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- Senior Consultant - Payment Screening – UAE Based International Bank.● Performs screenings on individuals & entities involved in a payment against Sanctions and other Internal watch list to ensure live payments are screened before approved● Analyze various payment messages like SWIFT messages to detect the presence of Blacklisted Individuals, Entities, Vessels and Countries.● Perform in-depth reviews of flagged customer accounts for potential money laundering or financial fraud along with a team of consultants and senior consultants. ● Work closely with Transaction Monitoring team in filing Suspicious Transaction Monitoring reports.

- Team Lead and QC - Global KYC Refresh Engagement.Monitoring productivity & quality by analyzing performance of team members on daily basis to ensure progress ● Generating quality reports & assisting management team to prepare production forecasts thereby meeting deadlines● Conducting periodic review of KYC records required for client jurisdictions which had a scope of 30+ countries in North America, EMEA & APAC regions● Obtaining sign-off from senior management, global financial crimes compliance & business by performing Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) on high-risk entities● Ensuring 100% accuracy in KYC requirements by interacting with sales team & clients to acquire KYC data & prevent closure of accounts- QC Analyst, AUS-based Transaction Monitoring Project.Guided 20+ analysts & provided suggestions about identifying red flags and writing dispositions ● Led investigations to recognize patterns of fraudulent transactions & trades alerted due to multiple detection scenarios● Reviewed alerted transactions, conducted STR filing & performed AML/KYC, EDD & CDD on individuals & entities suspected of money laundering & terrorist financing crimes● Hosted Ad-hoc training sessions on weekly basis to provide knowledge transfer to 20 teammates effectively ● Assisted level 1 analysts to understand SOP & guidance changes & provided feedback to boost productivity & quality

The Structured Finance Team provides RMBS services to reduce substantive differences withincurrent market practices by performing the below.- Verify representations and warranties, repurchase governance and other enforcement mechanisms.- Due diligence, disclosure and data issues.- Validate Roles and responsibilities of transaction parties.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance & Hr

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba

Business/Commerce, General

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