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Fleur Beaton-Daghestani

Summary

A senior financial crime prevention and compliance expert with 17 years’ experience across a range of sectors and regions. I have strong operational experience of implementing best practice corruption procedures in some of the world’s most fragile and corruption-prone environments; and of balancing cross-functional stakeholders and managing complex incident response whilst upholding legal requirements, protecting whistleblowers, ensuring confidentiality, and facilitating civil or criminal loss recovery and reporting. I am now looking for my next challenge in the private sector leveraging my problem-solving skills and extensive risk management experience.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Strategic Lead of Prevention and Deputy Head / Acting Head of Anti-Corruption

Oxfam
01.2020 - Current
  • Spearheaded the development and execution of a comprehensive global corruption prevention framework, including authoring critical global policies, procedures and guidance on high risk topics (Gifts & Hospitality, Public Officials etc) for adoption in 27 countries
  • Drove reform of global working practices, including the review and improvement of SOPs, controls and internal audit standards; engaged global leadership and staff to adopt enhanced controls, improving compliance metrics and strengthening accountability
  • Orchestrated the development and deployment of the comprehensive Anti-Corruption and Fraud Risk Assessments globally, engaging more than 200 cross-functional stakeholders and resulting in strengthened internal controls
  • Benchmarked 70 working practices against recognised best practice and ‘Adequate Procedures’ (UK Bribery Act); oversaw the implementation of improvements for adoption across the organisation globally, tailoring best practice for humanitarian response and challenging operational contexts
  • Oversaw the training of 6,500+ staff, including in-person, Code of Conduct and e-learning content, ensuring completion of mandatory compliance training
  • Prevention efforts resulted in a 50% reduction in incidents of fraud/corruption over four years
  • Leading a global team of seven members to investigate and respond effectively to approx
  • 500 allegations of financial crime (bribery, corruption, fraud, terror financing, nepotism and breaches of international sanctions and export control regimes) reported through a confidential whistleblower system, in 27 of the world’s most fragile and conflict-affected environments
  • Decision-maker for the organisation in its response to high-risk financial crime incidents, balancing stakeholder management, incident response and risk factors such as whistleblower protection in extremely fragile contexts, civil or criminal loss recovery and reporting, and confidentiality
  • Compiled and presented comprehensive quarterly reports to Trustee / Board committees, and high-risk incident disclosures to regulators, auditors and national authorities, including UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, US Bureau of Industry & Standards, UK Serious Fraud Office and UK Charity Commission
  • Team and division management, including budget setting, team performance, KPIs, recruitment and strategy design and delivery
  • Member of the Terror Financing Working Group, advising cross-functional teams on sanctions risk, Ultimate Beneficial Ownership and legal obligations
  • Established guidelines to prevent diversion of aid to designated groups operating in Oxfam’s areas of operation in Iraq, Syria, Mali, Yemen, Myanmar and South Sudan
  • Decision-maker on organisational response to breaches of sanctions outside of Oxfam’s humanitarian licence in Syria, and export control breaches

Director

Seventeen Research Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2020
  • Delivered strategic consultancy to a diverse portfolio of high-profile clients, leveraging expertise of financial crime prevention and providing integrity enhanced due diligence

Financial Crime Compliance consultant

China Construction Bank London Ltd
03.2018 - 08.2018
  • Guided CCB’s Financial Crime Compliance and Onboarding teams on implementing Enhanced Due Diligence and Know Your Customer best practice during a full remediation of the bank’s customer base ahead of FCA visit
  • Reported to MLRO

Head of Due Diligence

Kompli-Global Ltd
10.2016 - 09.2017
  • Designed, managed and promoted a proprietary Regulatory technology compliance platform for a Fintech/Regtech start-up, reporting to the CEO under a fixed term contract
  • Designed and wrote client CDD/EDD reports, undertook business development and trained staff in research
  • Developed the company’s global presence using worldwide industry contacts

EMEA Financial Crime Compliance consultant

Macquarie Bank Ltd
07.2015 - 10.2016
  • Advised the bank on financial crime and Anti-Money Laundering risks of high risk customers and products
  • Provided risk assessment on high profile, multi-million pound investments, such as large infrastructure and energy assets and football finance
  • Evaluated Customer Due Diligence and undertook Enhanced Due Diligence (post KYC / 1st line) to identify financial crime / anti-money laundering risk, political exposure (PEPs), adverse news, Source of Wealth and sanctions/jurisdictional risk
  • Evaluated risk impact on product relationship and recommended action to reputational and AML risk committees

