BENSON METHO, Senior Risk Management Consultant

BENSON METHO

Senior Risk Management Consultant

Dimcogray Consultants

Location
United States - Minnesota - Minneapolis
Education
Master's degree, Public Policy
Experience
17 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 7 Months

Senior Risk Management Consultant at Dimcogray Consultants
  • United States - Minnesota - Minneapolis
  • My current job since May 2014

• Prepare Suspicious Activity Reports, as appropriate.
• Develop and administer tailored policies and procedures to mitigate fraud risk.
• Prepare and lead fraud-related trainings of targeted divisions and functional units.
• Coordinate across compliance, operations, technology and related personnel to effectively
implement and test fraud-related controls.
• Investigate potentially suspicious activity that may arise from account surveillance, risk alerts,
regulatory investigations, and matters otherwise escalated to the Fraud team by the, Legal, Risk or
other divisions where account transactional activity is at issue.
• Directly participate in and provide necessary support for special projects and initiatives as assigned.
• Conduct appropriate due diligence related to the potential suspicious activity through the review of
client background information and review of securities and/or monetary transactions.
• Monitor regulatory developments and trends to facilitate incorporation into the bid-rigging schemes.

Compliance Analyst at Guardian Life Insurance Company of America:
  • United States - Minnesota - Minneapolis
  • March 2011 to March 2014

• Undertake investigations of complex, large-scale insurance fraud.
• Synthesize data into a professional report with recommendations.
• Responsible for recommending enhancement of IT trading platform.
• Identify fraudulent claims by analyzing internal and open source data.
• Perform other related fraud investigation & security duties as assigned.
• Write clear, concise and professional reports detailing analytical findings.
• Review and research evidence/documents to analyze the overall fact pattern of claims.
• Responsible of compliance as par United States Securities and Exchange Commission requirements.
• Provide input to IT data team to build effective algorithms aimed at identifying fraudulent claims
and organized criminal rings

Senior Fraud Analyst at Wells Fargo Bank
  • United States - North Carolina - Charlotte
  • November 2008 to March 2011

• Manage a team of fraud analyst- KPI.
• Fraud analyst recruitment, on-boarding and career development.
• Partner with (IT) department in developing fraud prevention schemes and systems.
• Manage fraud mainframe and Data Center portfolio through reporting and forecasting.
• Tracked and reported online banking fraud trends and revised trajectories on a monthly basis.
• Evaluated fraud data, presented findings and made recommendations to upper management.
• Used knowledge of internal data for sample planning, system programming and generated fraud
research samples.

Fraud Analyst I at Wachovia Bank- A Wells Fargo Company.
  • United States - North Carolina - Charlotte
  • September 2006 to October 2008

Capturing and systemization of retail client fraud transactions.
• Call back on ATM, online and retail outlet bank customer’s fraud victims.
• Used IRIS (Integrated Reporting Information System), Emerald and PROS system to provide
immediate assessment of risks and initiated damage control to retail banking clients.

Education

Master's degree, Public Policy
  • at Hamline University.
  • August 2013

Concentration in public policy

Bachelor's degree, Political Science.
  • at University of North Carolina- Charlotte
  • July 2008

Concentration in political economics & research methods

Specialties & Skills

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Languages

English
Native Speaker

Hobbies

  • Father & Husband
  • Conservation