01 / About
A data-centric operator, in the room where banks change.

Financial Services professional with 12+ years of experience, combining an MBA with a Computer Science engineering background. Delivers measurable results for leading banks across KSA, the UAE and the wider GCC, spanning cards & payments modernization, AI and data-led transformation, and the launch of liability, lending and digital products worth over SAR 1 billion.

Works across the financial services industry, including retail, commercial and Islamic banks, capital markets, central banks and regulatory bodies, and insurance. Relies on analytics and data-backed innovation to bring quantifiable transformation, with technology as the enabler.

Banking Transformation
Product Management & P&L
Digital Transformation
Data & AI
Cards & Payments
Wealth Management
Islamic Finance
Strategic Partnerships
02 / Selected Experience
Mandates & milestones.
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Personal finance growth, Expat segment
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Credit-card sales growth
SAR 1.1B
New liabilities from one product
0.9k
New-to-bank customers added

Accenture

Financial Services | Riyadh, KSA | 2021 to Present

Cards management platform migration for a leading KSA bank; AI & data analytics portfolio for a major UAE bank with a K-means customer segmentation framework; a 12-initiative mass-segment retail roadmap; and end-to-end launch of a global liabilities product.

2021
AU Small Finance Bank
Product Manager, Secured & MSME Lending (India)
2018-2020
Muthoot Fincorp
Lead, Strategy & Transformation; Regional Manager
2012-2016
CSC / DXC Technology
Data & AI and Product Developer / RiskMaster
03 / Data & AI Work
Selected data & AI projects.

Mass-segment customer segmentation

K-means clustering to define actionable retail micro-segments for targeted growth initiatives.

Pythonscikit-learnK-means

Credit-risk scoring (PD model)

Probability-of-default model to support underwriting and portfolio decisions.

PythonLogistic Reg.Risk

Retail churn prediction

Early-warning model flagging at-risk customers for proactive retention.

PythonXGBoostRetention

Next-best-action recommender

Recommendation engine matching customers to the most relevant product or offer.

PythonRecsysCX
04 / Foundations
Education & certifications.
Education
MBA / Indian Institute of Management, Shillong
General Management | GMAT 760
B.Tech, Computer Science
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh
Certifications
Machine Learning
Stanford University Online
Leading with Analytics & AI
Kellogg, Northwestern University
MCPD & MCTS
Microsoft Certified Developer / Technology Specialist
05 / LinkedIn
My public profile, in one place.
Zakir
Zakir Zafar Mohammad
Banking transformation, Cards & Payments and Data & AI across the GCC
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  |  3,500+ followers  |  500+ connections
Accenture
Financial Services
IIM Shillong
MBA

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06 / Contact
Open to strategic conversations.
Available for banking transformation, Islamic-banking mandates, product launches, and data-led growth programs across the GCC region.