Saud Siddiqui - Chief Finance Officer

Saud is a qualified accountant with over ten years of experience in assurance and business advisory services primarily focusing on the financial services (conventional and Islamic) and insurance sectors with one of the big four audit firms while working in the Middle East and Europe and later on with a leading European insurance company. Saud is also a qualified internal and IT auditor accredited by international professional bodies. He has managed various assurance engagements, including Sarbanes Oxley compliance reviews, and has led various engagements including the creation and restructuring of business departments, vendor management reviews, and IT infrastructure reviews. In early 2008, Saud also participated in the set-up of Khalij Islamic, a London and Dubai based Shari’a Consultancy firm.

In recent years, Saud has been heavily involved in the Islamic financial market. He has an in depth understanding of Islamic structuring and is responsible for the on-going monitoring of Shari’a compliant products. He has advised clients on the implementation of Shari'a screening procedures, systems development and purification strategies. Saud works closely with world renowned Islamic scholars and facilitates the development, review and sign-off of Fatwa documents for the Shari’a compliance of products by Islamic Scholars. Further, Saud has been actively involved in presentations on Islamic finance.

Saud’s assurance and consulting experience, complemented by his Shari'a knowledge, provides him with a unique edge to offer practical and operationally effective solutions and advice on Shari'a structuring, audits and compliance.