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Change Management Consultant, Anti-Financial Crime
Ilona Saradina, MSc
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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, market manipulation and other types anti-financial crime (AFC).
Ilona advocates holistic approach to fighting financial crime with focus on creating effective controls frameworks spinning across all lines of defence. She has a keen interest in creating appropriate organisational design and culture coupled with effective technology to support timely identification and management of financial crime. As an independent AFC and compliance change consultant Ilona helped world's leading financial institutions such as Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank. 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.
Ilona advocates holistic approach to fighting financial crime with focus on creating effective controls frameworks spinning across all lines of defence. She has a keen interest in creating appropriate organisational design and culture coupled with effective technology to support timely identification and management of financial crime. As an independent AFC and compliance change consultant Ilona helped world's leading financial institutions such as Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank. 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.
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2020 - 2021
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Change Lead
Deutsche Bank.
Deutsche Bank.
Project: Global Financial Crime Intelligence Transformation Programme
Provide change management and governance leadership to create industry leading, global financial crime intelligence function aimed at proactively identifying and analysing high profile financial crime risk events that may impact the risk profile of the bank, and driving enhancements to controls.
Key Activities:
* Working closely with the global Head of Intelligence I manage engagements with global stakeholders at all levels to agree business case, scope, budget, assumptions, plans and resources
* Define milestones, effectiveness criteria, actively manage the plan, risks and issues
* Established and operate effective governance to provide direction and oversight to delivery workstreams (organisational design, technology standardisation, policies and procedures, management information)
* Collaborate with subject matter experts (intelligence officers, MLROs) to establish new operational capabilities, enhance cross functional collaboration, standardise and simplify processes and improve systems and controls
* Partner with representatives from across the organisation including Business, Change, Architecture, Technology, Legal to evaluate proposed solutions ensuring alignment to strategy, group policies and procedures, legal and regulatory requirements
* Ensure that senior management are adequately advised to enable decision making
* Run meetings, working groups, governance forums/committees
* Progress and status reporting to steering committees, external monitors
* Create and manage project assets and facilitate effective sharing / communication
* Mentor/coach team members and new starters
* Provide BAU support, incl. audits, regulatory enquiries, operating model maturity assessment
Liverpool John Moores University
Provide change management and governance leadership to create industry leading, global financial crime intelligence function aimed at proactively identifying and analysing high profile financial crime risk events that may impact the risk profile of the bank, and driving enhancements to controls.
Key Activities:
* Working closely with the global Head of Intelligence I manage engagements with global stakeholders at all levels to agree business case, scope, budget, assumptions, plans and resources
* Define milestones, effectiveness criteria, actively manage the plan, risks and issues
* Established and operate effective governance to provide direction and oversight to delivery workstreams (organisational design, technology standardisation, policies and procedures, management information)
* Collaborate with subject matter experts (intelligence officers, MLROs) to establish new operational capabilities, enhance cross functional collaboration, standardise and simplify processes and improve systems and controls
* Partner with representatives from across the organisation including Business, Change, Architecture, Technology, Legal to evaluate proposed solutions ensuring alignment to strategy, group policies and procedures, legal and regulatory requirements
* Ensure that senior management are adequately advised to enable decision making
* Run meetings, working groups, governance forums/committees
* Progress and status reporting to steering committees, external monitors
* Create and manage project assets and facilitate effective sharing / communication
* Mentor/coach team members and new starters
* Provide BAU support, incl. audits, regulatory enquiries, operating model maturity assessment
Business Case, Processes, Organization, Coach, Direction, Regulatory, Assessment, Support, Transformation, Design, Technology, Architecture, Management, Leadership, Mentor, Budget, Change management, Stakeholder Management, Governance Risk and Compliance, Strategy Execution, Organisational design, Target operating model, Capability framework, Anti- financial crime, Interim business intelligence, Financial crime intelligence unit
2016 - 2016
temp
Senior Business Analyst
Standard Chartered Bank.
Project: Large business transformation programme to consolidate outputs from disparate transaction monitoring solutions across 29 countries onto a single enterprise-wide case management platform (Oracle Mantas ECM) to enable effective financial crime risk management globally. Responsible for the design of global Enterprise Case Management (ECM) workflow.
