Tanya Wright
Cliffside Park
Summary
A seasonal professional with 15+ years of experience in Cash Management, Client Onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC), Relationship Management, Client Services, OFAC, Sanction, AML, EDD, Treasury, Account Opening, and Financial Analysis. Effective communicator and quickly adapt to changes. Proven ability to work well under pressure and successfully complete high-pressure tasks.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
2020
2020
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Regulatory Onboarding Specialist (Contractor)
Heitmeyer Consulting-Huntington National Bank
Cliffside Park
11.2025 - Current
- Support commercial banking business units in the onboarding of new clients, ensuring compliance with all regulatory and internal policy requirements.
- Review and validate Customer Identification Program (CIP) documents, Know Your Customer (KYC) profiles, and Beneficial Ownership Certification Program (BOCP) forms.
- Conduct Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) reviews as required by client risk profiles.
- Perform independent third-party research using public and proprietary sources to identify potential red flags and verify client information.
- Maintain clear and thorough documentation of all onboarding activities and findings.
- Apply regulatory knowledge of AML/BSA, CIP, BOCP, and KYC rules and standards to onboarding practices.
- Execute quality control (QC) reviews of onboarding cases to ensure completeness and accuracy.
- Identify and escalate any unusual or potentially suspicious activity to compliance leadership as appropriate.
- Collaborate with compliance, legal, and business teams to resolve onboarding issues in a timely manner.
- Stay current on relevant regulations, industry trends, and best practices.
Regulatory Onboarding Analyst (Contractor)
Procom (Agency)-Scotiabank
New York
07.2025 - 11.2025
- Analyzed financial data to support decision-making processes.
- Collaborated with teams to streamline reporting procedures.
- Developed presentations for stakeholder meetings and reviews.
- Facilitated the regulatory onboarding of Global Banking and Markets clients by performing quality
- control on New to Bank and Periodic Refresh KYC requirements.
- Supported in development and ongoing adjustments to the quality controls performed.
- Provided feedback to personnel the Onboarding Analyst performing KYC onboarding and review work to secure necessary improvements to case quality.
- Facilitated weekly calls to discuss any onboarding roadblocks with the KYC, First Line of Defense and the Business Team.
- Supported in identifying areas within the KYC process of improvement and recommending potential activities.
KYC Compliance Advisory Officer (Contractor)
The Bluestone Group-Intesa Sanpaolo
New York
04.2025 - 07.2025
- Evaluate client AML/KYC risk and determine KYC related information and documentation required based upon entity type and products as well as approving adequacy of account documentation and financial information received from prospective and existing clients.
- Analyze and review client documentation for accuracy based on internal KYC procedures.
- Partner with Relationship Managers/KYC Support Unit to gather client information and onboarding documentation and keep the team informed of any escalations required or issues encountered in the client due diligence review process.
- Update the BSA/AML/OFAC Coordinator on late or undelivered requests for reviews not performed and assist in reporting to senior management the Intesa Sanpaolo NY customers and their related Relationship Managers.
- Interact effectively with Intesa Sanpaolo NY Quality Control Function and distribute, oversee, and/or correct any issues encountered in a timely and efficient manner.
- Review entity and individual screenings for negative news and PEP checks via WorldCheck, as well as internal manual stop descriptor list and Sanctions screening as applicable. Provide guidance to the Relationship Managers and KYC Support Unit on KYC-related issues. Assist the BSA/AML/OFAC Coordinator in general compliance matters and projects, and provide support and coverage to other compliance personnel as necessary.
- Escalate risks and issues to BSA AML Sanctions Coordinator to ensure customer onboarding is completed correctly and efficiently as per KYC procedures.
- Update related tracking logs, and process connected correspondence with Relationship Managers and KYC Support Unit.
- Support special projects as directed by the Head of KYC and Sanctions Advisory, and BSA/AML/Sanctions Compliance Testing.
- Inform Relationship Managers/KYC Support Unit of any required or missing documents needed to complete the customer due diligence file.
