Rim Belaoud is a Manager based in FRA’s Paris office. She has eight years of experience in consulting and has worked on various compliance engagements with a focus on data analytics. Her expertise lies in data collection and integration, extraction of unstructured data, data cleaning and formatting, as well as data modeling and visualization.  

Prior to joining FRA, Rim worked for five years as a data & analytics consultant at PwC Paris, where she was responsible for designing data-driven approaches for compliance projects.  

Rim has extensive experience integrating and processing all sizes and types of datasets from different ERP systems in various sectors. She also has experience transforming unstructured data such as PDF files or images into usable structured files. 

Rim’s representative experience at FRA includes:

• Providing expert data analytics support on complex multinational dispute resolutions and investigations into alleged corruption, internal fraud, and other financial crimes
• Assisting companies in establishing their risk assessment as part of their compliance program through data analysis and dynamic reporting via interactive dashboards
• Reviewing the conceptual soundness of compliance tools and underlying statistical models

Rim has extensive experience in the banking sector. She assisted a large systemic bank in the conception of its group anti-money laundering scoring model, including: definition of the risk scoring methodology, econometric analysis and development of machine learning models, and response to audit recommendations by the ACPR and the FED. In a separate engagement, she assisted a French retail bank in the implementation of transaction monitoring scenarios and fine tuning of the scenarios’ thresholds via statistical analyses and prototyping. Rim also managed the data stream of a remediation program on multiple African and Middle Eastern entities of a large bank. This involved monitoring of non- or wrongly-monitored transactions due to setting issues and audit of the related feeding chain on multiple core banking systems. 

Rim has also coordinated several data management and architecture projects for retail clients.

Rim is involved in multiple initiatives in relation to the responsible and ethical use of AI in compliance and combatting financial crime and is a member of the subcommittee on AI for national security at the New York City Bar association (NYCBA).

Rim holds a diploma in Mathematical Modelling Engineering from The National Institute of Applied Sciences in Toulouse. She is also a certified AML expert (ACAMS).