Ewa Ostrowska

• Drive execution on a compliance program framework for Elavon Merchant Services to ensure compliance with key regulatory requirements and compliance practices for European business entities (UK, Ireland, Norway, Germany, Poland).
• Identify compliance control gaps; track and monitor progress toward remediation of internal control gaps and identify mitigating controls.
• Assess international compliance changes to business processes to determine impact on control environment and whether changes to controls designs are necessary.
• Ensure linkage of compliance assessment with the First Line of Defense Testing team. This will ensure key compliance items are tested and validated. Review Compliance findings from the first line team to ensure a compliance concern exists.
• Partner with the business as compliance issues arise to triage and evaluate impacts. Assist with the development and agreement of an action plan ensuring adequate and timely resolution
• Ensure auditing body recommendations are implemented. Manage response and action plans resulting from compliance observations.
• Monitor progress toward resolving compliance related findings.

Implementation of the AML standards within the company including both EU and Polish regulations ● Acting as a Group Compliance Officer for CEE Vistra’s offices, working on improvement of AML process ● Preparation of Know Your Client procedures ● Cooperation with Vistra Group with regards to compliance area, implementing group policies ● Quarterly reporting to the Vistra Group ● participation in the Legal, Risk, Compliance bi-monthly meetings on the Vistra Group level

Major accomplishments:
• Acting as a project manager in the successfully accomplished license process of obtaining status of Payment Institution in Polish Financial Supervisory Authority.
• Implementing Anti-Money Laundering Program in DCP which was fully accepted by Polish Financial Supervisory Authority during an license process.
• Taking active part in the legislative process of implementing to the Polish law order Payment Service Directive by Act on Payment Services, which has enormous impact on DCP activity. The key activities included: participating in the meetings at the Sejm (Public Finance Committee) and at the Senate (Budget and Public Finance Committee), arranging meetings with deputes aiming to change the provisions of the bill which were unfavorable for DCP’s activity.
• Preparing company for a control of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority and acting as a first point of contact for the PFSA Inspectors.

Main areas of responsibilites:
Implementation of the Company's compliance standards taking into consideration rules and requirements of Diners Club International and local law ● Cooperation with Compliance Unit abroad in the field of introducing compliance trainings, implementation of corporate rules, reporting ● Coordinating and maintaining contacts with the public authorities (Polish Supervision Authority, Ministry of Finance, National Bank of Poland)● Performing compliance control on AML, Data Protection, Consumer Protection Act etc. ● Management of audit reviews process, preparing Corrective Action Plans. Act as a primary contact for auditors requests, performing audit monitoring activities ● Providing guidance on internal regulations / documents, products or projects especially with regards to the consumer protection act, personal data protection and anti-money laundering and terrorism financing act ● Advise business on new projects / products from compliance perspective.

FATCA Officer and Information Security Officer