Kevin West

Kevin West has over 30 years of in depth expertise and experience in management consulting and the financial banking industry. He is highly skilled in Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering, Enterprise wide Financial Crime Risk Management, Anti-bribery and Corruption. Mr. West is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners, and leads the FTI Consulting’s work in advising on and resolving highly complex and multi-jurisdictional regulatory enforcement and compliance challenges.

Mr. West was previously a partner with KPMG Forensic (South Africa) heading up the AML and ABC service line for Africa. He worked for KPMG for 15 years. After leaving KPMG in 2013, Mr West was the Head of Financial Crime Compliance for Barclays Africa being responsible for approximately 12 countries on the continent. He held this role for 2 years.

In 2015, Mr. West joined the FirstRand Group to head up their Financial Crime Operations (including the Financial Crime Intelligence Unit). He performed this role as a consultant and recently joined FTI Consulting when his contract came to an end. During his career, Mr. West has worked in various jurisdictions across the world, namely London, Dubai, Russia, US, and all Southern Africa countries.

Mr. West has previously served on the Board of the ACFE South Africa Chapter, and was also the founding Board member of ACAMS (South Africa Chapter) and the Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners (ICFP).

Mr. West has also presented at numerous conferences both locally and internationally. Managing and conducting assignments with teams across a number of industries for various large, listed clients as well as for government departments and agencies.

Relevant Experience:

• Conducting sanctions screening of an acquired Russian, Ugandan and Indonesian banks Conducted a customer remediation project in London on a bank who had undergone a regulatory inspection and was required under a RMP to remediate its customer base.
• Conducted EDD reviews and remediation across approximately 10 African Countries on behalf of an international bank.
• Conducted CDD/EDD remediation for a large International Bank with a footprint in SA on some 1 million customers. Led a team of approximately 350 team members.
• Appointed by the UNDP Somalia to compile and present AML Training for Somali Money Remitters – the training covered regulatory requirements across some 16 jurisdictions, taking place in London, USA and Dubai.
• Designed and implemented Customer Risk Scoring frameworks.
• Compiled/drafted AML Policies and Minimum Standards.
• Conducted assessments of sanctions screening solutions.
• Conducted rule tuning in respect of screening and transaction monitoring solutions.