Postal Service Review Officer
Resume:
Mohammed Bashiru Yakubu
Penssauken NJ 08109.
**************@*****.***
Profile: Senior Associate with experience in financial services, compliance, leasing, document collection and review. Self-starter, ability to multi-task and work well under deadlines. Instructor at regional paralegal institute.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Wellsfargo bank – June 2017 till January 2019
Conduct research and/or background investigations on transactions, individuals, business entities, organizations and/or locations to identify and mitigate associated sanctions, credit, financial crimes, and reputational risks and thoroughly document findings.
Review and analyze due diligence data from a variety of sources to determine overall risk. Screen customers, prospects and/or transactions against various regulatory reporting lists and regionally based sanctions watch lists. Evaluate risks to determine permissibility under sanctions regulations and/or BSA/AML regulations.
Escalate confirmed sanctions alerts, PEP matches and other risks appropriately.
Perform non-documentary Customer Identification Program on domestic customers in accordance with regulations and bank policy. Ensure compliance with guidelines set forth in federal/state anti-money laundering laws and regulations including the Bank Secrecy Act and various sanctions regulations; and in accordance with policy/procedures set by the bank.
DHG – CAPITAL ONE - Look back project – August 2015
Conduct periodic internal account/customer reviews to identify potentially suspicious activity.
Complete analysis of transactional information to identify risks, trends and potential suspicious activity
Completely and accurately document steps taken through the investigation process.
Work with internal groups to ensure consistent understanding of requirements.
SAR – Writing and review for SAR filling.AML Risk assessment. Make recommendations for further investigation of suspicious activities (SAR). Review and analyze bank accounts, outsourcing and off-shore operations, and related financial documents for compliance, including comparison to OFAC list and international matters.
Robert half Legal – Denver Promontory Project – (Citi Bank KYC data base update).
Project Consultant Denver Colorado–March 2015 to April 2015.
Review of Citi Bank KYC data base and propose proper documentation.
JPMC bank (Robert-half legal) -compliance consultant. NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) Remediation project. June 2014 - September 2014.
Document/entity /trade review to ensure correct code classification is documented.
Recommending proper code for documentation.
Researched IRS data, Google, Martindale and B &B data bases using remediation tools to achieve systematic results in coding and documentation.
JPMC Bank (Esperis (Manpower Group) - AML consultant - November 2013 - Jan 2014.
Conduct periodic internal account/customer reviews to identify potentially suspicious activity.
Complete analysis of transactional information to identify risks, trends and potential suspicious activity
Completely and accurately document steps taken through the investigation process.
Work with internal groups to ensure consistent understanding of requirements.
Communicate findings to senior staff and management
Participate in the development of goals and execution of strategies within the function or department.
Sun national Bank - AML/BSA officer - Aug. 2013 - Nov. 2013
Document and report the investigation findings and prepare case files for review (e.g. media search results, copies of statements/checks, results from internal system searches etc.)
Responsible for communicating with internal entities, members of the sales team and AML monitoring units.
Collect and examine financial statements and documents to assist in identifying unusual transaction patterns.
Conduct research over available Bank systems, the Internet and Databases consistent with the resolution of investigat Write SuspiciousActivity Reports (SARs) and recommend relationship retention or termination and track account closures as required.
Interact with Senior Management on the Compliance, Legal and business sectors concerning AML issues.
Document all research and analysis conducted in the Case Management System.
Follow-up with additional Point(s) of Contact (POC) as needed to identify additional information in support of the case.
Wachovia Bank Oct-2008- March
Senior Associate, contract position
Monitor anti-money laundering compliance (AML) and Anti-terrorist financing .write reports as to bank compliance as to customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD), AML Risk assessment. Make recommendations for further investigation of suspicious activities (SAR). Review and analyze bank accounts, outsourcing and off-shore operations, and related financial documents for compliance, including comparison to OFAC list and international matters.
Centro Watts June - 2007 - Feb- 2008
Senior legal document Review officer, contract position thru Robert Half Legal
Managed the collection and review of company’s property portfolio involving commercial leases. Reviewed various contracts, financial statement receipts and acknowledgements as well as addendum for compliance, and document in database.
Ciconte & Wasserman LLC
A commercial and retail debt collection law firm September 2006 – May 2007
Senior Legal support, Permanent position
Document preparation, proofreading and review for filing on Lexis Nexis. Reviewed for compliance and redrafted out of state documents to reflect Delaware legal procedure. Large document handling and organizing for trial prep. General litigation support, including court appearance, negotiation strategy.
Managed online filing and e-discovery processes.
Jacobs and Crumplar P.A. March 2006 - September 2006 Asbestos senior legal support, Permanent position.
Large document handling and organizing trial prep. General litigation support, including court appearance, negotiation strategRecruiting Agencies, Philadelphia, PA and Wilmington, DE January 2005 to March 2006
Contract legal support position upon relocation from Texas
Worked with various law firms, including Swartz Campbell, primarily focused on corporate legal work and litigation support. Representative projects included case-specific document preparation, review and trial preparation, corporate project due-diligence assignments, insurance documentation, subrogation, work and mergers & acquisitions. Contract compliance and review of pharmaceutical contracts to ensure compliance, and coordinating and helping with review and negotiation, ensuring that review comply with original contract specification.
Johnson & McLeod, Dallas, Texas June 1998 – Dec 2004
Firm dissolved
Senior Legal support.
Manage litigation and general legal support for this Texas-based law firm, including drafting complaints, pleadings, general legal research, discovery, and case/ file preparation. Organized files, maintained factual information pertaining to case work, digest deposition transcripts, manage document production. Document archiving, document review and preparation for I -connect delivery-electronic data processing, data extraction for review, conversion of data to loadable formats with e-discovery tools, handling discovery/ pre-discovery documents, loading images into data bases, burning of CDS/ DVDS, permitting deletion of data/ images after proper clearances, ensuring software updates, providing document backup and archiving, helped to maintain data base, help with and assist in the use of new products, helped developers with ideas of data structures, helped with heavy data migration, ensure proper security access is maintained.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Prism Career Institute, Cherry Hill, NJ September-2008 to June -2012
Paralegal Instructor
Coursework teaching in general paralegal studies and litigation support.
Corporate Secretary – Nigerian Postal service – Lagos Nigeria -1989 - 1996
EDUCATION
LLM (Corporate law, Finance, Insurance and securities) Widener University, Delaware
BL - Nigerian Law School, Lagos, Nigeria
Bachelor of Law - Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Nigeria
Associate degree Economics, Government- Kwara Polytechnic, Nigeria
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Case management pro (CMP) GCM
I connect and Depo –connect research tools. Lexis Nexis, Westlaw, Lois Law court presentation tools
MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Word, Lotus Notes, Legal Binder, People Soft, Windows
98/2000, Concordance, Summation, and Microsoft Access.
Compliance / Risk management in-house training.
Office of foreign Assets
USA Patriot Act
Anti money laundering training (Global compliance).
Suspicious activity Report training for US Investigating unit
Anti-money laundering training (global wealth management).
Global sanctions training,
Managing Risk training.
Anti corruption training.
Alert Analysis training
KYC- Know your customer Commercial/ AML training
Mexico typologies training
Mexico risk training
AML Risk typologies training
Privacy training
South west border AML Risk Training
AML Programmed management and operational training
AML laws and regulation training
Wire transfer training – AML perspectives.
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