Damir is a partner in Deloitte’s office in Zagreb, responsible for further developing the Financial Industry Risk & Regulatory service line for CE South Region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia).
He brings more than 15 years of experience from the banking industry, given his work in large international banking groups in Vienna, Austria.
Damir has hands-on experience in managing regional projects with the goal of enhancing different elements of risk management frameworks and aligning them with regulatory standards. His fields of expertise are risk organization transformations and establishment of systems of controls, model governance, design and implementation of different digital solutions used in risk management practice (e.g., Early warning systems, Model risk Management, Fraud management, Collateral management, Datawarehouse’s, Default management), Business intelligence and Data management, Rollouts of Internal Rating Based approaches, Fraud prevention and whistleblowing, etc. He has a deep understanding of the region and its banking environment.
Damir graduated from the Bluefield University in Bluefield, Virginia, USA and completed his Master’s Degree in International Business of the School of Economics and Business in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and an MBA of School of Business Management in Turin, Italy.