Financial Crime Specialist / CAMS

2/2018 – 9/2022

- Main activities and responsibilities:
- Coordination of the Global Trade Finance Monitoring activity (German
business and International branches/subsidiaries), in terms of AntiMoney Laundering / Counter Terrorist Financing / Sanctions
Compliance („AML / CTF / SC”);
- Development and implementation of the global policies regarding Trade
Finance internal controls against financial crime;
- Coordinationand development of the Trade Finance Monitoring team;
- Participation in the development of the global business and compliance
Trade Finance strategies, as well as the development and implementation
of the necessary measures for applying these strategies;
- Analysis and enhancement of the data analytics rules for identification of
transactional risks;
- Conducting performance reviews of the Trade Finance monitoring
system, as well as of the investigation methodology for transactional
alerts, with the purpose of enhancing them and also adapting them to the
current risk exposure;
- Coordinating the Trade Finance transactional riskmanagement, with
focus on Financial Crime Risks, by coordinating:
- Projects for transactional analyses, with deliverables on international
typologies and transactional business practices;
- Projects for identifying inherent risks by collecting the necessary
financial information on Trade Finance international practices;
- The development oftransactional risk response strategies, in accordance
with the inherent / residual risk (risk mitigation strategies:
implementation of new internal controls / review and enhance the existing internal controls / recommending de-risking strategies in case
the implementation costs exceed the risk materialization costs);
- The monitoring and reporting of Trade Finance transactional risks.
- Successful achievement of the following objectives, in accordance with
the recommendations received from the US Monitor (US Supervisory
Authority):
- Coordinating a project for developing an in-house global monitoring
system, based on Trade Finance relevant SWIFT messages, that would
centralize the Trade Finance monitoring activity for all national and
international branches and subsidiaries (unique in the industry, at the
time of development) –including testing and release into production;
- Identifying the Trade Finance transactional risk criteria and translating
them into data analytics parameters;
- Developing the Trade Finance procedures for transactional investigations

Data Science, Software engineering / -technik

1/2014 – offen

Managing partner in the establishment and administration of hotel projects
- Execution of management and marketing activities in the course of the new
opening as well as further development of the company's online presence
through content marketing, social media marketing, email marketing and
search engine optimization (SEO)
- Implementation of the internal booking systems (OTA / PMS)
- Sales optimization through the acquisition of new external service
providers in other global countries (China, Singapore, Malaysia)
- Coordination of day-to-day business and management of employees
- Implementation of acquisition and translation activities (English / German /
Thai)

Hospitality Management

1/2014 – offen

Managing partner in the establishment and administration of hotel projects
- Execution of management and marketing activities in the course of the new
opening as well as further development of the company's online presence
through content marketing, social media marketing, email marketing and
search engine optimization (SEO)
- Implementation of the internal booking systems (OTA / PMS)
- Sales optimization through the acquisition of new external service
providers in other global countries (China, Singapore, Malaysia)
- Coordination of day-to-day business and management of employees
- Implementation of acquisition and translation activities (English / German /
Thai)

Hospitality Management