Maxie (Lina) Mehling

Compliance management for sustainable success

Maxie Mehling
Berlin, Germany

Experience

Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
2 years 1 month
Berlin, Germany

Group Compliance Officer

PARK NOW

Compliance and Data Protection Coordinator for all NOW joint ventures of BMW and Daimler (FreeNow, ShareNow, ChargeNow, ParkNow). Building the global Compliance Management System for PARK NOW in line with IDW PS 980. Coordination of measures and creation of synergies across all verticals.

Jun 2019 - Present
5 years 10 months
Berlin, Germany

Independent Consultant

All things related Ethics&Compliance

Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
9 months
Berlin, Germany

Head of Compliance

AUTO1 Group GmbH

In charge of building up a Compliance Management System for the group in preparation for a potential IPO. Anti-Money Laundering Officer (TÜV Certified).

Jun 2015 - Nov 2018
3 years 6 months
Berlin, Germany

Compliance Manager

Zalando SE

Set-up of the company's Compliance Management System (CMS) after Zalando's IPO. Highlight projects include trainings program (online / offline), implementation of business partner due diligence processes, set-up of procurement system, improvement of M&A/PMI processes and getting external audit approval for the CMS to be appropriate according to IDW PS 980.

Oct 2013 - May 2015
1 year 8 months
Berlin, Germany

Compliance Management

DB Mobility Logistics AG (Deutsche Bahn)

Management of and advisory services for the decentralized Compliance units. Conception and conducting of training, implementation of Compliance standards and improvement of fraud prevention mechanisms on central level.

Oct 2013 - Oct 2014
1 year 1 month
Berlin, Germany

Project Manager

Besser International GmbH

Key Account Management of Latin American business partners in the online publishing and editorial sector.

Oct 2012 - Jan 2013
4 months
Kigali, Rwanda

Consultant

GIZ (Germany Cooperation for International Development)

In the program for decentralization for better governance. Advisory services for Transparency Rwanda for the analyses of the Rwandan districts' financial statements and fraud detection.

Apr 2012 - Oct 2012
7 months
Passau, Germany

Working student

Passau University

At Chair for Economic Theory (Prof. Dr. Graf Lambsdorff).

Summary

No rules rules? Believe me, I am all in for as little red tape as possible. Modern Ethics and Compliance Management should not be about policies, a high admin workload or long and hierarchical approval processes. Yet we are not all Netflix (and even Netflix has rules) and for liability and guidance reasons it makes total sense to create a couple of effective processes to protect yourself and document them in policies. I will help you design a lean and smart solution for a Compliance Management System that fits your specific company culture! After having done research on corruption in Colombia (empirical), I advised Transparency Rwanda for the GIZ on fraud prevention and detection in public administration, and continued as Compliance Manager at Deutsche Bahn. From there I moved on to Zalando, Europe's leading online fashion platform, to build up their Compliance Management System. Ii stopped over at Auto1 as Anti Money Laundering and Compliance Officer and then once again built a complete Compliance Management System at ParkNow, a Daimler and BMW joint venture. I am happy to be able to share my knowledge with a wide range of companies across all industries and sizes, from start- and scale- ups to stock-listed groups. As member of the German Institute of Compliance (DICO) and TUV Sustainability Manager, I have a vast network of Compliance professionals with a broad range of subject matter expertise, including Data Protection, AML and Whistleblowing Management. By the way, I am also a certified Yoga Teacher. Yoga is a philosophy with ethics at its core (the physical workout you most likely associate with it is just a tiny part of it). Compliance, when done well, is a management system with ethics at its core. The link is obvious. Ethics. That is what matters in the end and the better you get at it the less policies you will need. I will help you get there.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
Italian
Intermediate
Portuguese
Intermediate
...and 1 more

Education

Aug 2011 - Mar 2012

Universidad del Norte

Corruption and Informality - Complements or Substitutes? · Barranquilla, Colombia · 1.7

Oct 2010 - Apr 2013

Passau University

Master in International Economics and Business · International Economics and Business · Passau, Germany · 1.7

May 2010 - Jul 2010

Universidad Internacional Cuernavaca

Language studies · Cuernavaca, Mexico

Certifications & licenses

Anti-Money Laundering Officer (TÜV Certified)

TÜV