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Global, HK

Remote First, US

• Part of the Compliance leadership team, managing KYC design and focused strategic initiatives, regulatory engagement, and program development
• Collaborating with cross-functional partners to ensure departmental goals align with one another.
• Leading and supporting program development and project management remediation efforts to deliver appropriate corrective actions.
• Supporting financial partnerships, international expansion, and new product launches.
• Engaging with outside counsel and regulators globally on cryptocurrency policy and regulations.
• Serving as a point of contact for all KYC matters to assist various industry efforts.

San Francisco, California, US

- Co-lead User Vetting (KYC) Remediation plan efforts for carrier relations, ISVs, resellers, and enhanced verification processes. Collaborate with product managers, compliance and legal to identify risks, document controls and procedures, and evaluate vendors.- Monitor day-to-day operations and governance of KYC (User Vetting) Compliance Program across.

Las Vegas, NV, US

• Apply field concepts, practices and procedures to analyze critical data and perform extensive due diligence vetting all company Vendors, Distributor, Suppliers, Joint Venture Partners, Acquisitions, Lobbyists.
• Perform a variety of assignments within the following areas: Compliance Database administration, consultation with database business and survey users, coordination of Compliance
• Procedures/initiatives with internal SGI departments such as Accounts Payable, Finance, Legal, Procurement and others
• Maintaining thorough and up-to-date knowledge of national and global casino and gaming/gambling regulations and laws
• Responsible for conducting prompt, thorough and impartial research analysis and writing reports of findings, drawing conclusions and making risk assessments and recommendations
• Utilize technical information to make an independent decision and recommendation to supervising Compliance Department personnel

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Supporting and executing the principles of the BSA to prevent BitPay from being used to facilitate money laundering and the financing of terrorist activities by:
• Maintaining thorough and up to date knowledge of national and global industry related laws to cryptocurrency regulations and sanctions: BSA, USA Patriot Act, AML, and OFAC compliance
• Maintaining Policy and Procedures (collectively, the Program), to include the implementation of internal controls such as Know Your Customer, Customer Identification Program, Monitoring of Suspicious Activity, Filing.
• Investigating merchant information using a mix of data providers and other publicly available information such as companies in house, internet searches etc. to asses AML/TF risk of prospective merchants
• Identifying problem cases and recommending appropriate courses of action contingent to preformed Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) minimizing overall risk to BitPay
• Assisting proper reports (SARS) are filed if need be and stringent record-keeping

London, GB

• Providing HRA remediation subject expertise and support to a global bank under regulatory action.
• Assisting with Customer Due Diligence (CDD) the AML Compliance team executed a High Risk Assessment (HRA) Program that helped the bank become compliant with AML regulation, mitigate money laundering risk, and improve.
• Experience in data analysis, report building and providing data visualizations to enable insightful operational analysis and effectively document in-scope desktop procedures.KYC remediation:
• Assisting the AML Compliance team in executing a Know Your Customer (KYC) Program that was implemented to deter money laundering, terrorist financing and provide sound business practices.Activities supporting data.
• Update existing lineage documentation to reflect current-state processes and address EDM data testing observations
• Document lineage intra-hops in EDM Metadata template format

London, GB

Houston, TX, US

Manage the development and delivery for high profile reporting and analytic projects. Attend and started multiple scrum meetings and two week sprints for agile method of management.

Houston, TX, US

• Assist with content management for our SharePoint Permissions
• Assist with SharePoint service ticket and document clean up
• Assist in SharePoint Migration
• Work with users to develop collaboration and permission solutions utilizing SharePoint Groups
• Explore development of forms and workflows to meet business needs
• Explore use of 3rd party tools augmenting SharePoint functionality (Yammer)

Houston, TX, US

• Updated and standardized server infrastructure documentation from Active Directory
• Posted infrastructure documentation to SharePoint to assist with applications and system maintenance
• End User Support/Customer Service work
• Reviewed and provided feedback on the quality of service desk operations and end-user interaction

Houston, TX, US

• Benefits and Total Rewards -
• Assists with the completion of compensation surveys and other requests.
• Works with various HR systems to run reports and prepare data for review.
• Assists with the review and handing of benefits billing summaries.
• Assists with the communication and roll-out of various HR related initiatives.
• Completes ad hoc project coordination/management for the HR Department.

Houston, TX, US

• Web Strategy -SharePoint Support
• Assist with content management for our Intranet assets (Connect!)
• Work with users to develop collaboration solutions utilizing our SharePoint assets
• Explore development of forms and workflows to meet business needs
• Explore use of 3rd party tools or plugins to augment SharePoint functionality
• Assist with content management for our Internet assets (Axiall.com and Royalbuildingproducts.com, and sub-sites, etc.)Single Sign-On

Information Systems, Minor Computer Science

High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates