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MEMOONA JAVERIA ANWAR

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I am a highly skilled compliance and risk management professional with extensive experience in regulatory knowledge, governance, and control processes. With a deep understanding of policies, laws, and regulations, I make informed decisions to ensure regulatory compliance and safeguard the organization's integrity. My expertise includes conducting audits, assessing operational controls, and implementing process improvements to enhance the control environment. I excel at developing risk mitigation strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams to educate and advise on compliance requirements, and continuously optimizing compliance frameworks. With strong attention to detail, technical proficiency, and a problem-solving mindset, I deliver effective risk assessments, remediation plans, and stakeholder engagement to drive regulatory adherence and business success.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Chief Compliance and Innovations Officer

Data Zoo
03.2022 - Current

Compliance

  • Utilizing understanding of policies, laws, and regulations to make judgments with minimal guidance.
  • Collaborating on compliance strategies, execute compliance tasks, and assist in developing compliance tools and processes.
  • Defining and testing controls, identify areas for improvement, and ensure delivery of regulations across teams.
  • Conducting routine and complex audits, perform quality data checks, and contribute to compliance reporting with some guidance.

Governance

  • Utilizing knowledge of policies, laws, and regulations to make informed decisions independently, aligning with business needs. interpreting the information to safeguard the company and its customers while advancing the business. Identifing non-conformance issues, escalating them to management, and adhering to program guidelines based on corporate policies.
  • Determining ownership and accountability for key risks and mitigation activities with minimal guidance.
  • Continuously reporting on risk levels and updating accountability owners on their status.
  • Assisting in presenting risk assessment information, detailing relevant behaviors, activities, processes, and associated risks to ensure stakeholder awareness, support, and approval.

Controls

  • Assessing end-to-end operational processes and dependencies for efficiency and effectiveness opportunities. Recommending process and control improvements (e.g., preventative/detective and automated/manual) to mature the control environment.
  • Testing controls to determine their effectiveness and identifing areas for improvement, offering design adjustment suggestions with minimal guidance.
  • Collaborating with the team to define controls, identifying potential failure points, and ensuring routine issues are addressed during the design process with minimal guidance.
  • Conducting periodic reviews of existing controls to ensure they remain effective and relevant to the current risk environment. Providing feedback on control performance and suggesting enhancements to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Ensuring that controls are aligned with industry standards and regulatory requirements, making adjustments as necessary to stay compliant.

Consult/Advise/Educate

  • Collaborating across teams to ensure consistent application and delivery of regulations and standards, delivering training and beginning to take ownership of training aspects.
  • Advising on compliance of products, processes, and programs.
  • Educating teams on compliance requirements, reviews result, conducts informal assessments, and monitors compliance within specific areas. Translating compliance standards and processes into relatable formats for teams.

Risk Assessment

  • Executing the risk management lifecycle process and method for smaller projects, including data collection and analysis.
  • Gathering and analyzing relevant internal and external information, threat intelligence reports, and conducting interviews or focus groups to identify risks, assess risk levels, and gathering additional context with guidance.
  • Compiling information to understand job, project, or process risks and their root causes for routine projects.
  • Scores risks and contributes to risk prioritization using appropriate risk profile scoring. Assists in developing risk scorecards using weighted scores and risk management models with guidance

Risk Remediation

  • Reviews risk governance to ensure appropriate attention to specific risk areas with minimal guidance. Identifies and escalates concerns related to monitored risks.
  • Drafts mitigation plans and processes, including risk registers and controls, helping accountability owners understand and implement plans to reduce risk with minimal guidance.
  • Ensures alignment and agreement on risk reduction plans and processes, confirming accountability owners' capacity to drive mitigation efforts, and introduces necessary policy adjustments with minimal guidance.
  • Coordinates across accountability owners to ensure proper tracking and trending of risk management activities.

Head of Compliance and Digital Strategy

Data Zoo
11.2020 - 03.2022
  • Industry Developments: Keeping abreast of industry developments by reading media releases, newspapers, regulatory circulars, and bulletins, attending industry seminars, workshops, academic conferences etc
  • Compliance Advisory: Provide timely advice in relation to Compliance related enquiries from all Business Units including sales and trading queries, digital transformation initiatives etc
  • Compliance Training: Conduct Compliance induction training for new staff and assist in the preparation and conduct of relevant Compliance training for various business units
  • Compliance Policies, Procedures, Manuals and Rule databases – draft, update and maintain
  • Meetings/Committees: Attend and prepare documents for regular internal meetings and committees to keep members apprised of any regulatory developments or regulatory risks
  • Compliance Reviews: Conduct Desk Reviews of all business units for compliance with policies and procedures and prepare draft reports of findings for management
  • Innovation initiatives: Designing architecture for open banking based digital identity verification reference architecture
  • SOC2 framework: Creating and maintaining SOC2 documentation
  • ISO27001: Implementing and maintaining ISO27001 based information security management system
  • ISO 27701: Implementing and maintaining ISO 27701 based privacy information management system
  • ACCC's Consumer Data Rights Initiative: Working on documentation and CDR data environment for open banking license
  • Digital Identity Architecture: designing the architecture for Company's new digital identity product
  • Design and architecture of consent management workflow for Australian Consumer Data Rights application.