Due Diligence consultant

BNP Paribas
05.2014 - 11.2014
  • Undertook customer due diligence and worked closely with the bank's Compliance functions to understand and mitigate money laundering risks posed by high risk clients
  • This included involvement in client acceptance committees, recommending and implementing risk safeguards

Manager and Assistant Manager

KPMG LLP
10.2011 - 05.2014
  • Managed KPMG’s offshore Forensic team (15 direct and 7 indirect reports) in Gurgaon, India (Nov 2012 – May 2013)
  • Responsible for ensuring the team could conduct due diligence on thousands of high and very high risk customers on a six month Source of Wealth remediation project for a prominent global bank
  • Worked with executive-level partners across the world, delivering on the firm’s global strategy to increase Forensic work offshored by 30%
  • Corporate Intelligence team member, conducting reputational Enhanced Due Diligence (analysis of corporate records, court filings, adverse media, sanctions lists and targeted open source information) and assisting large forensic/fraud investigations for a range of private and public sectors clients, including governmental organisations, banks and financial regulators, and providing client-ready reports
  • Conducted large investigations and asset traces on behalf of European regulators and UK courts, including UBS ‘rogue trader’ scandal, corporate insolvency proceedings and high profile legal disputes

Associate, Corporate Investigations

The Risk Advisory Group
06.2010 - 10.2011
  • Underpinned dispute litigation and reputational risk corporate investigations and conducted asset traces
  • Wrote client-ready reports

Intelligence Researcher

RISC Management Ltd and The Inkerman Group
01.2007 - 01.2010
  • Conducted enhanced due diligence for Business Intelligence and Corporate Investigations departments
  • Wrote client-ready reports

Education

MA - International Relations

University of St Andrews

Skills

  • Due Diligence & OSINT
  • Corporate & misconduct Investigations
  • Compliance
  • Regulatory Reporting
  • Counter Terrorism Financing & Sanctions
  • Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Bribery & Corruption
  • Financial Crime Prevention
  • Third Party Risk Management
  • Risk Assessment
  • Ethical Decision-Making
  • Problem-solving
  • Business / Report Writing
  • Project Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Interviewing
  • Team Building & Management

Professional Highlights

  • Published author in The REGTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries in Regulation, 08/01/19
  • Led on implementing regulations including UK MLRs 2017, 4MLD, 5MLD, Anti-Bribery legislation (UK Bribery Act and US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, 01/01/23
  • Early career spent at Big 4 accountancy firm and consultancy firm KPMG, including leading a team of 15 in India
  • Extensive international experience, including working in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America

Affiliations

International Compliance Association, London, UK

Languages

English
Proficient
C2
Spanish
Proficient
C2
French
Intermediate
B1

Certification

  • ICA Advanced Certificate in Managing Sanctions Risk, underway
  • Accredited ‘Advanced OSINT’ course, 11/01/22 - 01/01/23
  • ‘Achieving Best Evidence’ course, 2023
  • Qualified yoga teacher
  • SC Security clearance, 2012-2022

Voluntary Experience

  • Charity Board member, Western Twaweza Empowerment Campaign (WETEC), A Kenyan NGO focusing on improving lifetime opportunities for adolescent girls, through mentoring, sexual health education and income generation projects.
  • Mentor, WETEC, 2016 - 2022
  • Fundraising and trustee roles, University societies

Timeline

Strategic Lead of Prevention and Deputy Head / Acting Head of Anti-Corruption

Oxfam
01.2020 - Current

Financial Crime Compliance consultant

China Construction Bank London Ltd
03.2018 - 08.2018

Head of Due Diligence

Kompli-Global Ltd
10.2016 - 09.2017

EMEA Financial Crime Compliance consultant

Macquarie Bank Ltd
07.2015 - 10.2016

Due Diligence consultant

BNP Paribas
05.2014 - 11.2014

Director

Seventeen Research Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2020

Manager and Assistant Manager

KPMG LLP
10.2011 - 05.2014

Associate, Corporate Investigations

The Risk Advisory Group
06.2010 - 10.2011

Intelligence Researcher

RISC Management Ltd and The Inkerman Group
01.2007 - 01.2010

MA - International Relations

University of St Andrews

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