Athar Shahzad Zafar, Senior Credit Analyst

Athar Shahzad Zafar

Senior Credit Analyst

Doha bank

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Diploma, Credit School, Financial Analysis, Modeling & NPLs/Debt Restructuring
Experience
23 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 1 Months

Senior Credit Analyst at Doha bank
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since March 2016

Responsible for reviewing credit portfolio of Corporate finance (syndications), mortgage backed & real estate financing and hospitality sector which comprises of over 40% of the banks portfolio.

Deputy General Manager - Structured Credits at Habib Bank Limited
  • Pakistan - Faisalabad
  • June 2013 to February 2016

Managing stressed corporate obligors and bad debts of the region.

Manager Corporate & F.I. Risk (North) at Allied Bank Limited
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • June 2012 to October 2012

Managing corporate credit originating from North Region.
Conduct credit analysis and submit the credit application along with recommendations.
Evaluate the credit application for all sorts of risks, highlighting them and proposing mitigants.
Analyse Projects and their financial models for financing.
Structuring credit facilities in line with the banks credit policy and obligors requirements.
Ensure that annual reviews are submitted as they fall due.
Prepare and submit MIS reports regarding credit portfolio and industry concentration.
Over and above due to limitation of resources, F.I. risk is still being managed by team.

Team Leader - Financial Institution Risk at Allied Bank Limited
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • January 2010 to June 2012

Analyzing various F.I.'s and generating their respective Risk Rating and recommending credit limits. Apart from that Country Risk Limits are also being set by my team.

VP/Head of Structured Finance at Allied Bank Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • April 2008 to January 2010

As a part of approval chain i'm heading a team of analysts and responsible for analysing various Projects and their financial models.

AVP/Senior Credit Analyst at Allied Bank Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • October 2005 to March 2008

Analyse corporate credit proposals and submit recommendation to Head of Corporate & F.I. Risk (Risk Management Group)

Being the senior resource, officiated as Head of Corp. & Risk too.

The Corporate and F.I. portfolio amounts to over Rs. 400 Billion. Further more, have been nominated as Deputy Project Manager for Basel II

Relationship Manager at Habib Bank Limited
  • Pakistan - Faisalabad
  • September 2000 to September 2005

Had responsibilities of corporate account mobilization and credit initiation & management. Handled a credit portfolio of over PKR 6.0 Billion ranging from Working capital facilities to Project Financing. Furthermore, provided a growth of more than 100% in international trade business (Import/Export) over the period. In addition I have been managing Non Performing Loans (previously Restructured/Rescheduled

Education

Diploma, Credit School, Financial Analysis, Modeling & NPLs/Debt Restructuring
  • at Euromoney Trainings
  • July 2011
Diploma, Project Finance Analysis & Modeling
  • at Euromoney Training
  • June 2008
Diploma, Basell II
  • at Euromoney Training
  • March 2006
Master's degree, Finance
  • at Quaid-i-Azam University
  • February 2000
Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at Punjab University
  • October 1998

Specialties & Skills

Modeling
Analysis
Project Finance
Project Finance
Financial Analysis
Microsoft Office software & the Internet
Credit Facility Structuring
Modelling
Risk Analysis

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
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Hobbies

  • tracking, hiking, cycling, travelling