High Risk Accounts Investigator, Transactions Review and SAR Specialist Completed the investigations and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) forms including the narrative and obtain all the back-up records to be presented to the regulator's personnel. Reviewed transactions processed through a bank determining if any were suspicious activities, due to of the parties or amounts or frequency of transactions or any other circumstances. Conducted High Risk Annual reviews, based on a schedule, special requirements from the BSA Manager or upper management determination for a financial institution belonging to a group of South American investors. Obtain the transactions records from Patriot Officer, PARC, and Navigator systems, building the pivot tables, analyzing transactions and obtaining the back-up documentation for the noteworthy trades. Sending RFI's to accounts officers or SME's and conducting follow up meetings. Complete the High Risk Annual Review and arrive to a determination of filing a SAR or close the review adding the client to a Watch List, close the account or closing the entire customer relationship. Prepared and presented completed SAR to the BSA Officer or the SAR Committee for review and filing.

High Risk Accounts Investigator, Transactions Review and SAR Specialist Completed the investigations and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) forms including the narrative and obtain all the back-up records to be presented to the regulator's personnel. Prepared and presented completed SAR to the BSA Officer or the SAR Committee for review and filing. Conducted High Risk Annual reviews, based on a schedule, special requirements from the BSA Manager or upper management determination for a financial institution belonging to a group of South American investors. Reviewed transactions processed through a bank determining if any were suspicious activities, due to location of the parties or amounts or frequency of transactions or any other circumstances. Obtain the transactions records from Patriot Officer, PARC, and Navigator systems, building the pivot tables, analyzing transactions and obtaining the back-up documentation for the noteworthy trades. Sending RFI's to accounts officers or SME's and conducting follow up meetings. Complete the High Risk Annual Review and arrive to a determination of filing a SAR or close the review adding the client to a Watch List, close the account or closing the entire customer relationship.

Provided personalized tax consulting services to corporate, partnership and high net individuals for a firm specializing in taxation.

Organized and manage corporate and individual clients’ financial statements and tax preparation.

Organized and conduct presentation on client’s behalf of documentation required for tax audits and examinations before the IRS, NYS Department of Taxation, NYS Department of Labor, Florida Department of Revenue in Florida, New York and California.

Special tax projects requested by management of different clients to comply with regulators and tax authorities’ instructions.

High Risk Accounts Investigator, Transactions Review and SAR Specialist Completed the investigations and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) forms including the narrative and obtain all the back-up records to be presented to the regulator's personnel. Reviewed transactions processed through a bank determining if any were suspicious activities, due to location of the parties or amounts or frequency of transactions or any other circumstances. Conducted High Risk Annual reviews, based on a schedule, special requirements from the BSA Manager or upper management determination for a financial institution belonging to a group of South American investors. Obtain the transactions records from Patriot Officer, PARC, and Navigator systems, constructing the pivot tables, analyzing transactions and obtaining the back-up documentation for the noteworthy trades. Sending RFI's to accounts officers or SME's and conducting follow up meetings. Complete the High Risk Annual Review and arrive to a determination of filing a SAR or close the review adding the client to a Watch List, close the account or closing the entire customer relationship. Presented SAR to the BSA Officer or the SAR Committee for review and filing.

Vice President – Global Markets Banking – AML/BSA policies and procedures

Deployment Manager for Argentina and Chile

Leadership role within the Global Banking business focusing on HSBC’s AML/BSA (Anti Money Laundering & Bank Secrecy Act) policies, procedures and practices.

Accountable for successful deployment of Global Standards for GBM in the Americas, supporting ongoing process improvement and the transition to sustainable business as usual.

Work with a variety of internal businesses and functions (e.g. Project Leads, Data Readiness Teams, Capital Financing, Training and Communications) to ensure that the project proceeds with understanding and buy in from all key stakeholders.

High Risk Accounts Investigator, Transactions Review and SAR Specialist Reviewed transactions processed through a bank determining if any were suspicious activities, due to location of the parties or amounts or frequency of transactions or any other circumstances. Conducted High Risk Annual reviews, based on a schedule, special requirements from the BSA Manager or upper management determination for a financial institution belonging to a group of Brazilian investors. Obtain the transactions records from Sydell CompliXpert, BancPac, i-Doc and i-Check system, constructing the pivot tables, analyzing transactions and obtaining the back-up documentation for the noteworthy trades. Sending RFI's to accounts officers or SME's and conducting follow up meetings. Complete the High Risk Annual Review and arrive to a determination of filing a SAR or close the review adding the client to a Watch List, close the account or closing the entire customer relationship. Completed the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) forms including the narrative and obtain all the back-up records to be presented to the regulator's personnel, if required. Presented the SAR to the BSA Officer or the SAR Committee for review and filing.

