Experience

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  Auburn University Harbert College of Business

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 300 - 400 Employee

  • Professor of Practice Finance

    • Aug 2023 - Present

    Teaching graduate and undergraduate finance courses | Faculty Advisor, Auburn Finance Society - Financial Institutions branch

  • Senior Lecturer of Finance

    • Aug 2021 - Jul 2023

    Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Finance, specializing in Financial Institutions and Financial Markets, Multinational Finance and Corporate Finance.

  • Lecturer of Finance

    • Aug 2018 - Jul 2021

    Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Finance, specializing in Financial Markets and Institutions, Multinational Finance and Corporate Finance.

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  Independent Consultant

  • Advisor - Banking Regulation and Supervision

    • Mar 2015 - Present

    Provide bank regulatory and supervisory/financial sector compliance, accounting, finance, and financial risk management expertise and training to various Financial Sector Regulatory Authorities, Governments, and Government institutions and Financial Institutions.

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  Sagicor Group Jamaica Limited

  • Kingston, Jamaica

  • Assistant Vice President Finance, Banking

    • Sep 2016 - Jul 2018
    • Kingston, Jamaica

    Managed the financial operations, and regulatory reporting of the Group's commercial banking, investment banking, and securities' firm's activities. This included managing the preparation and analysis of monthly financial statements and other financial reporting requirements; managing the Banking Group’s financial regulatory reporting requirements; overseeing budgeting, forecasting, variance, and other performance analysis activities; providing decision support to the Group’s Chief Financial Officer and Management Teams of each entity in the Division; participating in Board of Directors and respective Board Committee meetings, and providing decision support to each Board and their respective Committees; managing internal and external financial audits, and participating in regulatory reviews, of each entity in the Division; and providing leadership, management, and mentorship to the Finance, Banking Department.

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  JN Cayman

  • Cayman Islands

  • Chief Compliance Officer

    • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
    • Cayman Islands

    Managed the entity's compliance operations. This included formulating and implementing methodologies and systems to monitor and test JN Cayman's compliance with applicable laws, regulations, rules, guidelines, and industry best practices, standards, and codes of conduct, as well as Board-approved internal policies and procedures; formulating, recommending, and pursuing the implementation of remedial plans once compliance failures have been identified; conducting compliance research, money laundering and financing of terrorism risk assessments, and regulatory analyses, to support all aspects of business operations; providing consulting and compliance-related strategic advices on all aspects of business operations including the development of operational policies and procedures, development of new products, and bank strategies and operational directives; managing foreign tax compliance obligations (i.e. US FATCA, UK CDOT, and CRS); providing decision support to the Group’s Chief Compliance Officer; and participating in Board of Directors meetings.

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  The Jamaica National Group

  • Jamaica

  • Compliance Manager

    • Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
    • Jamaica

    Provided compliance expertise and support to the Group's compliance function. This included formulating and implementing methodologies and systems to monitor and test JN Group’s compliance with applicable laws, regulations, rules, guidelines, and industry best practices, standards, and codes of conduct, as well as Board-approved internal policies and procedures; formulating, recommending, and pursuing the implementation of remedial plans once compliance failures have been identified; conducting compliance research, money laundering and financing of terrorism risk assessments, and regulatory analyses, to support all aspects of business operations; providing consulting and compliance-related strategic advices on all aspects of business operations including the development of operational policies and procedures, development of new products, and bank strategies and operational directives; managing foreign tax compliance obligations (i.e. US FATCA) of JNBS (the stand alone entity); providing decision support to the Group’s Chief Compliance Officer; and participating in Board of Directors meetings.

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  Auburn University Harbert College of Business

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance

    • Aug 2012 - Jul 2015

    Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Finance, specializing in Financial Institutions and Financial Markets, and Corporate Finance.

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  Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  • Lecturer of Finance

    • Jan 2012 - May 2012

    Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Financial Markets and Institutions

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  Bank of Jamaica

  • Assistant Director

    • Sep 1999 - Nov 2011

    Regulated and supervised deposit taking financial institutions. This included formulating new and reviewing existing policies, rules, standards, and laws governing the regulation and supervision of depository institutions in Jamaica, and proposing amendments to enhance their compliance with international standards such as the Basel Core Principles, international anti-money laundering (AML)/counter-financing of terrorism (CFT) standards and guidances, and international accounting standards; performing compliance self-evaluations of Jamaica’s bank regulatory and supervisory frameworks with international bank regulatory and supervisory standards, and proposing amendments to these frameworks; researching and providing bank regulatory and supervisory technical guidance, externally, to depository institutions, and internally, to senior management of the Bank Regulatory Authority; assisting the Director in formulating and operationalizing the strategic direction of the Policy Department and managing the Department in the Director’s absence; and providing leadership, training, and mentorship to a team of Bank Regulatory Policy Analysts.