Hi! My Name is Manuel and I am a
Compliance and Financial Crime Expert
about me
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A senior financial crime compliance professional with over 12 years’ experience across first and second line functions, specialising in anti-money laundering and sanctions frameworks, risk management and controls across global financial institutions. Proven track record of creating controls from inception to full maturity both at regional and global level, translating complex regulatory requirements into operational processes that withstand both regulatory and internal audit scrutiny. Professionally, is confident working under pressure, with excellent stakeholder management skills and strong experience in leading cross-regional teams. Adopting an analytical approach to problem solving, has spent the last year strengthening qualitative and quantitative analytical skills, and enhancing his understanding of emerging financial crime threats driven by new technologies. During this time, has completed with distinction the MSc in Crime Science at UCL by applying emerging analytical methods through Python and R in a dissertation on evaluating the application of different machine learning models to identify cryptocurrency money laundering risks.
14
Years of experience
Financial Crime
Strong knowledge of AML and sanctions requirements, controls and processes
Risk Monitoring
Identify key metrics to monitor risks and performance of financial crime controls
Data Analysis
Analyse complex data sets to make data-driven decisions through analytical models
Reporting
Create and refine MI to deliver accurate and consistent reporting across the business
Work Experience
Revolut
05/2024 – 10/2024
Vice President, Risk and Advisory Sanctions
Second-line sanctions oversight, embedding controls to product expansion whilst maintaining regulatory compliance
MUFG
03/2022 – 11/2023
Vice President, Global Financial Crime Department Operations
Senior second-line role accountable for KYC outsourcing governance and optimising the EMEA MI infrastructure
08/2021 – 02/2022
Interim Director, Global Conformance Monitoring
Interim promotion to director to design a global monitoring program, defining the methodology, metrics, and
governance, to assess controls’ effectiveness, emerging risks and systemic issues
10/2020 – 07/2021
Vice President, Global Conformance Quality Assurance
Responsible for the design and scaling of the global QA programme to assess whether financial crime controls were operating as designed across multi-jurisdictional markets
HSBC
02/2018 – 09/2020
Senior Manager, Compliance Assurance Professional Practices
Senior assurance role responsible for the quality and consistency of compliance testing across the bank, covering AML, sanctions, and broader financial crime risk
09/2016 – 01/2018
Senior Manager, Compliance Periodic Activity Testing
Designed and led the global periodic activity testing program, including oversight, planning and execution
Amex
05/2014 – 08/2016
Compliance Analyst, Monitoring and Testing Program
Launched the international monitoring and testing programme from concept to delivery
Education
A skilled compliance professional with a Master’s Degree in Law and Criminology, ICA diploma in anti-money laundering, prioritises life-long learning and future oriented knowledge, has recently achieved the MSc Crime Science at UCL with a dissertation on the use of machine learning models to mitigate the risk of cryptocurrency money laundering.
MSc in Crime Science
University College London
MSc and Bachelor in Law
Università degli Studi di Trento
Diploma in Anti Money Laundering
ICA
Certificate in Data Analytics
Imperial College Business
Tech Skills
A curious mind, eager to learn new programs and software, self learning and continously working on new projects. Into sustainable technology, created his own private home-lab with several self-hosted services.
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge”
– Nicolaus Copernicus –