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Work History
Education
Skills
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Awards
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Bindu Rejeti

Hyderabad

Summary

I am a seasoned risk and control professional with over 8 years of experience specializing in Sanctions, AML/KYC, Anti-bribery & Corruption, Trade Operations, and Regulatory Compliance. My career includes roles with prominent banking institutions, navigating complex regulations such as UN, UAE, OFAC, EU, and UK-HMT. I excel in delivering service excellence in large banking environments and maintaining an adaptive approach in high-pressure settings

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Operational Risk Specialist

Wells Fargo
Hyderabad
08.2023 - Current
  • 2 years of experience in Risk and Control.
  • Familiarity with Corporate risk banking function.
  • Knowledge and understanding of financial services industry: compliance, operational risk management, or audit operations.
  • Strong experience in control testing, process reviews, audit, risk-based testing, and risk management (includes control testing, compliance, operational risk, internal audit, business process management).
  • Proficient with risk types, methodologies, and frameworks for evaluating or testing controls and assessing results, conducting research, and identifying control deficiencies.
  • Experienced in assessing risk, reviewing risk ratings, and identifying control deficiencies and ability to drive improvements.
  • Strong stakeholder management experience.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of IC monitoring activities.
  • Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of risk ratings using KRI, ILD dashboards.
  • Maintain a balance between risk mitigation and operational efficiency through weekly, monthly, and quarterly runs.
  • Worked on different ops risk routines like IORA(Independent Operational Risk Assessment) Execution (Minimum required Inputs, Comparative Rating Analysis) (Operational Risk Events) ORE Data Validation, Health Checks, Schedule E, Data Integrity and Quality review. RCSA (Risk and Control Self-Assessment) QA of risk accessible units’ artifacts. Daily Challenge Reporting
  • Expertise in programming and statistical packages – Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), SQL, Tableau, SAS.
  • Strong analytical skills with ability to turn findings into executable plans to meet business objectives.
  • Ability to identify and evaluate trends, isolate root cause, and provide swift/thorough resolution.
  • Pursuing the course of Certified Internal Auditor (CIA).

Specialist, Senior Specialist

Standard Chartered Bank
Bangalore
07.2017 - 06.2020
  • Over 6 years of experience staying up-to-date with relevant rules, regulations and best practices pertaining to Sanctions through Notices that are received from the Sanctions authorities OFAC, UN, EU & HMT and local regulators.
  • Undertake Level 3 adjudication for Payments and Customer screening referrals on the Fircosoft system.
  • Conducting periodic name screening, onboarding/KYC updates, and ad hoc periodic screening reviews.
  • Perform Sanctions Investigation on name, payments and trade screening referrals as a second line of defence.
  • Review alerts which escalated by L1/L2 team in order to investigate and report True matches.
  • Perform analysis of potential matches against sanctions lists, PEP and adverse media alerted through sanctions screening of customers and transactions.
  • Assisting and supporting the Sanction compliance responsibilities for Sanctions.
  • Escalate sanctions matches and policy breaches and support on the resolution of sanctions alerts to ensure compliance with international sanctions standards.
  • Review transactions which have been referred to Compliance from the Bank’s remittance and trade finance teams due to identified AML/CFT and Sanctions high-risk factors.
  • Provide advice and guidance on sanction compliance issues that arise through the relevant businesses and in compliance unit.
  • Assist in providing support on the optimization and operation of the sanctions compliance systems.
  • Ensure timely response to information/ advice requested by the Banks Internal Business units in accordance with the Banks Sanctions/ AML / KYC policy.
  • Perform thematic reviews of customers based on external or internal triggers or as directed by the Sanctions Manager.
  • Maintain, Track and Update Sanctions SOP / Policy in consultation with the Sanctions Manager or the Head of Financial Crime.
  • Verify accurate matches and submit reports for regulatory checks on UN, UAE local terrorist list, OFAC, EU & UK-HMT. Freeze account and assess exposure upon receiving regulatory notice. Review BOT response and issue internal investigation memo for MLRO team on true matches.
  • Give special focus and conduct periodic reviews on application outside one cert.
  • Support of the business’s AML framework and activities.
  • Support all control checks undertaken by FCC under the Operational Risk Framework (ORF).
  • Banking operations experience (Client Due Diligence, payments, trade, markets or other) and with a service-oriented attitude.
  • Analyze, investigate and research CLS alerts comparing the account holders and their transactions against Global Screening Lists and conduct review to determine if a true match to a suspect name.

Education

Masters in Technology -

GITAM University
Visakhapatnam, India

Bachelors -

Andhra University
Visakhapatnam, India

Skills

  • Financial Crime
  • Operational Risk
  • KYC
  • Lexis Nexis
  • Fraud Detection Investigation
  • SAS Fraud Management
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Fircosoft
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Incident Management and RCA
  • Risk Assessment and Control Testing
  • SQL based Analytics
  • Swift
  • Tableau (beginner)
  • Share point management
  • Data Analytics and Trend Analysis
  • Stakeholder Management and Communication
  • Co-ordination with LOBs and LODs

Accomplishments

  • Superior time management
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Complex problem solving
  • Risk management assessment
  • Working in time-sensitive and pressurized environments

Awards

Delivering Excellence Award (issued by Stan Chart-Financial Crime Surveillance Unit)

PERSONAL DETAILS

Hometown-Visakhapatnam

Timeline

Operational Risk Specialist

Wells Fargo
08.2023 - Current

Specialist, Senior Specialist

Standard Chartered Bank
07.2017 - 06.2020

Masters in Technology -

GITAM University

Bachelors -

Andhra University

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