Information Security Researcher

Data Zoo
01.2020 - 11.2020
  • Designing an adaptive digital identity reference architecture
  • Creating and maintaining ISO27001 and ISO 27701 documents
  • Providing information security awareness training to organization personnel
  • Overseeing information security audits, whether performed by organization or third-party auditor
  • Managing security team members and all other information security staff
  • Providing training to new employees during onboarding
  • Implementing and overseeing technological upgrades, improvements, and major changes to the information security environment
  • Serving as a focal point of contact for the information security team and the customer or organization
  • Managing and configuring physical security
  • Communicating information security goals and new programs effectively with other department managers within the organization
  • Leading the research innovations team at Data Zoo
  • Writing technical blogs.

Research Fellowship

Data Zoo
11.2018 - 11.2019
  • Designing adaptive digital identity reference architecture
  • Creating and maintaining ISO27001 documents
  • Writing technical blogs.

Principal Software Engineer

Elixir Technologies
  • Analyzing, designing, and coordinating the development of software systems to build a basis for the solution of information processing problems
  • Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD)
  • Interpreting specifications, technical designs, and flow charts
  • Developing user interfaces by determining design methodologies and tool sets; preparing a workflow chart and diagram using knowledge of computer and ASP.NET programming capabilities
  • Developing custom web parts using visual studio (C#.Net and ASP.Net)
  • Maintaining & tuning applications
  • Maintaining systems by monitoring and correcting software defects
  • Working closely with other staff, such as project managers, graphic artists, systems analysts and marketing professionals
  • Testing new programs to ensure that logic and syntax are correct, and that program results are accurate
  • Consulting clients/colleagues concerning the maintenance and performance of software systems and asking questions to obtain information, clarify details and implement information
  • Project Planning and Project Management
  • Analyzing system specifications and translating system requirements to task specifications
  • Communicating with professional services resources to help them make sample applications for the clients.

Education

Ph.D. - Computer And Information Systems Security

The University of Technology Sydney
Australia
11.2021

Master of Science - Software Engineering

National University of Science And Technology
Pakistan
05.2012

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

National University of Modern Languages
Pakistan

Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Risk Analysis & Mitigation
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Change Management
  • Incident Management
  • Governance, Risk and Compliance
  • Privacy and Security Management
  • Software Architecture and Design
  • Problem-Solving
  • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
  • Vendor Management
  • Ability to make data-driven, risk-based decisions
  • Blockchain
  • Interpersonal Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a results-oriented mindset

HONOURS AND AWARDS RECEIVED

· Scholarship for FEIT's highest ranked female applicant across domestic competitive scholarship rounds at UTS (2017)

· Scholarship from E&ME College (NUST) for MS leading to PHD

· Gold Medal, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Session 2006

· First prize in all Pakistan software competition of NUST (N@STEC)

· 2nd prize in all Pakistan software competition of NUST (E &ME)

· Award for best presentation Skills at NUML

· Award for best Communication Skills at NUML

PATENTS

  • Anwar, Memoona., Fitzzgibbon, Tony. Australia 2022. “A method for electronic identity verification and management”, 2021107510, filed: Aug,2021, Granted: May, 2022, IP Australia: AusPat Application Details
  • Anwar, Memoona., Fitzzgibbon, Tony. US 2023. “A method for electronic identity verification and management”, 7177315, filed: Nov, 2021, Granted: Sept, 2023,

PUBLICATIONS

Anwar, M., Gill, A. & Beydoun,G. (2018). A review of information privacy laws and standards for secure digital ecosystems. CBI 2019 available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8807801

Anwar, M., Gill, A. & Beydoun,G. (2018). Using Adaptive Enterprise Architecture Framework for Defining the Adaptable Identity Ecosystem Architecture. ACIS 2019

Timeline

Chief Compliance and Innovations Officer

Data Zoo
03.2022 - Current

Head of Compliance and Digital Strategy

Data Zoo
11.2020 - 03.2022

Information Security Researcher

Data Zoo
01.2020 - 11.2020

Research Fellowship

Data Zoo
11.2018 - 11.2019

Principal Software Engineer

Elixir Technologies

Ph.D. - Computer And Information Systems Security

The University of Technology Sydney

Master of Science - Software Engineering

National University of Science And Technology

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

National University of Modern Languages
MEMOONA JAVERIA ANWAR