Natalia Rabicka

Natalia has a proven track record of building teams and leading workstreams as part of global transformation programs in response to high profile regulatory enforcement actions including Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) and cease and desist orders. She has experience leading regulatory audits and assurance reviews, looking at financial crime control frameworks established by financial institutions, and their design and effectiveness.

At Ankura, Natalia focuses on leveraging her experience and delivering the most optimal anti-financial crime solutions to clients.

Natalia’s professional experience includes:

• Product owner in fintech startup, leading design of a new payments sanctions screening service in cooperation with top tier banks, aiming to solve cross-industry challenges in financial services.
• Product owner for the Sanctions Screening System. Led the tuning and effectiveness team for the Name List Screening at a top tier investment bank. Built the team and supported with defining the long-term strategy for the NLS function. Defined the remediation plan for the function and successfully closed several regulatory findings implementing robust control frameworks.
• Led workstreams as part of the global transformation program within the financial crime space for various financial institutions. This included delivery of regulatory commitments like global systems implementation or upgrade, tuning, implementation of the target operating model, and model validation.
• Established a system assurance function within a top UK bank’s financial crime space. As part of her role, she defined the testing plan for key controls, performed several assurance reviews for financial crime systems (name and transactions sanctions screening transaction monitoring, trade screening, risk rating) and controls (data completeness and integrity, user access management, alerts handling, systems effectiveness testing, and others), as well as assurance over the remediated regulatory findings.
• Worked on an audit for a top tier bank in cooperation with a U.S. legal firm on behalf of Federal Reserve Bank. Led testing of design and effectiveness of sanctions screening control framework.
• Led the Risk Focused Sample of Payments project requested by the Federal Reserve Bank, as part of a cease and desist order, for a top tier UK bank. The review aimed to provide an assurance over a deficient payments screening tool, with use of an independent tool approved by the regulator to confirm that the bank has not had any sanctions breaches in the review period. The review took place every year until the new strategic payments sanctions system was implemented.
• Advised on a digital assets custody new product offering at a top tier investment bank. Took part in the vendor selection of a blockchain analytics tool required for financial crime prevention and setting up a control framework to enable implementation of the new product and technology.