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Christian G.

Senior Project Manager within the AML/KYC department

Munich, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Jul 2025
1 year 7 months

Senior Project Manager within the AML/KYC department

HypoVereinsbank

  • Analysing the existing process to build the correspondent banking dashboard and migrating it in two steps: adding the new MX-Messages to the existing MT-Message database (Palantir) and replacing the Palantir user interface by PowerBI
  • Putting together requirement documentation based on analysing groups of transactions to identify true hits and false positives
  • Developing the new database using SQL and Python
  • Creating several standard reports with PowerBI
  • Testing the new enhanced database by specific low, medium and high risk groups of transactions in combination with PowerBI reports
  • Analysing first level controls and executing second level controls regarding fraud and AML controls using Smaragd and documenting findings with Audimex
  • Defining process improvements to close regulatory gaps
Jul 2023 - Nov 2023
5 months

Senior Analyst within 3rd Line-of-Defense AML/KYC

Standard Chartered Bank

  • Monitoring payments that couldn’t be finalized by the second line of defense based on static and dynamic data
  • Using inhouse applications for background checks
  • Performing public domain searches for all noticeable transactions
  • Documenting all rejected payments
  • Putting together documentation for transactions reported to the Financial Intelligence Unit FIU via GoAML
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
3 months

Senior Analyst within Governance & Compliance

Roland Rechtsschutz-Versicherung

  • Monitoring all requests related to potential sanctions breaches
  • Reviewing AML guidelines and processes
  • Updating AML training
  • Acting as the single point of contact for sanctions related questions
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
3 months

Project Manager within the Global AML Office

Deutsche Bank

  • Analysing manual processes to keep global AML data for all Deutsche Bank entities up to date
  • Using an existing Excel workbook and developing VBA macros to reduce manual work by comparing data updates, sending mail confirmations to AFC Responsible contacts twice a year, documenting mail enquiries, and sending reminders to MLROs and deputy MLROs
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
6 months

Senior Analyst within 3rd Line-of-Defense AML/KYC

Standard Chartered Bank

  • Monitoring payments that couldn’t be finalized by the second line of defense based on static and dynamic data
  • Using Kordoba for background checks
  • Performing public domain searches for noticeable transactions
  • Documenting all rejected payments
  • Compiling documentation for transactions reported to the FIU via GoAML
  • Acting as the single point of contact for AML/KYC questions
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
5 months

Product Owner within Anti-Fraud-Management / Compliance & Risk

ConsorsBank/DAB

  • Closing a GroupAudit MaRisk finding by defining the approach for a new anti-fraud management system
  • Aligning with BNP Paribas in global meetings
  • Defining business requirements for scenarios such as insider trading and front running including necessary static and dynamic data
  • Preparing a shortlist and sending request for information with related documents
  • Working in an agile environment
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
4 months

Senior Business Analyst within KYC / Compliance

HanseaticBank

  • Responsible for the German part of the new customer risk rating program of Société Générale aligned to MaRisk
  • Attending global meetings
  • Preparing the business requirement document
  • Defining interfaces from the global risk rating system to German compliance systems (TCM)
  • Working in an agile environment
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
7 months

Product Owner within Compliance & Risk

UniCredit

  • Monitoring and deciding on blocking transactions related to Belarus sanctions
  • Performing Kordoba background checks
  • Closing an OFAC MaRisk finding by setting up a groupwide tool to calculate customer risk scores across Italy, Germany and Austria and designing interfaces to Kordoba
  • Reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer
  • Reviewing and approving business requirements, functional and technical specifications
  • Synchronizing results with existing Targens tools (TCM/CRS)
  • Planning and executing user acceptance tests
  • Participating in program to migrate to a new payments service provider EquensWorldLine for sanctions processes integrating TCM/Targens
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
3 months

Senior Program Manager within KYC / Compliance

ING

  • Responsible for the new global KYC program
  • Preparing documentation for BaFin approval
  • Planning migration to replace Targens/Smaragd suite with Fircosoft
  • Working in an agile environment
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
1 year 2 months

Product Owner within Compliance & Risk

UniCredit

  • Monitoring and deciding on blocking transactions related to Belarus sanctions
  • Performing Kordoba background checks
  • Closing an OFAC MaRisk finding by setting up a groupwide tool to calculate customer risk scores across Italy, Germany and Austria and designing interfaces to Kordoba
  • Reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer
  • Reviewing and approving business requirements, functional and technical specifications
  • Synchronizing results with existing Targens tools (TCM/CRS)
  • Planning and executing user acceptance tests
  • Participating in program to migrate to a new payments service provider EquensWorldLine for sanctions processes integrating TCM/Targens
Jan 2017 - Oct 2019
2 years 10 months

Product Owner within Compliance IT (Transaction Monitoring/Financial Sanctions)

Commerzbank

  • Responsible for the sanctions IT department using PelicanOFAC
  • Integrating instant payments functionality
  • Implementing a case management tool
  • Defining and integrating sanctions requirements into new processes of payments service provider EquensWorldLine and testing SWIFT/SEPA messages via MQSeries
  • Documenting GRC aspects at RSA Archer
  • Transitioning from waterfall to agile development (Scrum)
Feb 2012 - Dec 2016
4 years 11 months

Senior Program Manager within Compliance IT (Transaction Monitoring/Financial Sanctions)

Deutsche Bank

  • Responsible for global transaction monitoring initiative to reduce false positive rate using CGI HotScan
  • Implementing resubmission and prioritization functionalities
  • Integrating DB Peru, Brazil and Portugal into the HotScan landscape
  • Leading compliance segregation of Postbank from Deutsche Bank
May 2011 - Jan 2012
9 months

Senior Program Manager within AML / KYC

Société Générale

  • Rolling out standardized KYC processes for entities outside France using Actimize
  • Designing a global data warehouse
  • Migrating local AML/KYC solutions towards Actimize
Jan 2010 - Apr 2011
1 year 4 months
Fribourg, Switzerland

BU Head Compliance “AML, KYC, PEP, Sanctions, Fraud”

IMTF

Nov 2007 - Dec 2009
2 years 2 months
Munich, Germany

Chief Information Officer Central Europe

State Street Bank

Apr 2000 - Oct 2007
7 years 7 months
London, United Kingdom

Director Professional Services Europe

Misys

Jan 1994 - Mar 2000
6 years 3 months
Berlin, Germany

Chief Information Officer

BB-INVEST

Compliance Officer

Austrian Security Trading Company

  • Setting up the compliance function based on the German Banking Act (KWG), Minimum Requirements for Risk Management (MaRisk) and Minimum Requirements for Compliance (MaComp)
  • Identifying risks, including price calculation and contract definition
  • Defining Securities Trading Act (WpHG), KYC and AML controls through work instructions for documentation and verification
  • Communicating with BaFin and the Investor Compensation Scheme of German Securities Trading Companies (EdW)
  • Registered with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to file suspicious transaction reports via goAML

Compliance Officer

German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority

Summary

  • AML: Acting as a Senior Monitoring Analyst for a 3rd Line-of-Defense
  • KYC: Being the Product Owner for a groupwide tool to calculate identically the customer risk score (on a business and technical level)
  • Sanctions: Maintaining and further developing a Sanctions transaction system
  • Fraud: Defining the (business and technical) requirements for a new Anti-Fraud Management system
  • Crypto risk: putting together several Bafin-reports for a German crypto bank
  • Compliance: being responsible as a Compliance Officer for an IT vendor with Financial Services customers

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary
French
Elementary

Certifications & licenses

Registered As A Compliance Officer

German Bafin

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