larry.thomas.fakhry
About Candidate
Business Analyst with 2+ years of hands-on experience delivering financial systems for banking, insurance, government, and
payment/fintech clients across the MENA region, plus 2+ years in project coordination. Specializes in AML, KYC, Risk-Based
Assessment, Name Matching, credit scoring, case management, and digital wallet/payment transaction lifecycles — translating business
and regulatory requirements into functional specifications, validating API-driven data flows, and supporting system implementation,
testing, and emerging AI-enabled compliance tooling.
Location
Education
85/100 GPA
Work & Experience
Business Analyst | Valoores (Soft Solutions Group) June 2024 – Present • Beirut, Lebanon • Translate client change requests and business requirements into functional specification documents (FSDs) and user guides across KYC, AML, Risk-Based Assessment, Name Matching, and Credit Scoring modules for banking, insurance, and government clients. • Document and maintain end-to-end workflows spanning KYC onboarding, AML alert escalation/case closure, agent enrollment, bulk transaction upload, and money transfer. • Bridge business and development teams — log requirements/defects in Redmine and validate delivery via manual testing and test cases (e.g. KYC expiry-date logic tied to AML risk tiering; traced an inconsistent result in one of 80 AML rules to a query dependency and coordinated a fix with the Data Integration team). • Validate internal and third-party API integrations, including watchlist screening, KYC risk-calculation engines, and third-party payment/bill-collection services. • Support a national-level government case management initiative (crypto KYC/VASP compliance, knowledge-graph investigation tooling) and a legacy-to-modern platform migration including a new Master Data Management module (fees, rounding, VAT). • Driving the evolution of "In Display" — an internal no-code tool for configuring form fields and conditional business rules — into an AI-driven system that generates ready-to-use KYC screens directly from FSDs and business rules. • Contribute to an AI-generated credit analysis feature that summarizes peer analysis, credit history, and KYC data post-submission, refinable via chatbot for deeper human review.
Project Coordinator | Detay SARL (Facility Management, US Client Base) January 2022 – May 2024 • Jbeil, Lebanon • Promoted from Coordinator to Admin, progressing from technician/team coordination to direct client account management and job dispatch authority. • Directly managed 3 client accounts end-to-end — job intake, technician dispatch, scope-of-work/cost breakdowns, approvals, and daily billing/invoicing. • Coordinated within a 20-person team supporting US-based facility management clients (electrical, plumbing, HVAC, painting, cleaning), managing the full job lifecycle from request through to invoicing. • Personally built a technician network of ~25 professionals and maintained structured documentation for billing and compliance reporting.
