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Jessica Ferdinand-Phipps

Jessica Ferdinand-Phipps
Board Member

Jessica Ferdinand-Phipps

Board Member since March 2023 - Certified Accountant and Business Consultant with extensive financial-services and regulatory experience.

Role
Board Member
Joined BON
2023
Reports to
Board of Directors
Based in
Charlestown, Nevis
Biography

Jessica Ferdinand-Phipps was elected to the Board on 16th March 2023.

She is a Certified Accountant and Business Consultant. She has a sound background in financial services, risk management, audit, compliance, accounting and finance; with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and Economics (BSc). She is a Certified Chartered Accountant (ACCA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) and an Accredited Director (Director’s Education and Accreditation Program). Her extensive work experience in the financial services sector includes a 12-year tenure as a Bank Examiner at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), where she progressively advanced to the role of Deputy Director. She also held significant employment roles with the former Barclays Bank Plc, the Bank of Nevis Ltd and the St Kitts and Nevis Sugar Industry Diversification Foundation (SIDF), and served as Chairperson of the Supervisory and Compliance Committee of the First Federal Cooperative Credit Union. Additionally, during a consultancy with the Caribbean Development Bank funded by the Green Climate Fund, she gained invaluable experience in the increasingly important area of climate change by working with a Climate Finance Expert on national climate financing, capacity building and resilience development initiatives.

Jessica is an independent, highly analytical and result-oriented individual with a passion for excellence through professional development, business process enhancement and overall customer enrichment.

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Responsibilities

Where the work lives.

Strategic Leadership

Setting multi-year strategy and growth priorities in concert with the Board of Directors.

Stakeholder Relations

Representing BON to regulators, shareholders, the Federation's government, and the community.

Risk & Compliance Oversight

Ensuring sound risk management, robust controls, and adherence to ECCB regulatory standards.

Committee Memberships

Board & Executive committees

  • Audit Committee
  • Risk Management Committee
Education & Credentials

Qualifications

  • MBA; BSc Accounting & Economics
  • ACCA - Certified Chartered Accountant
  • CIA - Certified Internal Auditor
  • ACAMS - Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist
  • Former Deputy Director, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank
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