My work involves around understanding and mitigating compliance risks faced by my organisation from money launderers and sanction evaders. I review high risk business relationships and advise business on a day-to-day basis. This involves conducting enhanced due diligence to proactively manage risks. In addition, I provide advisory on various initiatives taken by the bank especially on the system enhancements and digital transformation.

Enterprise Risk Management has become an increasingly important approach for the United Nations, and specific positions for Senior Risk Advisors have emerged in a number of agencies in the last decade. I had previously built my career within the UN system for 15 years, in different agencies, including in positions related to management, change and reforms, or finance; in locations as varied as Ethiopia, Gaza, Ivory Coast. This enabled me to understand the complexity of processes, challenges, strengths and weaknesses of the system, a key asset as I started working as the first Senior Risk Management and Compliance Advisor in the Democratic Republic of Congo at UNHCR a couple years ago.

I started working in Risk in Nov 2011. I was told about an opportunity to become a Credit Risk Underwriter and decided to interview for the role and subsequently got the role. After spending 6 years as an underwriter I wanted to do something different and challenge myself further. I explored other opportunities and the one that seemed most interesting to me was an opportunity to join the Governance and Control team as the Credit Risk Policy & Standards Readiness Assessment Lead.