Biography
Riza has worked across the spectrum of financial services, including established organisations and fintechs over 19 years, and across relevant IT areas and developments, including regulatory requirements on AML, data protection, operational resilience and payments.
Riza has worked on key technology integration, transformation and change projects at large banks and at medium sized organisations, focusing on architecture design, integration of systems and processes, governance, security and privacy.
Riza has worked with fintech organisations over the years (banks, insurers and peer-to-peer lenders) providing assurance and advice on technology builds and transformations, IT controls and processes, regulatory compliance and industry certifications.
Riza has experience of delivering audits for a large portfolio of clients across the following areas:
- IT Strategy and Governance
- Project and Change Management
- Cyber Security
- IT Capacity and Infrastructure
- Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Operational Resilience
- GDPR
- Open Banking and PSD2
- Payments Certifications
- IT General Controls