Cynthia
Barie, CAMS
Cindy joined Citi in 2014 as an SVP in Citi’s AML Monitoring Risk Management and in July 2018 was promoted to the role of Head of Oversight and Assurance in Global AML Transaction Monitoring Risk Management. In this role, Cindy’s team is responsible for partnering across Citi’s Senior Leadership team to provide input and strategic guidance for adherence to program and governance standards (including AML program, independent validation and model risk management standards); ensuring global consistency related to the AML program; and promoting consistency in monitoring strategies by guiding and aiding in their proper design, development and deployment.
Cindy’s 30-year career in banking has covered many areas including tuning & optimization, operations consulting, banking system application conversions and product management. She started her banking career at Mellon Bank in operations consulting, later performing banking system application conversions for Mellon’s Datacenter. Cindy then joined Fiserv, where she continued to perform commercial loan application conversions and later served as the Product Manager for Fiserv’s large bank Commercial loan system. She began her AML career at PNC in 2006, where she was the business project lead for the successful implementation of the strategic monitoring platform and case management workflow system. She later joined Key Bank as a VP & Sr. Manager, recruited to provide expertise, management and guidance for various consent order projects including transaction monitoring, the development of an in-house case management system, and an in-house developed customer risk scoring application. Prior to joining Citi, Cindy led the Tuning & Optimization program and was the Assistant Director for AML Surveillance Operations for PNC, where, as the sponsor and application owner, she was responsible for the transaction monitoring, case management and SAR filing applications.
Cindy is both a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). She served for five years as a Chairperson of the Oracle Mantas SMART User group, and she founded and currently runs the AML SUMMIT Industry Group, a learning and sharing forum with a focus on AML Transaction Monitoring (Tuning, Optimization, Model Risk Management, Data Analytics, and more recently, Machine Learning and AI).