Rachel is Executive Director for Collas Crill Regulatory and Compliance in Guernsey.
She is an accomplished risk, compliance and governance professional with more than 20 years’ experience leading regulatory, operational risk and compliance functions across financial services, regulatory bodies and public sector organisations.
Experience
Her expertise lies in the design, implementation and testing of governance, risk and compliance frameworks, making her particularly well placed to assess the effectiveness and sustainability of remediation activity.
Rachel has held numerous senior compliance and prescribed person roles, including as a Director of Operational Risk and Compliance for a regulated financial services business, MLRO, MLCO, Compliance Officer and Head of Compliance appointments across multiple jurisdictions. Her career includes leadership positions with Epic Fund Services, Newgate Compliance, Belasko Administration, Overseas Trust and Pensions, BNP Paribas Securities Services and Aztec Financial Services, as well as experience within the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.
Background
Rachel has extensive experience developing and enhancing compliance monitoring programmes, business risk assessments, governance frameworks, policy suites and operational risk management structures. She has led projects to redesign risk and compliance frameworks, establish monitoring and assurance methodologies, implement outsourcing oversight arrangements and strengthen regulatory reporting processes. Her work regularly involves engagement with boards, regulators and senior stakeholders to evaluate control effectiveness and drive sustainable improvements.
A particular strength of Rachel’s is translating regulatory requirements into practical operating models and measurable control frameworks. She has significant experience supporting firms through regulatory inspections and supervisory reviews, as well as helping boards evidence compliance and demonstrate effective risk management.
Her background within a regulator also provides valuable insight into supervisory expectations and the evidence regulators typically seek when assessing remediation outcomes. Rachel’s combination of regulatory, operational risk and compliance expertise enables her to focus on the practical effectiveness of controls and monitoring arrangements, ensuring remediation programmes deliver lasting improvements rather than simply procedural change. She brings a disciplined, evidence-based approach to testing whether actions have been successfully implemented, embedded and are operating as intended.
A Fellow of the ICA, Rachel holds an MSc in corporate governance from Bournemouth University, as well as international diplomas in governance, risk and compliance and anti-money laundering from the International Compliance Association.
"I enjoy helping clients to achieve their business goals by finding the right solutions for them."
