Chukwunonso Okoro is a multi-lingual practitioner of Governance, Risk and Compliance offering more than 19 years of experience focused on financial crimes, fraud risk management, forensic investigations, as well as the deployment of investigation training programs. Throughout his career, Chukwunonso has led investigations of financial crimes, occupational fraud, employee misconduct, syndicated criminal activity and white-collar crimes in large multinationals in the United Kingdom and overseas.
Chukwunonso has expertise in:
- Assisting organisations to document the controls related to all relevant risk, compliance with laws and regulations, established compliance programs, internal controls, and operational processes.
- Designing and managing Whistle-blower and Ethics Hotlines.
- Monitoring and investigating any Whistle-blowing report or potential incidents received from internal or external sources.
- Detailed knowledge of legal standards and current laws applicable to investigations.
- Engagements with law enforcement, employees, executives, partners, and legal representatives with respect to reported incidents or ongoing investigations.
- Using Data Analytics to identify patterns indicative of fraud and prevent or detect potential new incidents.
- Producing high quality investigations reports and outputs to support HR disciplinary and external law enforcement process.
- Undertaking investigations into complex and internal frauds that are sensitive, high profile and/or of a high value nature across multiple disciplines, highlighting root causes and trends.
- Delivering the annual Fraud Risk Management Plan as approved by the Audit Committee.
- Fraud control effectiveness and efficiency by driving and monitoring remediation.
- Deployment and use of proactive fraud detection tools and providing process improvement recommendations.
- Feeding investigation findings into a risk-based Fraud Incident Register.
- Proactively gathering and disseminating intelligence from internal and external sources to strengthen the organisation's fraud prevention and detection controls.
- Industry engagement to understand fraud trends and using that information to strengthen the organisation's fraud prevention and detection controls.
- Maintaining the Fraud Risk Universe with relevant fraud risks to meet the needs of governance committees and stakeholders at all organisational levels.
- Conducting Fraud Risk Assessments.
- Developing anti-fraud policies, processes, and procedures.