SUMMARY:

• Dedicated business professional with superior organization, planning, analytical and entrepreneurial skills.
• Proven ability to multi - task in a fast paced environment while supporting business needs.
• Consistently provides clear and concise communication across all levels of the organization, service-oriented, professional, friendly, results oriented individual that possesses effective problem solving skills.
• Principal focus of experience includes amongst others: Compliance, Anti-Financial Crimes, credit/fraud investigations, business/customer regulatory and operational risk, and quality assurance functions.
• Customer record proficiency.
• Efficient office/Project management skills. Hospitable demeanor.
• Project Management
• Microsoft/Windows Adept
• Compliance Policies/Procedures Documentation/Testing
• Internal Controls
• Strong Analytical/Research Skills
• Internal Audit and mitigation
• Accounting/Business day to day
• Remediation Management/Project Management
• Executive Professionalism
• Anti: Terrorism/Fraud/ Corporate Investigations
• Quality Assurance/Officer: Compliance
• Management/Business Owner/Team Leadership/Entrepreneur Attitude
• Executive Administrative Assistant Leadership
• Customer Record Management
• Customer Retention/Personal and Hospitality Individual

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical Skills, and Professional, Systems: Microsoft Office Programs, Actimize, Prime Metavante, GES, Lexis Nexis, World Check, Info Lease Oracle, Banner database, Necho, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, Windows systems, Internet/intranet, Outlook, PACs, Ops Risk, TIRA, Windows, IBM/Dell systems. Dunn & Bradstreet, AML/Fraud software. US PATRIOT Act, Bank Secrecy Act and other AML regulatory framework. Media Dodd-Frank knowledge and awareness of importance, Procedure writing/proofing, system testing. Owls, Boss, (Accurint), CDOL, CRC, LEO, ESS, Navigator, GTS. Norkom

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Anti-Financial Crimes Investigator

Responsibilities:

• Conduct investigations specializing in Terrorist Financing/Terrorist Activity tracking and such.
• Conducting internal & external research for Pre-Suspicious Activity Reports. Customers records and transactions.
• Subject expert in Terrorist Financing and Terrorist action typologies/trends
• Resolving Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Investigations before these issues have a negative impact on the banks financial position, reputation or become a regulatory issue
• Review and analyze daily anti money laundering cases to ensure that investigations are accomplished to address transactions that contravene the banks or regulatory policy. Ensure these occurrences are documented in the case for regulatory/audit level reviews
• Ensure the risk coverage for the bank from an AML perspective
• Investigate cases and associated transactions and identify potential areas of risk (financial, reputational, and regulatory) within the transactions and associated client relationship review
• Investigate cases utilizing knowledge of money laundering, financing of terrorism and related issues, seeking guidance and assistance when required from the Team Manager and other colleagues
• Accountable to ensure the audit trail is complete for all Cases
• Provide support and assistance to the AML Manager with respect to the requirement that the internal systems parameters are reviewed.

Confidential

Global Economic Sanctions Compliance Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Conducting Financial Crime Investigations for all Lines of Business to ensure policies/procedures and Compliance regulations are being met.
• Ensure all Level 1 analysts have captured all requirements/ documentation, have completed said Due Diligence, annotate and reported on my investigative findings, ensure QA has been complete.
• Updated customers records as needed to ensure compliance.
• Project execution.
• Ensuring all Client Onboarding documentation was accurate, legible, as well as date validity was in scope.
• Reviewed all event driven reviews or Change of risk status of changes to the customers profile, conducted full review on said changes.

Confidential

Compliance/Risk-Fraud Associate Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for regulatory-driven Client Onboarding and monitoring requirements for customer data and transaction detail as an effort to detect potentially suspicious activities linked to money laundering, terrorist financing or other illicit activities.
• This includes written and verbal communication of issues while documenting results.
• Review unusual activity/data presented by business units to ensure CIT is not doing business with sanctioned parties as well as ensuring all Enterprise framework was in place. Provide adhoc reporting to the Onboarding Manager as an effort to fulfill the Bank's regulatory requirements.
• Additional responsibilities include assisting Business Units with COB/KYC completion to ensure compliance with corporate policy. Manage and execute remediation projects associated with high risk customers.

Confidential

Anti-Money Laundering Quality Assurance Assistant Manager- Compliance Analyst/QA

Responsibilities:

• Performed independent, enterprise - wide assessments and reporting to assist the Fraud & Risk Mitigation Compliance Manager with compiling reports for review on a set frequency and in concert with the Enterprise Risk Mitigation (ERM) framework. Focus on Compliance Risk Management. Increase risk awareness and understanding of individual and compounding compliance risk exposures for those ultimately responsible for ongoing risk management activities.
• Ensure all Level 1 analysts have captured all requirements/ documentation, have completed said Due Diligence, annotate and reported on my investigative findings, ensure QA has been complete. Updated customers records as needed to ensure compliance.
• Project execution.
• Ensuring all Client Onboarding documentation was accurate, legible, as well as date validity was in scope.
• Developed, promoted and implemented a risk intelligent culture, with strong collaborative relationships across the organization.
• Established strong collaboration and sharing of expertise/knowledge between team members and business units. Built a data repository to correlate alerts to investigative cases and report potential suspicious activity. Collect potential identity theft information from across the organization to support Identify Theft Red Flag program and regulatory requirements.
• Ensured adequate documentation exists to support recommended changes to policies, procedures, operational practices, thresholds, etc. Provided recommendations on reducing potential/actual fraudulent activity.
• Assisted Fraud & Risk Mitigation in enhancing and providing applicable fraud throughout the organization.
• Provided Executive Administrative support to two Functional Audit Directors, including Executive Management within the US and the UK.
• Supported a team of 120 auditors in their daily routine business with office management.
• Communications to include reports, real estate management matters as well as system access and support.
• Ensured administrative policies and procedures were followed within the Internal Audit Department.
• Attempt to mitigate all high risks by engaging with the internal auditors and BU’s to attempt to include a plan of action on all audits.
• Ensured a cost effective approach to the department budget was in place to ensure no unnecessary charges were incurred.
• Admin for system access changes for existing/new colleagues or existing auditors to ensure all audits were documented clearly in multiple systems for compliance.
• Communicated with outside vendors to explore additional options for the company, which resulted in monetary benefits for the organization.
• Created and maintained organizational charts, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.
• Worked with internal recruiters to establish candidates for the interview process within audit as well as assured they were properly trained.