Ioana Stanescu, KYC / AML / Compliance analyst

About

I have 4 years experience in KYC / AML / CDD area - banking and payments company. 1 year experience Gaming.

Experience

C2D Payment Solutions

Jan 2021 – Apr 2022

Malta

Operations Analyst

▪ Supporting daily operations by handling verifications, investigations, monitoring and reviews of items related to KYC and AML processes, reconciliations and exception handling. ▪ Managing employee training for all new recruits over a 9 months period and offered continuous advice, guidance and mentorship on duties and best practices. ▪ Contributing to the positive reputation of C2D by providing first class support to customers, merchants and distributors. ▪ Supporting with the on-boarding and monitoring of distributors and merchants as well as provide training support on C2D products and back office tools. ▪ Supporting with the creation and/or maintenance of existing processes and procedures for the team. ▪ Maintaining high standard of excellence in handling internal customer queries in view of the stringent AML/ CDD requirements ▪ Participate actively in the development and refinement of internal control and processes for enhancing internal operational efficiency.

ING bank

May 2019 – Jan 2021

Romania

Customer Due Diligence Analyst

▪Conduct Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Customer Screening to ensure full compliance of AML/ KYC related policies and regulatory requirements/ expectations ▪ Managed employee training for all new recruits over a 6 months period and offered continuous advice, guidance and mentorship on duties and best practices. ▪ Maintain high standard of excellence in handling internal customer queries in view of the stringent AML/ CDD requirements ▪ Collaborate and follow up with internal stakeholders to ensure timely completion of CDD reviews ▪ Maintain control over workflow processes to ensure strict adherence to established procedures ▪ Keep constant alert of business and compliance risks to ensure full compliance with the prevailing regulatory and internal requirements, and timely escalation of related issues to management for attention/action as and when situation warrants ▪ Maintain high standards of internal controls and drive consistency and common control standards across all business segments of Institutional Banking Group ▪ Participate actively in the development and refinement of internal control and processes for enhancing internal operational efficiency and employee journey ▪ Participate in special ad hoc KYC/ AML projects and special reviews.

APS Holding

May 2018 – May 2019

Romania

Compliance Officer

▪ Checks the compliance with laws, rules, national and international standards from the compliance area in order to identify, assess, monitor and report risks; ▪ Ensures the activity regarding the requests from state authorities; ▪ Ensures the company relation with the National Bank of Romania, the National Office for Preventing and Combating Money Laundering in accordance with the law; ▪ Monitors transactions between the company and customers / business partners, identify and report potential anomaly indices; ▪ Prepares the annual compliance plan, the annual / quarterly compliance reports and sent them to the Board of Directors of the Company / Management Company; ▪ Implements the policy regarding the personal data protection, maintains the relation with ANSPDCP; monitors outsourced activities from the personal data protection policy point of view;

APS Holding

Aug 2017 – May 2018

Romania

Internal Audit - Internal Organization Officer

▪ Managing applications received from operational divisions, reviewing and preparation of final requests to be sent to approval competences; ▪ Perform live presentations of business applications in the management committees; ▪ Monitoring the completeness and correctness of the information added by the operational division within documents submitted for approval and performing corrections if necessary; ▪ Data management and reporting; ▪ Close attention to details and departmental procedures and workflows; ▪ Ensure monitoring and reporting to the management of the stages of the projects under development

Education

Spiru Haret University

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010

Bachelor’s degree, International Relations and European Studies

Ioana Stanescu

KYC / AML / Compliance analyst

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