CIA, CRO & Chief Compliance

He is a Chartered Accountant and a CAIIB with over 3 decades of experience in Housing & Micro Finance, Implementation and Monitoring of Interest Sub-venation Scheme, Finance & Accounts, Treasury, Credit & NPA Management, Auditing, Profit Centre Management, Retail & Wholesale Banking, Regulatory Compliance (including compliance with KYC & AML guidelines) in the Banking & Financial Services sector. He has authored manuals on topics such as “Credit & NPA Management in Banks”, “KYC & AML Compliance in Banks”, “Risk based Internal Audit in Banks”, “Financial Sector Frauds”. He has also been associated with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India as guest faculty and delivered lectures on topics such as "Concurrent Audit in Banks", "Disclosure requirements for Banks", "Forensic Audit and Fraud Prevention". He has worked as Chief Internal Auditor and also as a member of Audit Committee for banks based in Afghanistan. Before taking over the position as Chief Internal Auditor, he was working with Ghazanfar Bank as “Chief Finance Officer”. Mobile: +93-790490150 E-mail: cia@ghazanfarbank.com

He is a MBA (Finance), Bachelors in Computer Science and Junior Associate Institute of Bankers Pakistan (JAIB) with over 15 Years of experience in different areas of Banking which mainly includes Compliance & Audit of Branch Operations, Trade Finance, Treasury operations, Advances, Quality Assurance, Internal Controls and his Core Competence specializes in Regulatory Compliance with AML/CFT/ KYC/CDD/EDD, Transaction Monitoring through system based applications for Country Specific AML guidelines and Sanctions Screening for Designated Natural and Legal Persons in the Banking & Financial Services sector. He has worked in different Local and International Banking Organization’s in Senior Management Positions which includes SAMBA Bank Ltd, NIB Bank Ltd, Bank al Falah Ltd, National Bank of Pakistan, Habib Bank Afghanistan and Currently working as Head of Compliance at Ghazanfar Bank. He is also Professional Member of different committees as appended in advising issues related to AML/CFT, Corporate Governance and Risk. He is also a Professional Trainer at AIBF(Visiting Faculty) and Conducted different Presentations on Regulatory Subjects to Local Banking Industry staff for Capacity Building. FinTraca: Member of Compliance Coordination Committee Afghanistan Afghanistan Banking Association Voting Member of GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance Committee) Afghanistan PREMIA Local Chapter Member of PREMIA Local Chapter Risk Committee. Afghanistan Afghanistan Institute of Banking and Finance Trainer at Afghanistan Institute of Banking and Finance. Afghanistan Mobile: +93-783559780 E-mail: compliance-head@ghazanfarbank.com