Edward Navas

Analytics, Management, and International Banking experience. Leadership roles with exceptional coordination and partnership building skills. Process improvement and strengthening controls. • Risk Management Lifecycle. Operational and Compliance Risk. AML, OFAC, and Dodd Frank regulations. Financial crimes and compliance investigations. Drug and human trafficking, fraud, highly risky businesses, money laundering, and Politically Exposed Persons (PEP). Electronic communications surveillance, investigation, and reporting. • Electronic Funds Transfer. Accounts monitoring of negative balances, daylight overdrafts, and bank and customer over limits. • Change management. Process Mapping, Modeling Business Processes, and Simulation Modeling. Balanced Scorecard and the Variance Analysis. Determining Business Requirements, Project Management, and Projects Evaluation.

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC., Electronic Communications Central Review Team (ECCRT), Compliance Consultant Charlotte NC, 2021-Present 

• Responsible for the execution of the ECCRT program and the developing of surveillance tools. • Evaluate risk from customer/service complaints through the electronic communications screening including Confidential Information and Material Non-Public Information (MNPI). • Extracting key pieces of information from metadata to investigate and build reports. • In charge of the Spanish Annual Lexicon Review utilized in Synthesys-DRS. • Assure compliance of the Supervisory Procedures and Compliance Guidelines (SPCG) by coordinating with Business Unit Compliance Officers (BUCOs), Compliance Officers (COs), and managers of Commercial Banking (CB), Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB), and HR. • Create multiple business procedure escalations to inform unidentified risks and build management awareness. • Correct TMs behavior by warning them for not following SPCG principles and expectations. • Add process improvements by simplifying redundant, flagged lexicons in different languages. 

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Global Sanctions Screening Reporting Group (GSSRG), Financial Crimes Analyst Charlotte NC, 2018–2021 

• Responsible for the implementation and execution of the Bank’s Global Sanctions programs by screening accounts, customers, and transactions and identifying sanctioned parties across the world. • Protected our institution from reputational and financial risks by investigating potential matches from money laundering, terrorist financing, political corruption, and other criminal activity. • Exercised Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) to screen and onboard business entities, private trusts, State-Owned Enterprises, charities, high-net-worth individuals, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and other high-risk banking clients. • Increased department productivity by creating a database that simplifies manual screening processes. • Discovered Artificial Intelligence opportunities by identifying patterns of the Global Sanctions Monitoring System (GSMOS) alerts. • Performed quality control of data and TMs work to prevent major errors in the Global Sanctions program. • Volunteered to participate in moderate to complex project initiatives as the primary subject expert to enhance knowledge of team members or notify changes in internal processes.

• Master of Science in Business Intelligence & Analytics
  Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
  University of North Carolina at Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC