Chief Legal and Compliance Officer

• Apr 2021 - Present

Forming a part of internal control function, ensuring the Institution adapts in place compliance measures in line with the applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and standards of a good practice applicaple to EMIs. Overseeing the entire customer onboarding process, customer segmentation and review, policies, regulatory reporting to Bank of Lithuania, Tax Inspection, point of contact for liaison with FCIS. Overseeing Institution’s risks framework, SLAs, ongoing audits and banking relations. Forming a part of internal control function, ensuring the Institution adapts in place compliance measures in line with the applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and standards of a good practice applicaple to EMIs. Overseeing the entire customer onboarding process, customer segmentation and review, policies, regulatory reporting to Bank of Lithuania, Tax Inspection, point of contact for liaison with FCIS. Overseeing Institution’s risks framework, SLAs, ongoing audits and banking relations.

Senior Analyst, Law Enforcement Outreach and Investigations

• Sep 2020 - Apr 2021

-Global high-scope internal fraud investigations;-Findings and remediation measures reporting directly to upper management and regulatory reporting filing if needed;-Service vulnerabilities expertise, vulnerable services exploitation prevention; -Risk reviews of company products, processes, operations, risk reduction measures implementation;-Targeted surveillance and behavior monitoring;-Ad-hoc investigations;-Big Data normalization, processing, analysis using SQL, Alteryx, Snowflake;-Temporarily assisting and training Subpoena Fulfillment team in responding to legal requests from Federal, State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies. Show less

Analyst, Law Enforcement Outreach & Investigations (FIU)

• Jul 2018 - Sep 2020

Compliance Specialist, Financial Intelligence Unit

• Apr 2017 - Jul 2018

As FIU member I am responsible for identifying, escalating and mitigating money laundering risk related activity. My job involves synthesizing all-source information to produce nuanced analytic judgments and risk mitigation options in complex written intelligence assessments. My daily job is:-Conduct research and analysis of complex, critical issues concerning the patterns and trends associated with money laundering and any other potential risks related to Western Union Agents;-Utilize a wide variety of research tools, systems and criteria and other duties assigned;-Assist and support AML compliance team members in order to ensure Compliance requirements are being met;-Submit requests for preparation of regulatory reporting when needed;-Deliver high quality and productivity results that meet or exceed functional targets while ensuring an excellent customer experience. Show less

Associate of Global Sanctions & Interdiction department, Compliance

• Feb 2016 - Mar 2017

Conducting investigations, service inquiries received over the phone, e-mail or working directly with money transfers utilizing back-office applications. Mainly responsible for providing support on AML compliance program, including Government Sanctions and/or other internal programs while working with stopped payments.

Administrator

• Jan 2013 - Aug 2014