Venkata Teja Lankada
Bangalore
Summary
I intend to build a career with a leading organization in a high-tech and dynamic environment, working alongside committed and dedicated professionals. I have gained experience in Know Your Customer (KYC) processes with a focus on client onboarding, managing exceptions, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. My responsibilities have included conducting Transaction Monitoring, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), performing Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) checks, and carrying out Anti-Money Laundering (AML) reviews.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Process Delivery Specialist, QC
IBM
08.2025 - Current
- Experienced risk and compliance professional with expertise in managing operations, regulatory compliance, and quality control.
- Currently in a QC role, ensuring compliance, operational excellence, and process optimization.
- Worked across multiple business units, including Wealth Management and ISG, gaining diverse industry experience.
- Well-versed in KYC and AML processes at an SME level, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards.
- Proficient in compliance reporting and QC frameworks, developing and implementing QC plans to meet regulatory requirements.
- Strong logical reasoning and research skills for case analysis, ensuring sound decision-making based on research findings.
- Ability to interpret and apply project policies and procedures, ensuring work aligns with defined engagement policies.
- Commitment to maintaining high work product quality, adhering to project specifications and compliance standards.
- Expertise in error trend analysis and creating robust quality reporting mechanisms to identify and mitigate risks.
- Strong ability to drive quality improvements through root cause analysis (RCA) and action plans to enhance operational efficiency.
Analyst
IBM
03.2024 - 08.2025
- Identify and analyze alerts generated by the transaction monitoring system (Actimize) to detect potentially suspicious activity.
- Assist the AML Group’s periodic risk assessments through the analysis of data elements related to potential indicators of customer, product, or geographic risk, evaluating and enhancing the AML Group’s risk rating methodologies, and identifying new quantitative factors that can be incorporated into the risk assessment process.
- Undertake research, EDD document checks, and financial crime risk assessment via internal and external sources (public domain search).
- Performing investigations on scenario-based alerts such as HRJs, PEP, gaming and gambling entities, charities, watch list accounts, pass-through activities, structuring risks, and other scenarios.
- Responsible for identifying and researching the patterns, trends, and anomalies in complex transactions and customer data to detect, prevent, mitigate, and report suspicious activity to prevent fraud, money laundering, and identity theft losses.
- Validated the customer's business purpose and legitimacy, and analyzed any transactions that appeared unusual based on the customer's profile.
- Collaborated with second line of defence teams (Compliance/QA/QC) to escalate high-risk cases and provide detailed investigative insights..
- Working knowledge of AML laws (USA PATRIOT Act), regulations (Fed, SEC), and their application to the supported products and business lines.
- Conducted open-source intelligence (OSINT) research using public and private databases to validate customer identity, business activities, and reputational risks.
- Supported periodic AML risk assessments, contributing to enhancement of risk rating methodologies and identification of new risk indicators.
AML/KYC Analyst
WNS Global services
Bangalore
07.2022 - 02.2024
- Reviewing, Preparing and submitting Suspicious Activity Report forms (SARs) received from multiple sources, including External Investigative Reporting, Major and Complex Investigations, to timely and accurately report potentially suspicious activity to financial intelligence units.
- Researching, analyzing and evaluating possible suspicious transactional activity as part of the due diligence process utilizing databases, financial statements, and AML software to employ, interpret, and present data in a timely manner.
- Experienced in working on SAR Portal and Back Office of the customer.
- Customer screening of Global Banking and Markets for US clients (SoFi).
- Performed Sanctions screening and PEP identification. Reviewed potential negative news hits across Global Client Management division as per global KYC procedures.
- Acquired knowledge on usage of RMS and Lexis Nexis tools.
- Identify the Negative News/PEP/Sanctions/High-Risk Indicators on Customers & connected parties, discount the false positive hits, investigate on True/positive hits, and escalate material hits to HRR (Higher Risk Review).
- Training New Joiners of the process through Shadowing and help them in processing of alerts in the Nesting period by reviewing their processed alerts and providing assistance in resolving their queries.
- Conducted Quality Check on Peer Cases and providing them feedback to improve their accuracy.
Education
B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University
01-2017
Skills
- Transaction Monitoring
- Banking operations
- KYC verification
- Client Onboarding
- Customer Identification
- Customer Due Diligence
- Client handling
- PEP, sanctions and AM Screening
Tools & Technologies
- Actimize
- Tableau
- Lexis Nexis
- World-Check
- Excel
- Macros, VBA
Certification
- NISM series v a: mutual fund distributors certification.
- IIBF (AML certification).
Accomplishments
- Consequently, recognized as the 'League of Champions' in the years 2022 and 2023 by the Manager.
- Received an appreciation from my manager for maintaining the best quality for 2 consecutive quarters.
Timeline
Process Delivery Specialist, QC
IBM
08.2025 - Current
Analyst
IBM
03.2024 - 08.2025
AML/KYC Analyst
WNS Global services
07.2022 - 02.2024
B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University