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Batool Derieh

Batool Derieh

Data Scientist / Analyst
Nablus

Summary

Skilled data scientist and Business Intelligence reporting officer with six years of professional experience in the financial area with a data science master's degree. Professional reputation for resolving problems, eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail, and excellent organizational, technical, and analytical skills. In previous roles, I worked on gathering, cleaning and analyzing data. created prediction and classification models and evaluate them, in addition to work as a team member/ team leader. Seeking for a full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Data Sience Section Head

The National Bank (TNB)
Ramallah
02.2023 - Current

- build, improve and maintain dashboards for business use

- creating plan for machine learning models for the bank

- negotiate vendors to buy machine learning platform

- preparing RFP

- working on creating ATM cash prediction & customer segmentation machine learning models.

- collaborating with the data engineering team to apply ETL and get the needed data.

Data Scientist

Foothill Technology Solutions
Nablus , Ramallah
08.2022 - 02.2023

- Document OCR: build services that extract data from PDF invoices using tools such as OpenCV, Tesseract, etc. This is done by: applying the needed image preprocessing techniques such as extra area cropping, rotation correction, and de-noising. Apply extracting methods such as table identifier, key similarity, building templates, and data storing. Creating a logging model shows every step that happened in the full-service pipeline

- working on training ChatGPT to write domain-specific queries or correct existing ones to help the management have the needed work insights using their natural language without writing the code or extracting with the database.




Data Scientist

Datablock
Ramallah
04.2022 - 07.2023

- Extract, preprocess and analyze fertility wearable device data to extract main insights from data and highlight the data quality issues that need to be corrected or enhanced to build a machine learning model that can predict the ovulation day. Then, apply feature engineering and prediction model for the fertility day

- Cost analysis tasks : work with database (in OHDSI CDM format) and extract data related to insurance healthcare records (conditions, procedures, and measurements ) and their related cost based on specific business requirements.

- Building disease specific prediction model to provide an early diagnosis of the disease based on patients historical data and common medical concepts.

Financial Analysis Acting Unit Head

Paltel -Palestinian Telecommunication Company
Nablus
11.2021 - 03.2022

- Coordinate the financial analysis team and followup the team work

- Financial Analysis acting manager

- Create high level presentations and reports

- Create risk assessment plans based on the monthly financial report and the justification provided form the company directorates

- Evaluate products and services performance after launching and the feasibility of the proposed projects/ investments

- Create correction plans regarding the financial performance if needed

- Identify, measured and recommended improvement strategies for KPIs across business areas to achieve the management goals

- Participate in achieving Treasury Department goals by applying automation for needed processes and create high level dashboards for Loans, Cash, Guarantees and Stocks.



BI Reporting & Financial Analysis Officer

Paltel -Palestinian Telecommunication Company
Nablus
07.2017 - 10.2021

BI Reporting:

  • Create accurate models and reports for management and many departments in monthly base using Oracle BI in order to show company Main KPI's and related compressions ( with what was budgeted or previous etc.)
  • Create dashboards that contains main financial results and its related drilldown information's that is important to top management based on related financial standards ( revenue, cost , expenses, CAPEX,EBIT, Net Profit , Customers ,Services ARPU etc.)
  • Create dynamic treasury dashboards that allow top management to see daily balances per bank and currency , currency rates(daily , average per month / year) , Bank guarantees and their amounts +set reminder once guarantee is close to the deadline.
  • Automate budget reservation process and automatically conduct from budget and prevent a certain directorate from exceed the allowed limits
  • Create automated agent that apply control on projects , Capex and Opex accounts (show alert once a project is over budget / the remaining on an expense account is less than 20% for example)
  • Generate ad hoc reports for certain projects or cases in order to help management with making key decisions
  • Create financial reporting packages about company performance to the mother company (Paltel Group)
  • Create reports for external parties such as external auditors or ministry.
  • Tracked and analyzed reports to determine needed improvements.

Analysis :

  • Analyzing revenue, cost & expense variances in order to provide financial recommendations
  • Preparing yearly budget and business plan ( help in collecting needed data from different directorates , reflect data on budget model, analyze and evaluate the logic of data, prepare forecasts , contact directorates for any inquires/ adjustments)
  • Controlling Budget: using the applied system and the created reports using oracle BI in controlling and monitoring the actual performance vs. budget of revenues, operation expense & capitalized expense in order to recommend any correction actions
  • Monitoring and analyzing financial, statistical and operational data trends in order to prepare any case study is required regarding cutting cost or increasing revenues
  • Campaigns: Studying campaign descriptions, suggested prices, target groups, target costs, and review feasibility study
  • Pricing: Making sure that pricing fits with marketplace realities and achieves the financial goals of the company
  • Projects: Ensuring feasibility of projects, its future benefits , available fund ,and discuss with related parties in order to make recommendations
  • Evaluate financial offers for bids in coordination with procurement team

Trainee

Nablus municipality
Nablus
01.2013 - 05.2013

Built a data warehouse for Municipality collection department by preparing and analyzing data that comes from different sources, cleaning it and doing some preprocess tasks to insure that data is ready for Nablus Municipality to evaluate current situation according to objectives . This project was applied using Microsoft Sql Server 2008 R2 that provides services including Integration Services( SSIS), Reporting Services and Analysis Services. Analysis Services includes a group of OLAP and data mining .

Education

Master of Science - Data Analysis And Business Analytics

Arab American University
Ramallah, Al-Rihan
10.2020 - Current

Bachelor - Management Information Systems

Al-Najah National University
Nablus
09.2013 - 05.2017

English Access Microscholarship Program - English-as-a-Second-Language Education

AMIDEAST Scholaqrship
Nablus
12.2009 - 12.2011

Skills

Python

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references

  • Mais Salameh 970 (9) 230 0989

Financial analysis Department Head- Mais.Salameh@paltel.ps


  • Hamzah Zayuod 970 (9) 230 1379

Senior ERP Specialist- Hamzeh.zayuod@paltel.ps

Timeline

Data Sience Section Head

The National Bank (TNB)
02.2023 - Current

Data Scientist

Foothill Technology Solutions
08.2022 - 02.2023

Data Scientist

Datablock
04.2022 - 07.2023

Financial Analysis Acting Unit Head

Paltel -Palestinian Telecommunication Company
11.2021 - 03.2022

Master of Science - Data Analysis And Business Analytics

Arab American University
10.2020 - Current

BI Reporting & Financial Analysis Officer

Paltel -Palestinian Telecommunication Company
07.2017 - 10.2021

Bachelor - Management Information Systems

Al-Najah National University
09.2013 - 05.2017

Trainee

Nablus municipality
01.2013 - 05.2013

English Access Microscholarship Program - English-as-a-Second-Language Education

AMIDEAST Scholaqrship
12.2009 - 12.2011
Batool DeriehData Scientist / Analyst