
Yasser Salah Abd El Khalek
Senior Regional Financial Crime Manager at Amazon
6th of October, Giza, EgyptWork Experience
AML & Compliance ManagerFull Time
Multipass
Feb 2025 - Present -5 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:• Support the MLRO of the MENA region on Compliance, AML, Financial crime prevention and its Risk management for MLP-DIFC Branch and Egypt office. This role involves close collaboration with MLRO-MENA Region and clientfacing staff to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and best practices. • Provide proactive transaction monitoring of the client’s activities coupled with escalation of SARs/STRs to the MLRO of the MENA Region, and ensure adherence to all applicable laws, regulations and industry best practices with regards to MLP AML /CTF (Counter terrorist financing) Policies and Procedures. • Liaise with and provide support to MLRO-MENA Region in contributing to the overall compliance strategy and AML risk management framework of MLP. • Supporting the MLRO-MENA Region in Investigating and reporting Suspicious Activity/Transaction Reports (SARs/STRs). This includes Receiving, assessing and determining whether external disclosure is required. • Develop and deliver the necessary compliance and AML/ CTF training programs to all employees Mainly in Egypt to ensure awareness of legal and regulatory obligations. as per the Regulatory and group guidelines when /where required. • Support the MLRO & Compliance Officer for MENA Region in developing & implementing the firm’s compliance framework, ensuring adherence to all regulatory requirements. • Ensuring compliance with
Regional Financial Crime ManagerFull Time
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024 -2 yrs, 2 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:- Ensured compliance with financial crime regulations (AML, KYC, CTF) and regulatory mandates. - Conducted comprehensive risk assessments to identify areas vulnerable to fraud, money laundering, and terrorist financing, implementing risk-based detection and prevention strategies. - Led investigations into suspicious financial activities, managing case resolution and implementing robust transaction monitoring systems. - Contributed in developing and maintaining internal controls and frameworks for financial crime prevention, including customer due diligence (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (EDD) processes. - Delivered training and raised awareness among employees on financial crime prevention techniques, regulations, and compliance obligations. - Collaborated with regulatory, compliance and legal teams to mitigate financial crime risks, communicating findings and action plans to senior management. - Analyzed financial data to detect patterns or anomalies, preparing detailed reports on financial crime activities and controls for senior leadership. - Developed and updated policies aligned with industry best practices and international financial crime regulations.
Investigations Manager | Community Trust | AmazonFull Time
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022 -2 yrs, 2 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:• Lead and manage the daily activities of a global Fraud Detection Team across multiple marketplaces, ensuring seamless operations and alignment with organizational objectives. • Guarantee that productivity, quality standards, and service level agreements are consistently met by implementing effective monitoring, coaching, counseling, and training practices. • Develop and recommend best practices to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the department, driving operational excellence and performance. • Gain a thorough understanding of the organization's systems, policies, procedures, and products to ensure full compliance with both internal and external regulatory requirements. • Design and implement strategies that foster a culture of continuous improvement, enhancing the delivery of products and services to meet customer and business needs. • Establish and maintain robust development plans for each team member, balancing the support of individual goals with the achievement of business objectives. • Focus on the growth and development of employees, enhancing their skills to increase team capabilities and create opportunities for future leadership roles within Amazon. • Develop and nurture strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the business, supporting the creation and implementation of global improvement initiatives. • Promote an open-door policy to support team needs, ensuring regular communication sessions, team meetings, and one-on-one interactions to uphold and advance the organization's "raise the bar" philosophy.
Senior Supervisor - Compliance and Corporate Governance GroupFull Time
- Job Details:• Assisting with the development, implementation, and maintenance of an anti-money laundering program. • Ensuring compliance with current AML regulations, and other relevant legislation. • Developing and maintaining a risk assessment framework for products and services, clients and customers, and other issues relating to money laundering. • Keeping and maintaining records of high-risk customers, and reporting suspicious activities to the authorities. • Briefing and reporting to senior management on matters relating to internal AML compliance policies and procedures. • Receive and investigate internal referrals of unusual activity by branch personnel, teams within Financial Crimes Risk Management, and other areas of the bank. • Conduct enhanced due diligence and investigations in response to legal process or law enforcement referrals.
Senior AML Investigator - Financial Crime ComplianceFull Time
Mar 2017 - May 2019 -2 yrs, 2 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:• Validating Cases and unusual Activity reports raised by previous Lines of Investigations. • Review transaction monitoring alerts generated by NORKOM and conduct appropriate investigations. • Research, evaluate and analyze transactions to understand the nature of the activity and identify significant trends for terrorist financing and money laundering patterns. • Summaries findings in a manner that facilitates decision making, provide reporting and analytics to other internal and external parties as needed. • Escalate suspicious activity to the money laundering reporting officer (MLRO). • Co-ordinate with AML teams across functions/LOBs to resolve AML related matters. • Raise any potential PEP (Politically Exposed Person), Sanctions or negative fact hit/adverse information case not yet identified as per the procedure • Process requests from other departments as required
AML Investigator - Financial Crime ComplianceFull Time
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017 -8 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Maintain a comprehensive understanding of and ensure compliance with banking regulatory requirements, including local and U.S. laws, international regulations (such as OFAC, UN, EU, HM Treasury Office), and industry standards and best practices. • Investigate alerts generated by the FCC screening systems by reviewing KYC and client documentation stored in the scanning database and other systems. • Communicate with the Relationship Manager (RM) as needed to obtain additional information or documentation and verify the information provided. • Ensure alerts are closed with thorough and documented explanations within the planned schedule. • Raise any cases involving potential PEP (Politically Exposed Person), sanctions, or negative information/adverse hits as per procedure. • Promptly close eligible alerts that are not deemed to pose any FCC risk. • Ensure that all investigations adhere to HSBC’s global standards, policies, and procedures. • Process requests from other departments as required. • Perform required sanctions screening and coordinate any enhanced due diligence requirements with internal teams. • Share identified AML/Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF) typologies consistently and appropriately with AMli and HSBC Operating Services and Technologies (HOST) Operations.
Team Manager - Contact CenterFull Time
Mar 2014 - Jul 2016 -2 yrs, 4 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Managing the daily running of the call center, including sourcing equipment, effective resource planning and implementing call center strategies and operations, reviewing the performance of staff, identifying training needs and planning training sessions, Motivate and encourage agents through positive communication and feedback. • Coaching, motivating and retaining staff and coordinating bonus, reward and incentive schemes. • Organizing staffing, including shift patterns and the number of staff required to meet demand. • Recording statistics, user rates and the performance levels of the center and preparing reports. • Reviewing the performance of staff, identifying training needs and planning training sessions. • Monitoring random calls to improve quality, minimize errors and track operative performance. • Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of industry developments and involvement in networks. • Liaising with supervisors, team leaders, operatives and third parties to gather information and resolve issues. • Ensuring all relevant communications, records and data are updated and recorded. • Setting and meeting performance targets for speed, efficiency, sales and quality. • Investigating and solving customers' problems, which may be complex or long-standing problems that have been passed on by customer service assistants; • Improving customer service procedures, policies and standards for your organization or department. • Being involved in staff recruitment and appraisals.
Customer Service Executive - Contact CenterFull Time
Aug 2012 - Mar 2014 -1 yr, 7 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Resolves product or service problems by clarifying the customer's complaint; determining the cause of the problem; selecting and explaining the best solution to solve the problem; expediting correction or adjustment; following up to ensure resolution. • Update all customer’s demographics and contact details on system. • Working on Darwin system providing customer support for any Financial questions or complaints. • Working on HUB systems to track customer transactions and view Incoming and outgoing credit. • Dealing with Personal loans, Auto loans, Credit cards, TD’s, CD’s. • Do the calculations of transactions and educate customer about statements. • Calculate the Interest and charges applied to loans and credit cards. • Check and review all the escalated cases and assign it to the concern department and employees. • Working side by side with branches to answer customers Inquiries and provide guidance when needed. • Educate customers with suitable products that would provide the most opportunities growth.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
Cairo University (CU)Jan 2010
Skills
Languages
Arabic
FluentEnglish
Fluent
Training & Certifications
CAMS
ACMAS·2024