Jad El Youssef

– Acting as lead consultant and project sponsor for financial services clients (Funds & Banking) – Managing end-to-end operational and regulatory transformation projects – Coordinating multi-stakeholder environments including clients, operations, IT and third parties – Drive project delivery from initiation to operational handover – Serve as single point of contact ensuring client satisfaction and timely execution – Identifying and securing new clients and projects, building relationships with potential clients, and developing proposals – Managing the firm's finances, budgeting, and ensuring profitability. – Overseeing the day-to-day operations of the firm, ensuring efficient processes and procedures. – Identifying and securing new clients and projects, building relationships with potential clients, and developing proposals. – Building and maintaining a strong professional network to generate new business and stay informed about industry trends

– Contributing actively to the production of the IT Market Service Business Committees on a monthly basis and Steerco on a quarterly basis. – Managing cross-functional projects involving Transfer Agency, Accounting, Compliance, Risk Management and Depositary teams. – Coordinating end-to-end implementation of new in-house trading applications – Leading governance (committees, reporting, dashboards, action tracking) – Acting as bridge between business, operations and IT – Ensuring delivery alignment with target operating models – Setting up a follow-up of actions for the progress of the subjects. – Collaborating closely with product owners and the project manager, prioritizing requirements, ensuring the compliance of the application system deliveries, and keeping the project roadmap on track. – Collaborating closely with the code designer and developers to split the business needs into EPIC, user stories, features, and tasks, as well as facilitating the estimation of different activities in Jira to ensure accurate planning and execution. – Facilitating the daily call with the team to ensure the priorities of the tasks and identify the obstacles that are blocking to find alternative solutions and to move forward in the various projects of the department. – Providing high-level dashboard reports to stakeholders, the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors.

– Managing fund lifecycle activities and daily operations – Coordinating with Transfer Agent, Custodian, Depositary, Auditors, Regulators and Risk Managers – Handling client onboarding, KYC/AML, subscriptions, redemptions – Preparing Board materials, NAVs, reporting and audits – Acting as key contact for investors and internal stakeholders – Creating and completing the financial and management reports for clients/investors and other interested parties. – Managing the complex waterfall distributions and calculating how profits are split between the investors (LPs) and the fund managers (GP) including carried interest. – Managing the portfolio and risk controlling at fund level as well as monitoring of the risk ratio and investment guidelines. – Coordinating and executing investors' capital contributions, redemptions and distributions. – Ensuring the funds remains compliant with local and international tax laws (FATCA, CRS) – Managing the files with regulators like CSSF, AMF and FCA. – Reviewing the client onboarding documents (tax status review, banking & payment setup and subscription agreement review) – Preparing and coordinating quarterly covenant management. – Coordinating the independent audit and the custodian bank for their requests. – Preparing files for audit and SOC requirements as well as answer any outstanding questions. – Producing financial input for quarterly Board meetings and attend as well. – Assisting on investments transactions in partnership with the investment teams. – Supporting due diligence and sales process. – Performing bank reconciliations, daily cash management and bi-weekly cash flow forecasts. – Assisting to ad hoc project and Group initiatives.

– Gained deep understanding of operational models, controls and regulatory constraints – Participated in IFRS 9 end-to-end implementation projects – Planned effective auditing processes. – Audited financial statements of regulated funds and banks – Inspected internal systems and controls. – Verified the general ledger of the company and make all other essential inquiries from the management of the bank. – Examined end-of-year and interim accounts. – Assessed risk management tactics. – Performed audits of non-financial areas, like Health & Safety and IT. – Reported systematic errors or fraud indicators. – Investigated specific issues regulatory bodies bring forward (ECB, CSSF). – Examined the validity of financial records to find out if there is any misstatement in the company's record – Reviewed policies and methodologies applied to credit risk monitoring and analysis of regulatory capital, with the forward-looking information assessment about macro-economic conditions used in estimating expected credit loss, considering COVID-19 pandemic impacts and sectorial analysis. – Prepared and reviewed working papers and drafts of the financial statements. – Produced client deliverables, specifically drafting the report to the management. – Identified, discussed and proposed conclusions on technical areas of financial reporting and audit issues identified during the course of the audit. – Oversaw aspects of audit fieldwork and completion. – Took an active part in the audit planning discussions to identify audit risks and devise an appropriate audit strategy. – Supported the planning, execution and delivery of assurance engagements. – Clearly and accurately documented the execution of specific audit procedures as defined by the engagement objectives, audit client's engagement history, and planned audit approach. – Ensured the correctness of the valuation models for businesses. – Helping in the valuation of the portfolio companies.

– Conducting general Due Diligence for prospective counterparties, corporate clients, and/or fund solutions. – Performing economic research towards generating the Macro Outlook. – Providing Financial analyses to assess industry and sub industry fundamentals. – Producing Research Analytics. – Developing Equity and Debt valuation models. – Producing Preliminary Assessments and Investment Proposals on corporate clients. – Participating in meetings with clients in presenting proposals and collaborated with fellow team members on improving the Investment Banking Discipline. – Analyzing financial and operating information related to companies and projects to be financed (credit file). – Maintaining the credit exposure of the company within certain risk level with set limit in mind and embark on risk assessment analysis. – Working and coordinating with Risk department (VAR, Stress test and Credit risk reporting, Basel). – Conducting the analysis of financial statements and assessment of credit requests, including new requests, changed requests, refinancing and annual due diligence. – Presenting analysis, findings, and recommendations to managers, especially findings that involve a borrower's ability to repay. – Reconciling credit files and identify discrepancies and variances. – Developing and preparing spreadsheets and models to support analysis of new and existing credit applications. – Performing and managing credit and financial analysis and reviews. – Preparing cash flow models for the basis of credit decisions.

– Analyzing the potential investment opportunities in real estate, private equity and in stock market. – Developing and optimizing the clients' real estate portfolios. – Coordinating closely with other functions including compliance, accounting, investment management and customer service.

– Conducting the evaluation, identification and analysis of potential investment projects in the energy and petroleum. – Performing energy and petroleum market research and industry analysis. – Assisting in the preparation of official and legal documentation for ongoing projects (teasers, information memorandums, management presentation, data rooms, and agreements).