Timo Purkott is leading KPMG’s Global Fraud and Financial Crime Transformation Program, which aims to develop tangible, technology-enabled, and expertise-led solutions to help clients combat Fraud and Financial Crime. In addition, Timo serves as KPMG’s AMLA Office Co-Lead, strengthening his comprehensive and real-world perspective on evolving regulatory expectations.

      As a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience, Timo has been dedicated to supporting clients in implementing and enhancing their Risk, Compliance, and Financial Crime Prevention Systems. His expertise lies in analyzing and managing regulatory change, with a strong focus on identifying the real impact and opportunities for business and operating models through the use of cutting-edge technology and Regtech.

      1. Education & qualification
        • Stanford Graduate School of Business – Stanford Executive Program (SEP) University of Mannheim
        • University of California Berkeley,Master in Business Administration (diploma-degree / Diplom-Kaufmann)
      2. Optional Details

        Relevant client engagements include:

        • Establishment and evolution of Anti Financial Crime & Compliance function according to new regulatory requirements.
        • Development of compliance and risk architecture, configuration of risk function, development of functional model, process model and information flows.
        • Several projects in the context of post-merger integration, especially of the compliance risk management function and systems
        • Large scale tax-related remediation program to set up a Tax Governance, Risk and Compliance Framework to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion
        • Review of Transaction Monitoring target operating model, processes, and tools
        • Co-Sourcing for sanctions screening processes – including process review, identification of improvement measures, tuning of screening algorithms
        • Design and implementation of transaction monitoring solutions  
        • Re-Design of AML Risk Assessment methodology, approach, tools and templates