I am a Senior Compliance Professional with over 25 years of experience in Banking Financial Crime Compliance and Prevention. Through these years, I have worked in multiple jurisdictions with multinational and national banks in senior Compliance and Audit roles, adding value in fortifying compliance and regulatory risks, formulating policies and procedures to mitigate financial crime risks, creating a well-built and dynamic compliance team, and inculcating a strong regulatory compliance culture for the organizations. Technical Expertise- Leadership roles in financial crime compliance in multiple jurisdictions and global markets.- Extensive senior level working experience in Retail, Corporate, Correspondent Banking business.- Deep understanding of standard and high-risk markets from financial crime risk perspective.- Designing & enhancing financial crime programs and implementing compliance systems.- Experience in interpreting regulations and guidelines issued by regulators and other agencies.- Integrating compliance requirements during mergers, acquisitions and outsourcing.- Experience in conducting data analysis, testing, validations of compliance programs and systems.- Embedding compliance culture in the organization through awareness, trainings and workshops.- Experience in handling Regulatory Investigations, Consent Order and DPAs.- Planning and executing large compliance remediation projects (KYC/ AML/ Sanctions/ EDD/ RA).Public Engagements and Other Achievements - Participated as a ‘speaker’ in several local and international forums on invitation from reputed firms such as Deloitte, KPMG, EY, Thomson Reuters, AMPL/Europol etc. - Attended several conferences and seminars on Audit, Compliance, Banking, International Sanctions, FATCA, Process Re-engineering, Outsourcing, Six Sigma, etc. - in US, Europe, Middle East and Asia.- I am one of the founding members of “MENA Financial Crime Compliance Group”. - I was instrumental in developing in-house “AML & Sanction’ e-learning training program for the bank. I also teamed up with Henley Business School (UK) to develop an Advance Compliance Certification Course for the bank. Henley Business School has awarded me an Honorary Certificate for this work.- I was the first formally appointed Compliance Manager at Mashreq Bank, and over these years, I managed to establish a robust Compliance function and created a well-built team of 150+ financial crime professionals across Mashreq locations. My Employee Engagement Gallup score averages at 4.6 out 5.
Listed skills include Banking, Corporate Governance, Internal Audit, Compliance Management, and 17 others.
