Experts & Advisors
Wolfgang Konkel
Managing Director
Bockenheimer Anlage 44
60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
+49 69 509588801 Direct
+49 151 61200055 Mobile
Wolfgang Konkel is a Managing Director at Ankura, based in Frankfurt. He has more than 20 years of experience working in the financial industry, specifically in anti-financial crime, compliance, and internal audit. He has profound knowledge of financial regulation. Prior to joining Ankura, Wolfgang worked in various regulatory areas at a major global German bank and at Big 4 accounting firms.
Experience
Wolfgang’s professional experience includes:
- Management of several projects offering operational support in processing of backlog remediations in the areas of SAR, KYC, and transaction monitoring.
- Preparation and optimization of risk analysis according to § five of the German Anti-Money Laundering Act including derivations of control and action plans for private banks and the corporate sector.
- Optimization of compliance processes following due diligence requirements set forth in the Anti-Money Laundering Act.
- Analysis and revision of the organizational and operational structure with regards to prevention of money laundering and optimization of compliance process.
- Expert support in the development of a modular KYC tool for a company from the non-financial sector.
- Coordination and support of internal and external anti-financial crime audits of legal entities belonging to a leading international bank.
- Coordination of regulatory information requests in the areas of AML, terrorism finance, and fraud.
- Execution of the AMLO controls in a major international bank.
- Management of process audits (back, middle, and front office processes) focusing on AML, MiFID, WpHG, and MaComp.
- Leading special audits with focus on fraudulent acts.
- Education
- Master in Banking and Business Administration, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management Business Administrator Banking, Industrie- und Handelskammer, Dortmund Business Administrator Savings Bank, Westfälisch-Lippische Sparkassenakademie Münster
- Certifications
- Instructor Qualification Exam, Industrie- und Handelskammer Nord Westfalen
- Languages
- German