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Ali AlRaish

Kuwait City

Summary

Dynamic HR professional with extensive experience at Kuwait Finance House, adept at optimizing performance and enhancing employee relations. Proven track record in strategic planning and legal compliance, successfully implementing policy improvements that increased employee satisfaction. Skilled in coaching leadership and conducting exit interviews to drive organizational success.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Strategic HR Business Partner

Kuwait Finance House
01.2023 - Current
  • Conducted exit interviews with employees leaving company to gauge areas of success and opportunities for improvement.
  • Identified HR training needs and conducted training for employees and leadership while recommending approaches to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity, and within company to reach business goals.
  • Maintained confidential nature of employee and company proprietary and privileged information used or observed in course of performing job duties.
  • Collaborated with leadership to assess and improve policies across board.
  • Managed full cycle of recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new employees.
  • Resolved understaffing issues, disputes, employee terminations, and disciplinary procedures.
  • Investigated and liaised with legal department to respond to complaints of harassment, discrimination, employee grievances, and other sensitive issues and prepared position statements for EEOC.
  • Advised senior management on organizational development and change management initiatives.
  • Facilitated successful policy implementation and enforcement to maintain legal and operational compliance.
  • Instructed senior leaders on appropriate employee corrective steps.
  • Identified and implemented appropriate strategies to increase employee satisfaction and retention.

Human Resources Team Lead

National Bank of Kuwait
09.2006 - 01.2023
  • Supervise and checks the updates of information on monthly allowances for ensuring timely and meticulous services and payments.
  • Supervise, updates, checks, and maintains records pertaining to staff indemnity and residence cancellation, in order to implement an effective personnel administration system.
  • Check pending liabilities, outstanding loans / cards etc and liaisons with Collection area before payment of Final Settlement in order to ensure that payments to employees and dues from employee are settled appropriately.
  • Supervise update, check, and maintain records pertaining to staff’s Medical Insurance Cards/Complains in order to implement an effective Medical Insurance Services to All NBK Staff.
  • Supervise and reviews the completion of the probation and confirmation periods of new engagements, and carries out related status changes in order to satisfactorily complete confirmation formalities.
  • Ensure the closure of Bank Account for those staff who have resigned / services terminated in order to ensure closure of the staff account with the Bank.
  • Check the financial transaction for Junior Staff on daily basis that have credit amounts of more than KD 2000/- through the BO system for keeping a stringent control over money laundering possibilities.
  • Supervises the input data for employee's eligibility for loans, credit cards, and initiates standing orders for rendering appropriate services in accordance with the policies and procedures.
  • Allocate work to subordinates, coaches, develops, and oversees the work of his/her staff, in addition to planning and recommending training needs, in order to ensure the smooth functioning and developing of Human Resources within area.

Assistant Manager

Ooredoo
02.2000 - 09.2006

Education

MBA - Business Administration

Kafr El-Sheikh University
Egypt
04-2021

BBA - Management

Applied Science University
Bahrain
04-2012

Skills

  • Optimizing performance
  • Optimizing benefit plans
  • Planning policy integrations
  • Coaching leadership
  • Reviewing compliance
  • Managing employee relations
  • Recommending policy improvements
  • Strategic planning
  • Workforce planning
  • Exit interviews
  • Legal compliance
  • Labor law compliance

Languages

Arabic
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Senior Strategic HR Business Partner

Kuwait Finance House
01.2023 - Current

Human Resources Team Lead

National Bank of Kuwait
09.2006 - 01.2023

Assistant Manager

Ooredoo
02.2000 - 09.2006

MBA - Business Administration

Kafr El-Sheikh University

BBA - Management

Applied Science University
Ali AlRaish