Youssef Murad, Chief Compliance Officer

Youssef Murad

Chief Compliance Officer

Syria Gulf Bank

Location
Syria - Damascus
Education
Master's degree, Finance
Experience
15 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 8 Months

Chief Compliance Officer at Syria Gulf Bank
  • Syria - Damascus
  • My current job since April 2023

- Responsible for Compliance program.
- Perform planned compliance reviews.
- Prepare quarterly compliance reports to the board of directors.
- Providing guidance to bank business sections.
- Provide corporate governance, risk and compliance framework in line with international standards.
- Responsible for AML program.
- Monitoring suspicious transactions and prepare the needed reports in this regards.
- Prepare and perform annual training and awareness sessions.
- Screening names and transactions to assure not breaching sanction programs.
- FATCA Responsible officer.

head of compliance at Syria Gulf Bank S.A.
  • Syria - Damascus
  • July 2012 to March 2023

- Responsible for Compliance program.
- Perform planned compliance reviews.
- Prepare quarterly compliance reports to the board of directors.
- Providing guidance to bank business sections.
- Provide corporate governance, risk and compliance framework in line with international standards.
- Responsible for AML program.
- Monitoring suspicious transactions and prepare the needed reports in this regards.
- Prepare and perform annual training and awareness sessions.
- Screening names and transactions to assure not breaching sanction programs.
- FATCA Responsible officer.

Compliance & AML Senior Supervisor at syria gulf bank
  • Syria - Damascus
  • March 2012 to June 2012

- Review alerts and ensure that investigations are completed to meet standards.
- Responsible for AML activities and implementations in the bank.
- Provide guidance and training on implementations of sanctions, AML, compliance activities.
- Responsible for checking periodic reports.
- Responsible for conducting regular reviews.
- Responsible for performing the needed investigations over daily client’s suspicious transactions.

internal auditor at syria gulf bank
  • Syria - Damascus
  • August 2010 to September 2011

- Responsible for audit annual assignments.
- Prepare comprehensive audit reports including department comments and responses.

head teller at syria gulf bank
  • Syria - Damascus
  • May 2008 to July 2010

- Expanding banking relationships.
- Assure a high level of services.
- Tracking branch annual targets.
- Supervising daily tellers’ transactions.
- Responsible for branch’s main vault, teller’s cash, and safe boxes.
- Prepare daily reports cash in/out.
- Assure best service of branch VIP customers.

Education

Master's degree, Finance
  • at Higher Institute for business administration
  • January 2019

Master in Finance –The contribution of electronic services towards moving to cashless society-.

Bachelor's degree, Banking and Finance
  • at Al Kalamoon Private University
  • January 2008

Specialties & Skills

Compliance
Money Laundering
Banking
Internal Audit
POLICY ANALYSIS
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
MARKET ANALYSIS
SUPERVISORY SKILLS
TAX PLANNING
WRITING
COACHING
BANKING

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker