Christopher Spitaliotis
Cdd Support Manager @SMBC Group
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WORK HISTORY
Cdd Support Manager @SMBC Group
City of London, GB
Project Manager helping to build out and lead teams to meet Bank CDD initiatives led by FCMO. Meeting tight deadlines set both internally and due to regulatory demands.Working remotely during COVID and hybrid post lock down, whilst training various team members and external consultants engaged in projects. Liaising with key management stakeholders, project managers, business analysts both internally and externally with such projects.Member of the transformation team involved in helping create records and migrating existing client data within our Capital Markets entity to help integrate them harmoneously within the Bank\'s existing operational CDD systems to help create a CIB model whereby trading and operational efficiencies could be gained whilst training CM staff with such platforms.Team Leader - CDDSupport. • Managing colleagues for various auxiliary CDD support requests from Front office and other EMEA offices / subsidiary companies. • Recruiting and leading a team of 4 analysts to help the Bank to remediate the customers the Bank had historically exchanged SWIFT RMA keys with. • Involved in devising a workflow, templates for the processing of this work in the most efficient and logical manner for consistency and speed. • Devising MI for senior management to report the progress of the project.• UAT for system enhancements in preparation for MiFiD II.• Providing advisory support to both CDD on-boarding and review teams in relation to CDD queries, PEP and Negative News assessments.• Setting up the QA process for the Reviews team, providing feedback to CMP on identified issues and sharing QA points to both on-boarding and reviews via classroom presentations. • Managing a team of 8 KYC Review analysts and setting their appraisal objectives.• Setting up and developing the department’s MI from scratch.• Leading weekly team and analyst 1:1 meetings.• Second checking / quality control the work of the analysts.
EDUCATION
Aston Business School
Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons), Managerial and Administrative Studies, 2:1
International Compliance Training (ICT)
Trade Based Money Laundering
International Compliance Training (ICT)
Diploma, Compliance
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER SPITALIOTIS
Helping organisations develop and mature in the AML space through ongoing learning and horizon scanning. I am a highly experienced Anti-Money Laundering & Compliance Professional who has worked in the financial services sector for over 20 years. I lead high performing teams in both BAU and project scenarios and have an excellent understanding of numerous streams within the regulatory environment including: Compliance/AML/CDD/Fraud/Financial Crime/Sanctions/PEP & EDD/MiFID 2/Law Enforcement/RMA remediation to name but a few.
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