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Fund Awards 2023

UBA Group

UBA Group is one of the 2023 winners of Fund Awards at Wealth & Finance.

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Best Francophone African Woman in Risk Management 2023: Rama Sall

<p>Rama SALL is a Risk Management, Internal Control and Audit professional with international banks and firms in France, the United States and Africa.</p> <p>At the beginning of her professional career and at the end of her post-graduate degree with Honours, Rama began working in the trading rooms as a Trader Assistant at Crédit Lyonnais Securities and Credit Suisse First Boston in Paris. After two years in the banking sector, Rama decided to focus her on Statutory Auditors and then Consulting and Risk Consulting within the Big 4 such as KPMG, Protiviti (Ex-Arthur Andersen), Deloitte France and Afrique Francophone for nearly 15 years.</p> <p>Within these firms, Rama has had the opportunity to work in a wide variety of environments and organizations around the world. Rama has supervised more than a hundred employees and carried out a large number of assignments in the banking, financial and industrial sectors. More particularly in Senegal, where it has had the opportunity to support more than half of the banks in compliance under the Basel 2/ Basel 3 prudential framework. These various assignments have enabled her to acquire real expertise in these areas and to lead training sessions or events of international scope around the themes of risk management, internal control and internal audit.</p> <p>Since 04 January 2021, Rama has been promoted to Chief Risk Officer within the Pan-African Bank United Bank of Africa (UBA) Senegal. It is responsible for monitoring credit, market and operational risks.</p> <p>Her role as a CRO, which is a strategic role and which reports directly to the Board of Directors within the framework of the risk management committees held quarterly, allows it to have a transversal vision of the various activities of the bank and to be able to identify the main critical risks and provide corrective measures. UBA is a digital-focused bank that has grown significantly since the Covid 19 crisis. UBA is the partner bank of Wave Senegal.</p> <p>Emerging risks in this area require close monitoring and the establishment of a genuine internal control system, particularly in the context of monitoring suspicious or atypical transactions.</p>
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