Experience

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  Walton Hi-tech Industries Plc.

  • Bangladesh
  • Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Chief Risk Officer (CRO)

    • Jul 2023 - Nov 2023
    • Dhaka

    •Created an integrated risk management framework for the Walton Hi-Tech Industries •Assessed risk throughout the organization. •Quantified risk limits; where applicable. •Developed plans aligned with the strategy to mitigate risks. •Advised on directing different projects to projects based on risk. •Assisted functional managers in obtaining and reporting risk mitigation plans. •Monitored the progress of risk mitigation activities with corrective initiatives. •Created and disseminated risk measurements and reports to the board and directors as required. •Constantly communicated to key stakeholders regarding the organization's risk profile to take immediate measures, whether applicable.

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  BRAC International

  • Bangladesh
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Assistant General Manager

    • Nov 2019 - Jul 2023

    •Continuous enhancement of risk management process, tools and template, and reporting mechanisms to identify, assess, and quantify risks up to country and entity level •Guidance as a core member of developing and promoting policies related to health, climate, gender communication, change management, and strategy that ensure positive interaction between program staff and other personnel •Providing administrative support to the leadership team and managing the day-to-day departmental operations to ensure that it runs smoothly •Risk management culture creation through updating the policy and framework, risk awareness sessions to the staff at all levels to all BI entities to be aligned with the latest standards and happening around the globe •Enhance and conduct regular fraud and compliance risk management to be aligned with the authority directives and report to senior management and Anti-bribery and counter-terrorism awareness to the staff •Continuous drives to create a feasible contribution of risk management and embed the risk into the operation of the entities, making the risk a decision-making tool for the leadership/governance •Monitor and execute the risks and compliance activity plan, and report to the senior leadership with the relevant documents and gaps that need to address •Collaborate with business functions and country teams to guide, develop, lead, and execute an enterprise-wide risk management framework throughout the entities of the BI so that the policy and process are consistent with organizational strategy •Ensure and lead the policies compliance contrasting the diverse and ever-changing needs of the regulator •Review various policies of the entities to be aligned with risk management standard practices and local authoritative guidelines •Develop and continuously update BRAC International's risk profile considering the changing business environment and needs.

  • Senior Manager, Risk Management

    • Jun 2017 - Nov 2019

    •Establish, identify, assess, and quantify risks up to the unit level, monitor mitigation plan, and report to the senior leadership, Board of directors, and Board audit committee. •Guide the team members to communicating with vendors to ensure that all orders are filled on time, and that inventory levels are adequate. •Collaborate with business functions to develop, lead, and execute an enterprise-wide risk management framework, policy, and process consistent with organizational strategy. •Collaborates with other team management staff to draft and implement an annual administrative and program budget •Develop ERM risk reporting to the board, risk steering committee, Board audit committee, and other key stakeholders on risk exposures and the risk control environment. Reports included highlighting trends, breaches, and remediation activity. •Lead and participate in a team to achieve strategic risk management objectives. •Actively participate and help to roll out safeguarding risk governance structure. •Review various policies to align with risk management standard practices. •Develop and continuously update of BRAC risk profile. •Donors risk profile analysis and reporting and disaster reporting with impact analysis. •Lead and guide for departmental procurement •Risk management monthly reporting. •Risk assessment model development and up-gradation for BRAC Microfinance with automation tools. •Risk assessment and risk profile for BRAC development programs, support functions, and enterprises. •Risk assessment of the Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme (Rohinga). •BRAC Process risk analysis for optimization. •Internal training facilitator for conducting awareness and ToT sessions of Risk and Fraud, including developing awareness and training materials and internal trainer of ISO 31000:2018 and constantly tracking the global trend of risk developments with continuous improvement of best practices

  • Deputy Manager, Risk Management Services

    • Apr 2014 - Jun 2017

    •Manage and plan financial monitoring of different development programmes, risk management analysis, and project operational performance review and donor compliance. •Analyzing the portfolio investments of socially committed enterprises for informal and semi formal sectors for under privileged people from a financial perspective •Oversee and independently analyzes the financial performance/position of BRAC’s Development Programs and Social Enterprises and recommends their risk areas as per findings. •Analyze and identify all possible ways of new investment opportunity where social welfare taken place rather business motive. •Financial planning, best practices and success of program, contribute to preparing program operational guideline, risk registers, analyze data and preparing risk report, budget, programs HR planning and contingency planning, annual progress report for NGO affairs bureau and stakeholders. •Analyze the program expenditure against budget fir every quarter, burn rate and provide necessary feedback to project coordinator; Prepare periodic financial statements and reports according to the need of donor, government and management •Budget preparation, revision and variation analysis, VAT and tax calculation with payroll activities •Preparing new online software for eRisk management and ensuring ERP implementation in BRAC •Well capable of training conduction and public relation handling, especially well experienced in donor communication and visit in fields with donor.

