Ashfaq Zaidi, Senior Operational Risk Officer (SORO)

Ashfaq Zaidi

Senior Operational Risk Officer (SORO)

Standard Chartered Bank (SCB)

Location
Pakistan
Education
Diploma, Auditing, Accounting, Banking Laws & IT
Experience
39 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :39 years, 6 Months

Senior Operational Risk Officer (SORO) at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB)
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since April 2008

Responsible to manage the Operational Risk of the following areas and reporting directly to the Group Operational Risk Management:

Global Market (Treasury Front and Back Office), O&CC (Corporate), Credit, Credit Risk Control, Transaction Banking, Loan Processing Unit, Trade Finance, Cash Management, Securities Services & Customer Services Group.

Head Risk Management at Zarai Tarraqiati Bank LTD
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • October 2004 to September 2007

Executive Management position directly reporting to the President and the Board on all issues of Risk Management covering Credit, Operational and Market risks, implementation of Basel II, development and implementation of Risk Modules, Risk Policies, Systems implementation and adopts the best Banking practices from the perspective of Risk Management using modern techniques, also an active member of the Senior Management Team responsible for Restructuring of the Bank under the aegis of Asian Development Bank.

Achievements:

- Implement effective Cash Management through ALCO which resulted in improving the Bank fund placement yield from 1.5% in December 2004 to 8.50% in December 2006.
- Developed recovery strategy for SAM portfolio.
- Developed monitoring mechanism for Credit/Operational Risk and reporting to Risk Committees for taking corrective measures in order to minimize the Risk Gap/s.
- Developed Crisis Management Plan, Emergency Evacuation Plan and Guidelines on Armed Robbery.
- Developed Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan (draft).
- Developed Liquidity Management Contingency Plan.
- Developed Treasury & Investment Policy.
- Developed Road Map for the implementation of Basel II.
- Developed guidelines on Anti Money Laundering & Terrorism Financing.
- Developed pro-active culture and risk awareness through presentation and interaction.


- Developed Risk Management policy covering all aspects of Credit, Operational, Market & Liquidity and Compliance Risk and Charter for ALCO and Risk Committees. Developed Operational Risk Model and implement in the twenty six pilot branches of ZTBL.
- Provide assistant in the development of the bank’s credit policy manual.

Member of the following key committees

• Board Risk Committee
• ALCO (Secretary)
• Executive Coordination Committee
• Credit/Operational Risk Management Committee(Secretary)
• IT Steering Committee
• Basel II Implementation Committee(Chairperson)

Head of Operations, Market & Liquidity and Compliance Risk at Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • July 2001 to June 2003

Established, Operational, Market & Liquidity and Compliance Risk Department. Developed Risk Management Policy and guidelines. Develop & implement Operational Risk module and monitoring tool for all concern areas of the Bank. The model includes Risk associated with Information System, Processing, Reputation, Human Resources, Documentation, Regulatory & Compliance, Legal, Marketing & Customer Service, Bank Security, Treasury and Business Continuity.

Report to Risk Committee and Board of Directors on potential exposures on regular basis. Ensure that corrective measures are taken to either eliminate or minimize the identified risk within the accepted tolerance level of the Bank.

Developed and implement following policies and guidelines.

a) Treasury Policy b) Liquidity Crisis Management Plan c) Crisis Management Plan (Act as an consultant for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan) d) Emergency Evacuation Plan e) Armed Robbery f) Anti Money Laundering & Terrorism Financing (Also provided training to all concern areas of the Bank, developed monitoring reports in accordance with Central Bank Guidelines and ensure effective compliance)
g) Information Technology Security Policy h) Staff contravention & penalties guidelines.

In addition review draft Policies and Procedures, provide Risk Management comments on Risk issues. Review and consolidate issues raised by the Internal, External and Central Bank Auditors and discuss with the respective Auditee Management and ensure corrective measures are taken in a timely manner in order to either eliminate or minimize the risk issues and to be in compliance with the Auditors reports.

Other Assignments in addition to the above responsibilities:
Member and Coordinator of the following committees:
Asset and Liability Committee (ALCO)
Crisis Management Team (CMT)
Risk Committee

Audit Manager - Treasury & Banking Operation at Burgan Bank
  • Kuwait
  • September 1999 to June 2001

Responsible for the Audit of Treasury, Operations, Corporate, International & Retail Banking Group, Financial Control and Administration Division.

Audit Manager - Treasury & Banking Operations at National Bank of Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • February 1983 to July 1999

Responsible for the Audit of Treasury, Operations, Corporate, International & Retail Banking Group, Financial Control, Administration Division and monitoring, investigating & reporting of suspicious transaction on Money Laundering to the Bank Management and Central Bank.

Review proposed Policies/Procedures manual and new Products/System to ensure that risk associated are duly covered and controls are effective. Submit suggestions & recommendations on their acceptability.

Conduct Special Investigation and report all findings with the recommendations to the Management.

Represent Internal Audit as a Consultant to Business Process Re-Engineering.

Member: Staff Investigation & Bank Purchasing committees

Education

Diploma, Auditing, Accounting, Banking Laws & IT
  • at Certified Bank Auditor (CBA) -BAI
  • May 2001
Bachelor's degree, Accounting, Business Law, Economic
  • at University of Karachi
  • December 1981

Specialties & Skills

Auditing
Banking Operations
Operational Risk
Compliance
Computer literate
Computer Literate

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert

Memberships

Institute of Internal Auditor
  • membership
  • May 2000