Mr. Arafat is a Fellow Chartered Accountant who became qualified during the year 2010. He started his service career during 2008 as the Deputy Manager of Grameen Health Care Services Limited, a venture of Grameen Bank. After leaving that job Mr. Arafat started working as the Manager-Accounts of Mostafa Group of Industries, one of the largest business groups in Chattogram. After that, he served GPH Ispat Limited, a public listed company from 2010 to 2016 at different capacities. He served as Manager, Assistant General Manager, Deputy General Manager- Accounts and Company Secretary of the Company. During the year 2016 he left GPH and joined at “Rahman Mostafa Alam & Co.” as a partner of the firm. 

Mr. Arafat has practical experience in Auditing, Corporate Finance, Capital Issue, Company Law matters, Securities & Exchange Rules, Taxation & others. 

Mr. Arafat is contributing as a faculty member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB), Chattogram at both knowledge and application level since 2010. He also contributes to the ‘Accountant’, the quarterly publication of ICAB as a writer.