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Manfred Paschek
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager EfA / OZG Online Services at Senatskanzlei ITD Hamburg, Dataport, Police Hamburg
The online service "Special Use of Streets and No-Parking Zone" was in a partially completed state. The following tasks had to be carried out to reach final completion:
- Preparation of an expert report on the status of the online service, and recommendations for action
- Ensuring that all LEIKAS to be used are available (service catalog / service descriptions of the authorities)
- Creating and aligning concepts for complex IT projects (business/IT concepts, architecture, interfaces, roadmaps)
- Requirements management
- Multi-project management with 3 stakeholders (Police, Dataport, development company)
- Determining resource needs
- Coordination to identify technical requirements through the IT architects
- Creating use cases and test cases
- Creating action items
- Managing external IT service providers
- Coordination and management of all activities
- Conflict resolution / business mediation
- User Acceptance Test (UAT) and acceptance by Hamburg Police (Traffic Directorate, Policy Department, Central Road Traffic Authority)
Technical environment: .NET, EfA minimum requirements, Leikas, Administrative Procedure Act (VwVfG), HWG (Hamburg Roads Act), Atlassian Jira, Confluence, MS Office
Philippe Ronga Md
Last position:
Founder | Senior Clinical & AI Strategy Advisor to PE/VC & Boards at Nexevan Advisory
Nexevan Advisory provides independent senior clinical and AI strategy support to PE/VC funds, Boards, and Leadership teams investing in or scaling clinically complex Healthcare businesses.
I support clients across pre-investment diligence, portfolio value creation, evidence and adoption strategy, cross-border growth, AI Governance, strategic-buyer readiness, and Board advisory.
The advisory scope spans BioPharma, MedTech, HealthTech, Diagnostics, and specialty Healthcare services, supported by deep expertise in Oncology, Haematology, Rare Diseases, and Internal Medicine.
Engagements include 7-14-day red-flag reviews, 2-6-week strategic deep dives, project-based mandates, Board and strategic advisory retainers, and fractional executive support.
Firas Jradi
Last position:
Interim Management Group Head of IT Governance & IAM at French-German Private Bank
- Head of the group-wide, international, and cross-functional IT Governance & IAM department within the central IT division of a large French-German private banking group. Disciplinary management of around 30 employees at five different locations within the group (Frankfurt, Paris, Tunis, Saarbrücken, Düsseldorf). Head of IT committees and key role in direct communication with management, the supervisory board, external stakeholders, and regulators.
- Definition and establishment of a state-of-the-art IT strategy process and related IT governance structures for the group's IT department with more than 600 employees (testified by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority and the ACPR) and successful process run.
- Establishment of a new future-oriented process framework for IT and necessary governance structures (process squads) for the continuous improvement of IT processes with regard to new regulatory requirements (including DORA, EU AI Act, etc.).
- Establishment of stringent processes to close a historical backlog of findings (> 100 IT findings, 40 overdue findings in 2022) from internal and external auditors (WP, ACPR, BaFin). Successful reduction of stock of overdue findings to 0 at the end of 2025.
- Supporting more than 20 IT audits per year and establishment of regulatory monitoring processes. Introduction of ServiceNow to revolutionize regulatory change and IT compliance processes with advanced AI functionalities.
- Realignment of IT control processes in conjunction with the newly established ICT risk function under DORA and the three lines of defense concept using the TopEase GRC solution.
- Reduction of the application landscape, by systematically analysing the purpose with application and business owners, identifying duplicates while implementing a One-Tool Strategy throughout the group. Successful reduction of one third of the application landscape within the CMDB.
- Onboarding of all group applications into One Identity's group-wide IAM solution, as well as operation and further development of the solution in connection with segregation of duties (SoD), role-based access management (RBAC), etc.
Michael Rosens
Last position:
Project Manager at Payone GmbH (Worldline AG)
- Goal/Motivation: PAYONE urgently needs a 360° view of its customers. So far, PAYONE has no overall master data strategy. It is not possible to identify customers across all relevant systems.
The organization is to be enabled to identify customers across all relevant systems. Creating the foundation for master data management at PAYONE
- Challenge: Due to acquisitions, the system landscape is very heterogeneous. The company is very dynamic and burdened with many system harmonization and integration projects, so resource bottlenecks and changes in project priorities are again and again almost impossible to handle.
Due to BaFin findings, the project has a central task and role. The first focus is on migrating all customers from the master-data-leading backend systems with their AML/KYC data to Salesforce. This is intended to resolve one of the largest findings and establish the corresponding ODD/EDD processes.
In addition, customer data must be harmonized in Salesforce. Previous migrations led in some cases to duplicate customer records. In the end, only one customer should be maintained in Salesforce and, with the corresponding information from the backend systems, it should also be possible to recognize which products and in which processing systems the customer uses Payone services.
