World Health Organization

Compliance and Risk Management Officer

Quality Assurance Specialist- African Regional Office

UNDP

Operations Officer

MONUSCO

Budget Specialist

Finance Associate

Merck

Finance Manager

Schering-Plough Research Institute

Assistant Manager Finance

Auditor

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I am an experienced Compliance and Risk Management Professional with over a decade of expertise in international operations, financial management, and quality assurance. Currently serving as a Compliance and Risk Management Officer at the World Health Organization, I bring a proven track record of fostering operational excellence, implementing robust risk frameworks, and ensuring organizational compliance across diverse regions.

What Sets Me Apart:

- Holistic Approach to Leadership: Beyond professional success, I believe in integrating personal transformation and emotional resilience into my work. 

- Mentorship & Growth: I am passionate about coaching and guiding professionals, helping them unlock their potential in both established and emerging fields like AI and personal development.

- Core Values: Transparency, openness, and trust form the foundation of my professional and personal journey.

Personal Philosophy:

Balancing the technical with the transformative, I strive to bridge the gap between operational efficiency and personal growth. Whether leading risk mitigation strategies or exploring the art of feminine embodiment, I am committed to creating a legacy that inspires alignment, authenticity, and abundance in every sphere of life.

Outside of my professional work, I am a lifelong learner, an AI enthusiast, and a proponent of holistic growth—committed to harmonizing professional excellence with personal fulfillment.

Let’s connect to explore how we can create impactful change together!

Beenish Arif

I advise and lead corporate governance and operations transformation programmes at large global firms.

My responsibilities include:
• Conducting comprehensive assessments of clients' status quo, challenges, needs, and goals.
• Developing strategic plans for improvement initiatives, aligning them with clients' vision and priorities.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders at various levels of seniority.
• Managing ongoing corporate governance and transparency programmes to provide mechanisms for accountability and business performance improvement.
• Managing business operations units that provide integration between various back office operations and improve their efficiency.

Key Achievements:
•  Identified and mitigated a client’s legal risks from using an expensive core system outside its licensed purpose, advising senior management to replace offending processes and addressing conduct issues of personnel who had extended and covered up the unlicensed use.
•  Diagnosed and resolved severe faults in labour tracking processes that caused millions of dollars in cost misallocation and productivity measurement errors. Identified critical dependencies that had been eliminated in organisational restructures and caused erroneous data to cascade. Recommended alternatives for replacing the lost dependencies or overhauling the orphaned processes. Advised on how to estimate the existing data discrepancies.
• Identified and addressed significant productivity gaps, duplication and operational inefficiencies, including synergies available by eliminating duplication within project delivery teams and productivity improvements from more effective resource allocation. Steered the client towards a comprehensive reorganisation plan to improve operational effectiveness and deliver substantial cost savings.

Governance Director

Telstra

I led a governance and financial management framework in a division responsible for over $300m in annual costs, building and running multiple asset portfolios worth over $1bn.

Responsibilities included:
• Developing and implementing a financial management framework that increased transparency, accountability, and efficiency of IT spending and budgeting.
• Establishing and enforcing IT governance policies and standards that ensured compliance with company policies, strategy and best practices.
• Optimising IT productivity using data-driven methodologies to identify and resolve issues and gaps.
• Providing financial and management accounting support and advice to IT leaders and stakeholders, facilitating better informed planning and decision making.
• Driving a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the team, fostering collaboration, learning, and feedback.

Key Achievements:
• Anticipated and resolved challenges in the initial phase of a major transformation programme involving offshore delivery, pro-actively calling out previously unknown dependencies and potential roadblocks, and engaging extensively with GMs and programme managers to find effective solutions with acceptable risk levels.
• Identified process inefficiency and ineffective allocation strategies, delivering significant improvements through automation of reporting and allocation functions, eliminating redundant processes and taking advantage of synergies to improve productivity.
• Improved Telstra’s negotiating position by consolidating governance of vendor relationships, enabling purchasing relationships to be managed and negotiated at a business unit level, rather than an individual project level.

