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PayPal
- Compliance Analyst
Dublin
2010 - 2015
: was among the staff who opened the then new Dundalk PayPal site
Key responsibilities and duties:
- Owning the end-to-end KYC process from creation/ renewal to approval for research and validation of customer identification data
- Screening of customers' accounts to ensure that AML mechanisms apply. Scrutinise new and active accounts to track any illegal transactions linked to terrorism financing, child pornography, human trafficking, etc.
- Liaison with other account control teams to ensure customers are opened correctly and meet local regulatory requirements;
- Daily monitoring of account, refresh activity to ensure all regulatory / documentation requirements are met
- Research, collate and review information from internal and external sources for company news (Handelsregister, Infogreffe, Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés du Luxembourg, KvK, Annual Reports, Thomson Reuters World Check, Irish CRO, Dun & Bradstreet, Companies House, etc.)
- Legal Name Changes accreditation, due to marriage/divorce/deed poll/business name change
- Proactively interact with relationship management teams and compliance to update system with information until final approval while ensuring team SLAs are met
- Take responsibility for KYC and associated documentation completion from initiation to approval, tracing corporate and individual entity ownership of clients to ultimate owners.
- Validate the KYC information and CIP document to ensure accuracy (Company/Entity Formation, Ownership, Management, Market Reputation etc.)
- Carry out name screening of entity, directors, beneficial owners, senior management in NESS (Name and Entity Screening System)
- Ensure that system record incorporates local regulatory requirements and Account Profiles.
- Meet agreed daily targets for review and completion within agreed Service Level Agreement
- Highlight any discrepancies to AIU (Account Intelligence Unit) senior analysts
- Escalate any negative news and high risk cases to AML Compliance department Specialists
-Assist in departmental quality reviews as appropriate (Peer reviews, Team learning sessions sharing).
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PayPal
- Compliance Analyste
Dublin
2010 - 2015
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Mosney Accommodation Centre
- English teacher
2005 - 2007
: trained English teacher (as a foreign language ESOL first level) at the Mosney VEC, Mosney Accommodation Centre,
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Mr Johann W. Wagner
- Redactional assistant
2003 - 2005
: assisted Mr. Johann W. Wagner at the redaction of his memoirs about the 40 years he worked as development
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Phantasialand
- Kundenbetreuer & Customer Care
1999 - 2003
: Phantasialand, Brühl, Germany as Kundenbetreuer (Customer Care) and assistant Manager in the ``China Süsswaren''-Shop of the park.
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Congo Embassy, Bonn, Germany
- Interpreter
1998 - 1999
French - English - Deutsch - Lingala interpreter at the Zaïre (DR Congo) Embassy Consular Services.
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Several publications
- Freelance journalist
1996 - 1998
: worked mainly as freelance journalist for different publications in Kinshasa, Zaïre.
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Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung e.V.
- Project Animator
1992 - 1995
: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung e.V., Kinshasa, Zaïre as Project Animator in rural areas (mainly in Mbankana, Bateke-Plateau, Zaire).
Spoken Languages: English, French, German, Tshiluba and Lingala (fluent), Swahili, Kikongo.
Passionate about technology and at ease with personal computers, I have experience in Technical Support and basic Pc troubleshooting:
-Microsoft Windows operating systems: OS from Windows 95 to 8.1 / 10
-Microsoft Office packages and their components Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, etc.
-Pc general maintenance: malware, spyware and virus protection, data backup & encryption
-Software and hardware issues, network setting (wired & wireless), etc.
Born and raised in a conflict-ridden country and well travelled around the globe, I can be very efficient in a high-pressure position and work with people from all over the world... and I am said to be mind-open and friendly by all my former colleagues and superiors!
