Rahim Ahmed

Banking professional equipped with 10+ years of diversified experience and exposure gained within Credit, Regulatory Compliance,

Branchless Banking Compliance & AML Department. Major tasks perform in career includes, Coordination’s with law enforcement agencies, Transaction Monitoring of core banking, MT103, MSB’s in respect of AML/ CFT reporting of CTR & STR, Sanctions Screening

& onsite branch visits.

In Mobilink Microfinance Bank

Limited, leading a team of 05 compliance Officers for Branch Banking Network of 51 Units team of and assisting 12 staff deployed nationwide and managing JazzCash agent network of 60,000+ agents under SBP-BB regulations. assisting manager compliance in ensuring of implementation of Bank compliance program w.r.t. SBP regulations, MMBL policies & procedures regarding Branch Banking operations, Coordination with Internal Auditors (IA), external auditors & SBP, agent education, agent monitoring and field investigations and coordination with PMCL-Mobilink partners MFS teams.

Senior Specialist Law Enforcement Agencies

Assistant Manager Grade

Askari Bank Limited May-2022 till date

• Receive and maintain record of all the requests from LEAs (MIS) for acquisition of information/execution of orders to support their ongoing investigations.
• Process the request for information/execution as per Operational Cycle.
• Provide advisory service to the business units, branches and other staff on requests for provision of information to LEAs.
• Coordination/Assistance to own staff in provision of information/ evidences/ appearance as witness to LEAs on call up notices.
• Maintenance of liaison and coordination with LEAs with regard to provision of information only to safeguard the organizational interests.

Senior Specialist Transaction Monitoring

Assistant Manager Grade

Askari Bank Limited October-2019 Apr 2022

• Effectively review alert-based transaction monitoring to ensure that irregularities/ out of pattern transactions are identified,

meticulously analyzed for identification and reporting of suspicious transactions to Financial Monitoring Unit.

• Identify any process gaps and recommend required corrective action for improvement.
• Escalation of irregularities to Unit head Transaction Monitoring Unit / Head Anti-Money Laundering to ensure regularization of customer accounts identified through transaction monitoring in order to mitigate AML risks in respect of irregular accounts.
• Ensure timely extraction, review, examining, and analysis on international Wire Transfer (MT-103 and MSBs) transactions on periodic basis, highlight irregularities and reporting of the identified suspicious transactions (if any) to Financial Monitoring

Unit.

• Ensure reporting of CTRs, STRs, with FMU, time to time reporting with internal & regulatory & statuary bodies.

Compliance Executive The First Microfinance Bank Limited

May-2018 to October-2019

• Monitoring of transactions for identifying out of pattern transactions and determine suspicious activities through Transaction

Monitoring system which requires to report Financial Monitoring Unit.

• To collect evidence from branches for investigation further, to ensure the reporting of STR, if suspicious persist Reporting of

CTR to Financial Monitoring Unit within given time frame.

• Preparing Management Reports and analysis on progress reports related to Transaction Monitoring System.
• Carry out on-visits visits of the branches as per engagement to review KYC/AML, CDD and account opening documents.
• Establish a close working relationship with all key stakeholders using Transaction monitoring system for day to day assistance and effective utilization of system.

2020 MS Project Management Riphah International University Islamabad

2014 MBA Gomal University, DIKhan

2011 BCom University of the Punjab, Lahore