Osama Elsamy

Associate Director at KPMG ME | Digital Strategy & Transformation Lead

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

As an Associate Director in KPMG Middle East’s Digital Transformation practice, I leverage over 8 years of experience driving innovation across government, education, retail, and sovereign wealth funds to design digital strategies, lead complex transformations, and build operating models that deliver measurable value. My expertise spans the full lifecycle of large-scale technology implementations, from initial strategy to final execution. I specialize in large transformation programs, IT/Digital strategy, vendor selection, and process optimization to ensure digital investments are scalable and aligned with organizational goals. I’m passionate about transforming ambitious digital visions into practical, high-impact results and empowering organizations to realize the full value of their digital potential.

Experience

  • KPMG Lower Gulf (7 yrs 8 mos)
    • Associate Director
      Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    • Manager
      Apr 2023 - Apr 2026 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      • Led resource augmentation to enhance service excellence within a government entity in Abu Dhabi, optimizing workforce capacity, onboarding specialized talent, and improving service delivery performance across critical functions • ServiceNow implementation – ESM roll-out across 60 government entities within Abu Dhabi Led the rollout of the ServiceNow implementation across 60 government entities, including a leading department. The scope included aligning with key focal points to ensure consistency in the catalogs developed for IT function. This involved gathering key data inputs, including local items, obtaining sign-offs, overseeing development and testing, conducting training in both English and Arabic, and providing hyper-care support. • ServiceNow implementation - Business Solutions Automation for a core digital organization within Abu Dhabi Led the implementation of ServiceNow across various departments —Human Capital, General Services, Procurement, Legal, and Finance—which included the gathering functional requirements, development of service catalog, design of the solution architecture, implementation, QA and UAT testing, training in both English and Arabic and hyper-care. • Development of Transformation Playbook for a leading ministry in the UAE Led the development of a Transformation Playbook that covers the detailed scope and artifacts of a product life cycle. Additionally, documented detailed specifications for a tool to support development tracking for a leading ministry in the UAE. • Implementation of a digital transformation solution for a governmental entity in the social sector in Abu Dhabi Assessed business processes and gathered platform design requirements, re-engineered workflows and oversaw UI enhancements throughout the product lifecycle as a product owner. Additionally, led QA and user acceptance testing, and provided valuable training to business stakeholders and selected users.

    • Assistant Manager
      Apr 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

      • Product owner on the execution of a digital transformation strategy for a governmental entity in the social sector in Abu Dhabi Assessed the current business process and re-engineered workflows as per leading practices to enhance business process, gathered business requirements for platform design, managed the agile development of the digital platform. • Conducted an engaging IT Operating Model Design Training, empowering professionals to optimize IT capabilities, align objectives with business goals, and drive digital transformation. • Assessed the current state of a family-owned diversified business in KSA Conducted current state assessment across six pillars (people, process, governance, technology, service delivery model and performance insights and reporting) at a group level, sector level and entity level and outlined areas of enhancements

  • Steel Design Intern at Gulf Steel & Engineering - GSE
    Sep 2018 - Oct 2018 · 2 mos

  • Site Engineering Intern at AL QANDEEL CONTRACTING Co. L.L.C
    Mar 2018 - May 2018 · 3 mos

  • Engineering Intern at Aurecon
    Jan 2018 - Feb 2018 · 2 mos

  • Intern at Arabtec Construction LLC
    May 2017 - Jun 2017 · 2 mos