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New York, NY, US

Re-established former consulting company providing regulatory, compliance, and AML risk management consulting and advisory services to financial institutions, central banks, and financial regulators globally.

New York, New York

• Provided consulting services to global, U.S., and foreign financial institutions on corporate governance, regulatory and compliance oversight and risk management, and AML compliance programs within tight budget.
• Assisted clients in responding to formal orders and examination reports. Developed detailed remediation plans and tracking reports, resulting in clear and actionable paths to the lifting of regulatory actions and.
• Performed numerous in-depth reviews that assessed the effectiveness of AML and compliance governance and risk management programs and identified control gaps. Delivered comprehensive and well-regarded reports of review.
• Conducted enterprise-wide compliance and AML risk assessments that accurately identified, measured, monitored, and reported bank risks, controls, and areas of concern for institutions with regulatory enforcement.
• Developed effective AML compliance programs, governance structures, risk assessment frameworks, customer risk rating methodologies, risk reporting, policies, and monitoring and testing procedures for numerous U.S..
• Led team that conducted on-site AML compliance reviews of transaction monitoring and filtering and suspicious activity reporting across Europe, South America, Asia, and the U.S. for a large bank, avoiding onerous.

Greater New York City Area

• Provided regulatory, compliance, and AML risk management consulting services to financial institutions.
• Served as Project Coordinator managing global projects that prepared and implemented corrective action plans, ensuring full compliance with enforcement actions and specified time frames.
• Developed and implemented effective compliance policies and procedures that improved bank compliance with laws and regulations.Clients included: Dexia Bank, CIBC, Promontory Financial Group

New York, New York

• Managed projects that generated up to $1 million in revenue. Provided assistance and advice to U.S. and foreign banks on enhancing the effectiveness of risk management, audit, and controls to meet or exceed industry.
• Developed and implemented strategic and corrective action plans for financial institutions that successfully addressed and resolved regulatory and compliance issues.
• Led projects that resulted in the successful rehabilitation of problem financial institutions.
• Achieved a very high level of client satisfaction leading to additional consulting projects from clients.
• Created KPMG product tools, including risk assessments, market risk and asset/liability management effectiveness measurement tools, and a comprehensive credit manual, resulting in improved productivity and.

Warsaw, Poland

Managed the highly visible and successful local-based USAID technical assistance project that developed and implemented the effective bank supervisory system in Poland. As a result of outstanding guidance, project management, and implementation, the program was used as a model for other USAID projects throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance/International Business

B.A., Economics