
Ahmed Naeem
Customer Success & Payment Operations Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Fintech operations specialist with 15+ years in payment processing, digital wallets, and merchant onboarding across UAE banking sector. Currently managing customer success and payment operations at noqodi, driving merchant activation and strategic partnerships. Expert in e-commerce payments, regulatory compliance, and revenue optimization for fintech growth.
Work experience
Customer Success & Payment Operations Manager
noqodi
Aug 2019 - Present
7 years 3 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
- Building and maintaining a healthy business relationship with partners/stakeholder, assure an easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions on services. - Managing the onboarding of new merchants by ensuring that newly activated merchants transact with noqodi successfully and that their journey is efficient. - Implementing and managing changes and interventions to ensure project goals are achieved. - Developing new programs to support the strategic direction of noqodi. - Gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements. - Understanding our client's strategic goals and needs, and continually executing customer success programs and touchpoints to drive adoption and secure retention. - Provide technical support and ensure timely issue resolution, collaborating with internal teams as needed. - Identify and drive upsell and expansion opportunities to meet business targets.
emaratech
Apr 2011 - Jul 2019
8 years 4 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Operations Officer ( Finance & e-Collections )
Jul 2015 - Jul 2019
4 years 1 month
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
- Maintaining accurate records and reconciliation for all assigned group company related projects, through established and pre-defined channels and systems. - Implements the collections policy in an effective manner to ensure timely collection of revenues, through “Emaratech e–Collection” systems. - Coordinates and participates in reviewing the collections policies and procedures on a regular basis. - Stimulates and contributes to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of Financial Accounting systems, processes and practices considering best practices, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement. - Ensures timely response to customer queries around collections. - Participates in meetings with Internal & External stakeholders for operational related issues based on project requirements.
Senior Operations Executive
Apr 2011 - Jul 2015
4 years 4 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
noqodi Payment Gateway - Handle the processing of all operational payments both manual and automated. - Work closely with all stakeholders both internally and externally to bring the best payment experience to our merchants and clients. - Responsible for making sure local regulations are met with regards to online payments - Collaborate closely with Customer Service team to improve customer ratings, Call-Center, and Operation related processes. - Incident management - resolution of customer complaints in coordination with IT and Operations teams and customer service. - Oversee all “noqodi Payment Gateway” related settings before go live as well as monitoring ongoing maintenance. rations
Dubai Islamic Bank
Sep 2006 - Mar 2011
4 years 7 months
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
E-channels specialist
Sep 2009 - Mar 2011
1 year 7 months
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
• Provide accurate, fast & professional service to all general EBS enquiries. • Handling online customer request like FD and TAYSEER…etc • On-going support to frontline staff on general EBS queries, specifically Internet Banking and Express Banking Terminal. • Assist and train customers on Internet Banking and Express Banking Terminal. • Consolidating and preparing the management reports. • Support EBS projects and manage incidents.
Sr. Customer Service Representative
Sep 2006 - Aug 2009
3 years
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
• Responsible for several reports as Attendance, team schedule and call center metrics as SLA and AHT, etc. • Monitoring agent’s call observation of inbound waiting and abandoned call through the CMS. • Managing real time and floor activities.
Customer Service Representative.
Xceed
Jun 2003 - Oct 2006
3 years 5 months
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
• The Job mainly related to provide customer service for Telecom Egypt through the phone. Activate service through the phone, handle customer's complain and collect data about customer. • Handling customers’ inquires and complaints for different accounts like. • AVID flights information • E – Government • PC for every home • XCEED help disk
Education
Advanced Academy
Bsc
1997 - 2001
4 years 1 month