Amaal's CV
Amaal Sharif
Risk Analyst | Program Governance
Profile summary
Adaptable and results-driven professional with a strong foundation in risk analysis, program governance, and technology consulting. Experienced in delivering risk assessments, regulatory compliance evaluations, and complex cross-functional project management across consulting and corporate environments. Passionate about solving complex operational challenges, driving stakeholder alignment, and supporting resilient business transformations.
Career highlights
Risk Assessment and Dashboards: Designed risk and resilience surveys and built dynamic Tableau dashboards visualizing data across 3 core business units to enable executive mitigation decisions.
Regulatory Compliance Evaluation: Evaluated client risk profile action plans against ISO 31000, ISO 22301, and ISO 27001 standards, alongside UAE Data Privacy Laws to ensure compliance.
Program Governance and Migration: Managed service integration and programme governance for two major UK telecom cloud migrations, aligning cross-functional teams to deliver zero-disruption operational handovers.
Data Management and Tracking: Established a centralized data catalogue tracking 200 plus data sources across cloud migration phases, improving cross-team alignment and reducing data discovery time.
Key skills
Professional experience
Managed risk assessment operations, overseeing client resilience engagements across multiple business units and facilitating senior-level alignment. Developed survey instruments and evaluation frameworks to measure organisational capabilities against international standards and local regulatory requirements. Coordinated PMO administrative workflows, tracking project timelines and producing stakeholder communication materials.
- Designed and delivered risk and resilience surveys across client organisations, using AI tools to categorize qualitative feedback into structured metrics.
- Facilitated risk severity workshops with senior specialists and client executives, using survey findings to drive prioritization discussions.
- Built and maintained risk and resilience frameworks, including escalation matrices, impact analysis tools, Business Impact Assessments, and Business Continuity Plans.
- Evaluated client risk profile action plans against ISO 31000, ISO 22301, and ISO 27001 standards, alongside UAE Data Privacy Laws to ensure compliance.
- Managed service integration and programme governance for two major UK telecom cloud migrations, aligning cross-functional teams to deliver zero-disruption operational handovers.
- Contributed to a successful multi-million pound IT transformation bid for a Fortune 500 global retail group, structuring commercial proposal decks and technical requirements that secured the winning contract.
- Maintained core PMO governance assets, including financial cost reports and action logs, for multi-million pound cloud migration projects, providing clear visibility to project leads, reducing tracking errors and ensuring GDPR compliance.
- Supported stakeholder engagement, working with solution architects and clients to align on service integration and delivery.
- Produced structured documentation of technical solutions (Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Dataproc) to support delivery and onboarding of new team members.
- Established a centralized data catalogue tracking 200+ data sources across cloud migration phases, improving cross-team alignment and reducing data discovery time for onboarding engineers.
Education
Business Information Systems | First Class Honours