Pawel Kowalczyk, Director

Pawel Kowalczyk

Director

Kroll / Duff and Phelps

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Diploma, Audit and Accountancy Postgraduate Studies
Experience
17 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 1 Months

Director at Kroll / Duff and Phelps
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2019

Compliance, Fraud and Bribery/FCPA investigations, Risk management, Business Intelligence

Manager at EY (Ernst & Young)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2013 to January 2019

• Internal audit
• Compliance, ABAC and FCPA/Bribery Act reviews in Europe, Africa and the Middle East
• Development, implementation and transformation of corporate governance, compliance and risk management frameworks
• Fraud investigations
• Forensic accounting
• Financial crime compliance (FCC), including anti-money laundering (AML), KYC, compliance due diligence (CDD, EDD) and sanctions related reviews; reporting to such regulators as central banks, DFSA and SEC
• Development, review and implementation of policies and procedures (incl. compliance, risk, ABAC, code of conduct)
• Risk assessment
• Gap analysis
• Data analytics, interviews with employees, independent verification of data and whistleblowers’ allegations
• Providing trainings relating to compliance, corruption, fraud, FCPA and Bribery Act

Senior Internal Auditor at BGZ (BNP Paribas)
  • Poland
  • October 2010 to March 2013

Responsibilities: planning, managing (incl. managing small teams of auditors) and conducting operational
and financial audits. Areas covered include, among others:
• Compliance
• Risk management
• Outsourcing
• Network development strategy
• Cyber security
• Customer classification and suitability (private banking, MiFID)
• IT operating costs
• Financial reporting
• Personal data protection
• Insider trading
• Brokerage house
• Business continuity planning
• Economic and regulatory capital

Compliance Officer at Citibank International PLC
  • Poland
  • January 2010 to September 2010

Financial crime compliance (FCC), anti-money laundering (AML), KYC, compliance due diligence (CDD, EDD) and sanctions related reviews.
Monitoring, investigations and reporting of suspicious activities (STR) to local regulatory.

Risk Analyst at GE Capital
  • Poland
  • October 2006 to June 2009

Responsible for:
• Risk management
• Improvement of processes and products
• Development and implementation of policies and procedures
• Market and credit portfolio analysis

Legal Analyst
Responsible for:
• Legal and financial analysis
• Development and implementation of comprehensive bank tools for credit analyses

Education

Diploma, Audit and Accountancy Postgraduate Studies
  • at Warsaw School of Economics
  • July 2010

Audit, Accountancy and Internal Control Postgraduate Studies completed at the Warsaw School of Economics.

Master's degree, Law
  • at Silesian University
  • June 2005

Specialties & Skills

Languages

English
Expert
Polish
Expert
Swahili
Beginner

Memberships

ACFE
  • Associate
  • December 2016

Training and Certifications

CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2017

Hobbies

  • Photography