BSA Investigator and SAR Specialist Conducted BSA Investigations, based on alerts escalation, fraud attempts, special requirements from the BSA Manager or upper management determination for a financial institution under FDIC Consent Order, interacting with the Regulator's personnel. Obtain the transactions records from Yellow Hammer system, constructing the pivot tables, analyzing transactions and obtaining the back-up documentation for the noteworthy transactions. Sending RFI's to accounts officers or other parties involved, and conducting follow up meetings with SME's. Complete the investigation and arrive to a determination of filing a SAR or close the investigation with no reporting to regulators, adding the client to a Watch List, close the account or closing the entire customer relationship. Completed the Suspicious Activity Report forms including the narrative and obtain all the back-up records to be presented to the regulator's personnel if required. Presented the SAR, the Investigation Summary Report to the BSA Officer. Presented the Investigation Summary Report and all the background information to be reviewed by the SAR Committee for any Investigation which were considered "NO SAR FILING"

CDD QA team leader Citi Private Banking CDD (KYC) Quality Assurance project for Latin American clients, reviewing and accepting or rejecting CDD files delivered by Compliance Officers in different LATAM countries according to global standards determined by the financial institution.

Vice President

• Global Markets Banking
• AML/BSA policies and procedures Deployment Manager for Argentina and Chile Leadership role within the Global Banking business focusing on HSBC's AML/BSA (Anti Money Laundering & Bank Secrecy Act) policies, procedures and practices. Accountable for successful deployment of Global Standards for GBM in the Americas, supporting ongoing process improvement and the transition to sustainable business as usual. Work with a variety of internal businesses and functions (e.g. Project Leads, Data Readiness Teams, Capital Financing, Training and Communications) to ensure that the project proceeds with understanding and buy in from all key stakeholders.

Forensic Auditor, High Risk Transaction review and SAR analyst Reviewed of all High risk transactions processed through a local bank determining if any were suspicious activities, due to location of the parties or amounts or frequency of transactions or any other circumstances. Determined if the rules, parameters or profiles were exceeded and after review of the transactions conclude if the alerts were to be closed or submitted for SAR consideration. Obtained the missing information for the client's CDD files in public web sites or in the search engines available in the financial institutions like Bankers Almanac, Bloomberg, Lexis Nexis or World Compliance or contacting the Account Officer in Spanish or English. Write detailed reports for Compliance Department and regulators in English, stating facts and drawing conclusion on the review period, which extended for period of 1 to 6 months

Reviewed of all High risk transactions processed through a Private bank determining if any were suspicious activities, due to location of the parties or amounts or frequency of transactions or any other circumstances. Determined if the rules, parameters or profiles were exceeded and after review of the transactions conclude if the alerts were to be closed or submitted for SAR consideration. Obtained the missing information for the client's CDD files in public web sites or in the search engines available in the financial institutions like Bankers Almanac, Bloomberg, Lexis Nexis or World Compliance or contacting the Account Officer in Spanish or English. Write detailed reports for Compliance Department and regulators, stating facts and drawing conclusion on the review period, which extended for period of 1 to 3 months

Forensic Auditor, High Risk Transaction Review Analyst Review of all High Risk transactions processed through a US Agency for a selected group of Clients under investigation, determining any suspicious activities, due to location of the parties or amounts or frequency of transactions or any other circumstances. Obtained the missing information for the client's CDD files in public web sites or in the search engines available in the financial institutions like Bankers Almanac, Bloomberg, Lexis Nexis or World Compliance or contacting the Account Officer in Spanish or English. Write extensive and detailed reports for Compliance Department and regulators, stating facts and drawing conclusion on the review period, which extended for period of 12 to 24 months. After careful consideration and review, prepared the SAR. The SAR was reviewed and the final version was approved

• Full Time
• Vice President / Tax Specialist
• Full time

INT'L BANK

• Consultant Promontory Advisory Services
• IPSA International Forensic Auditor, High Risk Transaction review & SAR analyst Reviewed of all transactions processed through an international bank After careful consideration and review, I prepared the SAR. The SAR was reviewed and the final version was approved. Coordinated all the CDD requirements for remediation projects at UBS in Stamford, and Calyon, in New York. Reviewed CDD files from corporate clients located in different countries in the world determining the completeness and accuracy of the information.