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Joseph Botbol

Transition Manager | Compliance Transformation

€799/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Joseph

Is your project struggling?

In a few workshops, we will:
- identify the difficulties
- pinpoint the causes of blockages
- reframe and restructure
- get back on a healthy footing (trust, roadmap, governance)

No long onboarding, just solutions, usually within a week.

For details on my skills...
Project Director & Transition Manager – Transformation and Compliance Expert (Insurance & Banking)
👉 Available quickly for priority interventions

I provide support or take over critical projects involving business, IT, finance, data, and compliance challenges. My role:regain control, structure, accelerate, and securehigh-visibility programs.

Key Expertise:
- **Transformation**: scoping, roadmap, Business/IS alignment & processes, process redesign, TOM, functional architecture
- **Executive Steering**: governance, senior PMO, budgets, dependencies, multi-entity coordination
- **Compliance & Regulatory Transformation**: KYC, AML-CFT, International Sanctions, GDPR, DDA, DORA
- **Finance & Risk**: ALM, accounting process stress tests, internal control

What I bring:
SHORT TERM
- Takeover of drifting projects
- Program Direction & Scoping
- Structuring of processes and governance
- Multi-stakeholder coordination (business, IT, finance, compliance, delegates)
LONG TERM
- Reliable deliverables & executive reporting

Accustomed to regulated environments, I combinerigor, leadership, and pragmatismto deliver **measurable results**.

👉Availablefor project audits, (re)scoping,project management, recovery, compliance, or transformationmissions
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 10km), Niort (up to 10km), Bordeaux (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Covéa
    IT Pilot
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    June 2025 - January 2026 (7 months)
    Paris, France
    Transition mission post-ACPR audit: taking control and ensuring compliance of the Group's AML-CFT framework

    Key Achievements:
    - Design, development, and deployment of an AML-CFT alert management tool (Palantir Foundry)
    - **Parallel run launched**, operational and compliant system
    -30% reduction in alert processing time
    - Structuring ofreporting**, improvement of **traceabilityand data quality
    - Training for 10 referents + 50 users, change management support.

    Impact:
    - Compliance of the AML-CFT alert management tool within the deadlines committed to the ACPR.

    Skills:IT Steering, regulatory compliance, AML-CFT, KYC, Agile, team management, Palantir Foundry.
    Team Management Agile Methodology Regulatory Compliance AML-FT Palantir Foundry
  • Covea
    Property & Casualty Claims Project Director
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    May 2023 - May 2025 (2 years)
    Paris, France
    Business Lead for the strategic TRANSMED project (€2.5M/year) – dematerialization and security of insurer-doctor exchanges for bodily injury claims management

    Key Achievements:
    -2 Group insurers (MAAF, GMF) integratedonto the secure platform androadmap defined for MMA
    - Implementation of **complete governance**: Sponsor, Steering Committee, Project Committee, transverse bodies, partner coordination
    -Securing fundingfrom investment governance
    - **Social validation**: obtaining favorable opinions from social partners (CSE)
    - Scoping anddeployment of MAAF & GMF uses
    - Transverse steering ofClaims / IT / Partners / Professional Bodiesteams (AGIRA, GPSA, Corporeal Committee, AREDOC)

    Impacts:
    -MAAF**: operational IT system, smooth processes, **450 users trained, high adoption
    - **GMF**: secure system, operational demonstrations, **IT acceptance testing ahead of schedule**, **strengthened trust from business & IT management**, training initiated for 900 users

    Skills:Project management, transverse governance, P&C, bodily injury claims, IT/business steering, partner coordination, change management
    Project Management Steering Committee Budget Management Governance Property & Casualty Insurance
  • Crédit Agricole Assurances
    Compliance Programs Director (AML-FT, Sanctions, LAB, LAF)
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    November 2017 - March 2023 (5 years and 3 months)
    Paris, France
    Steering of Group regulatory programs (7 French entities, 10 international) – International Sanctions, AML-FT, KYC/KYB/KYS/KYP

    Key Achievements:
    -Compliance with US regulatory requirements**, **remediation of client/supplier/related party data
    - Redesign ofKYC/KYB/KYS/KYPprocesses and associated IT evolutions
    - Deployment of the annualEWRAprocess and update of procedures
    - Development ofautomated controlswith Permanent Control; suspension of non-remediated relationships
    -Adaptation of action plansaccording to context (Life / Non-Life, France / International) of each entity
    - Close monitoring of subsidiaries in difficulty and steering of action plans validated in Management Committee meetings
    - Mapping of Sanctions frameworks (Excel → ServiceNow)
    - Governance:Monthly Steering Committee**, bi-weekly Project Committee, **concise reporting to Top ManagementCAA & CASA

    AML-FT Management:
    - Adjustment of the Financial SecurityTarget Operating Model(Predica + distributors)
    - Review of detection scenarios and enrichment of the framework
    -Reduction of alert processing time(data automation + optimization of distributor / BO / Financial Security workflow)

    Group Transversal:
    - Integration of entities onto the centralizedFircosoft File Filter screening platform(purchases, suppliers, clients, partners)
    - Review of TOMs with banking distributors, brokers, delegates
    - Collaboration with **Legal & Internal Control**: legal opinions, clauses, contracts, controls

    Skills:Program management, regulatory compliance, AML-FT, Sanctions, KYC/KYB/KYS/KYP, transverse governance, multi-entity steering, ServiceNow
    Program Management Target Operating Model English Compliance KYC

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Education

  • Master 2 Business Intelligence - Decision Support and Modeling
    Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
    2003
    Master 2
  • Master 1 MIAGE
    Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
    2002
    Master 1

Certifications

  • Strategic Agility
    LinkedIn Learning
    2021
  • National Managers Curriculum
    IFCAM
    2014
    strategic management Team Management

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