Jesus Ornelas

Jesus S. Ornelas is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Financial Services practice based in New York City. His expertise and skills include knowledge of fraud, anti-money laundering, and sanctions regulatory policies.

Since joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Ornelas has been a contributing leader in a wide range of engagements with multinational banks, money services businesses and financial services companies. He has consulted clients on evaluating the risks and emerging trends of money laundering, terrorism financing and sanctions. He has assisted clients in responding to regulatory action as a result of examinations, cease and desist orders and matters requiring attention. He has also completed numerous forensic transaction lookback reviews as part of government investigations. Mr. Ornelas has conducted independent reviews of client policies and procedures, state regulatory exams, risk assessments, suspicious activity reports (“SAR”), investigations logs, currency transaction report (“CTR”) lists, training programs and internal controls. He has evaluated financial institutions’ compliance governance and management oversight programs, assessing the design and effectiveness of structures and frameworks.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Ornelas worked for JP Morgan Chase and supported its global compliance operations group in the corporate sector. There he managed a team of analysts, responsible for supporting and leading initiatives under the firm’s AML Program. His team was responsible for tracking and analyzing quality of case investigations and filing appropriate SARs. He also collaborated with business operations managers and external monitors to establish procedures and develop organizational structure for the firm’s case investigations remediation teams. In his role, he also provided and used effective training programs to easily understand general principles and concepts underlying a particular program as well as developing staff skills.

In 2013, his role included support of the rollout and launch of the NICE Actimize financial crimes investigation portal for Global Compliance Operations. There he assisted the team with alert rule testing and appropriately updating policies and procedures. This included working with independent monitors to ensure proper adherence to laws and regulations. The project also involved establishing training for new team members and ensuring proper quality control as new alert rules were introduced to the program.

Mr. Ornelas has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management from California State University Fullerton, Mihaylo College of Business and Economics. He is a CFE, CAMS certified, and is also fluent in Spanish.

Relevant Experience:

• Directed a global team in executing a multi‑year, independent sanctions compliance program assessment for a leading multinational bank
• Guided a multibillion‑dollar global fintech in resolving regulatory commitments and remediating critical compliance gaps
• Served as independent consultant to multinational bank supporting settlement obligations with U.S. regulators related to BSA/AML and sanctions compliance programs
• Led an independent review of BSA/AML and sanctions compliance programs for a major money services business