Management Team

COUNTRY HEAD OF OPERATIONS

Patrick Ebiega is the Country Head of Operations of the Bank. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), with over two (2) decades of Banking experience. He holds a B.Sc. Hons (second class upper division) from the University of Jos Nigeria, in 1996. An MBA(Banking & Finance) from University of Nigeria in 2001 and an M.Sc. in Project Management from Enugu State University of Technology in 2017

He started his Banking career in 1998. He worked in branch  operations  of other banks covering funds transfer, cash & teller, customers services etc. before joining Zenith Bank 2001

He has experience in business development units as marketing officer, unit head, Head of corporate banking before being promoted to a manager in 2007. He has pioneered and managed several branches of the Bank before he was transferred to Internal Control & Audit Dept., head office Lagos where he supervised the Banks' fraud desk, Verification and confirmation unit.

Prior to being seconded to Sierra Leone, he was the Head of Corporate Audit overseeing the Audit of Treasury, Correspondence banking, Trades services, Domestic operations and credit risk management group.

He has had several internal and external trainings.

HEAD - INTERNAL CONTROL AND AUDIT

Muntawakil Balogun is the Head, Internal Control and Audit. He is an experienced professional with over twenty-three (23) years’ expertise in Internal Audit, Regulatory Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering, Risk Management, Banking Operations, Investigation, Credit Risk Management, Treasury/ Finance, Revenue Generation & Assurance, Tax Audit and Business Process Improvement.

In July 2008, Muntawakil joined the Internal Control & Audit Department of Zenith Bank Plc. Prior to this, he started his career as an Audit Trainee with SB Abodunrin & Co (Tax & Audit Practitioner), Lagos in August 2001, Revenue Officer with the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) Abuja, Nigeria between November 2002 to June 2005, Accountant with Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Treasury between July 2005 and December 2007 and he also worked in the Finance and Accounts Department of FCT Hospital Management Board as a Budget / Expenditure Control Officer between January 2007 and June 2008.

He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) and student member, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).

He obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from National Open University of Nigeria (2014) and a bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in Accounting from Babcock University, Ilishan, Ogun State, Nigeria (2016). He also holds a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accounting from Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria (2000).

Prior to his secondment to Zenith Bank (SL) Ltd, he was the Regional Auditor in charge of thirty-four (34) branches which cut across three (3) states in Northern Nigeria - Niger, Kogi, Nasarawa and FCT where the bank’s IA global plan implementation was achieved.

He has attended various internal and external courses in Internal Control, Auditing, Fraud Management and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) in Nigeria, and he is a recipient of different awards.