Compliance Manager
Central Bank of Egypt
Total years of experience :18 years, 1 Months
Compliance, corporate governance, AML
• Directly reporting with a solid line to the Chairman of the Board, and the Audit Committee, and indirectly reporting with a dotted line to the CEO.
• Leading a team of 25 Compliance staff distributed on four main offices as follows:
I. AML and International Sanctions Office.
II. Parent Company regulations Office.
III. Compliance Assurance and Culture Diffusion Office.
IV. Local Regulations and CBE relationship Office.
• Initiated and implemented the KYE policy, and staff accounts monitoring.
• Present the bank with regulatory bodies, and other external third parties.
• Responsible for the Alignment between Local, and Parent company regulations.
• Responsible for ensuring that the AML systems, policies, and its implementation are going beyond the regulatory requirements and applying the best international practices.
• Review and monitor internal procedures, and ensure implementation compliance.
• Developed an updated inventory of regulations, policies and procedures.
• Responsible for updating the bank’s professional Code of Conduct, and Conflict of Interest Management policy.
• Responsible for the corrective and preventive actions to Customer Complaints and its analysis.
• Responsible for the corrective and preventive actions regarding Breaches Reporting and its analysis.
• Responsible for the Customers' Protection Policy.
• Responsible for the customers’ KYC update mega project implementation and monitoring for all the 2.8 Million customers distributed among the 167 branches.
• Responsible for the Fraud detection, and investigations.
• Responsible for updating the Whistle Blowing Policy and its implementation.
• Responsible for the FATCA project implementation.
Responsible for drafting Audit Committee and Management reporting on Monthly basis.
Carry out ad-hoc projects and prepared period reports to management.
Ensure acquiescence with compliance standards and regulatory requirements.
Review and monitor internal procedures and practices.
Identify compliance risks from every business line and manage them by providing training, advice, testing and monitoring.
Carry out Compliance Planning for every business line.
Presented the firm in communication and interaction with regulatory bodies.
Implemented specific measurements and monitored business activities as necessary.
Developed and updated inventory of regulations, rules, practices and guidelines.
Continuously updated in matters of controls relating to the Bank, pertinent laws, and regulations.
Responsible for bank’s professional Code of Conduct.
Responsible for the corrective and preventive actions to Customer Complaints.
Responsible for the corrective and preventive actions regarding Breaches Reporting.
Approval of the Financial Promotions programs before being launched.
Held Corporate Governance, Compliance and AML training session and responsible for updating employees and line managers on compliance related matters.
Ensure that systems and Anti Money Laundering (AML) procedures meet the regulatory requirements.
Responsible for FATCA Implementation.
AML Section Head