• Evolving and maintaining Group-wide risk management function. Fully responsible for enterprise risk management, compliance, cybersecurity, anti-fraud and AML departments. • Managing a team of 40+. Introducing operational risk management framework, RCSA, risk analysis and register. Reporting to CEO on a regular and ad hoc basis.• Working with the Group CEO and other senior stakeholders to ensure risk is considered as part of the development and monitoring of corporate strategy.• Turning approach to risk management from passive to proactive by providing guidance, training and support to build risk awareness across the business.• Elaborating standards, procedures and policies, criteria for credit and market risks, calculation of prudential capital, acceptable limits and requirements to corresponding accounts and reporting.• Operating as main point of contact and advice for all risk matters; developing strong working relationships with senior colleagues across the Group and other second-line functions.• Keeping professionally up-to-date with developments and best practice in risk management and corporate governance, translating this for the business and ensuring the overall approach remains fit for purpose.• Running a project on segregation of duties for IT systems roles and automated access rights distribution on the basis of One Identity Manager.Achievements:• Decreased acquisition costs through improvements in anti-fraud analysis, which led to €4M saving in Q1 2022.• Performed deep risk assessment of cybersecurity system and developed roadmap for risk reduction, which lowered ca. 70% of high-level risks to medium level.• Established regular Risk Committee sessions; defined policies, functions and responsibilities in terms of approval of credit risks, insurance limits and other significant risk issues.• Implemented and got approved by BoD a feasible and clear risk appetite statement.Improved overall risk culture among top management.

• Built and led an internal audit department to identify risks, evaluate controls and analyse causes of inefficient practices, and to identify improvements to mitigate risks and improve efficiency and effectiveness of the company’s activities and operations.• Recruited and developed a new team of 9 auditors to gather all necessary competences to maximise performance of the whole Group.• Completely redesigned existing internal audit function to comply with best practices, transformed perception of an auditor from a ‘policeman’ to a professional, value-adding consultant.• Worked out audit and risk based annual audit planning infrastructure, which included:new procedures and policies,unified templates for all relevant documentation,planning tools,reporting system.• Introduced an automated system of controls over management’s action plans implementation, which resulted in 95% of audit findings being closed on time.• Implemented process improvement and operational risk reduction initiatives, which provided for more transparent governance and cost cutting of more than €5M per year.

• Managed regular audits of international and large local clients, and built successful client relationships with a positive ‘can-do’ attitude to challenges and the agility to multitask effectively across competing priorities.• Established audit objectives for and led a team of auditors to ensure effective audit process as well as completion with minimal supervision and within deadlines.• Led engagements on IFRS financial statement audits for a variety of financial services companies, such as Deutsche Bank, Allianz and large local companies.• Worked closely with internal teams, international partners (UK, USA) and clients to identify development opportunities to add value to clients’ businesses.• Provided technical accounting advice to clients on complex accounting issues.• Recruited, mentored and developed upcoming audit talents (ca. 10 new people per year).• Revised audit documentation in order to align it with internal methodology, professional standards and local legal and regulatory requirements; harmonised audit procedures to reduce costs and increase project profitability.• Introduced and conducted IFRS-related training for internal staff, external clients and the regulator.