

• Generated pro forma reports using existing financial information. Also generated prospective financial statements using relative variables for investors and bankers.

• Processed federal and state payroll taxes, for businesses in various sectors.

• Setup local area networks for small businesses, through Windows Operating System.

Dunes Club (Amman, Jordan)

Junior Accountant (6/97 to 12/97)

• Performed all company bookkeeping transactions including current membership sales, operational expenses, disbursements to subcontractors and payroll processing.

• Responsible for bank statement reconciliation and inventory management.

SKILLS

Computer: Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, ACT, Publisher, SPSS, Microsoft Project, Micros, MemberTrack, Lindo, Quick Books Pro, Accpac, Turbo Tax.

LANGUAGES

Arabic : mother tongue (speaking, reading & writing).

English: extremely fluent (speaking, reading & writing).

DATE OF BIRTH: 26th May 1975

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