Samah Nassar
General Department Head
Cairo
Summary
- Dynamic professional with extensive experience in banking control & supervision, excelling in regulatory compliance and financial data analysis.
- Demonstrated strong analytical thinking and attention to details.
- Successfully updating credit systems to align with international best practices.
- Proficient in Excel and skilled in bilingual translation.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
General Department Head
Central Bank of Egypt
12.2002 - Current
22 years’ experience in banking control & supervision sector, in the Central Bank of Egypt :
16 years in the Off-site department , responsibilities include:
- Developing and upgrading the reporting systems as well as the on-going surveillance reports (Financial & Regulatory) which are risk focused and in line with the International and Financial Accounting Standards (IFRS).
- Producing wide range of reports and information that serve different departments within the CBE as well as other external governmental authorities concerning the Banking Sector.
- Consolidating data for the banking sector and providing data support for the on-going surveillance process.
- Financial analysis for these consolidated data , triggering the main effective changes and their justifications & submitting them to the top management to take the required decisions .
- Preparing financial indicators for some external parties ( IMF , World Bank , ….).
- Following up the current effective economic events & preparing special reports for that ( if needed ).
6 years in the CCR department , responsibilities include:
- Ensuring consistency & compliance with the regulations & rules issued by the CBE, governing the framework of registering the finance / credit facilities granted to customers of banks and non-banking credit granting entities (CGEs).
- Updating the regulations according to the international best practices and the Egyptian Banking Sector needs.
- Performing continuous development of CCR credit systems, platforms and updating the financial and statistical reports designs and systems that contributes in achieving the CBE’s supervisory objectives.
- Financial data analysis.
- Preparing periodical data & reports required by the CBE top management & other CBE departments, in addition to the ad-hoc reports requested internally or externally.
Education
Bachelor Degree - Accounting
Faculty of Commerce - English Section
Ain Shams 04.2001 -
Skills
- Strong focus on accuracy - Details Oriented
- Analytical thinking
- Information gathering - Research
- Proficient in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Language : Very Good in English
- Translation (Arabic to English & vice versa)
Accomplishments
Participated in the following projects:
- Cooperation with the PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) as a part of the comprehensive project of reviewing the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) supervisory framework, with the goal of continuing the development of supervisory standards and approaches subsequent to the earlier Egyptian Banking sector reform program and in response to international regulatory developments.
Our part is mainly concerned with developing the CBE’s credit information sharing platform (the Public Credit Registry), by analyzing the internal transfer process of data (from the PCR to other CBE departments) & external transfer process of data (from banks & credit granting entities to the PCR) to identify any shortfalls identified in the current PCR compared with the best practices , followed by :
- Participating in the CBE system development undertaken by REGNOLOGY CO.
- Participated in updating the Private Credit Bureaus regulations which was published in 23-11-2023.
- Participated in the CBE website revamp through updating the part of the CCR department.
- Translated the CCR department's regulations (published in 2005 and the updated regulations published in 3-2025 ) to English as a step to introduce and clarify them to international bodies and the Central Bank’s partners from financial and regulatory institutions, and to keep pace with developments and changes in the global banking system , together with the preparation of several English presentations.
- Participating in the working group concerned with setting the “Credit Guarantee Companies” regulations.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop the CCR department through creating many templates helping in data analysis (among which the credit risk profile template - the ORR matrix template).
Attended Courses
- Banking studies in the Egyptian Banking Institute (2002)
- Banking studies in English (2003-2004).
- Anti-Money Laundering (2004).
- Certified Bank Auditor Program Part 2- Auditing principles (2004)
- Certified Bank Auditor Program Part 1 – Accounting (2006)
- Certified Bank Auditor Program Part 3- Auditing practices ( 2007)
- Certified Bank Auditor Program Part 4 -Bank Laws/ Regulation ( 2008 )
- FSI on Line Training-Fundamental & intermediate (2007 - 2008)
- Financial analysis(2008)
- Effective communication skills(2008)
- Emerging Leaders Program – ( 2013) )
- Operational Risk School(2007)
- Seminar about Credit worthiness (2007)
- Seminar on Financial Stability – Macro Prudential Analysis (2007)
- Financial institutions analysis.(2007)
- Financial & Credit analysis &Process (2010)
- Future Leaders Program (2017-2018)
Courses attended abroad:
- Risk Management & Internal control course in America at the "Federal Reserve" of Washington ( 2004 ) .
- Islamic financial supervision in UAE ( 2010 ) .
- Study visit on reporting framework held in " Banca d'italia " Eurosystem program in ITALY ( 2012 ) .
- Seminar on Basel II held in "Deutsche Bundesbank" during the period from ( 2014) .
- FSI Seminar on International Accounting and Auditing for Banks held in "Bank for international settlement" in Basel - Switzerland (2015) .
- Future Leaders Program in USA & Germany (2017-2018)
Timeline
General Department Head
Central Bank of Egypt
12.2002 - Current
Bachelor Degree - Accounting
Faculty of Commerce - English Section
04.2001 -