Mastering Finance Fundamentals at Emirates NBD
An interactive, learner-led journey through global financial structures and institutional models, built as a high-impact onboarding solution distilling expert CFI curricula into a modern internal training asset.
ROLE
Instructional Design
TOOLS
Articulate Storyline 360, Genially
FOCUS
Financial Onboarding
Before any screen got designed, two questions shaped everything that followed.
The Setup
The problem it solves
New hires onboarding into corporate finance face steep cognitive load absorbing dense, regulation-heavy curricula, especially across global banking models and institutional structures they've never encountered before.
Who it's for
New employees at Emirates NBD who need to build financial fluency quickly, and the training team responsible for turning expert-level CFI content into something genuinely learnable on the job.
Curious how it works?
The prototype is fully interactive, try the flow yourself.
Key design decisions
A few of the choices that shaped the experience, and why they mattered.
Curriculum review, grounded in expert source material
I worked through a large volume of corporate finance training alongside experts from the Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) to identify exactly what new hires needed to know. That collaboration mapped out the heavy financial concepts learners had to absorb, before a single screen got designed.
Dense blocks of finance terminology got broken into short, bite-sized lessons. Long, heavy reading became short, scannable pieces learners could take in quickly, without losing the substance underneath.
Information chunking to reduce load
Clean design that gets out of the way
A visual strategy blending Emirates NBD and CFI branding into a sleek, minimalist interface, eliminating decorative clutter to minimize extra cognitive load. Clean white space and structured, sequential flow guide the learner's eye naturally through the content.
Rebuilt for the web, without losing the teaching structure
The original course was built in Articulate Storyline 360 for internal business tracking. I rebuilt this portfolio version in Genially, keeping the exact same teaching structure while making it load fast and work smoothly right here on the site.
Outcome
Launched as a pilot with 36 new hires, the course quickly outgrew that status, it's now a permanent part of the company's intern-to-employee onboarding process.