Key Activities:
* Vendor solution evaluation/ gap analysis
* Business and Functional requirements definition (Mantas Case Management user interface and workflow)
* Mantas ECM security model definition
* Mantas ECM configuration alignment to the global organisation structure and target operating model
* Management of offshore vendor development and solution validation
* Working with vendor Product Management to ensure customisations align to vendor roadmap
* Training materials preparation to fit multi-release schedule
Key Activities:
* Vendor solution evaluation/ gap analysis
* Business and Functional requirements definition (Mantas Case Management user interface and workflow)
* Mantas ECM security model definition
* Mantas ECM configuration alignment to the global organisation structure and target operating model
* Management of offshore vendor development and solution validation
* Working with vendor Product Management to ensure customisations align to vendor roadmap
* Training materials preparation to fit multi-release schedule
Security, Platform, Enterprise, Organization, Development, Monitoring, Analyst, Transformation, Offshore, Design, Workflow, Management, Business transformation, Risk Management, Training, Product Management, Oracle
2014 - 2016
temp
Senior Business Analyst
Royal Bank of Scotland.
Project: Implementation of transaction monitoring for AML of Correspondent Banking activities utilising Oracle Mantas (FCCM 6.2.4) and NICE Actimize SAM-C (SAM 8.2) platforms. Responsible for user interface, workflow, access control and management information work steams.
* Conducted Oracle FCCM 6.2.4 (Mantas) feasibility study and gap analysis
* Run design sessions with stakeholders to validate business requirements for Mantas user interface and workflow
* Produced configuration and workflow design documentation, worked closely with vendor technicians to configure the system
* Elicited Management Information requirements, delivered functional design specifications, and oversaw the development work
* Provided guidance and oversight to the test team
* Produced UAT test scripts and managed the UAT process
* Managed production of user manuals, training materials and conducted user training
* Conducted the same activities for the earlier iteration of the project where the technology platform was Actimize SAM 8.2
2013 - 2014 - Maternity Leave
* Conducted Oracle FCCM 6.2.4 (Mantas) feasibility study and gap analysis
* Run design sessions with stakeholders to validate business requirements for Mantas user interface and workflow
* Produced configuration and workflow design documentation, worked closely with vendor technicians to configure the system
* Elicited Management Information requirements, delivered functional design specifications, and oversaw the development work
* Provided guidance and oversight to the test team
* Produced UAT test scripts and managed the UAT process
* Managed production of user manuals, training materials and conducted user training
* Conducted the same activities for the earlier iteration of the project where the technology platform was Actimize SAM 8.2
2013 - 2014 - Maternity Leave
Design, Oracle, Training, C, Management, Workflow, Technology, Test, Banking, Implementation, Analyst, Monitoring, Development, Production, Platform
2012 - 2013
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Lead Business Analyst
Barclays Wealth.
Project: Annual PEP Review Automation Project using NICE Actimize Enterprise Case Management (ERCM) platform. Appointed to provide leadership and Actimize subject matter expertise for all stages of the project from inception through to definition, development, testing, and delivery.
* Run business requirements workshops and produced business requirements definition document
* Produced functional design specification (process flow diagrams, UI specifications, data mapping, and global data security model)
* Validated technology designs and solutions against business requirements and ensured full traceability
* Worked with Project Manager to define scope, approach, tasks, resources, milestones and timelines
* Collaborated with the Business in solution design validation, fostering culture of shared ownership
* Supported Change Management team in aligning the business processes to the new system
* Defined test strategy, validated test scenarios and test scripts
* UAT Support, user training, user manuals
* Run business requirements workshops and produced business requirements definition document
* Produced functional design specification (process flow diagrams, UI specifications, data mapping, and global data security model)
* Validated technology designs and solutions against business requirements and ensured full traceability
* Worked with Project Manager to define scope, approach, tasks, resources, milestones and timelines
* Collaborated with the Business in solution design validation, fostering culture of shared ownership
* Supported Change Management team in aligning the business processes to the new system
* Defined test strategy, validated test scenarios and test scripts
* UAT Support, user training, user manuals
Test, Platform, Manager, Processes, Enterprise, Development, Testing, Analyst, Support, Workshops, Data mapping, Design, Technology, Security, Management, Leadership, UI, Automation, Training, Project Manager, Change management
2009 - 2012
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Senior Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales)
NICE Actimize.
Provided Actimize Risk and Compliance solutions subject matter expertise and leadership for a wide range of pre-sales activities at NICE Actimize, to include qualifying opportunities and soliciting requirements, proposals, sales presentations, pilot projects. Covered a full range of anti-financial crime themes, i.e. CDD/KYC/EDD, Sanctions, Watch List Filtering, Trading Compliance and Market Abuse, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Fraud, Risk Management and Controls.
Risk Management, Leadership, Management, Sales, Compliance, KYC
My education
2000
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2002
Liverpool John Moores University
MSc, Computing and Information Systems
MSc, Computing and Information Systems
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