Santiago Garces Chavarria

I’m a hybrid legal-financial analyst with experience across financial-services operations, compliance documentation, corporate governance, market research, strategic analysis, and AI-enabled workflow execution.

My background sits at the intersection of law, finance, regulation, and operations. In a legal and compliance role at an SFC-regulated financial institution, I coordinated 657+ PwC fiscal audit requirements across legal, finance, and operations under strict deadlines. This involved reviewing documentation, tracking owners and deadlines, organizing evidence, supporting governance materials, and helping maintain audit-ready workflows in a regulated environment.

I also supported corporate-governance and regulatory documentation, including analysis related to the Código País 2025 framework. This strengthened my understanding of internal controls, governance requirements, financial-sector reporting discipline, and cross-functional coordination between legal, finance, and operations.

Beyond compliance and audit work, I have built market research, competitive intelligence, pricing, and strategy deliverables for portfolio and advisory use cases. My work includes market research reports, competitor scans, fintech regulation analysis, pricing strategy memos, and executive writing samples designed to turn complex information into clear recommendations.

I also use AI tools such as Claude, OpenAI, and ChatGPT to improve research, document classification, workflow design, and operational execution. One of my strongest projects involved designing an AI-enabled routing and classification workflow that improved assignment accuracy to 97%+ and reduced manual workload by more than 24 hours per week.

Earlier, I developed practical financial-market judgment through independent derivatives and crypto market operation, focusing on risk management, volatility, liquidity, position sizing, and decision-making under uncertainty.

I’m especially interested in remote or international roles in financial analysis, market research, investment research, compliance operations, risk, fintech, legal operations, strategic research, and business analysis. I’m strongest in roles that require structured thinking, written analysis, Excel/Sheets discipline, regulatory judgment, and the ability to convert complex information into clear operational or strategic action.