When leading a team, it’s crucial to listen to the individual’s needs and to try and understand what drives them. I am passionate about creating a healthy performance culture with a focus on the individual.

Arbab Dar

CEO and Country Managing Partner, Nordic Head of CFO Advisory, Financial Services Organization, EY Norway

Actively works with diversity and believes that it helps create the strongest teams. Father who enjoys long haul travel when the opportunity arises.

Arbab is the CEO and Country Managing Partner for EY Norway. He also serves as the Nordic Head of CFO Advisory – Financial Services Organization. His team focuses on the CFO agenda, assisting chief financial officers at banks, insurance companies, and asset management firms in developing the finance function of the future.

Arbab has extensive experience in financial services, with a particular focus on helping CFOs to build the finance function of the future. He believes that the best teams are created through lifelong learning, diversity and a balance between work and leisure. He is a state authorized public accountant and has previously worked as an auditor at EY.

Arbab is a so-called “boomerang” who returned to EY in November 2018 after three years at another company where he, among other roles, was the CFO. He missed the people, the working environment and the opportunity for lifelong learning, which he believes EY facilitates in a unique way.

How Arbab is building a better working world

Arbab believes the EY purpose of “Building a better working world” is about doing the right things every day and being conscious of one’s own actions. He personally lives this by preserving his integrity and trying to be a role model to his colleagues and in dialogues with customers. He is concerned with giving customers the right advice with a focus on the long-term.

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