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Cork, County Cork, Ireland

• Transaction Monitoring: Perform comprehensive transaction monitoring across all regions (EMEA, APAC, North America, South America, Africa) to ensure compliance and detect any suspicious activity.• Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD): Implement EDD procedures (2LOD) as necessary for all customers to assess risk levels and ensure regulatory compliance.• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Checks: Conduct thorough AML checks on customers, verifying the legitimacy of funds and understanding the purpose of transactions, including the source of funds, intended recipient, and reason for transfer, to adhere to all compliance rules mandated by regulators.• Politically Exposed Person (PEP) and Sanctions Review: Review customer profiles for PEP status and conduct sanctions checks to identify any individuals or transactions associated with sanctioned regions or persons.• Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Filing: File SARs with relevant government authorities when suspicious behaviour or transactions are identified, ensuring timely reporting and compliance.• Quality Assurance: Perform quality assurance checks on SARs submitted by team members before submission to government authorities, maintaining accuracy and adherence to regulatory standards.• Adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Ensure strict adherence to SLAs in all aspects of transaction monitoring and SAR filing to meet regulatory requirements and maintain operational efficiency.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Enhanced Due Diligence: Conducted comprehensive enhanced due diligence (EDD) on high-risk clients, including high net worth individuals (HNIs) and politically exposed persons (PEPs), ensuring adherence to regulatory standards.• Transaction Monitoring Mastery: Overlooked transaction monitoring for various entity types, particularly correspondent banks, applying sharp attention to detail and regulatory compliance.• Quality Enhancement: Collaborated with internal stakeholders to address specific cases, offering insights that led to process improvements and heightened operational quality.• Global Compliance Expertise: Managed transactions originating from diverse countries, spanning low to high-risk categories, while maintaining strict adherence to international compliance standards.• SAR/STR: Assisted the Compliance team in preparing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) or Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs), providing essential data for subsequent investigations.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• KYC Remediation Excellence: Engaged as a KYC/AML analyst for a prominent American Multinational Investment Bank.• Comprehensive Entity Reviews: Conducted end-to-end KYC reviews for diverse entities, including Investment managers, financial institutions, Hedge Funds, Banks, Trusts, and Individuals, showcasing thorough compliance procedures.• Quality Assurance: Ensured the accuracy of client data by executing meticulous quality checks, guaranteeing the precise incorporation of policy-related information into profiles as per regulatory guidelines.• Effective Team Leadership: Spearheaded multiple projects for European stakeholders, overseeing teams of around 8-9 analysts each. Assigned daily tasks, provided guidance, and improved work quality and efficiency, fostering collaborative and high-performing teams.• Error trends: Analysed persistent errors within the team, conducting root cause analyses, providing subject matter experts (SMEs) with data for analysis, and facilitating necessary training to rectify error patterns.• Award Recognition: Consecutively won two awards for achieving 98% quality and being named the best team member for exceptional contribution in Q2of 2020.

Master Of Science - Ms, Finance, 2:2

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Finance, 2:1

Puc, Science