PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Orlando Perez, is a Senior Manager, in the firm’s North America practice assigned to the Global AML and Financial Institution Crimes practice. He is a New York-based financial crimes compliance executive, with over 18 years of experience combating financial crime and strengthening organizational compliance frameworks.

His expertise spans BSA/AML program leadership, transaction monitoring, KYC, fraud investigations, quality assurance, risk mitigation, and team leadership, cultivated through progressively senior roles at leading global financial institutions, Big4 consulting firms, and FinTech, including Citi, IDB Bank, KPMG, PwC, and Meta.

He helps organizations navigate high-stakes environments by blending analytical rigor, strategic insight, and collaborative leadership to resolve complex regulatory challenges under tight deadlines and effectively detect and mitigate financial crime.

Orlando’s career spans the full financial crimes compliance lifecycle, including KYC onboarding, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, investigations, and quality assurance. He has a proven track record of building QA functions from the ground up, strengthening investigative quality and reducing defect rates.

Most recently, Orlando served as FinTech Compliance QA Lead at Meta, where he was recruited to design and operationalize the Quality Assurance framework for Meta’s Financial Intelligence Units. In this role, he supported Second Line of Defense oversight of the company’s Transaction Monitoring and Sanctions compliance programs.

Before joining Meta, Orlando held progressively senior roles at IDB Bank, including Head of BSA Quality Assurance, where he built the bank’s BSA Compliance QA Department from the ground up, and FIU Team Leader, where he managed a team of investigators and served as the bank’s designated Section 314(b) point of contact with FinCEN.

Orlando previously spent more than five years in the Big4, in PwC’s Financial Crimes Unit, advising major international financial institutions on high-risk client onboarding, transaction monitoring remediations, AML audit testing, and regulatory consent-order validation. He also delivered specialized Spanish-language KYC training in Mexico City. Earlier, he held vice president-level roles at Citigroup across Financial Intelligence Unit, Fraud Surveillance, and Strategic Intelligence Analysis supporting the Chief Information Security Officer, including work on sensitive matters involving the FBI and U.S. Secret Service.

Earlier in his career, Orlando conducted forensic investigations at Big4 KPMG. His experience included a major money-laundering investigation, involving a Colombian drug cartel’s use of American Express Travelers Cheques, enhanced due diligence involving politically exposed persons, and a high-profile stock-option backdating investigation at a Fortune 100 company.

This breadth of experience gives Orlando a distinctive perspective from both sides of the examination table, as an operator who has built and managed compliance programs and as an advisor who has independently evaluated them. He brings this perspective to clients across North America and Latin America, along with the ability to work directly with Spanish-speaking teams, clients, and stakeholders throughout the region.