- Support the BSA/AML/OFAC Coordinator by maintaining the branch's Know Your Customer ("KYC") Program and responsibilities to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and the bank's policies and procedures.
Regulatory Onboarding Analyst (Contractor)
Procom (Agency)- Scotiabank
New York
03.2024 - 04.2025
- Facilitated the regulatory onboarding of Global Banking and Markets clients by performing quality control on New to Bank and Periodic Refresh KYC requirements.
- Supported in development and ongoing adjustments to the quality controls performed.
- Provided feedback to personnel the Onboarding Analyst performing KYC onboarding and review work to secure necessary improvements to case quality.
- Facilitated weekly calls to discuss any onboarding roadblocks with the KYC, First Line of Defense and the Business Team.
- Supported in identifying areas within the KYC process of improvement and recommending potential activities.
Client Services Officer-Vice President
Natixis Bank
New York
05.2022 - 12.2023
- Managed the vetting processing, ensuring that all related parties (i.e., Sponsor, Borrower, Guarantor, Co-Lender) involved in a syndicated loan deal or FX transaction are fully vetted.
- Performed quality control review of KYC files submitted by the Relationship Managers to ensure that the KYC has been accurately completed in accordance within the established policies and procedures.
- Ensured that the client's data, business activities, products, adverse negative news, and sanction were clearly documented.
- Assisted the KYC Manager/Team Leader with basic duties including case assignments, case reviews and staff training.
- Supervised and coordinated the credit, legal and regulatory aspects of the onboarding, off-boarding, periodic reviews and event driven KYC reviews on behalf of the Relationship Managers, Sales and clients.
- Partnered with the Credit Team to ensure credit documents are up to date (i.e., Interest Derivatives Rates, Syndicated Loans, Domestic and International Letters of Credit, ISDA Agreement, FX Spot Trades and other credit-related documentation.
- Executed regulatory client onboarding tasks to make sure Dodd Frank regulatory requirements are properly addressed and reflected on the CDD systems.
- Created monthly and quarterly business lines reports utilizing Power BI, Loan IQ and Tableau to determine whether KPIs and KRIs are exceeded.
- Spearheaded bi-weekly prioritization meetings with the RM, Vetting and Compliance Advisory Team to discuss deals in the pipeline and any KYC roadblocks for Global Markets, Global Trade, Infrastructure and Energy, Investment Banking and Aviation business lines.
Lead Business Analyst
TEKsystems (Agency)-Mastercard Incorporated
St. Louis
12.2021 - 05.2022
- Delivered in-depth and comprehensive financial, operational, customer and high-level system analysis to evaluate settlement risk and propose mitigating solutions for proposed new and enhanced systems and products.
- Delivered high-quality business and functional requirements to the development teams for the purpose of completing the design, coding, testing, and implementation phases of the project life cycle.
- Facilitated in methods of requirements engineering, quality assurance and development in agile projects (i.e., User Stories, Demos, Product and Sprint Backlog).
- Facilitated daily scrums, collaborating with cross functional teams, and effectively communicating with stakeholders to set expectations.
- Effectively managed administrative client onboarding requirements (i.e., authorized signature updates, board resolution, electronic banking portal online application, cash management services agreement).
International Treasury Onboarding Project Manager
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
New York
07.2021 - 11.2021
- Acted as a single point of contact to manage the end-to-end client experience during the international onboarding/KYC process for non-complex and complex projects.
- Tackled multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction client onboardings, products and services implementation.
- Collaborated with clients and various stakeholders to develop and execute implementation plans utilizing Microsoft Project Plan application.
- Translated business/KYC requirements into technical specifications for electronic Treasury Services products (i.e., Global ACH, Positive Pay, Check Print and Lockbox).
- Supported sales partners, relationship managers and product team with RFP responses, client presentation both in-person and virtual.
- Delivered technical channels to the clients including Application Programming Interface (API), Host to Host and Chase Connect.
Client Onboarding Account and Implementation Manager
Standard Chartered Bank
New York
11.2012 - 07.2021
- Onboarded and implemented 100+ clients, averaging 95% satisfaction rate and a project success rate of 98%.
