Functional Skills

Budgeting
Communications
Quality Control
Enterprise Report Management (ERM)
Performance Management
Procurement
Financial Management
Regulatory Compliance
Strategic Planning
Risk Management
Predictive Analytics
Leadership Development
Integration Management (IMO)

Software Skills

Microsoft Excel
SAP CRM
Monday

Sector Experience

Business Services
Financial Services
Telecom
Big 4 Accounting
Top Consulting Firms

Experience

CURRENCY RESERVE LLC Start-Up
Managing Director / Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
2/2023 - 2/2024
• Responsible for leading the Enterprise Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance Programs, including BSA/OFAC, ABC, model risk, reputational risk, fraud risk and vendor risk, for a newly formed bank specializing in physical delivery currency trading.
• Established the Enterprise Risk Management framework and program, including risk policies and procedures, risk matrices, risk management strategy, risk measurement/monitoring tools, and risk dashboard.
• Developed risk appetite statements and key risk indicators (KRIs) for risk categories to help the Bank set risk tolerances for its strategic plan and to guide operations within specified risk tolerances and guidelines.
• Created and implemented the bank's first compliance and regulatory framework and led critical initiatives to create processes, applications, and systems to maximize security and compliance and manage the Bank's risk profile.
• Oversaw AML and Sanctions system implementations and Business As Usual (BAU) screening op

KPMG Other
Director – Global Risk Monitoring Group (GRMG)
2/2019 - 2/2023
• Managed a team of Directors, Associate Directors, Managers, and Senior Associates in operationalizing KPMGI's global compliance risk assessment, monitoring and testing exercises, and reporting activities across regulatory requirements (AML/Sanctions) as well as for Third Party and Regulatory Change Management, including in partnership with global stakeholders (Legal, Finance, Procurement, Risk Management) in an integrated and automated manner.
• Conducted a current state evaluation of KPMGI's global compliance efforts and developed a target model for KPMGI's compliance program to enable more holistic and deeper regulatory compliance risk management of the 141 Firms, operating in over 153 jurisdictions.
• Operationalized KPMGI's global risk and compliance program components through coordination with stakeholders both within and outside the GRMG
• Oversaw and performed KPMGI's annual Global Compliance Risk Assessment (CRA), covering various laws and regulations supporting compliance

KPMG Other
Director – Financial Crimes (FC)
10/2011 - 2/2019
• Directed a team of Managers, Senior Associates, and Associates, led additional teams of ~35 staff, and co-managed 100+ team members (including contractors) in developing and implementing AML compliance programs and initiatives for domestic and international financial institutions.
• Helped large domestic and global financial institutions design, implement, and evaluate their corporate compliance and financial crimes programs, addressed their MRAs (Matters Requiring Attention), and met their commitments to address federal regulatory concerns (OCC, Fed).
• Partnered with key client stakeholders to improve their AML programs, providing gap analysis, audits, KYC/EDD remediations, transaction monitoring lookbacks, transformations, operational efficiency, mortgage fraud reviews, policy and procedures development, quality control (QC) reviews, risk assessment implementation, training, and support with system implementations.
• Managed comprehensive money-laundering Lookbacks for major gl

KPMG Other
Manager – Financial Crimes
10/2008 - 10/2011
• Guided project teams, at times across multiple locations, executing gap analysis projects for compliance functions, KYC remediations and transformations for wholesale and global banks, transaction monitoring lookbacks, and audits.
• Oversaw and performed AML Gap Analysis for Global US banks and Broker Dealers (including Clearing Brokers) against regulatory requirements.
• Oversaw and managed multiple remediations of 4,000- 9,700+ customers for large Investment and Business Banking lines of business, including KYC record client profile, screening and adverse media, related parties, AML Program reviews (where relevant) and risk rating, consistently within allocated budget and time projections.
• Worked on a team in developing a KPMG proprietary KYC tool that we piloted with customers for sale and managed services support.
• Developed Business Requirements Documentation (BRD) and Functional Requirements Documentation (FRD) for system designs.
Key Achievements
Led a performance man

KPMG Other
Senior Associate - Financial Crimes
10/2006 - 9/2008
• Supported various client engagements pertaining to revenue recognition investigations, stock option backdating, AML/Sanctions, ABC, and fraud and typically oversaw teams of 15-20 people with responsibility for quality control (QC) reviews, procedure development and maintenance, training of staff, weekly reporting, project planning/ budgeting and risk management.