Sharmini Perampalam

Sharmini Perampalam is the Senior Vice President and Group Head of Finance who is currently also the Acting Group Chief Financial Officer. She graduated in 1993 with an Honours degree in Accountancy from Universiti Putra Malaysia and is a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and an Associate Member of the Malaysian Institute of Insurance (AMII) . After an early career as a tax consultant and Internal Auditor she joined the then Malaysian National Reinsurance Berhad in 1995 as an Internal Audit Executive and moved up the ranks to Manager before being transferred to the Finance Department. She was promoted to Senior Vice President & Head of Finance in 2011. She left MNRB to join a general insurer as Chief Financial Officer in 2017 before returning to her current role in MNRB on 15 January 2021. On 12 December 2022, she was appointed as the Acting Group Chief Financial Officer. She is also the Director of Sinar Seroja Berhad and MMIP Services Sdn Bhd.

She is a Reinsurance Accounting specialist, with a wealth of experience in insurance operations and is known for driving operations management to align finance functions with business operations and increase efficiency and bottom-line profit.