Darlene Sessions
Darlene Sessions, an Associate Consultant, has over 30 years of experience in financial institutions and consulting. She has led financial institution consulting engagements throughout the State of California and in Nevada, Washington, and Texas in technology, project management, product deveolpment, operations enhancement, and compliance specialties.
Ms. Sessions' experience in the financial industry includes management of operations for a $3 billion southern California Bank, and management of institutional trust services for correspondent relationships at Union Bank of California (servicing over 750,000 accounts).
Her experience includes:
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Compliance and control reviews including recommendations for compliance and control improvements to meet regulatory mandates.
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Sarbanes-Oxley 404 (SOX) testing in the area of Information Technology for large regional financial institutions.
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Development and implementation of Enterprise Risk Management processes for numerous community banks.
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Successful management of system and operational projects related tomergers and acqusititions, bank wide system conversions, application conversions, product implementations, de novo startup, and new branch installations.
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Workflow flow analysis, process improvement, and fee revenue enhancement projects.
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Development and testing of Business Continuity Plans and Pandemic Plans for small to mid-size financial institutions.
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Direct responsibilities for branch operations, deposit products, electronic funds products, credit and debit card processing, consumer lending and automated underwriting, cash management services, item processing and reconciliation, retirement accounts, correspondent services, offsite merchant and ATM processing, cash vault services, safe deposit box processing, and branch training and support.
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Member of the Information Technology Steering Committee, Compliance Committee, and Business Continuity Planning Committee of a large financial institution, with direct responsibility for development of operational controls, staff training, and operational policies and procedures.
Ms. Sessions holds a Certificate of Merit from the Institute of Financial Education, completed the School for Executive Development at the University of Georgia and the Leadership Program at the University of Southern California.
