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Eleni Kefala
Client Onboarding Officer(Medior)
The Hague
Summary
- Five years of work experience in the financial services industry, with a focus on CDD and client risk assessment.
- Two years focus as a trust officer working independently within underwriting team.
- Up to date knowledge on compliance, know your client issues and applicable regulations WTT, WWFT, Sanction legislation, AMLA and FATCA.
- Good analytical skills to describe risks with mitigating factors.
- Experience in providing training to Junior Analysts.
- One year experience in Internal Audit,control testing measures and improvements.
- 6 months participation on a project with a focus in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning patterns.
- Knowledge of working with MS Office, Transaction monitoring tools,Tableau,Power BI,SAP, Viewpoint, and Sales force
- One and a half year experience working for a payment service provider as a Compliance Officer with knowledge on chargeback disputes and post event transaction monitoring.
- Knowledge of EU payment services legislation and DNB reports under PSD2.
- Experience with document fraud identification on security features and facial recognition analysis.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
1
1
Language
Work History
Client Onboarding Officer(Medior)
TMF Group
06.2023 - Current
- Perform client risk assessment of prospect companies in the context of regulatory requirements regarding anti money laundering and prevention of terrorism financing.
- Knowledge of the procedures and policies in connection with the organization’s obligations under the WWFT and WTT and any other applicable anti-money laundering and financing of terrorism funding legislation.
- identify operational and integrity risks and propose mitigating factors and measures.
- Monitor and analyze alerts related to international sanctions, the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
- Perform screening for all relevant parts of client's entity structure in order to establish risk profile
- Prepare and maintain client acceptance files and advise management on the (re-) acceptance of clients together with the service teams.
- Communication with clients for obtaining required due diligence documentation
- Preliminary intake assessments and re acceptance of existing clients.
- Perform ad hoc risk assessments, documentation, and mitigations
- Perform periodic mandate reviews
- Assist with training of junior officers
- Advice and guide junior CDD officers on complex CDD issues.
Risk Controller
Samsung Electronics Air Conditioner Europe
06.2022 - 05.2023
- Early warning and financial check system -Responsible for reaching out to appropriate department, minimize risk items and prepare reporting to Samsung headquarters.
- Monthly preparation and presentation of high risk items to our CFO emphasizing on action points and possible adjustments in procedures within departments.
- Bank guarantee verification checks
- Preparation of testing schedule, updates on internal control questionnaires, review of evidence gathered by each department on quarterly basis.
Client Risk Analyst
TMF Group
12.2021 - 05.2022
- Client risk analysis on complex corporate structures
- KYC periodic reviews on existing and potential
clients - Update and maintain various databases to ensure
adequate tracking of the regulatory obligations of
clients. - Reduce KYC backlog
- Key liaison between business and compliance
Risk screening,adverse media,sanctions databases - Escalation on cases with high risk impact
- Working closely with Legal officers to resolve legal
matters related to CDD - Collaborated with team members to achieve target
results,DNB deadlines & KPIs - Proved successful work within tight deadlines and
fast-paced atmosphere
Risk and Compliance Officer
Icepay
07.2020 - 11.2021
- Merchant onboarding
- Risk Underwriting-assessment
- Risk mitigation measures
- Risk and financial analysis
- Fraud Reporting
- FIU reporting
- Data analysis
- Transaction Monitoring
- Chargeback disputes
- Annual CDD review
- Dow Jones screening
- Card scheme rules
- EU payment services legislation
- Gambling policies
- AML policies
- DNB reports
- In contact with external parties(authorities,payment
providers) on suspicious fraudulent behavior - Merchant off boarding
- Close communication with finance,sales team and
stakeholders - URL random investigations identifying illegal activities
- SIRA
Productivity and Project Specialist
Fourthline
02.2020 - 07.2020
- Part of artificial intelligent ID verification project
- Productivity analysis
- Tableu data analysis
- SLAs improvement
- Participation on different types of projects-Project
management - Internal manual analysis and improvement
- Robot automation analyst checks (AI)
- Information on new patterns of fraudulent behavior
and risk mitigation
AML Investigator
Fourthline
10.2019 - 02.2020
- Sanction,PEP reports
- AI project on fraudulent identification security
features - Machine learning experience
- Fraud screening
- Fraud risk analysis
- Training new analysts & investigators
- QA assessment on daily cases
- Daily screening on High risk cases
- Escalation measures on high risk cases
- Pep & Sanction OSINT,World Check
- Automation project part of AI team
KYC Analyst
Fourthline
12.2018 - 10.2019
- ID security features fraud patterns-Extensive
knowledge on different document types EU& non EU - Document fraud identification based on MRZ and
VIZ - Geographical fraud pattern analysis
- Fraud facial recognition analysis
- CDD,EDD
- Customer Onboarding
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Hospitality, Tourism And Events Management
European University of Cyprus
Cyprus 01.2017 - 2018.01
Pre Bachelor-Higher Diploma - Hospitality, Tourism And Events Management
Hotel Institute of Cyprus
Cyprus 01.2014 - 2017.01
Skills
Certification
Trust Officer Certification (BOTO)
Interests
Cooking
Children's book writer
Timeline
Client Onboarding Officer(Medior)
TMF Group
06.2023 - Current
Risk Controller
Samsung Electronics Air Conditioner Europe
06.2022 - 05.2023
Client Risk Analyst
TMF Group
12.2021 - 05.2022
Risk and Compliance Officer
Icepay
07.2020 - 11.2021
Productivity and Project Specialist
Fourthline
02.2020 - 07.2020
AML Investigator
Fourthline
10.2019 - 02.2020
KYC Analyst
Fourthline
12.2018 - 10.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Hospitality, Tourism And Events Management
European University of Cyprus
01.2017 - 2018.01
Pre Bachelor-Higher Diploma - Hospitality, Tourism And Events Management
Hotel Institute of Cyprus
01.2014 - 2017.01
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