Project: ONE Customer
Budget: €1.5 million
Team: 10/30 employees (full-time/part-time); 4 vendors/providers
Integration: 8 (subsystems/interfaces)
Applications: Salesforce; SAP S4/HANA; custom developments
Tools: MS Office; Jira, Confluence, SharePoint
Methods: Hands-on; Agile (SAFe); Prince2
Joachim Auster
Last position:
Project Manager HubSpot, Tracking + Analytics Expert at Swiss Post
- Create a tracking concept for Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics including data layer, events, triggers, and reporting
- Manage the project team (developers, designers, performance specialists)
- Serve as communication interface between stakeholders and digital departments
Guido Bäcker
Last position:
Independent Management Consultant and Interim Manager at BCTC Unternehmensberatung Guido Bäcker
Consulting, training, and coaching in the financial sector on strategy, organization, and IT topics
MorgenFund: Advising the operator of a fund platform on software selection for a sub-ledger "Cash Accounts" based on Virtual IBANs (VIBAN)
Structuring requirements, market screening, creating RfIs, communicating with vendors, and conducting the selection process
UniCredit/HypoVereinsbank: Workstream lead "Booking and Customer Reporting" in the payment transformation project "PULS"
Business analysis, creating business requirements and aligning solution items as part of the functional specification with the bank's IT service providers
Business analysis of SEPA CT and SWIFT MX (.camt, .pain, and .pacs formats), change management, team lead for a virtual team of fifteen line experts, and stakeholder management
equensWorldline Germany: Program management for three projects of the SWIFT service bureau (CBPR+, ESMIG, and Euro1Step1 migration) as part of the SWIFT MX migration
Managing individual project managers regarding overarching goals and requirements; reporting to internal and external committees and stakeholders; coordinating with dependent projects and programs
Project management/PMO: interim project management, stand-in for project managers, resource planning, budget and cost management, general PMO tasks
German Rauhut
Last position:
Freelance Technical Product Owner & AI Product Builder at Neckarshore AI / Freelance
Two complementary tracks: (a) building my own AI products and open-source tools under the Neckarshore AI brand, with a focus on AI-supported multi-agent development processes and documentation automation; (b) freelance support for industrial, logistics, and financial companies in IT-related transformation projects.
Current product portfolio under the Neckarshore AI brand:
- Omnopsis Documenter — AI-powered documentation engine: generates compliance, technical, and release documentation from Git, Jira, and Confluence. 500+ automated tests, 100+ API endpoints, RBAC, monitoring stack.
- TrustScope — trust analysis for public GitHub repos: deterministic three-pillar report (Security & Supply Chain, Governance, Community) based on OpenSSF Scorecard, with constructive fix suggestions instead of a single misleading score.
- md-viewer — dependency-free Markdown viewer for macOS (Finder Quick Action) and web, split view of rendered document and raw text.
- Obsidian Vault Autopilot — AI-supported vault automation for Obsidian × Claude Code: sorts the inbox, renames notes, enriches frontmatter.
- Phonesis Voice Bank — voice archive for families, hospices, and cultural archives (guided recordings, inheritable archive, optional voice cloning); currently in the GDPR compliance phase (Art. 9, biometric data).
- Multi-Agent Development Process — 12+ specialized agents (architecture, implementation, security, refactoring, marketing) with structured handoff protocol, parallel execution, and automated quality assurance — powers the entire product development.
- Freelance consulting: Technical Product Ownership for production, logistics, and compliance/AML systems; steering international rollouts including test, cutover, and change management.
Stack: NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis/BullMQ, Next.js, Claude Code (Opus), Docker, GitHub Actions, Vercel
Tobias Weik
Last position:
External Data Protection Officer at Self-employed
- Informing and advising on obligations under applicable data protection regulations
- Reviewing compliance with data protection regulations and the client’s strategies for protecting personal data through own audits
- Advising on and preparing data protection impact assessments as well as data protection notices and data protection guidelines and policies
- Drafting, advising on and negotiating data processing agreements
- Raising awareness among management and staff on data protection by creating training materials and concepts and delivering training sessions
- Industries include: financial services, healthcare, trades, mechanical engineering, recruitment, auditing and tax consulting
Thomas Martini
Last position:
Consultant / System Administrator / IT Analyst at Thomas Martini IT-Services
- Analysis and audit of the current situation on-site and at customer locations
- Planning of IT infrastructures and advice on new hardware purchases as well as migration planning
- Planning and management of the IT budget
- Configuration and support of IT hardware under Windows 7, 8.x, 10 and Mac OS
- Review and update of documentation with regard to GDPR
- Analysis and expansion of technical and organizational measures in accordance with GDPR and BDSG
- Training of employees
- Training in AI-Assistant Consulting and Cybersecurity with AI
- Recording the current state and planning the target state
- 2nd/3rd level support (C/S/N)
- Technical environment: Exchange Administration, Active Directory, MS Server 2016 R2, MS Server 2022, MS SQL Developer, MS SQL, Visual Studio 2013+, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Remote, TeamViewer, weclapp CRM Solution, RA-Micro, IT Compliance, Citrix, UltraEdit, SCCM, Windows XP–11, Office 2010–M365, VPN Solutions, Lexware Solutions, OKI Management Solutions, LogMyTime, SAGE Systems
Alex Volnov
Last position:
CTO, Co-Founder, Cryptography(incl. Post-Quantum Cryptography) and AI Security Expertise at AISLEIPNIR
- Integration of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms into high level protocols.
