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Sigrid Hansen

EY Belgium Financial Services Risk & Compliance, Payments Lead Partner

Supporting Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit functions in their transformation journey. Leading the Payment Consulting practice in Belgium.

Office Diegem, BE

Sigrid leads the Internal Audit practice for Financial Services in Belgium, thanks to her background of about 10 years in Audit (external and internal) in financial institutions.

She’s supporting Banks, Insurance, Asset Management companies and Payment Institutions in co-sourcing internal audit assignments or taking the role of fully outsourced internal audit function.

She is also responsible for the EY payment practice, leveraging her in depth expertise and experience in risk and compliance in the Payment sector. She’s an expert in PSD2, Interchange Fee Regulation, SEPA and Cross-Border Payment regulations and has been supporting many institutions in transformation programs related to payment regulations.

She has worked 3 years for an International Payment Scheme, setting up a Business engineering function, embedding risk and compliance controls in the business processes.

She holds a Master degree from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management and is a certified Data Protection Officer.

How Sigrid is building a better working world

Sigrid is very active in EY Ripples or Pro Bono engagement, supporting start-ups or Non-profit organizations with ad-hoc advisory services.

She’s also very engaged in diversity & inclusiveness, participating to several internal and external initiatives.

“Building a better working world is also supporting our clients in their ESG strategy, as financial institutions, with their systemic importance have a pivotal role to play in addressing global environmental and societal challenges.”

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