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Education
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Oluwatosin Akinsanya-Ayodele

AML specialist
Pantano Drive Thornhill,ON

Summary

AML Specialist| Fraud Analyst | Financial Sector| Making financial industries unattractive for Money Launders and financial crime Meticulous and Knowledgeable Compliance Manager with over 8 years’ record of success in policy development, program management, risk mitigation and operational planning. Proficient in maintaining regulatory compliance and correcting systemic issues in collaboration with business managers. Team-focused, consistent and diplomatic with a focus on building strategic alliances and enhancing company standing.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification

Work History

Lead, AML

Keystone Bank
03.2017 - 03.2023
  • Manage and exercise oversight in the use of transaction monitoring applications to identify suspicious activities
  • Screening and reviewing inward and outwards alerts on transaction sanction screening for violations
  • Conduct enhanced due diligence on correspondent banks and other high risk customers
  • Respond to correspondent banking enquiries on customers transactions and KYC verifications
  • Relationship Management with business units on compliance matters
  • Developing and implementing compliance program, policies and manuals
  • Rendition of regulatory returns
  • Implemented and achieved over 90% Compliance audit of SBUs in line with the compliance program
  • Prepare quarterly reports to the Board on compliance related issues, trends
  • Provide guidance and advisory support on compliance matters in line with international best practices
  • Regulatory liaison function with regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies
  • Achieved 96.2% compliance KPI on AML/Fraud trainings and testing modules for both internal and external stakeholders by audit and regulatory body which impacted positively on the organization.
  • Acted as a subject matter expert on new compliance, fraud rules, trends, best practices on AML/ATF/fraud issues based on industry standards and regulations and provided advisory support to various units in conjunction with stakeholder across all platforms
  • Effected people change management based on the banks AML rules, and realigned stakeholders to commitment
  • Contributed to large- scale risk assessment initiatives and promoted improved business procedures and controls
  • Accomplishments
  • Lead, AML Investigation & Monitoring, Access Bank

03.2015 - 02.2017
  • Achieved a 100% Business Operations loss targets and improved KYC experience with regards to filing on Suspicious
  • Transactions Reports (STR), Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR), Currency Transactions Reports (CTR), Foreign
  • Transactions Reports, and other regulatory reports
  • Coordinating efforts relating to regulatory examination, reviews and Audits
  • Carried out liaison functions with law enforcement bodies and other apex regulators
  • Developed and maintained compliance manuals and policies
  • Conducted independent testing of Strategic Units on implementation of key regulatory circulars/Guidelines.
  • Oversee the Certification and Data validation of AML transaction data architecture for Customers System, Product
  • System, Payment System & Compliance System and Executed control testing to address audit assertions.
  • Acted as the operational oversight advisor on vendor selection screening for compliance on operational effectiveness and due diligence and implementation to meet set regulatory quality control standards with various jurisdictional legislations.
  • Reviewed, and advised on the correct dispositioning of over 500 alerts from escalated transactions against sanction’s list to identify sanctioned entities, providing and managing the risk assessment submission and reporting processes.
  • Conducted Enhanced Due Diligence investigations on high profile clients such as (PEPs, NGOs and FEPs) for
  • AML/ATF/KYC and negative news searches

Education

Bachelor’s degree - undefined

University of Lagos

Master’s degree - undefined

Ahmadu Bello University

Certifications & Applications Certifications: Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) | Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) Designate Compliance Professional (DCP) Certified Loan and Risk Management (CIRLM) Associate Strategic Management (ISMN) - undefined

2022

Skills

  • Team Focused
  • KYC investigations & Audit
  • Correspondent Banking
  • AML Regulation
  • Enterprise Risk Analysis
  • Training Coordination
  • Customer risk profiling
  • Financial Crimes
  • Problem Solving
  • Leadership
  • Data Evaluation
  • Presentation skills
  • Project Management
  • Stakeholder Engagement Project Management
  • Emerging Trends
  • Sanctions Mitigation Microsoft Office

Websites

Accomplishments

  • Supervised team of 4 staff members.
  • Documented and resolved delays in retrieving customer informations that aids due diligence activies
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets for regulatory renditions
  • Collaborated with team of 4 in the development of 3 projects, the e-Kyc form, law enforcement portal, e-learning platform, core banking application

Certification

Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist


Certified Fraud Examiner


Designate Compliance Officer

Timeline

Lead, AML

Keystone Bank
03.2017 - 03.2023

03.2015 - 02.2017

Bachelor’s degree - undefined

University of Lagos

Master’s degree - undefined

Ahmadu Bello University

Certifications & Applications Certifications: Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) | Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) Designate Compliance Professional (DCP) Certified Loan and Risk Management (CIRLM) Associate Strategic Management (ISMN) - undefined

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