Willem Veenhuyzen

Through working in both Consulting and Financial Services for over 15 years, Willem has developed expertise across a broad range of industries through leveraging advanced analytics to help clients effectively and efficiently manage risk. Willem maintains a high level strategic and outcomes driven perspective, whilst also being able to delve into the details and apply his technical expertise to deliver those outcomes.

Willem’s primary experience is across Financial Crime, Forensics and Regulatory Compliance, where he has helped both public and private organisations manage a range of matters, including developing and implementing capability, through to responding to incidents – including money laundering, fraud, regulatory matters, litigation, Royal Commissions, remediation and other compliance matters. Having worked across both Australia and Europe, Willem thrives in working across different cultures and applying his expertise to deliver successful outcomes. 

Significant engagements

Willem has led/been significantly been involved in:

• Independent audit of the completeness of the AML Transaction Monitoring System at a large Australian financial institution.
• Future state transaction monitoring framework definition and review/defined the future state of internal unusual activity reporting at a large Australian financial institution.
• Sanctions Risk Assessment and development of Sanctions Policy.
• Global Fraud Analytics as part of large Australian construction client’s global Internal Audit program.
• FCPA investigation of French subsidiary of a US based parent company was being investigated on bribery suspicions.
• Supporting major Australian Financial Institution's response to Foreign Exchange and Bank Bill Swap Rate manipulation regulator notices (market misconduct).
• As part of global Anti-trust matter, delivery of an Electronic Discovery project spanning seven European countries, covering approximately 250 custodians.