annazienkiewicz

Throughout my career, I've dedicated myself to the rigorous field of financial crime prevention, primarily within fiat and cryptocurrency sectors. My journey began as an AML Analyst at Citi, where I honed my skills in transactional activity analysis and the development of AML processes. Progressing to an AML Senior Analyst and later to an AVP Compliance AML Execution Manager, I expanded my expertise to include the creation of efficiency improvements and the development of team strategies.

In July 2022, I transitioned to Ramp as a Global Financial Crime Operations Manager, a role in which I oversee financial crime operations on a global scale. Here, my focus is on maintaining stringent compliance, enhancing KYC and KYT processes, and developing innovative strategies for fraud prevention and transaction monitoring.

I'm currently the Head of Financial Crime Operations at Ramp, a position I've held for over a year. In this role, I continue to collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive strategic initiatives and product development, always with a keen eye on surpassing regulatory compliance and industry standards.

I'm seeking a position that will challenge me further and allow me to utilize my extensive experience in compliance and financial crime operations. Ideally, this role would be at a forward-thinking company where I can contribute to shaping the frameworks that combat financial crime, influence policy, and drive operational efficiency while managing and mentoring a high-performing team.


Experience: 2 years

Yearly salary: $160,000

Hourly rate: $0

Nationality: 🇵🇱 Poland

Residency: 🇵🇱 Poland


Experience

Global Financial Crime Operations Manager
Ramp Network
2022 - 2024
• Global Oversight of Financial Crime Operations: Directing financial crime-related global operations, ensuring compliance with regulatory and industry standards. • KYC Implementation: Implement and enhance Know Your Customer procedures to confirm customer identity and ensure regulatory compliance. • KYT Utilization: Utilizing Know Your Transactions tools to monitor transaction patterns, identify risks, and take swift action. • Policy Collaboration: Working with MLRO and BSAO to update and review KYC and KYT policies according to changing regulations. • Risk Mitigation: Integrating KYC and KYT within the broader financial crime framework to develop effective risk mitigation strategies. • Risk Assessments: Conducting detailed risk assessments and due diligence for customers, transactions, and third-party relationships. • Strategic Team Collaboration: Designing and executing strategies for fraud prevention, client onboarding, and transaction monitoring. • Strategic Collaboration in Product Development: Actively partnering with Engineering and Product teams, aligning client needs with global operational demands. Surpassing regulatory compliance and industry standards, fostering cross-functional teamwork to drive innovation and deliver market-aligned, compliant products. • Suspicious Activity Monitoring: Investigating suspicious activities and liaising with law enforcement and regulatory bodies. • Team Leadership: Leading and training a team of financial crime specialists, ensuring best practice adherence. • Staying Informed: Keeping abreast of the latest financial crime regulations, emerging risks, and industry trends. • Chargeback Dispute Management: Managing chargeback disputes, ensuring prompt and accurate resolution. • Minimizing Chargebacks: Developing strategies to reduce chargebacks through pattern analysis and preventative measures. • Cultivating Compliance Culture: Building stakeholder relationships to foster a compliance-oriented culture
AML FIU Operations team lead- worldlink
citibank europe plc
2018 - 2022
communicating regularly with various lines of business, maintaining stable service level agreement delivery, contributing to growth and development of clerical teams and improving process efficiencies, performing leadership tasks, acting as key point of contact for relevant projects, participating in recruitment process, generating workflow reports, providing operations experience to internal work groups, ensuring support for the business in compliance and audit matters, supporting internal risk control and MCA policies, line management for analyst
AML Senior Analyst- foreign correspondent banking
Citibank europe plc
2016 - 2017
assigning tasks between analysts, analyzing alerts and investigating transactional activities for money laundering or terrorist finance activity, conducting searches and gathering data, conducting enhanced due diligence investigations, reporting unusual client activities, operating within business SLAs and confidentiality standards, applying knowledge of sanctions and laws to tasks, providing help in implementing new employees, building good relations among co-workers, preparing reports and summaries

Skills

compliance
operations
kyc
english
polish