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Our Team

DASA FINN engagements are led by experienced financial crime and compliance professionals with backgrounds spanning banking, professional services, AML/CFT operations, enhanced due diligence, governance, remediation and capability development.

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Our model is deliberately senior-led. Engagement governance, technical direction and quality review remain with DASA FINN, while specialist expertise may be incorporated for defined workstreams where required.

Senior-Led Financial Crime Expertise

Meet the Team

Umair Ali Shah

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

​Umair Ali Shah is a CAMS-certified financial crime and AML/CFT professional with experience across Australian banking, professional services and financial crime operations.

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His previous professional experience includes roles and assignments involving Deloitte Australia, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and ING Australia, with exposure to enhanced due diligence, high-risk customer reviews, KYC/CDD, PEP risk, sanctions, financial crime investigations and financial crime operations.

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Through DASA FINN, Umair leads financial crime advisory, banking capability development, AML/CFT programme enhancement and client engagement strategy.

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His work focuses on translating regulatory expectations into practical governance, controls, decision-making and evidence that financial institutions can implement and sustain.

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Areas of Expertise

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  • AML/CFT and financial crime risk

  • KYC, CDD, EDD and ECDD

  • High-risk customer management

  • PEP and sanctions risk

  • Financial crime investigations

  • Control design and effectiveness

  • Remediation and corrective action

  • Financial crime capability development

  • Banking training and assessment

  • Financial crime governance

  • Professional Credentials

  • Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist — CAMS

    Professional Credentials
     

  • Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist — CAMS

  • Master of Accounting (Professional) — Macquarie University 

Noor Ahmad

Senior Consultant, AML/CFT and Treasury

Noor Ahmad is a senior banking and financial-services professional with extensive experience across banking operations, treasury, financial crime, AML/CFT and risk management.

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His professional background spans multiple markets across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Australia, providing DASA FINN with senior practitioner perspective on financial-sector governance, financial crime risk and institutional control environments.

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At DASA FINN, Noor contributes to senior-level advisory, AML/CFT programme review, governance, financial crime risk assessment, control evaluation and capability-development engagements.

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Areas of Expertise

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  • AML/CFT governance

  • Financial crime risk

  • Treasury and banking operations

  • Institutional control frameworks

  • Risk-based compliance

  • Financial crime governance

  • Regulatory expectations

  • Control assessment

  • Banking capability development

DASA FINN Firm-Level Delivery

DASA FINN's organisational experience is presented separately from the previous professional experience of individual team members.

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Our firm-level work includes financial crime and capability-development engagements within regulated commercial banking environments.

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Selected areas of delivery include:

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  • AML/CFT/CPF capability development

  • fraud and social-engineering risk

  • financial crime awareness and decision-making

  • scenario-based banking programmes

  • assessment-led capability development

  • senior and frontline financial crime education

  • financial crime control and governance advisory

 

Where client confidentiality or publication restrictions apply, client identities and engagement details may be withheld or described on an anonymised basis.

Senior-Led Specialist Delivery

DASA FINN maintains a focused core team and may supplement an engagement with appropriately selected specialist associates where a defined workstream requires additional expertise.

Specialist support may include areas such as:

  • financial crime investigations
  • forensic analysis
  • data analytics
  • financial crime technology
  • governance and risk
  • quality assurance

Any such support is structured according to the requirements of the engagement.

DASA FINN retains responsibility for:

 

Engagement Governance → Technical Oversight → Quality Review → Client Accountability

How We Work

Senior Involvement – Senior professionals remain involved throughout the engagement rather than appearing only during business development.

Defined Accountability – Engagement ownership, technical responsibility and deliverables are clearly defined.

Evidence-Based Advice – Recommendations are designed to be traceable to regulatory requirements, identified risk, control design and supporting evidence.

Practical Implementation – We focus on solutions that can operate within the institution's actual governance, technology, people and operating environment.

Professional Integrity – We distinguish clearly between DASA FINN firm-level delivery and professional experience gained by individual team members before joining or establishing DASA FINN.

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