Focus on Financial Crime Compliance, leadership and transformation
Amith has more than twenty years of experience in the Dutch financial sector. His career began on the client side, as a mortgage adviser, where he learned to translate complex rules into understandable choices without losing sight of the person behind the file. He then moved into the KYC/CDD and AML/CTF operations of banks and financial institutions, where he progressed from analyst to team manager and programme lead.
In those roles he led remediation programmes under the supervision of the Dutch central bank (DNB), teams clearing backlogs, and the structural improvement of file and monitoring quality. He worked on questions of operating model, team design, process optimisation, management information and capacity planning within operations under heavy pressure. In doing so he combines substantive knowledge of laws and regulations with a sharp eye for business operations and results. He gets to grips with a new environment quickly and brings calm and stability to teams in transition.
Connecting advice to execution
What sets Amith apart is his ability to turn advice into concrete results in the operation. As a management consultant he advises boards and management on operating model, team composition, quality frameworks and multi-year capacity planning. As an interim manager he then implements that change himself, together with the team. With a pragmatic, hands-on approach he takes people along in change and makes complex programmes manageable.
His strength lies in connecting advice and execution: bringing structure to a dynamic environment, and helping organisations become and remain demonstrably in control, even after he has left.
Lean as a way of seeing
Alongside his work, Amith studied business administration at Avans University of Applied Sciences and Rotterdam Business School and obtained a Lean Black Belt. Lean became his way of seeing, both as a leader and as an adviser: where is the waste, where does the flow stall, and how do you make improvements that hold up when the pressure rises again?
With his experience and broad operational and strategic background, Amith Sham is a valuable sparring partner for boards and managers in Financial Crime Compliance facing a remediation, a reorganisation or a more demanding regulator. He works from Zoetermeer for clients across the Netherlands.