Head of Compliance Department
Arab Bank plc
Total years of experience :25 years, 2 Months
Responsible of ensuring compliance with applicable laws, rules, regulations and guidelines in addition to advocating and facilitating the development, implementation, communication and maintenance of compliance across all country operations. Managing Compliance Department team and working closely with country functional heads. Maintaining current understanding of country risks, regulatory requirements, bank products, services and customer types. Communicating with country head, senior management, correspondent banks, regulators and auditors (internal and external)
Head of AML Compliance Unit in charge of ensuring and verifiying compliance with AML/CTF policies, procedures, applicable laws, rules, regulations and guidelines as well as facilitating the development, implementation, communication and maintenance of AML/CTF Compliance program across the country operations. Member of the AML/CTF special committee.
Senior Controller holding B signature in the operations department( Head Office- Cornish Al Mazraa) and responsible of:
- The Commercial Services Division that includes:
Import and Export letters of credit
Inward and Outward bills for collection
Letters of guarantee
- The Incoming and Outgoing Transfers Division
- The Bank to Bank Correspondence for Treasury Division
- The Islamic Financing Through contracts that abide with sharia' rules and Islamic banking principles
- The Swift Correspondence For Domiciliation Division
Lecturer teaching on a part time basis a combined core business course called "Understanding Business Functions" covering lectures in the areas of marketing, operations management, human resource management, accounting and finance and information management.
May 2004- May 2007: Responsible of the Commercial Services Department (Verdun Branch) to satisfy the clients' commercial requirements concerning their Import/Export Letters of Credit, Letters of Guarantee, Inward/Outward Bills for Collection and commercial/bank discounted bills and for collection Bills.
Oct 2000- May 2004: Central Unit for Commercial Services/ Regional Management (Head office- Riyad El Solh) in charge of issuing, amending and paying letters of credit; receiving, studying and delivering documents and accomplishing the full correspondence with the banks in this respect .
Dec 1997-Oct 2000: Letter of Credit Department/ Beirut Branch (Riyad El Solh) in charge of issuing, amending and settling letters of credit; receiving, studying and delivering documents to the customers.
- Degree awarded: Master of Money And Banking - Date of award: 28/02/2002 - Master's project title: Effects of combating money laundering on banking secrecy with emphasis on the lebanese banking sector. - Total GPA: 85.90
- Degree awarded: Bachelor of Business Administration - Date of award: 07/07/1997 - Total GPA: 82.25