- Owned and managed the end-to-end account opening process for Multinational Corporations, Financial Institutions, Public Sectors, Development Organization and Broker Dealers in Africa, APAC, Middle East and EMEA.
- Coordinated client's onboardings and approvals across multiple functions/units (i.e., Front Office, Operations, Taxation, Legal and Compliance), all in a high pressure and time sensitive environment.
- Supported projects by coordinating and participating in UAT and conducting post go-live monitoring via Standard Chartered Bank electronic banking portal.
- Validated and performed client due diligence searches utilizing various 3rd party and internal databases (i.e., LexisNexis, World Check and Bankers Almanac).
- Performed negative news and positive reputation checks, escalated true match and material alerts including PEP forms to the Compliance Advisory Team.
- Assisted in Regulator and Internal Audit related inquiries.
- Effectively managed account maintenance and administrative functions (i.e., authorized signature updates, wire transfers, account closings, account dormancy removals, and change of operational address).
- Backed up leadership for the Relationship Managers, managing any audit and KYC related matters.
- Identified cross sell opportunities of USD 980MM in deposits that generated USD 2MM in annual revenue.
KYC Analyst
Standard Chartered Bank
New York
- Independently and performed due diligence on new and existing clients to ensure any changes in risk rating including FINCEN and operational risk factors were reviewed.
- Analyzed and validated client's information, KYC related documentation, Politically Exposed Person (PEP) and adverse negative news to determine reputational risk at the firm.
- Maintained detailed tracking of KYC files status and other customer record activities to ensure completion within required deadlines.
- Acted as a liaison for the Transaction Monitoring Unit when additional CDD information was required to close out their investigations of money laundering.
- Managed the USA Patriot Act and FATCA remediations.
- Conducted sanctions screening of real-time and post-transactional alerts in the Bank's automated sanction screening solution for potential violations of OFAC.
- Acted as a subject matter expert on required KYC documentation (i.e. Formation documents, Wolfsberg questionnaire, tax form, financial statements, etc) along with partnering with the RMs and Sales Teams to review legal documents to meet all regulatory and internal policies.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice
Strayer University
Arlington, VASkills
- ACH
- AML
- BAI2 File
- Cash Management
- CDD
- CIP
- Clear Thomson Reuters
- Demand Deposit Account
- Dodd Frank
- Dun & Bradstreet
- EDD
- FATCA
- Fenergo
- Financial Markets products
- FINCEN
- Host to Host
- ISO 20022 Messages
- KYC
- Lexis Nexus
- Loan IQ
- MIFID
- Money Laundering
- Nacha
- Norkom
- OFAC
- Orbis
- PEGA
- Power BI
- Sanction
- Swift Messages
- Tableau
- Terrorist Financing
- Trade Finance
- Treasury
- USA Patriot Act
- World Check
- Excel
- OneNote
- Outlook
- PowerPoint
- Project
- SharePoint
- Skype
- Teams
- Word
Timeline
Regulatory Onboarding Specialist (Contractor)
Heitmeyer Consulting-Huntington National Bank
11.2025 - Current
Regulatory Onboarding Analyst (Contractor)
Procom (Agency)-Scotiabank
07.2025 - 11.2025
KYC Compliance Advisory Officer (Contractor)
The Bluestone Group-Intesa Sanpaolo
04.2025 - 07.2025
Regulatory Onboarding Analyst (Contractor)
Procom (Agency)- Scotiabank
03.2024 - 04.2025
Client Services Officer-Vice President
Natixis Bank
05.2022 - 12.2023
Lead Business Analyst
TEKsystems (Agency)-Mastercard Incorporated
12.2021 - 05.2022
International Treasury Onboarding Project Manager
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
07.2021 - 11.2021
Client Onboarding Account and Implementation Manager
Standard Chartered Bank
11.2012 - 07.2021
KYC Analyst
Standard Chartered Bank
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice
Strayer University