Senior Manager, IT Finance and Governance

I led a small team of consultants supporting IT purchasing management functions for Telstra, ensuring optimal value and performance from IT vendors and suppliers.

My responsibilities included:
• Conducting market research and analysis to identify and evaluate IT vendors and suppliers.
• Preparing and issuing requests for quotations and purchase orders for IT services, in accordance with Telstra’s procurement policies and procedures.
• Negotiating and finalising statements of work with vendors and suppliers, ensuring compliance with Telstra’s commercial requirements and standards.
• Managing and monitoring agreements throughout their lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery, performance, and payment of IT services.
• Resolving any issues or disputes that arise between Telstra and IT vendors and suppliers, escalating them as needed.
• Reporting and presenting on IT agreement management activities and outcomes, providing insights and recommendations for improvement.

Key Achievements:
• Streamlined the calculation and processing of allocations, journals and accruals through automation and improved process efficiency, resulting in greater accuracy of information and reduction in processing times, improved capacity for storing and handling data, faster and better reporting capabilities, and improved relationships with key programme stakeholders.
• Improved the working relationship with key vendors by developing strong rapport, assisting with negotiating better prices and terms, and significantly reducing invoice disputes.
• Repaired a previously strained internal relationship with project analysts in Enterprise Services by improving transparency.
• Increased engagement and morale of team members by ensuring they understood how their work benefited the business, improving the effectiveness of the team’s contribution.

Commercial Lead, IT Procurement and Contract Management

I supported various clients in the manufacturing, retail, and distribution sectors with their logistics and supply chain needs.

My responsibilities for clients included:
• Coordinating and executing logistics and supply chain activities, such as purchasing, transportation, warehouse and distribution management, and inventory management.
• Ensuring compliance with logistics and supply chain policies, procedures, and regulations, such as safety, quality, and environmental standards.
• Monitoring performance, identifying and resolving issues and risks.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across the value chain, including suppliers, distributors, retailers, and customers.

As a business owner, I was also responsible for:
    • Risk management
    • Management accounting and business economics
    • Financial statements, business taxation, payroll, and withholding

Logistics and Supply Chain Specialist

Operational governance, transparency & accountability | HR, Finance, Procurement, IT | 20+ years solving corp challenges | Chief of Staff, Executive or Lead Advisor | Now available, permanent or contract, in UK & Ireland

I’m an experienced corporate governance and business operations leader who delivers operations transparency and governance for global firms, specialising in back office operations such as IT, finance, procurement, and HR.

I also advise on improvement initiatives to integrate these units better, which improves the experience for stakeholders.

I have a proven track record of delivering successful initiatives across international borders, and providing ongoing leadership. I lead entire improvement cycles – from discovery and advice to planning and delivery – and ensure that the solutions I provide are sustainable and scalable.

Some of my key achievements include:
• Developing and implementing a management accounting framework that increased transparency, accountability, and efficiency for an IT organisation responsible for over $300m in expenditure.
• Establishing and enforcing governance policies and standards that ensured compliance with company policies, strategies, and best practices. This impacted multiple asset portfolios valued at over $1bn.
• Optimising productivity and efficiency using data-driven tools and methodologies.
• Identifying and advising solutions for a range of IT, financial, and HR issues in a major corporate transformation programme at an FT Global 500 firm.
• Managing communication and building trust between departments with strained relationships.
• Offering the frank and fearless advice required for effective executive decision making.

I’m passionate about continuous improvement and innovation, and I’m always looking for new ways to add value. I drive a management culture that incentivises improvements in value and effectiveness. I also enjoy mentoring and coaching others, sharing my insights and best practices.

I am available for permanent executive or Chief of Staff opportunities and to lead consulting engagements in the UK, Ireland and EU/EEA. Location and travel are negotiable.

I am also available for offshore opportunities if travel requirements are reasonable, or if the position is remote.

If you’re looking for a trusted advisor who can improve your firm’s governance and transparency, or an executive focused on delivering a continuous improvement management culture that drives both value and results, reach out by DM.

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