Marie-Chantale Sundberg
Angestellt, Assistant Regional Manager, Admin & Finance Manager, SEG
Beirut, Lebanon
About me
Over 20 years of experience in banking, corporate, and nonprofit management. Raised over 1M € in investments and managed multimillion‐dollar budgets for companies on 4 continents. Developed and implemented company‐wide management, compliance, and audit systems. Remarkable and multidisciplinary portfolio of certifications in Anti‐Money Laundering and Advanced Financial Crime Investigations from ACAMS. Key strengths include: human resource management and supervising teams of 40 employees; ability to achieve deliverables under stress; engage in fruitful and successful business negotiations in a wide spectrum of activities; conduct financial crime investigations; train staff, and implement FATCA regulations.
Timeline
Professional experience for Marie-Chantale Sundberg
Current 2 years and 5 months, since May 2021
Co-director
AFEMENA Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality Limited
Current 8 years, since Oct 2015
Assistant Regional Manager, Admin & Finance Manager
SEG
- Manage &oversee 40 employees in 4 countries - Draft & update procedures & standard forms & ensure compliance - Define & manage tools for governance, saving 10% on waste - Assist in recruitment in 4 countries, conduct performance evaluation & dev. plans - Lead internal audits & perform reviews - Maintained healthy cashflow levels: letters of credit; budget; expenditures - Integrate ERP to reduce waste on site with a 30% reduction - Successfully reduced site delivery time by 50% &up to 30% in cost reduction
3 years and 3 months, Jul 2012 - Sep 2015
Senior Compliance Officer
BLC Bank SAL
- Coordinated with all to ensure compliance with laws & regulations - Trained employees on AML‐CFT & FATCA - Analyzed, investigated & reported on various cases to managers & successfully resolved several ones - Controlled the flow of operations, monitored & investigated transactions/co‐wrote internal procedures - Prepared reports to SIC at BDL & audit requests - Assisted in processing of STP transactions - Tested DNFS & AML Reporter new engines, CBS FATCA solution before implementation
4 years and 1 month, Jun 2007 - Jun 2011
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Lagopa
- Raised EUR 1 million from investors - Managed 20 fulltime staff in all countries, up to 75 for production purposes - Managed the international exposure (fairs & visits); oversaw showrooms in Germany & Mallorca - Set up policies and procedures to ensure flow of production, marketing, and sales - Managed the Main Office in Cyprus and supervised creative team & workshop in Lebanon - Ran production plant in the Philippines to make manufacturing and delivery deadlines
8 months, Jan 2007 - Aug 2007
Assistant General Manager (Chief Operating Officer)
CIEL sarl
- Managed a team of 15‐20 people - Oversaw policies and procedures set‐up, and ensured compliance - Wrote & maintained the company’s code of conduct manual and work processes - Performed general audits of the various departments - Prepared statistics & issued regular reports on the company's performance - Participated in the recruitment process & managed employees
4 years and 6 months, Jul 2002 - Dec 2006
Internal Auditor
Intercontinental Bank of Lebanon
- Performed obligatory reserve calculation / loan & deposit accruals - Performed correspondent banks reconciliation along with trade/value dates & exchange rates - Performed daily control of placements (lending and borrowing) with correspondents - Assigned audits in order to assure that controls operate effectively - Conducted audit reports & memos - Updated the anti‐money‐laundering file - Followed up on dormant accounts
1 year and 3 months, Apr 2001 - Jun 2002
Position and Classification Team (PCT) member
OMSAR
- Collected data on Lebanese ministries and institutions to increase governmental work efficiency - Wrote job descriptions and created a repertoire on each ministry / public organ - Established contacts and followed up with public sector institutions
Educational background for Marie-Chantale Sundberg
1999 - 2000
Business
Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (ESA)
1995 - 2002
Political science
Université Saint Joseph (USJ)
Public Administration Negotiation International Relations
Languages
German
Fluent
English
Fluent
Spanish
Intermediate
Portuguese
Basic
French
First language
Arabic
Fluent