Anti Financial Crime Transformation Consultant

Personal summary

Ilona knows what it takes to protect large financial institutions and their clients from the ever growing threat of financial crime. In her 12+ years career in anti-financial crime Ilona was instrumental to the success of a range of technology and business transformation projects aimed at strengthening processes, systems, governance and controls to prevent money laundering and other types anti-financial crime (AFC). As an independent Anti-Finacial Crime and Compliance Change consultant Ilona helped world's leading financial institutions such as Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank and others. She advocates holistic approach to fighting financial crime with focus on implementing effective controls spinning across all lines of defence to drive effective risk management. She has a keen interest in creating appropriate organisational design and culture coupled with modern technology and tools to enable efficient operations and timely identification and management of financial crime risks. Ilona is fluent in Russian and Latvian and holds a Masters of Science degree in Computing and Information Systems. She lives in the New Forrest, UK with her husband and daughter and her favourite pastime is watching the waves at Barton beach.

Skills

Business Analysis15 Project management5 Compliance management10 Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)7 Corporate governance2 Stakeholder analysis5 Business Process Reengineering (BPR)10 Change management4 PMO2 User Acceptance Testing4