Treasury Manager

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Deputy Head Of Treasury, Head Of Foreign Exchange And Money Market with 17 years of experience in the foreign exchange, money market and treasury instruments. Focusing on technical and fundamentals analytical skills supported by extensive experience in the Lebanese banking sector coupled with solid educational background in treasury and capital markets. Key highlights:

High performing senior-dealer with extensive expertise in foreign exchange, money market and equities

Comprehensive knowledge and experience in investment instruments.

Experienced in capital markets and derivatives

Proven leadership and team building skills and managing customer relationship and providing investment services

Strong Communication & interpersonal skills and well developed trading skills.

Asset & Liability management skills

Solid analytical skills in response to various financial situations

Ability to motivate, guide, and retain team members - dealers

Ability to conduct financial modeling and acting on identified risk & safeguard Bank’s interest

Maintained diligence with customer focus

EXPERIENCES

Treasury counselor : Butec SAL August 2019 till present

Providing counseling to all the treasury activity of the company in the objective

Of generating more income and reducing costs.

Deputy Head Of Treasury Byblos Bank SAL September 2007 till May 2019

Responsible for pricing Foreign Currencies transactions with the objective to generate incremental income through proprietary trading, managing the Bank’s Asset and Liability positions while generating incremental income by taking interest rate risks and managing the department personnel in order to meet objectives of the functional area.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

1.Moderate and facilitate regular meetings of the Asset and Liability Management Committee to discuss strategic issues relating to investment and funding decisions of the Bank.

2.Responsible to achieve revenues through currency trading with Treasury - Internal and External clients

3.Determine the daily counter rates for the Bank’s retail customers in order to sustain competition in the market.

4.Conduct frequent and daily verifications to ascertain dealers’ adherence to intraday limits and exposures of the traded currencies

5.Generate daily profit and loss reports to the Treasury manager.

6.Provide bank customers, subordinates and management with market information and forecast to guide trading activities.

7.Monitor departmental progress versus set of performance indicators.

8.Manage trades primarily in local, GCC & Eurocurrency Markets; & tap Arbitrage opportunities in order to enhance on & off-balance sheet income.

9.Liaise with other divisions within the bank and foreign branches to reconcile and ensure smooth, correct and timely flow of information that may impact on the Bank’s liquidity and foreign exchange position.

10.Participate in transfer pricing of customer loans in local & FCY Funding area for lending support to domestic and international credit functions.

11.Responsible to maintain a profitable FI Banking Book portfolio in the local, G7 Funding area in order to maximize profitability and increase customer business.

Achievements

Set up and implemented all the procedures and rules to the Lebanese equities desk in the bank by reducing costs and facilitating trading.

Managed and expanded relationship network between banks and financial institutions by granting credit lines aimed to increase volume and market share and being a center for pricing.

Achieved profit increase for the department on average 10 % - 15 % on annual basis coupled with volume and clients base expansion.

Participated in establishing the capital markets desk by implementing the needed procedures and making the necessary connections with several counterparts and introducing it to the clients

Senior / dealer, Byblos Bank SAL, Beirut 1993 till August 2007

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Controlling all FX operations

Trading foreign exchange operations, for clients and bank

Trading money market, investing on short and long term

Letter of credit, letter of guaranty

Back-office of treasury (execution of treasury’s operations such as FX money market, swaps, … )

Transfers, compensation.

EDUCATION

2008 BANKING QUALIFICATIONS

Regulations & Securities (Securities & investment institute – London )

2008 YORK UNIVERSITY – ALABAMA, USA

Doctorate of business administration

2006 UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWEST - USA

MBA Business Computing

2006 ACI DIPLOMA

2003-2004 UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWEST - USA.

BS Business Computing

2002 ACI CERTIFICATE

1998 – 2000 UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH - U.S.J

High Banking Studies (Superior Cycle)

1994 – 1996 UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH - U.S.J.

Banking Studies (First Cycle)

SEMINARS

Trading bonds

FX simulation

Technical analysis

Greek bonds

ASSOCIATIONS

Member of ACI The Financial Association in Lebanon since 1996

Languages:

Arabic

English

French

Computer skills:

Computer Programming

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Office

Internet

Date of Birth: Oct 23rd, 1970

Nationality: Lebanese

Marital Status: Married

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