An Initiative driven and compassionate professional with a demonstrated 6 years of experience in banking industry having subject matter expertise in compliance functions like Anti money laundering, financial crime, Sanctions, Enhanced due diligence, SAR and open for new challenges and New Roles.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
AML Analyst - Level 2 Transaction Monitoring
First Abu Dhabi bank (FAB)
Abu dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
08.2023 - Current
Act as level 2 Transaction monitoring Analyst who investigates cases and identify typologies relating to ML/Sanctions and escalating it to the business as ISTR's for FIU reporting.
Access customer profiles to identify red flags necessary to mitigate associated risks.
Investigate the case level AML alerts which have been sent for RFI to the customers, who breached the threshold for daily weekly or monthly scenarios. Closures reporting to FIU through STR drafting or forwarding the cases to EDD.
Analyzing counterparty Nature of business VS our customer.
Doing complete negative media search.
Provides timely response on compliance clearance requests.
On daily basis Closing GRE alerts comparing with the Approved GRE list and Whitelist sanction countries.
Working on HNI Alert level and CIF level cases, identifying High valued transactions and if necessary, escalating to the business for furthermore clarifications.
Preforming Screening on Customers, Counterparties and UBO, who have negative & adverse media hits and PEP hits will be escalated to the business to get more concurrence.
Hands on experience on handling multiple queues and prioritizing the review of high-risk clients without breaching the SLA's.
Investigating the alerts and raising the necessary Further RFI's to the business for more clarifications and supporting documents.
Reporting suspicious transactions by way of internal STR to the MLRO.
Financial Crime Compliance Specialist
JP Morgan chase & CO.
Hyderabad , India
03.2021 - 04.2023
reviewing and investigate all transactions alerts generated by the transactions monitoring system to identify any money laundering or financial crime cautionary flags.
Prepare and escalate suspicious transactions report (STRs).
Monitoring the transactions of the customers at a high-risk level to check for any discrepancies in the account.
Communicate with other business line and functional units.
Understand and stay current on red flags and industry trends related to AML.
working closely to the bank KYC and CDD teams to ensure that the compliance requirements are validated with set accuracy.
GFCC SCREENING SPECIALIST
Worked on live environment on the Level 1 & level 2 investigation process.
Experience in identifying the OFAC Sanctions, risk on various LOBs such as CCB, CIB, AML Etc.
Responsible for preforming sanctions review on the clients who have exposure to sanctions countries and investigating.
Review sanctions questionnaires, AML, and relevance and completion of the customer risk assessment.
Verifying the account opening forms and have been completed adequately and has been verified.
Customer Due Diligence Analyst.
HSBC
Hyderabad , India
11.2018 - 02.2021
conduct CDD of the customer's profile for onboarding, periodic review and triggered event reviews.
Identify and verify KYC documents and customer statistic data.
Engage with customers to provide incomplete CDD information and documentation within the service level.
Comply with relevant government regulations and the banks internal guidelines and policies.
Assists to prepare AML/CFT related trainings.
Check customers onboarding documents, rectify errors, mistakes and systemic control issues found in the operation process and collect missing information and documents.
Appeals Analyst
United health Group (Optum)
Hyderabad , India
10.2016 - 11.2018
Provide operational support by reviewing, researching, investigating and Analyzing findings related to appeals and grievances quality review.
providing feedback, coaching, and training to team members regarding review findings and remediation opportunities.
Analyze and identify trends and provide feedback and reports to reduce errors and improve A&G processes and performance
Analyze information and utilize resource to build recommendations to reduce errors and improves process performance.
The Analyst may serve as a liaison between grievances & appeals and or medical management, legal, and /or service operations and other internal departments.