Vadim Yurchenko

Experience

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  CC Media Live

  Aug 2004 - Jun 2007

  Reporting to CFO I was responsible for fraud management in a high risk online business with 100% sales through credit/debit cards. Key duties included Statistics & performance reports to the Head of Finance and Directors; internal & external project management, risk management; interaction with IPSPs and acquiring bank; leading investigations of major cases of fraud (including case of internal employee fraud against the company for over $100,000); chargebacks management. Close day-to-day cooperation with Customer Support Manager, Head of Finance and IT Manager in major fraud questions. Achievements: suggested and launched a number of staff improvement programs – delivered series of theoretical lectures, prepared tests and conducted workshops, as well took part in development of internal investigation tools. Maintained chargeback ratio below 0.1%. Show less

  • Head of Fraud Unit

    Mar 2005 - Jun 2007

  • Fraud Operator

    Aug 2004 - Mar 2005
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  Betway.com

  Jul 2007 - Mar 2011

  Managing team of 7 analysts to ensure 24x7 payments & risk operations for betway.com which focused on payment fraud and product abuse prevention activities; active participation in design and further improvement of proprietary back office, risk management system and analytical tools (one of them being "similar accounts matrix" aimed at detecting multiple accounts registered by an individual or a group). Together with Head of Risk I was co-managing Payments&Risk Department. Key duties included researching, recommending and integrating new payment systems for relevant markets; maintaining statistics on payments and monitoring suppliers' performance; holding responsibility for entire Money Out flow (withdrawals), including risk checks. Ensure efficient daily interaction process between payments analysts and Customer Service department.

  • Head of Payments & Risk

    Oct 2010 - Mar 2011

  • Head of Payments

    Jul 2007 - Oct 2010
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  Trustly

  Jan 2012 - Dec 2020

  In this role I built and further developed a team of 7 AML analysts to cover the AML/CFT operations of the Group:* onboarding and ongoing due diligence on corporate and private customers;* building and maintaining customer profile and records;* transaction and activity monitoring;* reporting to FIUs;* compliance with sanctions regimes.The team was divided into two sub-divisions: Underwriting and Surveillance each having its specialisation with a minimal overlap.Reported to the Chief Operating Officer with access to the CEO. Member of the Board's Compliance & Risk Committee for strategic matters, as well as the AML Committee for operational matters. Worked closely with the MLRO, Legal and Compliance departments within the Swedish and Spanish regulatory frameworks.Created and maintained all AML/CFT processes and documentation (procedures and instructions) which was governed by the Group Risk Assessment and the appetite set by the Board of Directors.Implemented SalesForce as a CRM system to support Team operations and established workflows and communication process, thus creating synergy with the Sales and Account Management departments. As a side effect of this I gained some basic SalesForce development experience which allowed to independently make simpler changes to the environment (creating/editing custom fields, validation rules, working with record types and page layouts).Supported the team with in-house development by automating certain routines by using Google Apps Script. Developed and implemented automated reporting of suspicious transactions to Swedish FIU. Together with external consultant set up a prototype machine learning solution to identify known fraud and money laundering typologies.Identified and implemented key suppliers, to mention a few: Dow Jones, Lexis Nexis, Chainalysis, Evercompliant, Napier.ai. Show less (B2B) Relationship management, "ambassador" function (represent company to clients and clients to the company), strong advocate of win-win approach. Key focus on increasing processing volumes and share of wallet by offering well-designed services tailored for customer needs. Active participation in shaping and further improvements of Trustly products, resulting in tight cooperation with payments and technical teams of major gaming industry players. Strong technology focus and good understanding of development process proved useful and allowed me to take complete responsibility for technical integrations of Trustly services via API, resulting in close day-to-day contact with developers. Show less

  • Head of AML & Merchant Risk

    Apr 2015 - Dec 2020

  • Key Accounts Manager (gaming sector)

    Apr 2011 - Feb 2016

  • Chief Risk Officer

    Jun 2012 - Dec 2015

  • AML & Merchant Risk Analyst

    Dec 2013 - Apr 2015

  • General Manager - Malta Operations

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2014
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  Ardilla Consulting SIA

  Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

  Founder

  I set this company shortly after I had returned to my home country. Consultancy and support on business operations within the EU AML/CFT framework; governance, KYC processes for corporates and natural persons, sanctions compliance regime, FIU reporting, transaction monitoring/screening processes.

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  Swedbank Latvija

  Apr 2021 - now

  Team Leader

  Being part of the Financial Crime Risk Compliance deraprtment, I am leading an international team of Compliance Officers and coordinating delivery of key workstreams across the banks in all three Baltic states: the annual ML/TF and FS/PF risk assessment and the ad-hoc Geographical risk assessment.