Anand Jeevatagore
Thiruvananthapuram,India
Summary
Results-driven Financial Crime Compliance leader with 17+ years of progressive experience in global banking and regulated financial institutions. Expertise in building and leading high-performing AML/CFT programs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and mitigating financial crime risks. Proven ability to drive operational excellence and deliver impactful results in complex international environments. Currently Associate Director, overseeing large-scale AML compliance operations (370+ professionals) for major international investment banks. Adept at managing transaction monitoring, suspicious activity investigations, and KYC/KYB programs. Expertise in designing enterprise AML frameworks, leading regulatory remediation, and managing cross-border compliance risks. Proficient in FATF standards, EU AML Directives (AMLD), UK Money Laundering Regulations, OFAC sanctions, and FCA expectations. Strong track record of stakeholder management, regulatory engagement, and financial crime risk control enhancements.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work history
Associate Director
Guidehouse India Private Ltd
Trivandrum, Kerala
2023.04 - Current
- Spearheaded four global AML compliance programs, providing operational leadership to a team of 370+ analysts and managers supporting financial crime compliance activities for international investment banks, resulting in a 15% improvement in operational efficiency.
- Provided strategic leadership for AML and financial crime compliance
operations, including transaction monitoring, suspicious activity
investigations, blockchain monitoring, and KYC/KYB review programs,
leading to a 20% reduction in false positives. - Supported MLRO functions and financial crime governance structures across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring compliance with local regulations and reducing regulatory risk exposure.
- Designed and implemented enterprise AML/CFT frameworks aligned with FATF recommendations, EU AML Directives, and UK Money Laundering Regulations, resulting in enhanced compliance and reduced regulatory scrutiny.
- Led regulatory remediation programs and compliance transformation
initiatives following audit findings or regulatory reviews, successfully
addressing critical compliance gaps and mitigating potential penalties. - Oversaw suspicious transaction investigations and escalation processes including SAR/STR reporting preparation, ensuring timely and accurate reporting to regulatory authorities.
- Managed senior stakeholder engagement with compliance heads, MLROs, risk committees, and client executive leadership, fostering strong relationships and ensuring alignment on compliance priorities.
Conducted enterprise financial crime risk assessments across customers, products, and geographic exposure, identifying key risk areas and developing mitigation strategies. - Implemented operational improvements, automation initiatives, and analytics driven monitoring capabilities, resulting in a 25% increase in efficiency and accuracy.
- Provided leadership development, mentoring, and governance oversight for senior compliance managers and operational teams, fostering a culture of compliance and continuous improvement
Manager
Guidehouse India Private Ltd
Trivandrum, Kerala
2019.12 - 2023.04
- Proactively engage with first line key stakeholders to advise on design of systems, controls and risk pertaining to AML/ CTF compliance
- Managing different AML compliance projects
- Encourage communication and collaboration across the business, team, and stakeholders in order to build strong relationships and develop cross functional working
- Enhance the business's AML framework, including risk assessments and gap analysis
- Upskilled staff through targeted training opportunities, enhancing team capabilities.
- Applied expertise in team leadership to address productivity and performance issues, motivating staff to achieve KPIs.
- Lead teams to monitor, investigate and advice concerned parties by establishing clear accountabilities, roles and responsibilities to manage money laundering risk; establish a risk based approach to Customer Due Diligence (CDD) at onboarding and ongoing monitoring of customer activities; establish internal procedures to ensure that suspicious activity is reported in accordance with requirements prescribed by local laws and regulations; establish a robust training program on the requirements of the policy and guideline; retain appropriate records of CDD, transactions, suspicious activity and AML training.
- Managed staffing schedules for high numbers of employees, delivering operational efficiency whilst remaining under budget.
- Conducted periodic performance reviews for direct reports.
Team Manager
JPMorgan Chase & Co
- Process manager (Associate) - KYC
· Worked as a process manager for on-boarding new clients with JPMorgan
· Performed KYC review on JPMC client base
· Identifying high risk clients using various calculation tools
· Performing customer due diligence
· Maintaining regulatory standards by performing country due diligence
· Performing product due diligence, account due diligence, risk summary analysis before on boarding a client
· Liaise with front office about missing/outdated documents
· Screen individual and entity names against OFAC & government watchlist
· Performs PEP screening on the client data base
· Performs team management to achieve SLA - Monitored team development, setting performance objectives and providing constructive feedback for continued growth.
