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Gustavo Bohlen

Governance, Regulatory and Risk Management

€945/day
Bruxelles, BE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Gustavo

Highly skilled and experienced professional in governance, risk management, and compliance, with a strong focus on regulatory compliance and project management. With a proven track record of success in implementing complex projects, mitigating risks, and building strong relationships with stakeholders.

  • Specifically skilled in aligning regulatory requirements with product design in areas including PSD2, GDPR, MiFID2, UCITS, and IDD.
  • Experienced in coordinating multiple teams including Product, Finance, Treasury, and Operations in order to achieve compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Developed an auditable decision-making process that reduces risks, avoids penalties, and enhances market access.
  • Skilled at educating teams internally on complex topics and identifying unique opportunities to improve financial outcomes.
  • Successfully identified improvements in the process of safeguarding customer funds, and coordinated the implementation, resulting in significant annual profit increases for the organization and other entities worldwide.
  • Successfully educated top management and product teams on regulatory processes for new products and features, resulting in a noticeable reduction in exchanges with regulators while improving the relationships.
  • Experienced in conducting training sessions with product and operational teams to build a robust foundation for risk-informed growth within the European market.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Fluent

  • Dutch

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Bruxelles (up to 50km), Anvers (up to 10km), Liège (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Degroof Petercam
    IT Risk Manager
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    November 2024 - Today (1 year and 7 months)
    Implementation of DORA with added value to the existing environment:
    - project management,
    - creation and update of relevant processes,
    - properly documentation creation and updating
    - operational implementation when applicable
    - reporting to relevant stakeholders
    - fulfilling internal audits and external independent audits requests to successfully becoming the best in class within the Credit Agricole group

    Creation and implementation of an IT Risk Management framework for third-party providers
  • Wise
    Regulatory Compliance Manager
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2020 - January 2024 (4 years and 1 month)
    Bruxelles, Belgium
    - Setting up the European entity from scratch and overseeing the migration of 3.2M EEA customers from Wise UK portfolio to Wise Europe following Brexit
    - Designing and implementing the Governance and decision making framework for the company, including the Governance Memorandum, Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest Policy, etc
    - Building a robust compliance framework based on Payment Institution regulatory obligations, risk management and internal control programs - Drafting and maintaining compliance policies and roll down the
    implementation of the complete framework
    - Implementing the Group Enterprise Risk Management Framework at the
    Belgian level
    - Attending the quarterly Board meeting and the Senior Management weekly
    meeting; reporting on Compliance risks, projects and resource management
    - Reporting on regulatory risks at Group level quarterly Compliance
    Committee
    - Advising and overseeing the launch of new products and features
    - Acting as main point of contact to the NBB and other EEA competent
    authorities for regulatory matters
    - Owning the regulatory reporting to the NBB, coordinating the Finance, Fraud
    and AML teams to provide relevant data
    - Acting as main point of contact to the statutory auditor for Compliance and
    Risk matters
  • KEYTRADE BANK
    Internal Auditor
    January 2019 - January 2020 (1 year)
    Brussels, Belgium
    Analysis of systems, products, projects and processes in order to assess compliance, operational, financial and reputational risks, followed by the production of reports containing actionable recommendations aiming at risk mitigation.

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Education

  • Master's degree, Law
    Université de Liège
    2015
    Master's degree, Law
  • Business/Managerial Economics
    The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
    2019
    Business/Managerial Economics

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