Tendai Mukau

Mlro, Ethics & Compliance Team Lead for Northern Europe @JLL

Leipzig, DE

Registered Money Laundering Reporting Officer (Geldwäschebeauftragter) under §§ 7 & 9 GwG; direct report to corporate leadership; accountable for FIU filings, risk analysis,(goAML) and liaison with the supervisory authority— Lead the Compliance team for DACH & Northern Europe; own anti-financial-crime programs (anti-money-laundering/AML, sanctions and Know Your Customer/KYC/reputational risk), anti-bribery and corruption/ABC, conflicts of interest, data protection, trade secrets, and supply-chain compliance; design and deliver MaBV § 15b-compliant AML and ethics training across German offices— Complex AFC Program management: Created 11+ decision algorithms adopted globally; reduced initial escalations ~40% and cut turnaround across thousands of cases. Built two trade-restriction/sanctions decision processes. Advise and train KYC analysts daily; manage multi-jurisdiction escalations in Russian, Ukrainian, German, Polish, and English. Redesigning AML processes collaboratively accords diverse business lines— Translating optimization into revenue: Resolved a core policy/business conflict by redesigning a key policy; built the risk-balanced business case and won leadership buy-in, unlocking new revenue streams, leveraging previous industry knowledge to optimize risk mitigation — Evaluating high-risk transactions via asset-tracing & multilingual research; briefing leadership on exposure and provide defensible recommendations— Negotiating/reviewing contractual compliance clauses to mitigate risk and protect delivery across major cross-border SLAs