He started his career as a management associate with Citibank, and was selected to undertake leadership development programmes both regionally and globally in his time with CitiGroup. In his leadership roles with CitiGroup and HSBC Amanah, Encik Shahriman was tasked with growing Islamic revenue contributions from Islamic Wholesale Banking, Treasury and Markets businesses globally. Encik Shahriman has strong leadership, technical, legal and risk management expertise gained from his stint in these cross-border institutions.
He has played an active role in the development of Malaysia’s Islamic banking industry, with a longstanding role in the Treasury committee of the Association of Islamic Banks in Malaysia (AIBIM). In this capacity he was involved in instrumental industry initiatives such as developing, amongst others, a commodity exchange for Islamic finance purposes, Islamic structured products, documentation standards for Islamic derivatives as well as an Islamic credit support mechanism.