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Akash Rajendra Prasad

Akash Rajendra Prasad

Coonoor

Summary

ACAMS certified Transaction Monitoring/ SAR/ STR reporting Specialist with over 7+ years of experience as a FinCrime Compliance Officer/ Consultant in the FinTech, Retail and Investment Banking Sector, prepared to manage risk, design and implement profitable goals for companies.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

FinCrime Investigator- FIU

Revolut
05.2025 - Current
  • Reviewing, investigating, and reporting money laundering cases
  • Monitoring and resolving formal and Financial Ombudsman Service complaints
  • Dealing appropriately with consent refusals following SAR submissions
  • Being a point of contact for law enforcement agencies in ongoing criminal investigations that commenced from a submitted SAR
  • Acting in accordance with written policies, procedures, and relevant legislation

Senior AML Investigator- L3

ING Hubs Poland
02.2023 - 07.2024
  • Performed 2nd Line of Defense QA reviews of files and provided an independent function to test the quality of files against the Bank Policy and Minimum Standards, in accordance with the Global QA approach, providing feedback to the 1st Line of Defense and highlighting systematic issues within training and procedures
  • Conducted risk-based reviews on complex Transaction Monitoring cases requiring additional review, provide high quality service to key individual stakeholders, analyzed trends and mitigated ML/TF risks with clear and concise narratives
  • Performed holistic client reviews and escalated potential risks of ML/TF to the next level
  • Filed SAR/ STRs with the regulators (goAML)
  • Investigated the reliability and integrity of data, the validity of conclusions and the appropriateness of assumptions made by the 1st Line of Defense team

Senior Consultant

Ernst & Young LLP
12.2021 - 11.2022
  • Responsible to perform risk-based reviews on complex transaction monitoring cases requiring additional review, provide high quality service to key individual stakeholders, analyzed trends and mitigated ML/TF risks with clear and concise narratives
  • Performed holistic client reviews and escalated potential risks of ML/TF to the next level
  • Filed SAR/ STRs with the regulators (goAML/ Hummingbird/ Unit21)
  • Provided QA for accomplished alerts/ cases and their quality
  • Optimized the use of the quality and monitoring tools and ensure improvements of the quality reports

Sanctions Investigator

PayPal Inc.
11.2018 - 12.2021
  • Conducting end-to-end meticulous reviews of cases pertaining to potential illegal activity, global watch lists, or activity in violation of the economic and trade sanctions administered by OFAC
  • Completing a time-sensitive and meticulous analysis of each instance of potential Anti-Money Laundering activity and/or suspicious financial activity across multiple jurisdictions and countries
  • Assessment of customer profiles and large amounts of data to ensure normal and expected activity, including monitoring of industry watch lists and Know Your Customer efforts
  • Apply analytic techniques to complex information sets in order to make logical and supported recommendations
  • Regularly exercise good judgement and in making decision or recommendations in relation to case investigations

Compliance Officer

Match Move Pay Pte Ltd
01.2018 - 05.2018
  • Implemented and monitored aligned Compliance and Anti-money laundering procedures reporting to the Sr. Vice President of Legal and Compliance
  • Conducted regular audits/ test cases on processes newly implemented by the Product Team to prevent any functional gaps
  • Worked closely with the Product Team in identifying bugs related to the in house-built Compliance tools
  • Automated the KYC checks by developing a code in Linux
  • Conducted review, research and certified all OFAC suspects accordingly
  • Filed SAR/ STRs with the regulators (Hummingbird)

Education

MBA -

University of Mysore
03.2014

B.Com - undefined

Jain University
01.2012

Skills

  • Compliance Investigations
  • SAR/ STR Filing
  • KYC
  • Sanctions Screening
  • Financial Crime Prevention
  • OSINT
  • goAML
  • British Aerospace Systems
  • Fircosoft
  • Norkom
  • Actimize
  • Worldcheck
  • LexisNexis

Certification

  • ACAMS- Certified Transaction Monitoring Associate (CTMA), 2023-12-25
  • ACAMS- Sanctions Compliance Foundations, 2023-12-23

Timeline

FinCrime Investigator- FIU

Revolut
05.2025 - Current

Senior AML Investigator- L3

ING Hubs Poland
02.2023 - 07.2024

Senior Consultant

Ernst & Young LLP
12.2021 - 11.2022

Sanctions Investigator

PayPal Inc.
11.2018 - 12.2021

Compliance Officer

Match Move Pay Pte Ltd
01.2018 - 05.2018

B.Com - undefined

Jain University

MBA -

University of Mysore

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