Serbia
I am strictly focused on protecting the company’s reputation, financial stability, and legal standing. I ensure that the company operates in full compliance with national and international laws, industry-specific regulations, professional standards, accepted business practices, and internal guidelines. Experienced Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in different business areas. Executive experience in leading a compliance team.
· Implementing internal legal and compliance procedures and coordinating compliance staff and matters across the region covering Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, and Croatia · Verifying compliance with laws, rules, and national and international standards in the compliance area: AML, Data Protection, Regulatory, Anti-Fraud, Conflict of Interests etc. · Monitoring compliance legislation in the Region and reporting risks and needs to Group Compliance · Training and active counseling of APS staff in the Region to enhance understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing issues, including policies, procedures, regulations, and best practice · Investigating, reviewing, and resolving suspicious transactions · Performing the due diligence on new clients, requesting the KYC information, and documentation, reviewing and verification of received documentation · Preparing regular Compliance reports · Identifying, evaluating, and ensuring compliance with the company’s data processing activities in the Region · Maintaining records of data processing operations · Ensuring addressing all queries from data subjects · Responding to requests received from State Authorities or auditors · Monitoring outsourced activities from the personal data protection policy perspective · Monitoring and controlling obligations of employees in the compliance area, in particular AML · Providing support to company employees regarding compliance issues · To a limited extent, also providing legal advice and support with regard to Serbian law · Coordinates and cooperates with other compliance staff in the Region · Performs duties related to the compliance activities which are in line with the APS Group and are assigned by the Group Compliance Officer, which are not in contradiction with the national laws in place · Report all issues to the Group Compliance officer, which can cause harm to the property & reputation of the company, relations with investors, or any other significant harm
The Compliance System was established on the Comtrade Group Level in August 2019 as well as Compliance Committee and Compliance Officer role. In two years, proposed by Compliance Officer, Compliance Committee adopted a dozen of Compliance procedures, policies, guidelines, and statements in different Compliance fields such as Code of Conduct for Employees and Business Partners, Anti-money laundering, Anti-trust, Gifts and Hospitality, Business Partners, High-Risk Payments, Conflict of Interest, etc. Successfully also created the accepting and offering G&H (approval and disapproval) tool and established the process of categorisation and monitoring of Business Partners based on the instruction and experience of the Compliance Officer. Internal and external Compliance pages with ''Tell us'' (reporting channel) were published during 2020 with all necessary information for Employees and Third Parties. Almost all Employees (about 1,500) passed ''Comtrade Compliance Training'' prepared and performed by Compliance Officer.