- Security of implementations of Post-Quantum Cryptography algorithms.
- Transition to Post-Quantum public key infrastructures.
- Security evaluations of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) primitives.
- Drone Cybersecurity
- Satellite Cybersecurity
- AI Security
Matthias Ottowski
Last position:
IT Project Manager at IT service provider
Implementation of anti-money laundering requirements in accordance with AMLA/KYC for an international large bank in Munich
Services provided:
- Clarification of the assignment, definition of the work package structure for the AMLA/KYC implementation project
- AI-supported project planning using my own AI workflow for project management
- Creation of the project management plan
- Resource and capacity planning
- Development of collaboration structures between IT service provider and bank client
- Alignment of responsibilities (RACI matrix)
- Management of 5 project members (core team)
- Project control, project monitoring, project reporting
- Communication management
- Escalation management
- Stakeholder management (11 stakeholders)
- Permanent member of the steering committee
- Project representation internally and externally
- Project reporting, management of decision-making bodies
- Project volume: 506 person-days (development effort)
- Risk management
- Quality management
- Organization and running of workshops
Methods: PMI PMBOK, EVM, GWG, DORA, BAIT, KANBAN, AML, AMLR, AMLA, GWG, KYC
IT environment: JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint, Kantata Kimble, AI LLM Copilot, ChatGPT, anti-money laundering systems (in-house developments and SMARAGD)
Natascha Kluike
Last position:
Business Analyst DORA and System Architecture at PSVaG
- DORA consulting and system optimization
- Process analysis of existing business processes that are complex from both a business and technical point of view
- Analysis of the individual business processes in the relevant business areas Trading, Back Office, Settlement, Custodian Bank
- Interface between the business units and IT to understand and define requirements
- Creation of a business concept incl. adjustments and implementation of software applications and their interfaces to the systems
- Preparation of a decision template for the management board for project approval
- Setting up and running project meetings with the relevant stakeholders and documenting them
- Close collaboration with the stakeholders
- Coordination and control of the analysis
- Creation and planning of resources and budget
- Onboarding of large banks (Asia and Eastern Europe) for Depot B
- Migration of portfolio holdings (volume around EUR 70-100 million)
Alex Odesser
Last position:
Contractor at Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
- Data-analysis, Preparation, gathering and coordination of business requirements for retrieval of monthly- and long term (CLV – relevant) cost- and revenue-components per contract for a customer–base–grouping project (HUB–Project) for B2C-Postpaid-Controlling
- Concept and Implementation of cost- and revenue-KPIs calculation and corresponding CLV–reports (Oracle, Perl, SVN, MS SQL Server, MS Power BI, Serviceware Performance Analytics)
- Operational support of the HUB-Project – various ad-hoc reports, deployments, job-scheduling etc. (Oracle, SVN, BICSuite–Scheduler, DWSODA etc.)
- Analysis, implementation, retrieval and reporting of various physical and financial KPIs for B2P-Prepaid Business on an existing data-mart (Oracle, Perl)
Richard Reynolds
Last position:
Vice President– Head of Claims Operations, Europe at SOMPO International
Managing TPA Manager and a team of 10 Claims Operation Assistants.
Designing and implementing processes and workstreams using Guidewire from the ground up with European claims teams across all lines of business.
Establishing service level agreements (SLAs) and detailed key performance indicators (KPIs) with new business intelligence (BI) reporting, payment and performance analysis.
Developing, steering and analysing 50+ strategic, operational and IT initiatives, driving digital change and AI automation in payments while meeting DORA, GDPR, ACM and BAIT MaRisk regulatory compliance.
Increasing customer satisfaction scores by 80%.
Attracting and mentoring market-leading operational and TPA talent.
Demonstrating strong stakeholder leadership and swift decisional influence.
