Geraldine is known for her leadership in financial crime having worked in a range of related roles covering advisory, global oversight, standard setting and operational design and delivery. Prior to joining KPMG as their Global Head of Financial Crime, Geraldine was the Global Head of Financial Crime for Barclays plc responsible for leading on the global design, implementation and delivery of an effective Financial Crime risk management strategy and policy framework.  Since joining KPMG, Geraldine has supported a range of clients with Target Operating Model design, transformation, optimisation, remediation and advisory.

Throughout her career Geraldine has represented the bank and the industry on several working groups predominately in the UK, Ireland and Europe.   She has, over 15 years, chaired various financial crime related committees at industry level.  She was a founding and board member of the UK’s Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT); the UK Industry lead for the Anti Money Laundering arm of Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group (FELEG); and the industry lead on the UK Economic Crime Reform programme working directly with government and law enforcement. She was also a core member of the Wolfsberg Group.

In addition to above Geraldine acted as an independent non-Executive Director to an Insurance Syndicate at Lloyds of London chairing their Audit Committee.  Academically Geraldine holds the Banking Certificate, the foundation in A.C.C.A., a degree in Marketing, an MBA and a Diploma in Anti-Money Laundering.