
Talal Khaled, MBA
Senior Financial Services Consultant
Salary / Daily rate
Luxembourg
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Financial services professional with 15+ years in banking operations, compliance, and UAT leadership. Led core banking system implementation at Bankmed as UAT Team Lead, managing testing protocols and business requirements for ORACLE FCUBS. Currently at Deloitte specializing in tax reclaim consulting and regulatory compliance. Deliver seamless project coordination and compliance solutions with proven expertise in AML, KYC, and cross-functional team management.
Work experience
Consultant
Deloitte
Aug 2023 - May 2025
1 year 10 months
Luxembourg
• Complete the relevant forms to reclaim the withholding tax unduly levied. • Handle inquiries, rejections, and partial refunds from tax authorities: analyze inquiries, determine required actions, communicate with clients, and ensure compliance. • Analyze reasons for rejections or partial refunds, challenge decisions where appropriate, and prepare appeals to tax authorities. • Prepare and share detailed reports on inquiries, rejections, and refunds with the team and clients, ensuring follow-ups to meet deadlines. • Coordinate with Deloitte's local offices worldwide, tax authorities, custodians, sub-custodians, and clients for accurate and timely processing of tax reclaims. • Build client relationships by understanding their goals and needs and maintaining regular communication. • Ensure all assigned functions related to tax reclaim are completed within required deadlines. • Collect and prepare relevant documentation for filing reclaims, including completing online filings for countries with tax reclaim portals. • Manage the tax recovery process, prepare reclaims, and follow up on refunds on behalf of clients. • Report regularly to clients on the development of reclaims. • Work closely with experienced consultants and maintain extensive contacts with colleagues worldwide.
Bankmed
Apr 2008 - May 2022
14 years 2 months
Beirut, Lebanon
UAT Team lead
Apr 2018 - May 2022
4 years 2 months
Beirut, Lebanon
ORACLE – FCUBS UAT lead developing effective testing plans, business scenarios, scripts, processes, tools and reporting that encompass both quality and assurance of the solution with full traceability back to requirements/user stories. • Prepare training plans of the new core system for the branch network. • Evaluating training materials. • Responsible of the business part of the new core system. • Monitoring user guides related to new core system. • Monitoring the Policies & Procedures related to the new core system. • Simulating the system from business perspectives. • Coordinate between business teams & IT to ensure proper implementation & parametrization of requirements. • Testing the new requirements and system enhancements with different scenarios. • Enforces product testing and documentation protocols, and ensures that those results are documented (systems-level testing), functional testing, environmental testing, and what is required for a particular product. • Checking and highlighting the bugs in the system. • Opening & following up defects. • Running multiple UAT sessions. • Determining if assigned scenarios tests pass or fail.
Branch Manager
Feb 2015 - May 2018
3 years 4 months
Beirut, Lebanon
Responsible for all of the functions of the branch, overseeing the approval of loans and lines of credit (LC), marketing, building a rapport with the community to attract business, assisting with customer relations, and ensuring that the branch meets its goals and objectives in a timely manner. Responsibilities include: • Conduct direct contact with present and prospective clients. • Initiate, recommend, and execute marketing plans to increase branch productivity. • Sell all types of liability products within the branch. • Work with retail and corporate clients. • Supervise all branch staff. • Overseeing the performance of the branch employees. • Mentor junior employees and lead a team. • Ensure compliance with all the internal regulations in addition to BDL regulations. • Exercise proper due diligence to customers. • Ensure the adherence to policies set by the General Management. • Analyze financial records, plan and follow a budget. • Open and close the branch and the safe under dual control. • Registered certified signature in BDL.
Assistant Branch Manager - Operations/AML and Compliance/Policy and Procedure
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
2 years 3 months
Beirut, Lebanon
Oversees banking services, especially customer service, to ensure excellence; contacts or assists customers and prospective customers. Reviews and manages staffing procedures, ensuring that staff assignments and responsibilities are reasonable. Responsibilities include: • The control of money laundering – fighting operations. • Keeping and maintaining records of high-risk customers. • Reporting suspicious activities to the management. • Making compliance recommendations based on findings. • Work independently on end-to-end KYC due diligence processes. • Collect, analyze, verify all details of Know Your Customer (KYC). • Ensure proper documentation process. • Responsible for the coordination with the Corporate Credit Division. • Work with retail and corporate clients. • Supervise branch staff. • Open and close the branch and the safe under dual control. • Open and close the system in the absence of the Section Head Tellers. • Responsible to ensure the availability of ATM services 24/24. • Registered certified signature in BDL.
Section head customer service representative
Jul 2012 - Jan 2013
7 months
Beirut, Lebanon
• Sell all type of liability products, consumer loans, Bank Assurance, and Investment products within the branch and outbound sales. • Check the proper completion of retail loan documents, their compliance and ensure the hand off according the Service level agreement & bank's procedure to the related division/department. • Supervise, ensure completion quality and check CSR transactions and related forms and hand it off to the concerned division according to SLA agreement. • Handle In-Branch and Outbound Sales of Financial Products (loans, cards, bank Assurance, investment products, etc.) and ensure solutions to Existing and new customers.
Section head teller
Jan 2012 - Jul 2012
7 months
Beirut, Lebanon
• Distribute and collect cash from tellers and monitor cash limits. • Supervise the deposit and drawing activities on the saving, checking and overdraft accounts. • Ensure proper preparation of all checks for clearance to be discharged to the Head Office for processing at the Clearance House. • Custodian of bills, mechanic stickers and stamps.
Customer Services representative and Customer Support
Apr 2008 - Jan 2012
3 years 10 months
Beirut, Lebanon
• Customer service (non-cash transactions). • Prepare and collect required documents for all types of loans to be submitted to Consumer Credit department.
Senior supervisor and PR Officer
Karim Trading
Jan 2005 - Dec 2007
3 years
Lebanon, TN, USA
• Assist in the development and implementation of institutional policies and procedures. • Conduct research related to specialized functional areas. • Assist in the recruiting procedure, staffing and interviewing. • Supervise outdoor, and indoor salesmen. • Supervise delivery team and logistic services. • Build a customer contact database in addition to customer support.
Education
AUL (Arts, Sciences and Technology University)
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General
2003 - 2005
3 years
AUL (Arts, Sciences and Technology University)
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
2000 - 2003
4 years
Licenses & certifications
GDPR- General Data Protection Regulation
Issued: Sep 2025
EU Market Abuse
Issued: Sep 2025
The Fundamentals of Compliance
Issued: Aug 2025
Environmental Crime and Money Laundering
Issued: Aug 2025
AML CFT Luxembourg 2024
Issued: Aug 2025
EF SET English Certificate 73/100 (C2 Proficient)
Issued: May 2025
AML/CFT – AML Tax for Luxembourg entities Executives
Issued: Nov 2022
Lebanese Banking Regulations
Issued: May 2015
Financial Markets Foundation Program
Issued: May 2015
Investment and Risk
Issued: May 2014