Mazhatulshima Binti Mohd Zahid, Group Chief Human Capital Officer (GCHCO)
Maybank has appointed Mazhatulshima Binti Mohd Zahid as Group Chief Human Capital Officer (GCHCO) effective 3 October 2024. Mazhatulshima will be responsible to drive the Group’s people strategy, based on a progressive and comprehensive enterprise-wide people management framework and initiatives, to enable the continued development of Maybankers across all levels, sectors, and countries. She will report to the President & Group Chief Executive Officer (PGCEO) of Maybank and be a member of the Group Executive Committee.
Mazhatulshima, 54 years old, will succeed Datuk (Dr) Nora Abd Manaf who retires after a career of 16 years with Maybank.
As an accomplished professional with more than 29 years of experience, particularly in the areas of treasury, risk management and internal audit, Mazhatulshima started her career in treasury dealing and then transitioned to market risk management, serving leading financial institutions in Malaysia before joining Maybank Kim Eng Group (now known as Maybank Investment Banking Group) as its Chief Risk Officer in July 2018.
In April 2023, Mazhatulshima was appointed as the Chief Audit Executive at Maybank Singapore. In this role, she successfully led a team of audit practitioners in delivering high-quality audit work with a risk-based approach and significantly enhanced audit practices through increased use of data analytics, digital tools, and implementation of continuous auditing. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science from Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois.
PGCEO of Maybank, Dato’ Khairussaleh Ramli said that this appointment continued to demonstrate the effectiveness of Maybank’s internal succession planning and talent management policy, aligned to strengthen and intensify its internal capacity building.
“Mazhatulshima’s diverse experience will be vital in ensuring that our workforce is future ready and tooled with adequate solutions, addressing the design of our organisation to support business needs in a customer-centric environment, leading our talent identification development and management as well as institutionalising the Agile ways of working as our culture and DNA, in line with our M25+ strategy.”
Meanwhile, Dato’ Khairussaleh added that the Maybank Group would like to thank Datuk Nora for her unwavering commitment and immense contributions over the years in strengthening Maybank’s position as a leading organisation in this region.
“Through her impactful leadership, Datuk Nora has been instrumental in shaping Maybank’s people strategy and driving key initiatives related to talent management, leadership development, organisational development and culture. She has been a role model in aligning HR strategies with the broader business goals of the organisation, fostering growth and driving transformation as well as elevating Maybank’s position as the top-ranked employer of choice across key graduate employment ranking tables.”.