Sherif Hossam el Araby

During this tenure, I work closely with the leadership team to establish the first digital Bank in Egypt, an independent legal entity owned by Banque Misr. Architect HR plans as per business strategies and leadership across succession planning, talent and change management, organizational/performance analysis, training/development, and compensation. I discuss HR plans with executive management team, shareholders, and board of directors, while altering compensation strategy to meet market variations through new elements in compensation structure, facilitating competitiveness and cost effectiveness simultaneously. I manage assessment-based hiring process via globally accredited vendors and collaborate with board of directors on HR-related matters. I manage organizational restructure in line with market/company plans. I am involved in creating HR policies, manual, and processes. Below are my key accomplishments in this role: • Served as strategic business advisor to executive/senior management of business unit/specialty group for organizational/management issues. • Established HR and recruited 12 management team members, while raising HC from 7 to 200+ according to business requirements and company plans. • Ensured effective business continuity via succession planning for C level and 2 levels below, mitigating failure point for creation of sound management succession plan aligned with firm's strategy and objectives.

Appointed as board member and led HR team to progress Orange Business Service Presence across Egypt with total HC of 2500+ employees, assisting Orange Business Service customer internationally. I changed the compensation structure relating to market changes. I steered cost and productivity efficiency with stakeholders and organizational restructure with global stakeholders for Egypt Centre for low business disruption. Here were my main attainments in this role: • Member of Connect Team with CEO and CFO for Egypt center, resolving employees’ issues by establishing an open channel. • Raised HC by 60% in four years with focus on covering business expansion in Egypt through global business management team alignment in securing business deals. • Served as Board Member of Egypt Service Centre and spearheaded diversity activity in Egypt Center as per group standards. • Finalized agreement with governmental Tech education association to incorporate Orange Business service curriculum to post graduate student, meeting company's future needs.

I implemented global projects with global HR partners and guided on HR activities, while leading projects and matters/requests regarding Orange Business Services support function employees, managers, and Head of functions. I addressed business queries timely and mitigated bonus/salary raise issues as per company policy assuring equity as HR contact point for salary increase budget distribution. I supervised organization-wide/functional programs' execution and communication, comprising salary review, job codes mapping, redundancies, external hiring, promotions, and restructuring as well as supported HR/firm planning via deployment of PIMS/GOALS tools. Following were my significant contributions to this role: • Operated as Service Operations and Service Transition HRBP within Egypt MSC. • Partnered with departmental directors and senior management team for assessing business current/future needs and devising HR and OD plans. • Ensured attainment of business goals by providing effective value-added service to management/employees via liaison in HR operations.

I oversaw thought leadership and project assistance for talent management and ad-hoc projects, including organization design/structure, performance management, workforce planning, and talent development. I coordinated with organizational development team, reformed projects' related operations, and generated bank's charts. I managed staffing of bank via hiring and verified manpower and HR initiatives. I guided employees through communication and developed precise group/department functional descriptions as well as company's job descriptions. I supported management/staff in resolving HR/personnel issues. I coached employees regarding performance/development analysis and counselled on performance appraisal and goals settings procedures. My proudest achievements in this role were as follow: • Performed as single contact point among business executive and HR team. • Accomplished targeted business goals by developing performance management cycle and actively improving performance management system. • Drove organization improvement and employees' retention/engagement via execution of best HR practices/programs. • Developed efficient grading structure for ADIB Egypt as HAY Job evaluation exercise team member. • Acquired suitable business suggestions and met training needs with sector executives.

•Working as a Global HRBP and as a Global HRBP Project Manager for the Support Functions “HR, Finance, Legal & Regulatory, Enterprise Sourcing & Strategy” Globally. •Formulating partnerships across the HR function to deliver value added service to management and employees that reflect the business objectives of the organization. •Consult with line management providing HR guidance when appropriate. •Work closely with the Departmental Directors and senior management team to identify the current and future needs of the business and design HR & OD strategies. •Handling the projects, matters & requests related to Orange Business Services support function’s employees, managers & Head Of functions worldwide. •Supporting the Global HRBPs based in the United States UK & France on relevant HR projects on the global level. •Manage within the support functions the implementation, communication and support of company-wide & functional programs (including, but not limited to Bonus, Salary review, job codes and grades mapping, redundancies, external hiring , promotions & reorganization) and tools (PIMS, e-Authorise, GOALS) that support HR and company strategy. •Project Management, such as assisting in the FT & Equant Job codes Review (for the latter ensuring that support functions job codes are updated according to corporate requirements). Furthermore, to liaise with HR and business managers to gain their involvement and support on the implementation of such projects (e.g. succession planning). •Customer liaison and relationships - Develop and maintain strong customer relationships with the business leaders and position self as a subject matter expert on responsibilities under purview. •Acting as the HR point of contact with the concerned functions globally regarding the bonus and salary Increase budget distribution. Managing all the issues related to the Bonus and Salary increase in compliance with the company policy and to ensure Equity as well.