  • Regional Accounts Manager, Finance and Accounts Department

    • Oct 2013 - Mar 2014

    •Provide support to Management and guidance to Staff on all finance and finance related administrative issues, supervise all banking issues and handle bank borrowings •Well capable in terms of performing donor grants - Reporting and all routine works- UK AID, AUS AID, DFID, and Global Fund. •Analyze the program expenditure, burn rate and provide necessary feed back to project coordinator •Prepare periodic financial statements and reports according to the need of donor, government and management •Coordinate with other management & program personnel to accomplish task smoothly •Any other financial task assigned by the management as and when required

  • Young Professional Trainee

    • Sep 2012 - Sep 2013

    •To learn the overall development sector in Bangladesh context •To gain a vast idea of all programmes of BRAC •To visit field time to time on different issues and present findings with recommendation in front of directors/Head of Programme(s) •To gain a vast idea about BRAC mission, vision and strategic decisions

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  Al-Muslim Group

  • Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Senior Business Development Officer, Market and Research Development Department

    • Mar 2012 - Aug 2012
    • Dhaka, Bangladesh

    •Develop and implement a marketing and sales strategy in order to deliver volume, share and profit targets as specified. •Effectively market products/services by conducting market research, overseeing product development and design, setting prices, launching new products, overseeing advertising campaigns and monitoring sales performance. •Monitor, analyze and evaluate domestic and international real estate market trends, consumer behavior and competitor activity to identify market opportunities for the products/services. •Monitor, analyze and product performance and customer feedback to generate new product ideas, identify product/service features that need to be changed to meet customer needs and liaise with other areas of the organization. •Conducts periodical market visits and periodical brand valuation •Ensure all marketing activities comply with developed annual budgets, quarterly forecast and monthly demand plans and reporting results of department •Work with the Sales Department to prepare sales forecasts and budgets, monitor sales volume, revenues and cost against forecast and adapt plans to improve the sales performance of the products and services. •Contribution to key projects organizational projects as assigned •Cost saving initiatives; better negotiation/pricing, new product development. •Managing the web catalog to drive web sales. •Developing and maintain the social media platform for the respective brands.

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  ctMRS Bangladesh

  • Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Research Associate (Part Time-Project Base), Consumer Research Department

    • Feb 2011 - Mar 2012
    • Dhaka, Bangladesh

    •Ensuring quality is maintained at all levels of data collection and analysis. •Construction and ensuring the quality of questioner •To develop design of the study, methodology & tools development, train field investigators, facilitate FGD and in-depth interview, monitor data analysis, writing report and preparing presentation. •Prepare daily, weekly, monthly and yearly market review and assist company Head of Market Research •Developed an in-house vast database for market analysis •Identify the investment viability of the industries, and sketched some fundamental relationship using widely used performance parameters •Monitor Industry specific development and gather market information

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  Lankabangla Securities Limited (lbsl)

  • Bangladesh
  • Capital Markets
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Trainee Executive, Finance and Accounts Department

    • Nov 2010 - Jan 2011
    • Dhaka, Bangladesh

    • Check supporting papers/documents of day-to-day expenditures • Keeping track of onsite inventory, monitoring expenses and usage •To maintain and Monitor accounts receivable / Payable. •Ensure timely payment of all sorts of bills. •Prepare daily expenditure summary sheet and cash denomination sheet •Updating the Accounts in software on a regular basis • Well documentation of all accounting and financial papers •Any other duties assigned by the management •Manage petty cash. •Maintain relationship with stakeholders.

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  Eastern Bank Plc.

  • Bangladesh
  • Banking
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Internship, Human Resource Department

    • Aug 2010 - Oct 2010
    • Dhaka, Bangladesh

    •Assist on clearance, separation, final settlement of the employees •Maintain strong working relationships with all other departments of the organizations •Employee Relations and others •Designs recruitment advertisements •Draft employment offer letter and contracts for selected candidates •Screens and short list applicants for basic compliance with position qualifications summarizes CVs for easier evaluation. •Generate recruitment related reports •Update personal employee files and maintenance of computerized HR/Payroll system and paper based filing system-Scaled Software •Maintain, update and monitor Leave Record, Daily Attendance •Any other Job assigned by the superior.

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  Nielsen

  • United States
  • Technology, Information and Media
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Research Assistant (Part Time-Project Based), Consumer Research Department

    • May 2009 - Jun 2010
    • Dhaka, Bangladesh

    •To collect primary data, entry and analyses. •To collect secondary data as and when necessary •To prepare research notes and proposals etc. •Prepare research report & conduct interview and analysis for client and information dissemination