Abdul Malik is a senior Chartered Accountant and a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He has over 25 years of cross-functional, cross-cultural, multinational, and multi-industry experience in strategic C-level positions. He started his career with a Big 4 Accounting firm and quickly moved into industry working with British and American multinational manufacturing companies for a decade and a half, holding key finance and strategic roles. Malik also has extensive senior level experience with family-owned businesses, public listed companies and public-sector organization in oil and gas and a non-profit higher education institution.
Abdul Malik has held the roles of the CFO, Group CFO, Group General Manager, COO, Acting CEO, Head of Internal Audit and Corporate & Legal Affairs, Group Audit Advisor and additionally led human resources and distribution functions in some of these roles. His industry experiences include: manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, automotive, consumer durable, facility management, gas utility transmission and distribution, and higher education.
Abdul Malik is a strategic thinker who enjoys helping shareholders in formulating organizational strategies, overseeing the development and growth of business and managing resources to ensure optimisation of capacity and skills. Malik has a strong understanding of and the ability to lead marketing, sales and business development functions. As Group General Manager he successfully led the transformation and turnaround of the business increasing the revenue three times and the profit seven times in just about two years. He also enjoys working with people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities. He believes that ‘The only constant in life is Change’ and that it applies to businesses, too. He has a track record of successfully initiating and managing changes to develop and grow businesses.