Susan has almost 15 years of professional experience. Prior to joining AlixPartners, she was with Protiviti, engaged in anti-money-laundering (AML) matters, compliance, enterprise risk management, operational risk management, and credit risk management for financial services and technology companies.
Prior to that, she was with PNC Bank, in the firm’s corporate institutional banking development program, in which she served in three role rotations: as credit analyst, underwriting analyst, and middle-market and large-corporate associate.
Key Engagements:
- Helped lead an independent assessment of the BSA/AML/OFAC compliance program of a regulated crypto exchange. The review covered all aspects of the compliance program including transaction monitoring, KYC, OFAC/sanctions screening, governance, training, and risk assessment process.
- Spearheaded transformation efforts for a Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/AML first line of defense by managing the development of strategic controls, high-risk formal issues, a quality-monitoring program, and strategic planning for a large financial institution.
- Program-managed many BSA/AML strategic engagements for small, medium, and large financial institutions; managed the development of banks’ BSA/AML and OFAC/sanctions risk assessment methodologies as well as the execution of these risk assessments using the newly developed methodologies.
- Managed enterprise risk and compliance assessments for top financial institutions and technology companies. This included identifying residual regulatory risks within core processes, assessing the gaps, and developing enhancement roadmaps.
- Drove global regulatory-technology-market (regtech) innovation by helping lead the winning team in the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR) Financial Crime TechSprint and Women’s Economic Empowerment TechSprint; helping AIR organize the Save Small Business Hackathon; briefing FinCEN, OCC, FDIC, and Board of Governors on TechSprint outcomes at FinCEN.