Shaheed Sattar
LLB (Hons), Dip GRC (ICA)
Founder & Principal Consultant
Berkeley Risk Advisors Limited
Shaheed Sattar is a strategic and commercially astute C-suite executive with over 20 years of international leadership experience in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) across banking, FinTech, payments, and investment sectors.
He has held several PRA and FCA-approved control functions, including:
- SMF4 – Chief Risk Officer
- SMF16 – Compliance Oversight
- CF10 – Compliance Officer
- CF11 – Money Laundering Reporting Officer
Shaheed is recognised for advising boards, leading cross-border teams, and aligning compliance with commercial strategy across the UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and African markets.
His expertise spans:
- FCA & PRA regulatory frameworks
- DFSA, SAMA, and CBUAE regulatory regimes
- Enterprise-wide risk management
- AML/CTF and financial crime frameworks
- Governance enhancement & SMCR deployment
- Consumer Duty implementation
- ESG governance
- Section 166 avoidance & remediation
- Post-merger integration and regulatory transformation
Institutions Shaheed has provided services for, but are not limited to the following
- Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
- Ghana International Bank
- Habib Bank AG Zurich
- Smith Hannah Chartered Accountants
- Turkish Bank UK Limited
- Wahed Invest UK Limited
Shaheed holds an LLB (Hons) and a Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance (ICA), bringing legal, regulatory, and strategic expertise to every engagement.