Mohamed Raiek Abouakar

Duties:

• Conducting quality assurance reviews of financial crime processes, ensuring compliance with UK and EU regulations
• Reviewing new-to-bank (NTB) customers and mortgage applications for financial crime risks
• Advising senior management on audit findings, risk assessments, and emerging financial crime trends
• Ensuring effective controls are in place for due diligence, transaction monitoring, and financial crime prevention

Via Momenta Group as recruiting company.

Duties:

• Conducted QA reviews on remediation projects, assessing high-risk customers, including HNWIs and cryptocurrency clients
• Collaborated with internal audit teams to enhance compliance frameworks and risk assessment processes
• Provided training and guidance on compliance best practices and regulatory updates

Via Cameron Kennedy as recruiting company

Duties:

• Led financial crime risk assessments and adverse media screenings to support regulatory reporting
• Assisted in monitoring high-risk accounts, ensuring timely periodic reviews for risk categorization
• Evaluated financial transactions against Shariah-compliant banking principles and regulatory frameworks

Via Momenta Group as recruiting company.

Duties:

• Conducting QA duties on a remediation assurance project covering retail due diligence.

• Communicating feedback to management and senior stakeholders on emerging trends and issues.

• Collaborating with colleagues to assess whether financial crime risks have been adequately identified, assessed, and managed.

• Developing and agreeing planned scope and delivering against agreed milestone

Duties:

• Performing QA reviews of KYC activity conducted across MUFG’s Banking arm, to determine whether outputs meet the established quality objectives set out within the Global QA Standards (London, Paris, Milan & Dubai).

• Analyse observations/ findings, perform de-briefing sessions to provide feedback and ensure enhancements in performance of Client Management Services function.

• Develop an effective suit of Management Information reports for key stakeholders.

• Escalating errors and exceptions identified during QA reviews and the validation of action plans to address QA findings.

• Share knowledge and experience with team members to ensure a consistently high level of performance.

Other tasks :

• Assisting onboarding team(KYC Renewals) processing side.

• Preparing KYC business templates (GAP issuance).

• Using different/varied sources such as (Orbis, World Check, Market Screener) to find the company’s official documents (Company Registry ,Ownership Chart and Ultimate beneficial controllers/Owner).

• Helping in processing side for the KYC renewal through posting the information in to CISNET KYC system.

Via LMA recruiting company

Duties:

• Participating in the development of Oracle Mantas transaction monitoring system through building the methodology of 1LOD and 2LOD and evaluating the logic of the existed mantas scenarios.

• Helping in any investigation cases and providing my recommendation once required based on the investigation outcomes. • Participating in preparing the quality assurance quarterly sampling. World Check one Administrator(Financial Crime Unit) (Temp.&project base)

• Using world check one to cover the batch screening process for the customers (Ind & Corp).

• Discounting the matches received from the Batch screening process and escalating the valid matches to DMLRO.

• Keeping records for the batch screening results includes customer name ,type of match, and discounting rational and date.

Duties:

• Oversaw the bank’s AML unit, enhancing operational efficiency through system upgrades and compliance audits
• Developed and implemented AML policies, ensuring adherence to Shariah-compliant financial practices
• Led regulatory reporting efforts, including suspicious activity reporting (SAR/STR)

Duties:

• Conducted AML monthly checks, transaction reviews, and risk assessments for retail and corporate banking clients
• Implemented AML/KYC policies tailored for Islamic banking operations, ensuring compliance with Qatar Central Bank guidelines
• Investigated suspicious transactions and reported findings to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)
• Led initiatives to enhance screening mechanisms, AML system upgrades, and financial crime controls

Duties:

•Support and encourage the awareness of financial crime across the business along with compliance to the related policies and procedures.

• Assist with collation, analysis and Management Information (MI) internally and across all lending & investment portfolios.

• Identify existing/emerging financial crime risks across the Target Group and suggest prevention / detection processes and/or systems to mitigate the risks identified.

• Undertake AML transaction monitoring, review sanction and PEP matching alerts (Lexis Nexis).

• Complete investigations into suspicious transactions received (internal and external).

• Maintain appropriate record keeping of all investigations for evidential and reporting purposes

• Fully support and where required, to deputise for the Financial Crime Manager, deputy MLRO and MLRO