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Charan Sanjeevi

Charan Sanjeevi

Bangalore

Summary

Senior Compliance Specialist with a proven track record and adept in Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering and enhancing compliance frameworks. Excelled in conducting due diligence and AML investigations, significantly improving transaction fraud detection. Skilled in communication and regulatory expertise.

Led a team of 8, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and compliance adherence. Known for adeptly managing concurrent projects with meticulous attention to detail.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Compliance Specialist

Paypal
Bangalore, India
10.2022 - 04.2024
  • Reviewing and monitoring alerts on client accounts and transactions for potential matches to designated sanctions targets and prohibited persons lists such as OFAC, UN, EU, etc.
  • Conducting due diligence investigations, including CDD, EDD, KYC, and PEP/Sanctions screening.
  • Conducting thorough AML investigations, including transaction monitoring and open-source research.
  • Drafting and filing SARs and STRs to various Financial Intelligence Units.
  • Monitoring compliance with internal regulations and external policies.
  • Communicating with stakeholders, including other compliance professionals, law enforcement agencies, and regulatory authorities.
  • Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, legal developments, and best practices.
  • Conduct a comprehensive KYC onboarding process for both new and existing customers (KYC Refresh) by examining client documentation, vendor databases, and proprietary data entries.
  • Collaborating with teams to develop and implement comprehensive compliance policies.
  • Reviewing and updating compliance policies to ensure Ongoing adherence to laws.
  • Perform quality reviews to uncover workflow and communication issues.
  • Train and mentor a team of 8 specialists, and perform quality analysis with end-to-end review and audit of cases on a daily basis.
  • Conducted 360 fraud reviews for the customer’s profiles and responsible for detecting and mitigating core banking, payments, fraud, and account opening red flags. Implemented solutions to fraud problems across ATO’s, P2P Payments,and wire fraud.

Subject Matter Expert

Amazon
Bangalore, India
10.2018 - 02.2019
  • Regular quality audit by performing RCA in order to ensure zero knowledge gap within investigators and implement necessary action plan.
  • Prepare training programs to improve compliance at all levels.
  • Work with cross-functional teams to update SOPs , develop and manage tools to monitor key performance data in real time views that would ease process and fasten investigation steps.
  • Perform weekly MO(Modus Operandi) huddles to keep team updated on new fraud patterns & policy/SOP changes.

Transaction Risk Investigator

Amazon
Bangalore, India
03.2017 - 02.2019
  • Analyze data to identify fraud trends and proactively take action to improve efficiency and reduce time to identify new fraud techniques, tactics and procedures.
  • Performed 360 Reviews on the Alert which has been triggered due to violation of threshold set for the systems for Fraud types (i.e.- ATO, PTO, TOA, ID Theft)
  • Working on queues (Email queue,Country Sanctions, B2B) along with trained in DE, NA and FR marketplace.
  • Analyze emerging fraud patterns and communicate findings to larger fraud community.
  • SME & MENTOR for B2B queue for DE marketplace
    Perform multiple metrics audits for team, share report on daily fraud trends and cluster characteristic.
  • Lead deep dive efforts, worked independently and evaluate,reviewed complex investigations decisions.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Anantapur

Skills

  • Country Sanctions
  • Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
  • Regulatory knowledge
  • Documentation Review
  • Due Diligence
  • Compliance Monitoring
  • Microsoft Office(Word,Excel,PowerPoint,One note)
  • Anti money Laundering
  • Federal and state regulations
  • Communication(Written, Verbal)

Accomplishments

  • Received Spot award 'Q2 , Q3 & Q4' for meeting the 100% productivity & quality at PayPal.
  • Mentored team of 8 new hire specialist at PayPal for Q3 & Q4 and Mentored team of 15 New hire members at Amazon.
  • Suggested process improvement ideas that were implemented to simplify the investigation process.

Tools

• Lexis Nexis Risk Research
• Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions-Sanctions Solutions
• World Check
• Dow Jones
• Dun and Bradstreet
• CLEAR - Thomson Reuters
• ServiceNow Governance,Risk & Compliance (GRC)
• CSI WatchDOG
• Tableau
• Microsoft Office

Timeline

Senior Compliance Specialist

Paypal
10.2022 - 04.2024

Subject Matter Expert

Amazon
10.2018 - 02.2019

Transaction Risk Investigator

Amazon
03.2017 - 02.2019

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Charan Sanjeevi