Experience

Curve

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of Financial Crime & Compliance Officer

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  Brooklyn, New York, United States



MyBambu

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Compliance Officer

  • Mar 2020 - Mar 2021

  Memphis, Tennessee, United States



Glint

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Compliance

  • Nov 2018 - Mar 2020

  Boulder, Colorado



Western Union

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Supervisor, AML Compliance - GAI, Global AML Investigations

  • Oct 2014 - Nov 2018

  Englewood, CO

• Senior Compliance Officer

  • Dec 2012 - Oct 2014

  Englewood, CO Establish and build relationships with product ventures commercial subscribers, billers, and intermediaries. Understand, analyze, and evaluate processes and controls through program reviews/audits. Assess and provide recommendations/findings based on various risk exposures and criterion. Partner with Financial Intelligence Unit and other Compliance groups to address suspicious activities. Ensure and meet all regulatory guidance, laws, and regulations, specifically FinCEN/Treasury Department… Show more Establish and build relationships with product ventures commercial subscribers, billers, and intermediaries. Understand, analyze, and evaluate processes and controls through program reviews/audits. Assess and provide recommendations/findings based on various risk exposures and criterion. Partner with Financial Intelligence Unit and other Compliance groups to address suspicious activities. Ensure and meet all regulatory guidance, laws, and regulations, specifically FinCEN/Treasury Department. Design, implement, and manage global compliance programs for diverse commercial products. Overview • Identify, evaluate, measure, monitor, and report commercial account activity risk exposures, mitigating approximately over $1 million transaction volumes against existing and changing risk models and frameworks. • Completed and satisfied over 100 SWB/Southwest Border commercial accounts. • Eliminate and minimize over 50 zero-revenue product accounts. • Manage about 30 high volume/large revenue strategic accounts through newsletters, quarterly conference calls, and continued AML/Compliance training. • Trained new hires, resulting to a promotion for one of the new hires.

• Financial Systems Analyst

  • Sep 2010 - Dec 2012

  Englewood, CO Security administrator for over 80 domestic and international third party banking platforms/systems and a number of Treasury Management/Cash Management applications. Ensure compliance with InfoSec/Information Security standards, Sarbanes Oxley, and other applicable corporate security guidelines. Administer Wallstreet Suite (Treasury workstation – CMM and TRM modules), maintain licenses, and monitor incoming and outgoing data banking transmissions and reporting. Overview • Responsible… Show more Security administrator for over 80 domestic and international third party banking platforms/systems and a number of Treasury Management/Cash Management applications. Ensure compliance with InfoSec/Information Security standards, Sarbanes Oxley, and other applicable corporate security guidelines. Administer Wallstreet Suite (Treasury workstation – CMM and TRM modules), maintain licenses, and monitor incoming and outgoing data banking transmissions and reporting. Overview • Responsible for over $100 million in money movement, supporting Treasury Operations, normalizing and ensuring the company to live up to its fast, reliable, and convenient brand and standard. • Led and directed re-authorizations for account access on a semi-annual period, resulting to more accurate banking schedules and zero-finding security administration across all Treasury banking platforms and applications. • Consolidated multiple banking platforms across at least five major banks in a single quarter, minimizing platforms to administer, increasing efficiency by as much as three times. • Supported and led banking transitions from newly acquired businesses to bring in and ensure compliance with corporate standards. • Controlled and managed limited licenses to allocate and approve across all Western Union organizations worldwide. • Administered and experience in OpenPages. • Managed and directed a team of five during a restructuring and absence of a direct supervisor/manager for at least three months. • Directed the planning, design, production, and management of Treasury projects highly visible to top senior management, increasing productivity and efficiency for Treasury Operations by a minimum of twice the normal operating rate.

• Staff Accountant-Vigo Settlement Accounting

  • Feb 2009 - Sep 2010

  Englewood, CO Analyze and reconcile over 100 settlement accounts for Vigo Money Transfer. Manage and maintain account relationships in a global environment, specific to Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia. Calculate and verify FX/foreign exchange gains and losses schedules. Overview • Minimized and controlled foreign exchange/FX losses from changing FX rates throughout the day and monthly and quarterly loss schedules, resulting to a savings of under $100.00 per payer/agent account. •… Show more Analyze and reconcile over 100 settlement accounts for Vigo Money Transfer. Manage and maintain account relationships in a global environment, specific to Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia. Calculate and verify FX/foreign exchange gains and losses schedules. Overview • Minimized and controlled foreign exchange/FX losses from changing FX rates throughout the day and monthly and quarterly loss schedules, resulting to a savings of under $100.00 per payer/agent account. • Established and maintained relationships with strategic accounts through on-going account monitoring and frequent communication and reporting, resulting to fewer FX/foreign exchange adjustment payments, saving between $500 to $1,000 of FX/foreign exchange losses. • Migrated and tested new accounting systems, solving and fixing all systematic flaws and errors, correcting the accuracy of reporting and data flow.



Versa Resources

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contractor

  • Oct 2007 - Feb 2009

  Consulted for various companies under the CFO/Finance organizations that include accounts receivable, accounting, cash and settlement reconciliations, general ledger reconciliations, bank reconciliations, and various financial consulting roles.