"I am a coach and consultant with extensive experience in financial services, including EXCO and Board. I have worked with startups, SME's, and some of the biggest businesses in the world."
Athol Abrahams
MBA PgDip B.Com FInstLM FACCPH MAC CNHC BaThH
TransformatioNAL Leadership & Risk and Compliance professional
I am an Accredited Senior Transformation Coach and Risk and Compliance Professional, with over 27 years experience in Financial Services. Key strengths include:
- Risk management frameworks – design from scratch, build, implement, refine
- Credit risk and portfolio management for commercial and consumer credit businesses
- Specialist in Bank builds, start-ups and fintech high growth businesses
- Advisory and audit for lenders, funders and investors
- Strategic support for financial services lenders and funders
- Compliance & AML frameworks – design from scratch and implement, FCA approved person
- Compliance advisory, including FCA applications, assurance, projects, or interim
- Coaching individuals and teams
- Successfully deliver FCA applications, variations of permission and provide hands on support in dealing with FCA interventions, including audits, remediations and VREQ’s
- Providing advisory, support and consultancy to corporate clients in:
- Enterprise Risk
- Credit Risk and Compliance
- Specialisms in SME lending, banking, acquisitions, consumer credit, asset finance, mortgages, bridging, funding facilities, retail deposits, payment services, peer to peer platforms and alternative investment funds
- FCA SMF16/17 responsibilities by arrangement
- AML / KYC / CDD PEP's and sanctions
- Data Protection Act and GDPR
- Providing audits for wholesale funders on lenders portfolios, including due diligence for portfolio acquisitions
- Writing or remediating policies for lenders at the request of funders to ensure rigour in lending activities
- Providing training, executive coaching and management coaching
Professional Qualifications & Associations
- Triple Accredited Master of Business Administration (MBA); with Merit
- Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Pg.DiP.BusAdmin)
- Bachelors’ Degree in Commerce (B.Com)
- Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management (FInstLM)
- Fellow of the Association of Accredited Coaches (FACCPH)
- Accredited Transformation Coach ( BaThH & CNHC )
- Former Chair of the Finance and Leasing Association Risk and Fraud Committee
Previous clients / SUbconTracts include
ING Bank
Singer and Friedlander Bank
Crowd2Fund
Monetalis
Shawbrook Bank
Pollen Street Capital
Recognise Bank
Atradius
Lendinvest Group
Money Advice and Pensions Service
Uncapped
Goldman Sachs
BCI Capital
Quilam Capital
Amicus Capital Limited
GH Bank
PropertyHub Group
Finblocks
Tandem Bank
Bank of London and the Middle East
Jamaica National Bank