- Located, verified and distribution information through knowledge management practices.
- Acted as point of contact for high-level queries and represented team at senior leadership meetings.
- Introduced new opportunities for team building and communication, resulting in better team performance.
Assistant Manager compliance
Al Fardan Exchange L.L.C
2013.02 - 2017.07
- Establishing and maintaining effective Compliance and anti money laundering policies, procedures, systems and controls in compliance with applicable legislation as per the guidelines of “CENTRAL
- BANK OF UAE”
- Handling any internal suspicious transaction reports and taking appropriate actions following the receipt of such reports, and making external suspicious transaction reports to the Anti-Money laundering Suspicious Cases Unit (AMLSCU)
- And acting as the point of contact to receive internal suspicious transaction reports
- Build and maintain relationships with relevant regulators and exchanges
- Promptly and accurately prepare and deliver scheduled AML/ATF reporting on Program and workload status and highlight emerging issues
- Prepare ad-hoc reports and presentations as required
- Proactively identify and evaluate emerging regulatory trends and laws in markets of operation
- Coordinate with Regional Compliance Officers and Legal contacts to ensure adherence with obligations identified in emerging laws and regulations and to respond to any formal inquiries from local regulators
- Analyzes financial statements and transaction data patterns in order to evaluate accounts flagged for possible suspicious activity as defined by CBUAE guidelines
- Support internal audits and regulatory requests, ensure satisfactory resolution of any audit findings and recommendations
- Perform AML/ATF periodic reviews of clients and of all new applicants as per the Policies
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- Monitor clients and provide timely assessments of changes in clients' risk profiles
- Provide expert input to ensure resolution complex cases and implement enhanced due diligence when appropriate
- Administer fines where required
- Execute OFAC screening on clients and relevant third-parties
- Manage on-site client reviews conducted by third-parties
- Proactively identify and evaluate emerging regulatory trends and laws in local markets that may require program enhancement
- Quality Assurance Compliance
Anti Money Laundering Officer
RBS
2009.02 - 2013.02
- Comprising an experience of 4 Years which involves the area of Banking and Techno Functional roles
- Experienced in the field of Anti-Money Laundering and Non-Financial Risk Management, Compliance
- Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions-Transaction Filtering, Fraud Prevention & Detection, Investigations and KYC
- Enhanced due diligence and Conducting & Supporting the Investigations, also Facilitated
- Audit Corrective and Improvising measures for better Compliance
- Reviewed alerts generated by the FIRCOSOFT Filtering agent and other money laundering detection systems as per the Sanctions policies of OFAC, EU, BOE, HMT, Local and Internal list to identify potential money laundering & Terrorist Financing activities
- Developed and maintained a high level of expertise with respect to Anti-Money Laundering rules & regulations and RBS technical tools, particularly FIRCOSOFT, SONIC, and other reporting tools
- Performed manual data mining reviews for correspondent banking clients as well as coordinated in- depth KYC investigations for businesses in high-risk jurisdictions and analyzed transactions within correspondent and nested correspondent accounts.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Anna University
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St. John's higher secondary school
Skills
- Thought Leadership
- Presentation Skills
- Blockchain Monitoring
- Stakeholder Management
- Crypto risk analysis
- Internal & External Clients
- Project Governance
- MLRO
- Financial Regulation
- Regulatory Reporting
- Financial oversight
- Engaging leadership style
- Training and development
Affiliations
linkedin.com/in/anand-jeevatagore-46867b82
Summary
ACAMS Professional Member (2011 - Present) - Studying for ACAMS certification exam
AML-KYC certified professional - Indian Institute of Banking and Finance.
Languages
English
Fluent
Tamil
Native
Malayalam
Advanced
Hindi
Intermediate
German
Elementary
Certification
• ACAMS Professional Member (2011 – 2012) – Studying for ACAMS certification exam
• AML-KYC certified professional – Indian Institute of Banking and Finance.
Timeline
Associate Director
Guidehouse India Private Ltd
2023.04 - Current
Manager
Guidehouse India Private Ltd
2019.12 - 2023.04
Assistant Manager compliance
Al Fardan Exchange L.L.C
2013.02 - 2017.07
Anti Money Laundering Officer
RBS
2009.02 - 2013.02
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Anna University
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St. John's higher secondary school
Team Manager
JPMorgan Chase & Co