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ARUN KUMAR P

Financial Crime Specialist
Hyderabad

Summary

Meticulous Detecting Financial Crime professional with over 9 years of Client Onboarding, Periodic Reviews, Event Driven Reviews and Remediation experience.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Assistant Manager

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2022 - Current
  • Performing Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) reviews on high risk accounts in support of KYC policies and procedures.
  • Perform quality checks reviews on work of KYC analysts.
  • Support KYC analyst to close deficient cases treated by quality assurance and compliance team.
  • Reviewed various KYC processes which includes Customer Identification Program (CIP), Beneficial ownership, Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD).
  • Perform payment screening and obtain required documents to review purpose.
  • Perform transaction monitoring and analyze TO report to understand transaction behavior and trend.
  • Collect and examine financial statements and documents to assist in identifying unusual transaction patterns. Document all research and analysis conducted in Case Management System.
  • Identified data anomalies and assisted with root cause analysis to minimize errors.
  • Engage with internal stakeholders such as Front, Middle, and Back Office staff to obtain required information and applicable documentation related to client on-boarding and KYC production.
  • Maintained detailed tracking of KYC file status and other customer record activities to ensure completion within required timeframes.
  • Independently managed multiple simultaneous requests inclusive of customer data maintenance in high-pressure work environment.
  • Handle multiple priorities and deadlines concerning review of high risk clients.

Process Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2020 - 11.2021
  • Performed periodic reviews on different entity types to comply with KYC requirements.
  • Partner with client facing teams to collect legal documents and associated information for regulatory and internal policies.
  • Research and interpret corporate documentation to determine business and ownership structure.
  • Conduct thorough reviews for high risk clients based on stratified risk level guidelines.
  • Determine customer risk rating based on analysis and research findings.
  • Interpret evidence from multiple tools and systems to determine legitimacy of customer behavior.
  • Ensuring that high quality standards are maintained for all KYC profiles that are submitted by analysts.

CDD Analyst

HSBC Electronic Data Processing India Pvt Ltd.
02.2019 - 09.2020
  • Prepared KYC Due Diligence profiles on wide range of entity types (Trusts, LLC's, Partnerships, and Corporations).
  • Analyzed client data, documentation and negative news in order to determine Client Risk Profile as established under KYC Procedures.
  • Liaised with clients, front office, credit, legal, technology and operations as part of KYC process.
  • Analyzed new/prospective clients including Enhanced Due Diligence synthesized finding and assessed risk levels.
  • Analyzed client data, documentation and negative news in order to determine Client Risk Profile.
  • Reviewed and approved all low risk KYC client profiles to ensure all required KYC documents and information was obtained in accordance with Customer Identification Program (CIP).
  • Approved new and existing accounts based on reviews of client KYC documentation.

Senior Associate

Genpact India Ltd
01.2017 - 02.2019
  • Prepared KYC Due Diligence profiles on wide range of entity types (Sole Traders, Limited, Partnership, Trust's, Charities, Foundations)
  • Worked on End to End KYC operations which includes NTB, ETB and Remediation projects.
  • Maintained detailed records on clients for second-level review.
  • Performed Sanctions screening and PEPs identification.
  • Reviewed potential negative news hits.

Associate

Optum
08.2015 - 12.2016
  • Payments investigations.
  • Prepare and distribute incoming and outgoing mail.
  • Regularly receive direction from supervisor and escalate questions and issues to more experienced roles.
  • Work under close supervision following established procedures

Education

B.com (Honours) -

Loyola Academy Degree And PG College
Hyderabad
06.2012 - 05.2015

Skills

    Client Onboarding

    Periodic Reviews

    Narrative writing

    Transaction Monitoring

    Enhanced Due Diligence

    Customer Due Diligence

    Screening

    Risk Assessment

Timeline

Assistant Manager

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2022 - Current

Process Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2020 - 11.2021

CDD Analyst

HSBC Electronic Data Processing India Pvt Ltd.
02.2019 - 09.2020

Senior Associate

Genpact India Ltd
01.2017 - 02.2019

Associate

Optum
08.2015 - 12.2016

B.com (Honours) -

Loyola Academy Degree And PG College
06.2012 - 05.2015
ARUN KUMAR PFinancial Crime Specialist