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Minneapolis

• Completed planning for Payments and Elavon Financial Services audit engagements, which included identifying and analyzing business processes, key risks and critical controls; interviewing auditees; determining audit.
• Supervised, reviewed and challenged work performed by senior and staff auditors in the timely completion of audit engagements.
• Reviewed issues to ensure potential exposures and significance are included, root causes are identified, and operationally effective actions to address those causes are developed into appropriate recommendations.
• Communicated with business line partners to provide timely audit updates and collaborated on issues identified during the audit.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Manage the creation and execution of compliance tests of U.S. Bank’s foreign subsidiaries in Canada, Mexico and the European Union.
• Research complex laws, regulations, policies, and directives and their applicability to the Bank to ensure foreign regulatory compliance.
• Manage and assist a team of analysts in their reviews of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Central Bank of Ireland Consumer Protection Code, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II).

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Created, implemented and executed compliance testing of U.S. Bank’s international subsidiaries in Europe, Canada, Mexico and the Cayman Islands.
• Assessed the business line’s compliance with applicable international and local laws and regulations, as well as assessment of the adequacy of business line’s internal controls.
• Analyzed applicable laws, developed comprehensive testing plans, determined representative sample selections, executed testing plans, identified areas of risk, documented and reported findings and recommended.
• Wrote memorandums to senior management and created issues in RSA Archer.
• Led conversations and meetings with the business line, the chief risk office and compliance groups to vet through potential issues.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Balanced multiple projects related to subpoenas and defensive litigation matters.
• Assisted counsel in document production and electronic discovery projects.
• Performed first line of defense self-assessments on structured finance products.

• Created ad hoc reporting to assist in negotiations with external third parties for outstanding fees on RMBS and CMBS deals which resulted in nearly $2 million in profit.
• Conducted reconciliations, validations, analysis and reporting of legal expenses.
• Created and administered multiple SharePoint sites and performed user acceptance testing of proprietary software.

• Analyzed and interpreted legal agreements related to bond financing transactions.
• Ensured and reviewed client compliance with legal requirements.
• Reviewed letters of credit, insurance certificates, annual financial statements, no default certificates and debt service coverage ratio certificate.
• Monitored high-risk compliance and financial instruments used to secure loans, letters of credit and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filings.