About Me

Taymour Khan Niazi
Manager - Advanced Data Analytics, Financial Crime || PwC
In the Intersection of Business, Technology, Automation & Data

I received a programming and statistics education (Master of Science-MSc), focusing on Big Data Analytics from Sheffield Hallam University. A huge interest for tech related topics which lead to learn programming, data science, a thorough understanding of UX and eventually to web development .

I have received the opportunity to exploit my knowledge regarding data science with my University (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) and currently working as a Manager-Data Analytics for PwC. The term data translator describes well my daily jobs. In other words, I help companys to make sense of their data. Always happy to meet new people and talk about opportunities. for an overview or the github repository for all the files. Contact me via LinkedIn or email. :)

Education

  • 2016-2017
    England

    MSc Big Data Analytics - Sheffield Hallam University

    Master of Science in Big Data Analytics

  • 2011-2012
    Pakistan

    MBA Finance - Szabist University

    Masters in Business Administration with major in Finance

  • 2007-2010
    Pakistan

    BBA Banking & Finance - Muhammad Ali Jinnah University

    Bachelors in Business Administration with major in Banking and Finance

Nanodegree

  • 2021-2021
    UAE

    Udacity - RPA Nanodegree

    Six weeks full time training on Robotic Process Automation with UiPath

Experiences

PwC - Price Waterhouse Coopers
August 2023 - Tilldate
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Manager - Data Analytics
  • Developed and deployed a comprehensive continuous transaction monitoring approach based on risk methodology across multiple banks, integrating AML regulations and conducting risk assessments to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities. Includes advanced detection scenarios for Fraud, AML, and CFT, showcasing a multifaceted approach to ensuring financial security and regulatory compliance
  • Managing senior stakeholders relationships and Client Relationship Management including Boards with extensive experience in Banking, with specific focus on Operations, IT, Compliance and Regulatory Reporting
  • Enhanced the efficiency of the transaction monitoring system through advanced analytical methods, including text mining, transactional analysis, ATL, BTL, contextual analysis, and Generative AI. Additionally, applied machine learning algorithms for improved customer segmentation, alert scoring, and categorization, optimizing the system's effectiveness and precision
  • Established processes around Transaction Monitoring system, including threshold methodology, tuning, documentation, governance, support, and quality assurance
  • Conducted in-depth thematic reviews leveraging data analytics for high-risk customer analysis, identifying indicia related to sanctioned countries, and performing correspondent bank analysis. This approach enabled a comprehensive evaluation and mitigation of potential risks within financial transactions
  • Led a team responsible for executing projects, delivering data/management information systems (MIS), ensuring quality assurance, and fine-tuning processes. Additionally, automated MIS processes by leveraging advanced analytical tools such as SAS and Power BI
  • Developed a renowned location intelligence tool. Leveraging the geospatial analytics with Artificial Intelligence, and spatial data repository, this tool has empowered businesses with a deeper understanding of the competitive landscape, enables effective white space analysis and benchmarking, and supports strategic geofencing and footfall analysis. Furthermore, it identifies attractive areas for expansion, helps explore underperforming sites, and network optimization. The tool has significantly enhanced portfolio management and customer profiling, allowing for tailored product offerings
  • Involved in multiple AML & fraud analytics projects including Risk assessment, financial & commercial due diligence, data investigation/quality analysis, customer-account-transaction segmentation for banks in middle east
  • Post Merger Integrations, Information Management and Business Intelligence, including dashboarding and reporting, Data Analytics, Data Quality and Data Governance
  • Key player in multiple data analytics projects that involved one to one reconciliation among large datasets containing millions of records. Performing a complex root cause analysis and gap analysis. This was achieved through developing multiple matching, reconciliation, fuzzy matching and breakdown techniques
  • Analyzing big data & Design interactive dashboards for clients including Banking, FMCG, E-Commerce, Gas & Oil industry to provide key insights & recommendations to enrich customer experience, improve operational efficiency & financial assessment
  • Migration of data to cloud environment, develop azure analysis service and dynamic dashboards on PowerBI to visualize company performance and generate KPIs for Leadership reporting
  • Building statistical models, web scraping tools providing end to end solutions utilizing effective visualization techniques
  • Trained 100+ PwC professionals around the Middle East in multiple Data Analytics software such as (Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, SQL)
PwC - Price Waterhouse Coopers
Oct 2018 - 2023
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Senior Associate - Data Analytics
  • Analyzing big data from multiple sources for clients in retail, financial, banking and telecom industries to provide key insights and recommendations to enrich customer experience and improve operational efficiency. Responsible for hands-on execution of data analytics projects
  • Elicit, analyse and manage requirements for clients to make their CMS more customisable and usable. PwC offers tailored solutions for our clients' digital transformation
  • Key player in multiple data analytics projects that involved one to one reconciliation among large datasets containing millions of records. Performing a complex root cause analysis and gap analysis. This was achieved through developing multiple matching, reconciliation, fuzzy matching and breakdown techniques.
  • Trained +100 PwC professionals around Middle East for Data Analytics tools-- Alteryx, Python, Tableau, Power BI.
  • Design and visualised interactive dashboard for complex data flows for our client's in banking, oil & gas, government company to gain an overview & insights of their business activities in - d3.js, Tableau, PowerBI, R-Shiny, Python
  • Analyzing consumer behavior of Retail bank using transactions data, saving the company AED 30M annually and boosting customer engagement score by 29%.
  • Building statistical models, web scraping providing end to end solutions utilizing effective visualization techniques.
Institute of Business & Technology (IBT) formerly (BIZTEK)
Feb 2013 - Jul 2015
Karachi, Pakistan
Assistant Manager Academics
  • Supervise a team of 8 Academic Coordinator across 3 campuses, ensuring to establish high-quality service.
  • Compute the cost of courses and forecast profitability. Responsible for delivering financial and budgeting reports
  • Accelerated support to the budget executive for cost analysis, income and cash control.
  • Coordinate various faculty searches and maintain faculty search database. Accommodate assistance with recruitment activities, student interviews, and information sessions.
  • Visualizing key indicators in education setting on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis on excel.
DANLUB Import / Export Company Ltd
Jan 2011 - Sep 2012
Karachi, Pakistan
Accounts/Administration Executive
  • Produce financial analysis with actual and budget comparison to Treasurer monthly.
  • Administer employee records. Maintain supplier accounts. negotiate with clients, vendors, subcontractors.
  • Preparing and holding lectures as a lecturer
Wemyt Pvt. Ltd
Aug 2010 - Dec 2010
Karachi, Pakistan
Project Coordinator
  • Assist the project manager in drafting and issuance of project proposals, tenders, budgets, cash flows.
  • Partnered relevant institutions, NGO’s by attending meetings, seminars, workshops.
  • Create strategic plans with policies to establish a way to complete the project on time and high quality.
GUL Ahmed Textile
Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
Karachi, Pakistan
Winter Internship
  • Partly responsible for the processing unit operations
  • Market and competitor analysis
  • Responsible for output estimation
HBL Pakistan
Jun 2009 - July 2009
Karachi, Pakistan
Summer Internship
  • Areas: Finance, credit analysis, account opening, cheque clearance.
  • AML - Anit Money Laundering

Contact

taymour.niazi@gmail.com
in/taymourniazi
Github: taymourniazi
fb: taymour niazi

Skills

Data Science/Machine Learning for Business
Data mining and statistical Modeling
Data warehousing / Data engineering
Web Development / Web Scraping
Cloud Computing (MS Azure, Google Cloud)
Big Data / Hadoop Stack
Project Management / Reporting
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Trainee
Novice
Specialist
Expert

Languages & Tools

Python: Data Science & Web Development
Alteryx
Robotic Process Automation with UiPath
BI/Data Vizualization (Power BI, D3.js, Tableau, Python)
SAS (E-Guide & E-Miner)
R Studio / R-Shiny
SQL / MongoDB / Cassandra / Graph DB
JavaScript/jQuery
HTML/CSS
Flask
Docker
Beginner
Intermediate
Proficient
Expert

Languages

English
Urdu
Hindi

Hobbies

Programming & Statistics
Happiness Economics
Swimming
Badminton
Running

Interests & Volunteering

Best Employee
  • Awarded shield & certificate for best employee of the month at IBT University.
Society Member
  • Member of Pakistan society at Sheffield Hallam University / Achieve 1stposition for swimming championship.