Aimee M. Smith is a director in the Financial Crimes Risk Management practice at K2 Integrity. She specializes in transaction monitoring and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) investigations, with extensive experience in lookback and business-as-usual (BAU) engagements. As part of assisting financial services clients with their compliance needs, Aimee regularly conducts enhanced due diligence (EDD)/Know Your Customer (KYC) investigations, including analyzing and reviewing documentation, reviewing negative media, conducting risk analysis, and performing quality assurance.
Due to her experience with transaction-monitoring cases, Aimee has a strong background conducting due diligence reviews, fulfilling requests for information, and, as appropriate, preparing suspicious activity reports (SARs). She is proficient in research databases such as LexisNexis, World Check, TransparINT, and Lloyd’s. Aimee works with a number of transaction-monitoring programs, including Actimize, Prime, Statistical Analysis System (SAS), and Fiserv’s Financial Crime Risk Management (FCRM) system. As senior analyst, Aimee also makes conclusive decisions related to risk mitigation/escalation, communicating with project managers and understanding client relationships and needs.
Aimee has additionally assisted in integrity monitorships conducted by K2 Integrity’s Construction and Real Estate Risk Management team, collecting financial documents, filing forms regarding Women- and Minority-Owned Business Entities (WBE/MBE), analyzing certified payroll reports, reviewing payment requisitions, and overseeing the writing of requests for proposal (RFPs).
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Aimee held various roles at the New Hampshire Housing and Finance Authority, Laser Projection Technologies, and Reynolds & Rowella. In these roles she was responsible for month-end closings and receivables, managing accounts payable and purchase orders, and maintaining a record of receivables purchased.
Aimee received a M.B.A. with a certification in forensic accounting and a B.A. in accounting from Southern New Hampshire University.