Ishant Puri

• Management of the AML, KYC analyst team, setting team and individual goals, managing the rota and daily scheduling, owning the Customer Due Diligence journey and all fraud related incidents.

• Unusual transactions monitored on daily basis and followed up to ensure timely regularization.

• To complete the client On-boarding process in proper manner.

• Responsible for ensuring that daily reports, verification queues and withdrawal queues meet the business Service Level Agreements and customer expectations.

• Ensure that all reports and data feeds necessary for the running of the team are kept up to date and in line with the latest regulations and guidelines.

• Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), Sanctioned Individuals/Entities, Fraudsters and Money Launderers and mitigate the risks associated with the financial crimes. Ensuring compliance of KYC and Anti Money Laundering norms, Fraud Controls

• Management of the AML, KYC analyst team, setting team and individual goals, managing the rota and daily scheduling, owning the Customer Due Diligence journey and all fraud related incidents.

• Worked as a Team Manager In Transaction Monitoring Department.
• Preparing of Credit Note and Credit appraisal for approval and Sanction.
• Training New Staff on KYC & Documentation Norms as per the Company Constitutions & Authorized signatories.
• Individual & Entity CIBIL / CMR Check.
• Responsible for ensuring that daily reports, verification queues and withdrawal queues meet the business Service Level Agreements and customer expectations.
• Work alongside the MLRO, RGO and Compliance Officers to investigate customers and conduct Enhanced Due Diligence where necessary.
• Present to the wider business the team KPIs and status updates on a weekly basis.

• One of the key responsibilities was to coordinate and collection of client specific information and completion of documentation to assist in the on-boarding of new clients.
• Performing ongoing customer due diligence including maintenance and updating of AML and KYC records and information for existing clients.
• Perform quality check of KYC on Quality control, Transaction Monitoring, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), Specialized/Simplified Due Diligence (SDD), Basic Due Diligence (BDD)
• Effectively arranged Suspicious Activity Reports/Suspicious Transaction Reports in Compliance with established regulatory guidelines and time frames.
• Understand the regulatory landscape in each territory that Matchbook operates and ensure compliance with all local laws and regulations.
• Responsible for ensuring that daily reports, verification queues and withdrawal queues meet the business Service Level Agreements and customer expectations.

• Collection and verification of confidential client data via publicly available and internal sources.
• Compare and contrast differences within KYC records, highlight and escalate any discrepancies.
• Engaging with Middle office and be part of KYC/AML interactions to complete the case as per the timeline,
• Exhibit the highest standards of customer service to our internal and external customers (inclusive of confidentiality)
• To be part of the holistic client review team to follow up on outstanding alignment items within various line of Business and/or GFCC to close loop on the alignment
• To be flexible to work on other migration/remediation projects including Screening resolution, other LOB holistic alignment or Quality Assurance.
• Ability to comprehend the KYC risk factors and draft the overall risk summary for the client.
• Worked on high volume and achieved Zero Error Excellence in client on boarding and transaction processing.

• Worked as a Team lead in CPU at NPC II Hyderabad, Handled a team of 16 members.
• Overall responsibility for ensuring KYC compliance in document verification & ensuring that errors are within the tolerance limits, correcting the suspected cases and clearing the same within TAT.
• Processing High, Medium and Low Risk cases of corporate or retail customers of a bank or financial institution in order to fulfill geo-specific regulatory Know-Your-Customer requirements.
• Client on boarding and Scrutiny of forms in all aspects, Overall controllership and process adherence.
• Handling PAN India centralized request from Branches in terms of Customer profiling, KYC Norms and basis DE dupe check.
• Worked on high volume and achieved Zero Error Excellence in client on boarding and transaction processing.