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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Responsible for completing specialized due diligence for clients with higher AML risk. This includes Third-Party Payment processors, FinTech client types, Money Services Businesses and Casino and Gaming Companies. Extensive advisory and investigative experience in Enhanced Due Diligence(EDD) and Sanctions, covering multiple banking lines of business and multiple jurisdictions. Confident adviser to senior business stakeholders and clients, articulating risk and proposing sensible mitigation.In my role I assess the fitness of high risk industry clients AML/Sanctions compliance controls. • Manage client and partner expectations and understanding in a consultative way• Ensure documents received adhere to the Policy and Standards of the firm.• Maintain ownership of KYC/AML experience and client experience• Leads new to bank, annual and ad-hoc EDD & SpDD discussions for high risk industry client types to verify strength of AML/Sanctions programs.• Ensure AML SpDD deliverables are met and hold partners accountable• Manage AML/KYC and escalation requirements to meet quality and timeliness requirements. • Identification, escalation and ownership of risk controls. • Maintain working knowledge of all applicable regulatory guidance, policies, procedures, protocols, control processes and compliance requirements.• Provide consultative views of risk assessment based on high -risk industry knowledge and expertise. • Independent management of renewal cycles in partnership with key stakeholders across multiple groups.• Timely and quality based portfolio management.

Greater Chicago Area

• Apply the Firm’s AML/KYC standards through a quality review of client CB KYC records (MMBSI, CCBSI, RED/CTL/CBD)• Independently assess AML quality associated with approved KYC records. • Clearly articulates and communicates key findings to banking teams and KYC Officers in order to address areas of risk and improvement for future assessments.• Identifies gaps in quality assessments and coaches banking teams and KYC Officers to address areas of improvement for future assessments. Constantly seeks to educate banking teams of AML quality assessment best practices. • Partner closely with various CB groups such as KYCOs/Bankers, GFCC/Compliance, KYC Training, QC, QA, Business Ops in order to facilitate ongoing communication and improvement for the Quality Review process.• Consistently partner with and educated the KYCO/Banking teams of AML quality assessment best practices, changes in AML/KYC Policy, QR/QA/QC trends, etc.• Consistently partners closely with AML/KYC Quality Review Executive Director to escalate unmitigated red flags according to established escalation protocols.• Provides AML subject matter expertise to banking teams and KYC Officers. • Works with the Quality Control team in the QIP system to ensure the quality and accuracy of each records completed by the KYC officers.• Continued work closely with the internal training team to guide the training classes in enhancing the AML risk summary narrative ensuring all risk factors for each client are addressed and mitigated.• Represent the Quality Review Team as Champion on weekly CB Change Readiness Calls.• Partners with the training team to train internal partners in multiple areas on the Anti Money Laundering Risk Summary, ensuring that we know our customers and all risk components are addressed and mitigated within the narrative.

Chicago

-Evaluates client AML/KYC risk, including the identification of key issues and related mitigants, conducts independent research, verifying appropriate risk profile, and making independent risk assessment recommendations; works with various groups like legal, compliance, credit, and operations as needed to ensure an accurate risk analysis and assessment-Partners with Bankers and other departments to collect, analyze, and validate all appropriate due diligence and onboarding documentation provided by the client; utilize knowledge of AML/KYC policy to independently identify missing or insufficient client due diligence information-Authors and prepares due diligence commentary that demonstrates a full analysis and assessment of AML/KYC risks-Accountable for managing AML/KYC-related KPIs (key performance indicators) to ensure consistency in quality and timeliness of completion-Takes ownership of quality control issues related to client due diligence and partner with Bankers to resolve accordingly; escalates as appropriate-Validates all client data and supporting documentation is appropriately recorded and stored on proprietary systems-Research’s and analyzes negative client findings; partner with Bankers and compliance to reach resolution and ensure appropriate documentation/recording of outcome.-Client contact in partnership with the Banker-Special projects, including remediation and others, as directed by regulators, internal audit, etc

Panama City, Florida Area

- Writes detailed universally understood procedures for permanent records.- Acquires subject knowledge by interviewing product developers, observing performance of production methods, referring to technical specifications, blueprints, engineering illustrations, and trade journals- Oversees preparation of illustrative materials, selecting drawings, sketches, diagrams and charts. Conducts quality review of materials- Writes, rewrites and/or edits technical documents such as technical procedure manuals, user manuals, programming manuals, service manuals, operational specifications, and related technical publications

Panama City, Florida

- Created information from raw data to justify Air Force’s $225M facility energy focus program- Authored executive summary for secretary of defense level annual energy management report- Developed comprehensive report, over 1600 charts, for 186 installation’s facility energy usage- Produced Air Force manual for federal energy awards program detailing submission guidelines- Standard bearer for headquarter reports and publications, ensuring consistency and quality- Led agency level award programs, coordinating 42 submissions with senior officials to win 5- Diligently reviewed energy and water consumption data to identify anomalies in 543 million square feet of Air Force facilities; tracked performance over multiple years to develop trend data

Panama City Florida

- Controlled $25M budget for time and materials service contract employing over 300 FTEs- Managed firm-fixed price and cost plus award fee contracts; always on budget for 11 contracts- Led 20 subcontractors in delivering over $2M in professional services for government support- Established work breakdown structures to account and validate 100% of billable expenditures- Verified all invoices for accounts payable and receivable with 99% accuracy over 3 year- Diligently reviewed and processed travel receipts for client submission, always under budget- Generated, reconciled, and analyzed financial monthly reports for managers and clients- Prepared Estimates at Completion (EAC’s) forecasting total cost for scheduled activities- Coordinated labor hours and payroll issues with employees to maintain precise accounting

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Capstone on Management Style and Leadership

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration (Bs), Minor In Accounting

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