Thanos Kitsios

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

SKILLS

ABOUT THANOS KITSIOS

I am a Compliance and Analytics professional with experience across industries including Financial Services, Gambling, Automotive, Retail and a focus on model desing and optimisation (incl. systems, processes & procedures).Up to March 2025 I led the modelling and methodologies for Name Screening and Transaction filtering functions at Deutsche Bank, developing the model assessment frameworks and KPIs for model validation and assurance purposes; also ensuring successful execution for the closure of monitor and regulatory findings. Over the 3 years with the bank I’ve led the response on global thematic reviews conducted on the screening models, developed data driven model assessments, defined expected model metrics, developed the methodology for BTL testing, tuning, bulk closures and optimisation of the engine’s performance and documented all relevant artefacts and the codebase used for the above, in a reporting structure appropriate for audit and regulatory reviews.Prior to that, I led the design, development and delivery of the internal audit data analytics for BetWay Group. The tasks involved in the set up of the internal audit reporting suite included : Automating and optimising KYC, AML and EDD data reporting processes; Updates and optimision of existing code; Designing, implementating and testing stored procedure for daily reports to indicate risks and controls failures; Maintainance and creation of dashboards for monitoring purposes; Stakeholder management and communication of findings to internal audit and analytics teams.For 6 years before this role, I was a subject matter expert in financial crime analytics having led and managed a number of large-scale projects for global financial institutions including: Calibration of payment and name list screening engines; Risk assessments and lookbacks; Controls acceleration programs; Financial crime transformation programs; Sanctions compliance programs; Model validation assessments; Assurance projects; and Effectiveness reviews of payment and name list screening engines.I started my professional career as a business analyst for a car servicing company building statistical models to optimise its pricing strategy and driving a sales uplift. Prior to that I was a data analytics industrial placement for Tesco working on a forecasting model POC to increase accuracy and decrease waste of groceries.