Akash Naidu
Team Lead
Hyderabad,TS
Summary
Experienced Professional with over 8+ years in client onboarding, screening, periodic review and successful team leadership. Diligent and results-driven professional with a proven track record of delivering high-quality work. Skilled in fostering strong client relationships and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Leader
Concentrix
10.2025 - Current
- Led a team of 15+ analysts, guiding on investigations, red flags, and documentation standards while ensuring alerts were processed accurately and within SLA
- Assisted in setting up pilot business for Airbnb payments in Hyderabad
- Collaborated with other department leaders to establish shared goals and ensure alignment across teams.
- Streamlined workflows for increased efficiency, reducing turnaround times for critical tasks such as ID, KYC/KYB verifications
- Acted as the primary escalation point for complex AML, fraud and terrorist financing cases, reviewing investigation outcomes and making final disposition or escalation decisions
- Oversaw the quality of investigation summaries and RIs, ensuring clear narratives, robust rationale and alignment with regulatory and internal policy requirements
- Drove continuous improvement by identifying recurring issues or false positives, EDD procedures and contributing to system and process enhancements
- Prepared Weekly and Business Reviews to present team performance to the client and senior management
EDD Associate
Stripe
02.2025 - 09.2025
- Executed Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) review of high-risk clients, scrutinizing the source of funds and wealth, and determining beneficial ownership
- Conducted comprehensive risk assessments by utilizing internal research and third-party sources to evaluate client and jurisdictional risks
- Drafted detailed and structured narratives, clearly outlining suspicions, user behavior, and regulatory rationale for reporting
- Carried out adverse media, sanctions, and PEP screening using tools such as Clear by Thomson Reuters
Associate
Goldman Sachs
08.2023 - 03.2024
- Part of pilot Operations team in Hyderabad ensuring compliance with KYC AML regulations for new client on-boarding and periodic reviews of High-Risk clients
- Performed CIP, CDD, EDD for high-risk clients and for different type of entities such as Corporations, Trusts, Foundations and SPVs
- Verified customer information using public records, financial databases, and other internal resources.
- Collaborated with various clients and onsite teams
- Worked intensively on world check to identify customer risk profile and identify if they are a positive hit, false positive or potential hit
- Publishing reports on daily and monthly basis to track the team performance
Analyst
National Australia Bank
04.2023 - 08.2023
- Identified clients exhibiting irregularities to initiate appropriate offboarding processes.
- Generated comprehensive reports projecting quality and production metrics using Power BI.
- Analyzed client data for irregularities and coordinated offboarding strategies as needed.
Sr. Team Member
JP Morgan Chase
02.2021 - 04.2023
- Understanding and implementation of KYC standards, guidelines, policies and procedures
- Collection and verification of confidential client data via publically available and internal sources
- Understand the firm's KYC requirements when completing documentation inclusive of Customer Identification Program (CIP), Simplified Due Diligence(SDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
- Engage with multiple stakeholders including Middle office, On-shore makers to track exceptions and KYC completion
- Effectively addressed any issues that might be escalated by either internal or external customers
- Proactively highlight potential issues to management
- Identified root causes, connections and implications and evaluated the alternatives
- Be flexible to multi task and effectively manage priorities across the wider function
- Supporting clients and bankers by providing client capital spending patterns
- Delivered team process trainings
- Came up with solutions to cut down the processing time
Analyst
Deloitte (US India)
01.2018 - 05.2019
- Client setups / Onboarding
- Conducted screening for new clients
Process Associate
Genpact
01.2016 - 02.2017
- Worked Onsite Google India (Hyderabad), Google Payment system
- Analyzed the payment pattern on G-pay throughout India
- Worked closely with product team to escalate the payment issues to NPCI (National Payment Corporation of India)
- Worked on the KYC for Gpay Merchant
- At times, handled a team size of 10 members
Admin Assistant
United Parcel Service
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Cash applications
- Account receivables
- Invoicing
Education
MBA/PGDM - Finance
B.B.A/ B.M.S - Management
Skills
Client Onboarding
People management
Problem-solving
Team building
Employee evaluation
Client Onboarding
KYC/KYB
Due Diligence
Lexis Nexis, World Check
Periodic Review
Sanction and PEP Screening
Enhanced Due Diligence
PEP
Timeline
Team Leader - Concentrix
10.2025 - Current
EDD Associate - Stripe
02.2025 - 09.2025
Associate - Goldman Sachs
08.2023 - 03.2024
Analyst - National Australia Bank
04.2023 - 08.2023
Sr. Team Member - JP Morgan Chase
02.2021 - 04.2023
Analyst - Deloitte (US India)
01.2018 - 05.2019
Process Associate - Genpact
01.2016 - 02.2017
Admin Assistant - United Parcel Service
01.2014 - 01.2016
Bharti Vidyapeeth University - B.B.A/ B.M.S, Management
University of Pune - MBA/PGDM, Finance