Asım Yurduseven
Last position:
Freelance BI/DWH/ETL Specialist at Akbank
- Setting architectural standards for Informatica Power Center development teams
- Maintenance-performance-health for DWH (Exadata) environments
- Qlik Sense / BO reports architectural standards
- Implementing best practices in ETL tasks
- Documentation ETL standards on Confluence
- Dynamic Data Masking rules for GDPR/KVKK regulations by using Informatica DDM tool
- DWH Data model Power Designer
- Upgrade Qlik Sense versions
- Merge all Informatica server's repository databases on one Oracle DB
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Statistics of experts using Anti-Money Laundering
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
2.7 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Project Management, Operations, Information Technology
Top industries
Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
91%
Master's degree or higher
64%
Doctorate
4%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 6 Sep 2026.
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About the technology
What AML covers
Anti-Money Laundering work helps firms detect, block, and investigate suspicious financial activity. It sits across payments, banking, lending, crypto, and insurance. Strong professionals turn policy into practical controls that teams can run every day.
Typical delivery
- Transaction monitoring rule design and tuning
- Alert review and case investigation support
- KYC, CDD, and sanctions workflow setup
- Suspicious activity reporting and evidence packs
- Control testing, remediation, and QA
Core toolkit
AML specialists often work with case management systems, screening engines, rule logic, data feeds, and reporting layers. They need to understand customer data, payment patterns, risk scoring, and how alerts move through an investigation queue. Good work is clear, traceable, and easy for compliance teams to defend.
When to bring in help
Companies bring in freelance AML expertise when rules are too noisy, backlogs grow, or a new product adds fresh risk. It also helps during audits, control redesign, system migrations, and short-term coverage gaps. In regulated teams, a focused specialist can make the work more reliable without adding permanent headcount.
What strong specialists do
- Explain why a rule exists and what risk it catches
- Balance false positives against missed suspicious activity
- Document logic, decisions, and escalation paths clearly
- Work well with compliance, operations, data, and product teams
- Keep pace with new typologies and changing screening needs
Industry fit
AML is common in banks, payment providers, fintech, marketplaces, and crypto businesses. The best specialists understand both the regulatory side and the practical limits of the systems in use. They know when to improve a workflow, when to refine a threshold, and when the process itself needs to change.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around Anti-Money Laundering.
A strong Anti-Money Laundering specialist helps a company spot suspicious activity, investigate alerts, and keep controls working as business changes. The work often includes transaction monitoring, customer due diligence, sanctions checks, and writing clear case notes. In practice, the goal is to make compliance repeatable and defensible.
AML is the wider discipline that covers monitoring, investigation, reporting, and control design. KYC and sanctions screening are usually part of it, but they are not the whole picture. Companies often need someone who can connect all three into one consistent workflow.
Anti-Money Laundering help is useful when an internal team is overloaded, a system change is causing too many alerts, or a new product creates fresh compliance risk. It is also a good fit for remediation work, audit preparation, and short-term cover during hiring gaps. A freelancer can focus on the problem without long ramp-up time.
A strong AML freelancer usually knows investigation workflows, risk scoring, screening logic, and how financial crime teams document decisions. Useful adjacent skills include data analysis, SQL, process mapping, and familiarity with tools such as Actimize, NICE, or Oracle FCCM. The best people can talk to both compliance and technical teams.
Anti-Money Laundering and fraud detection overlap, but they are not the same. Fraud work usually focuses on stopping direct customer loss or account abuse, while AML focuses on identifying illicit financial flows and reporting obligations. A good specialist knows where the two systems intersect and where they need different rules.
AML projects do not always need heavy coding, but they do need someone who understands data, controls, and workflow design. Some work is policy-heavy, while other work requires rule tuning, system configuration, or data review. The right level depends on whether you need investigation support, process design, or platform changes.
Yes, most Anti-Money Laundering work can be done remotely if the company provides secure access to case tools, data, and documentation. On-site work is sometimes useful for sensitive remediation programs or workshops with compliance and operations teams. For many projects, remote collaboration is enough.
Look for clear reasoning, traceable documentation, and examples of work that improved alert quality or investigation flow. A strong AML specialist should explain why a control was changed, what risk it covers, and how success is checked. Good answers are specific, practical, and easy to audit.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used Anti-Money Laundering in their recent projects is 115 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 922 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used Anti-Money Laundering in their recent projects, 91% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 64% hold at least a Master's degree, and 4% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used Anti-Money Laundering in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used Anti-Money Laundering in their recent projects are English (100%), German (97%), and French (34%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used Anti-Money Laundering in their recent projects are Banking and Finance (89%), Information Technology (60%), and Professional Services (47%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used Anti-Money Laundering in their recent projects are Project Management (76%), Operations (73%), and Information Technology (69%).
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