•Responsible for NBE Departments & functions Restructure, Developing Org Chats & JDs for all new positions. •Acts as a single point of the contact for the employees, managers and all the HR functions for any issues or future plans related to the organizational change project. •Provide advice on organizational and job design so that staff structure, culture and jobs facilitate change, recruitment and retention and the delivery and development of services. •Meeting all the new Department Heads for any new function to set the org. Chart according to the business need in compliance with NBE view & restructuring conditions. •Providing Organizational Development point of view & support in all the restructuring issues & decisions. •Reviewing the old Org. charts & meeting the manager after reviewing with the consultant the best practice in order to apply it for the best benefit of the bank. •Reviewing the Manpower Plan & providing support to Recruitment department in allocating new employees according to their experience, Market practice & NBE conditions & grades. •Allocating current employees in the new Org. chart according to their experience & skills after reviewing old grades VS new grades to assure best quality in allocation for the business & employees. •Develop credibility and rapport with senior executives and effectively manage those relationships and expectations. •Part of the HAY Grading exercise team, reviewing for accuracy & evaluating JDs within a panel. •Communicating HAY grading output to both Department Heads and employees to insure accurate communication of the Organizational Changes resulting from applying the new structure and grading system. •Delivering at the end of the project a total of 14 functions with a total HC of 1500 employees, fully restructured with the best allocation for all the employees taking into consideration any equity or cultural related cases that may arise in the future to ensure meeting all the future plans of NBE.

Handling the recruitment requests for the (IT, Network & Roaming, PSD, Finance, Regulatory & corporate Affairs, Marketing) Departments. Screening potential candidates & Conduct HR interviews to assure that the candidates are matching the company's criteria. Analyzing requests for hiring from the line managers & directors according to the hiring plan for each Department. Following up on the accepted candidates and check for their status till they join the company. Preparing a monthly report for the status of each candidate and send it to the concerned department. Updating the Organization chart on monthly bases to check the vacancies available in each department. Reviewing the recruitment plan and following up on department managers to fulfill the plan. Participate in preparing the HC budget for the company & following up on it with the department managers. Participate in the Competency Based Interviews for the promotions within the company for Middle Management level and Conducting HR promotion interviews for staff level. Participate in the job families validation in accordance with France Telecom grading System (Arch VS WW

Participated in establishing the HR department. Responsible for all HR operations. Recruitment: Screening potential candidates & Conduct initial interviews. Analyzing requests for hiring from the line managers. Conduct orientation programs for new hires. Employee attrition: Construct exit interviews to focus on Turn over analysis. Preparing the training plan for the company from the performance appraisal & following up on it C&B: Calculate payroll, Profit sharing and over time. Preparing & following up the medical insurance & life insurance & all other benefits for all the employees. Participate in preparing & applying the company policy.

Responsible for all the HR operations in both RAYA Software and RAYA Networks Services. In coordination with the centralized function in RAYA Holding. Recruitment: Screening potential candidates & Conduct initial interviews. Analyzing requests for hiring from the line managers. Conduct orientation programs for new hires. Employee attrition: Construct exit interviews to focus on turn over analysis. HR Business Plan: Participate in the preparation of headcount budgets & follow up on it. Employee relations: Conduct employee opinion survey to enhance morale of employees & organize motivation effort. C & B: Calculate payroll, Profit sharing and over time. Preparing & following up the medical insurance & life insurance & all other benefits for all the employees. Preparing the training plan for the subsidiary from the performance appraisal & following up on it with the centralized training function in RAYA Holding.