Who’s Who: Rasha Binaftan, head of strategic partnerships at the Ministry of Finance

Rasha Binaftan. (Supplied)

Rasha Binaftan has been the head of strategic partnerships at the Ministry of Finance’s financial skills center since April. One of her duties is managing relationships with government clients and vendors to build the center’s brand and business.
She was a senior human resources business partner between Feb. 2020 and April 2021, and a human resources business partner between April 2018 and Feb. 2020.
She has significant experience in human resource management. At the Saudi Red Crescent Authority, she was an international recruitment officer from March 2010 to March 2011, and a human resources specialist between March 2011 and March 2014.
She was then promoted to organizational development specialist, a role she held between Oct. 2014 and March 2017, and was human resources business partner between March 2016 and March 2018. She designed, implemented, and managed salary classification and compensation programs, prepared occupational classifications, job descriptions, and salary scale.
Binaftan has a bachelor’s degree from King Saud University, a higher diploma in crisis, emergency and disaster management from Bangkok’s Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, and she completed INSEAD’s Women Leaders Programme last year.
She speaks Arabic, English and Spanish, and has certificates from London Business School and PricewaterhouseCoopers.