Justina Rousseau is a trusted advisor and financial crimes thought leader with over two decades of experience building programs designed to detect and prevent risk at first, second, and third line of defense roles. With extensive knowledge of U.S. and international financial crimes compliance, including Bank Secrecy Act/Anti Money Laundering (BSA/AML) regulations, she works with investment advisors and financial institutions to design, develop, and implement compliance programs in line with requirements issued by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and other regulators. Justina aids clients in recognizing problem areas and make appropriate risk-based decisions, and assists them with program management; remedial action management; development, implementation, and execution of procedures; identification of control weaknesses; and continual process improvements.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Justina held senior leadership positions at IBM’s Promontory Financial Group, most recently as deputy head of Americas and head of the Americas Financial Crimes Risk Management Advisory practice group. In those roles, she worked with large financial services institutions focusing on regulatory compliance, financial crime prevention, and risk management, giving her a deep understanding of the challenges facing internal regulatory compliance teams and the support they require from outside advisors. Justina advised financial institutions and regulators on all aspects of enforcement, regulation, and compliance or operational risk issues.
Before joining Promontory, Justina was an executive vice president at Wells Fargo Bank, where she held several key financial crime roles within the financial crime audit division and first line of defense roles within commercial banking and global financial institutions. She began her career at U.S. Bancorp.
Justina has a B.A., summa cum laude, in business management from the College of Saint Scholastica. She is a Certified BSA/AML/OFAC Compliance professional and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).