KUALA LUMPUR: Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) said Group Chief Financial Officer (GCFO) Datuk Amirul Feisal Wan Zahir is leaving to take up the managing director post at a government linked institution.

       Feisal tendered his resignation today, which will take effect on July 15.

       "Maybank has commenced the process of identifying and selecting the new GCFO, in line with its existing succession plan, and will make the necessary announcement when a decision has been made," the bank said in a statement today.

       In the interim, Maybank has appointed Khalijah Ismail, the current group financial controller as acting GCFO to oversee the Group Finance functions.

       Feisal joined Maybank Group in September 2008 as Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking for Maybank Investment Bank.

       He then joined Permodalan Nasional Berhad in September 2010, and was subsequently seconded to, and then appointed as Group Managing Director of Chemical Company of Malaysia in 2011.

       He later rejoined Maybank as the Group Head, Global Banking in October 2014, following which he was appointed GCFO in July 2016.