First Cit­i­zens Group has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Shar­da Nanan as its new chief in­ter­nal au­di­tor, ef­fec­tive Sep­tem­ber 21, 2026, while con­firm­ing that the act­ing ap­point­ment of Ju­lia Maria Daniel has come to an end.

The ap­point­ments were dis­closed in no­tices pub­lished by the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to First Cit­i­zens, Nanan brings more than two decades of ex­pe­ri­ence in au­dit­ing and se­nior man­age­ment to the role.

The group said she holds a Mas­ter of Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion and a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Man­age­ment.

She is al­so a Fel­low of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Char­tered Cer­ti­fied Ac­coun­tants (FC­CA), a Cer­ti­fied In­ter­nal Au­di­tor (CIA), a Cer­ti­fied Foren­sic Pub­lic Ac­coun­tant (FC­PA) and a Cer­ti­fied Fraud Ex­am­in­er (CFE).

FCB not­ed that Nanan has ac­cu­mu­lat­ed over 20 years of au­dit ex­pe­ri­ence, in­clud­ing 12 years in se­nior man­age­ment po­si­tions.

Mean­while, the com­pa­ny al­so an­nounced that the act­ing ap­point­ment of Ju­lia Maria Daniel as chief in­ter­nal au­di­tor end­ed on Sep­tem­ber 20, 2026.

Daniel has since re­sumed her sub­stan­tive role at First Cit­i­zens Bank Ltd.

First Cit­i­zens Group al­so re­cent­ly ap­point­ed Kevin Haqq to the po­si­tion of group chief risk of­fi­cer.

In a no­tice post­ed to the T&T Stock Ex­change, ma­jor­i­ty state-owned First Cit­i­zens said Haqq’s ap­point­ment took ef­fect on Au­gust 24, 2026.

The no­tice said Haqq holds a Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Ac­tu­ar­i­al Man­age­ment as well as a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Ac­tu­ar­i­al Sci­ence and is a Fel­low of the In­sti­tute and Fac­ul­ty of Ac­tu­ar­ies.

Af­ter nine months and nine days as the group CEO Ja­son Julien re­signed ef­fec­tive on Au­gust 31, 2026.

Julien, who is 50, be­came the group CEO of First Cit­i­zens on Oc­to­ber 22, 2025, fol­low­ing the de­par­ture of his pre­de­ces­sor, Karen Dar­basie, who re­tired on Oc­to­ber 21, 2025.

Julien was pro­mot­ed to deputy CEO ef­fec­tive Feb­ru­ary 1, 2015, hav­ing served pre­vi­ous­ly as gen­er­al man­ag­er of First Cit­i­zens In­vest­ment Ser­vices (FCIS) for five years.

He worked at Guardian Hold­ings, Citibank and Price­Wa­ter­house­C­oop­ers be­fore head­ing to First Cit­i­zens.