Roshidah Abdullah

Roshidah Abdullah was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad on 1 September 2021. She is the Chairman of the Board Audit Committee and a member of the Board Nomination & Remuneration and Board Compliance Committees.

Roshidah has more than 25 years’ experience in financial management, corporate strategy development, governance and risk management in various organisations across diverse industries – upstream oil and gas; pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution; construction and engineering – with operations in Malaysia and abroad (particularly Kazakhstan, Indonesia and the Middle East). Having worked for almost 20 years in public listed companies and large conglomerates in the capacity of Chief Financial Officer and equivalent, she has had much exposure to the requirements and set up of code of corporate governance and enterprise-wide risk management framework in her previous organisations.

Roshidah started her career as an auditor with Deloitte and Touche (Kassim Chan & Co) in 1989. She left the firm in December 1992 to join Time Engineering Berhad as a Group Accountant.

In January 1995, Roshidah moved to Remedi Pharmaceuticals (M) Sdn Bhd (Remedi) to head the Finance Department. Remedi was at that point just secured a 15-year concession contract to manage the drug procurement for the Ministry of Health Malaysia. She was also directly involved in the merger and acquisition of Remedi, Raza Manufacturing Berhad and Strand Pharmaceuticals Sdn Bhd by Pharmaniaga Berhad (Pharmaniaga) in 1998, and the subsequent public listing of Pharmaniaga on Bursa Securities in 1999. In January 2000, Roshidah was promoted as the General Manager Finance and later in April 2003, as the Chief Financial Officer for Pharmaniaga. She was also Pharmaniaga’s Chief Operating Officer from 2006 to March 2008.

Roshidah then spent the next two years until early 2010 as Finance Director at UEM Group Berhad and UEM Builders Berhad before she returned to Pharmaniaga to assist the Company to, amongst others, finalise its negotiation for renewal of the concession agreement and prepare for the change in controlling shareholders.

After leaving Pharmaniaga in March 2011, Roshidah had a short stint as a business consultant. Then from April 2013 to October 2016, she was the Chief Financial Officer with Sumatec Resources Berhad.

Roshidah obtained a Bachelors of Arts degree in Accountancy from South Australian Institute of Technology, Australia (now known as University of South Australia) in 1988. She is also a chartered member of Malaysian Institute of Accountants and a certified member of Australian CPA since 1992.