Aleksandra Tomaszek

Aleksandra is a Director in Operations at Financial Crime Unit (FCU) within PwC Poland. She has 16 years of experience in Banking industry. She has joined PwC in November 2016 as Operational Manger for KYC remediation project. Aleksandra is skilled in project and team management, as well as in training and coaching for team members. She has experience in managing large scale projects in different locations. Currently she is Deputy of Operations Stream Leader, being responsible for FCU development and improvements. Besides specializing in AML area including set up of the KYC remediation projects, she has been involved in numerous assignments as Testing Project lead and leader of Internal Audit teams in areas of Compliance, Fraud, Risk Management and Consumer Credit.

Prior joining PwC Aleksandra has worked for a global financial institution as a Senior Auditor responsible for EMEA countries, where she gained her experience in AML/KYC area. She had specialized in all aspects of risk assessment; assessing the effectiveness of controls, determining the potential impact of control failure and the corrective actions required, as well as evaluating materiality of audit issues, preparing audit reports, work plans and business monitoring reports.

Main areas of expertise:

• Oversight of AML/KYC/EDD projects
• Internal Audit and Controls Testing Project leads in numerous areas such as Compliance and Risk Management, Fraud, Consumer Credit
• Assessment of control effectiveness, determining the potential impact of control failure and implementation of remediation actions
• Enforcement of compliance testing and regulatory alignment
• Coordination of the internal structure of an organisation
• Change management
• Development of business partnership in risk identification and assessment