Victoria Wildhirt has more than 17 years of experience in advising national and international financial services companies on compliance and regulatory issues. She joined KPMG in January 2014 and previously worked for four years at an international management consultancy in the financial services sector. She began her career at several (inter)national financial institutions, where she worked in private wealth management and investment banking.
At KPMG, Victoria Wildhirt works as a senior expert for banks and insurance companies in the area of compliance and plays a leading role in the strategic development of compliance functions. Her consulting focus is on the transformation and optimisation of compliance management systems at individual and group level. She has extensive experience in managing complex national and international transformation programmes as well as post-merger integrations in the regulatory environment.
Currently, she is responsible for the topics "Compliance Excellence" and "Managed Services @ Financial Services". In this role, she drives the development and scaling of innovative, technology-supported managed services models and plays a key role in shaping the Germany-wide managed services initiative for the financial sector. Her particular focus is on the development of sustainable, efficient and future-proof operating models for compliance functions.
In addition to her work at KPMG, she is a lecturer for the module "Board Perspectives on Internal Controls & Compliance Management" at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and an active member of the Compliance Risk Roundtable (CRRT) of the Frankfurt Institute for Risk Management and Regulation (FIRM).