Responsibilities

• Identifying, assessing and communicating the compliance risks associated with the BankÂ’s business activities and ensuring that the Bank is in compliance with all regulations and take its full owner ship. Ensuring that business processes and related manuals explicitly define procedures and control activities for complying with regulations.

• Ensuring that the bank staff is educated with respect to compliance with the applicable laws, rules and standards, and acting as a contact point within the Bank for compliance queries from staff members.

• Implementing monitoring procedures to ensure the compliance to“Anti Money Laundering” and “Know Your Customer” regulations.

• Informing immediately to the CEO, any suspicious transactions reported by branches / units and reporting promptly any material breaches of laws, rules and standards to senior management and ensuring that appropriate remedial or disciplinary action is taken if breaches are identified.

• Receiving all regulatory directives and communicating with regulatory bodies on behalf of the Bank and liaising with relevant internal and external bodies, including SBP inspection teams, external auditors and internal auditors.

• Ensuring procedures exist for timely submission of data / information/ returns to regulators and other agencies and verifying their accuracy.

• Review of contracts and agreements to ensure all regulatory provisions are incorporated.

• Facilitating Board Meetings, preparing board meeting papers and circulating the same to Board members. Also circulating minutes of the meetings within time frames specified in regulations / corporate governance policy.

• Facilitating the Board Self-assessment process and best practices under Good Governance.