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Skills
Certification
Community Service
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Michael Alkali

Hamilton,Canada

Summary

Dynamic Account Manager offering expertise in building partnerships, retaining key accounts and enhancing profit channels. Strong leader with proficiency in growing professional network, influencing decision-makers and devising successful strategies. Collaborative and strategic team leader with robust background in customer relationship management.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Account Manager

Payspace (FinTech)
07.2023 - 10.2023
  • Gathering information on assigned clients (company size, needs and pricing plans)
  • Contacting clients to understand their requirements and work on a sales plan
  • Managed a diverse portfolio of accounts, ensuring timely communication and effective problem resolution.
  • Ensure prompt and accurate responses to merchants’/clients’ queries
  • Build strong client relationships, through regular communication
  • Suggest company products/services that maximize client satisfaction
  • Communicate product and pricing details clearly
  • Coordinate with Management and Account Managers to create customized sales plans for key clients
  • Promote new products/services to existing and new customers.
  • Increased client satisfaction by building strong relationships and addressing their needs promptly.

Compliance Analyst

Bede Gaming Ltd
07.2021 - 06.2023
  • Extensive understanding of Responsible Gambling and Customer Due Diligence within the gambling industry
  • Enhanced regulatory compliance by conducting thorough risk assessments and implementing effective control measures.
  • Analyse, compile and document software changes within every platform release
  • Developed comprehensive training programs to ensure staff understanding of relevant regulations and policies.
  • Improved company's risk management strategy by identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential risks related to noncompliance.
  • Maintain Platform compliance with regulatory standards by ensuring adequate and timely notifications and submissions in accordance with the AGCO notification matrix
  • Testing and evaluating the effectiveness of internal controls and procedures in accordance with the regulation
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to assess potential compliance issues related to new products, services, or technologies
  • Maintained regulatory documentation, incident reports and regulatory submissions in appropriate systems location
  • Streamlined internal audit processes for improved efficiency and accuracy in detecting potential compliance issues.

Financial Service Representative

Easyfinancial
12.2020 - 07.2021
  • Constantly met daily, monthly and quarterly sales targets of net principal written and value-added products on client loans
  • Attained over 70% sales on value-added products on consumer loans with no less than $90,000 worth of net principal written a month
  • Managed clients account on loan book worth over $4.9 million dollars
  • Drove growth in the Branch loan book, from $4.5 Million dollars to $4.9 million dollars in less than a year
  • Managed delinquent consumer accounts with various solution techniques and out-of-the-box solutions for customers
  • Made at least 40 outbound sales dials a day to drive growth of branch
  • Delivered favourable client experience, with positive reviews on google and referrals from clients.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

Sales Associate

Rogers communications
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Secured sales by providing recommendations to promote brand effectiveness and product benefits
  • Generated incremental revenue to customers by upselling additional products and services.

Digital Marketer

CommuniTech
01.2020 - 01.2020
  • Design website layouts and architecture to maximize user experience and SEO
  • Experience performing user research, user mapping, and presenting results
  • Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
  • Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets
  • Build page navigation buttons and search fields
  • Develop UI mock-ups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
  • Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g
  • Responsiveness)
  • Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback.

Business analyst - Special Project CE BAn

Mohawk College
08.2019 - 12.2019
  • Participate in a diverse team of individuals with different experiences, learning preferences, and strengths to complete a cumulative project
  • Facilitate requirements gathering and elicitation that included interviews, panel discussions, and research
  • Organised and analysed data according to specific criteria (stakeholder interviews and comparator colleges data management spreadsheets)
  • Coordinated the completion of simultaneous tasks/deliverables within strict deadlines.
  • Improved business processes by analyzing current practices and recommending optimization strategies.

Sales associate

Sportchek
01.2019 - 01.2019
  • Helped customers make informed decisions about everything they need
  • Assisted in motivating customers to a more active lifestyle
  • Built and maintained effective relationships with peers and upper management to drive team success toward common sales, service and operational goals
  • Kept apprised of emerging trends and provided informative customer service to assist in product selection.

Education

Graduate Certificate in Business Analysis -

Mohawk College
Hamilton, Canada
12.2020

Graduate Certificate in International Business Management -

Mohawk College
Hamilton, Canada
12.2019

MSc in Finance -

Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, England
12.2016

BSc in Economics, Finance and International Business -

Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, England
12.2014

Foundation in Business Diploma -

Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, England
12.2011

Skills

  • Sales Analysis
  • Customer Training
  • Lead Prospecting
  • CRM Software
  • Systems and Software Expertise
  • Converting Leads
  • Revenue Generation
  • Business Development
  • Data Analytics
  • Market Forecasting
  • Opportunities Identification

Certification

  • IFSE - Exempt Market Proficiency Course
  • REMIC certified mortgage Agent
  • IBM-BIA explorer Badge
  • Lean-Six Sigma Yellow belt

Community Service

  • Oxfam volunteer Service Participant, Oxford, England, 2013-01-01, 2015-12-31
  • British Heart Foundation, Oxford, England, 2014-01-01, 2014-12-31
  • Day One Volunteer at Mohawk College, Hamilton, Canada, 2018-01-01, 2018-12-31

Hobbies and Interests

  • Soccer
  • Basketball
  • Football
  • Travelling
  • Reading
  • Tennis
  • Formula one racing
  • Moto GP

References

References available upon request

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Account Manager

Payspace (FinTech)
07.2023 - 10.2023

Compliance Analyst

Bede Gaming Ltd
07.2021 - 06.2023

Financial Service Representative

Easyfinancial
12.2020 - 07.2021

Digital Marketer

CommuniTech
01.2020 - 01.2020

Business analyst - Special Project CE BAn

Mohawk College
08.2019 - 12.2019

Sales Associate

Rogers communications
01.2019 - 01.2021

Sales associate

Sportchek
01.2019 - 01.2019

Graduate Certificate in Business Analysis -

Mohawk College

Graduate Certificate in International Business Management -

Mohawk College

MSc in Finance -

Oxford Brookes University

BSc in Economics, Finance and International Business -

Oxford Brookes University

Foundation in Business Diploma -

Oxford Brookes University
Michael Alkali