JOHN VIONNI R.S

• Have been assigned into CITI Risk & Controls project since joining PWC.
• Currently working with CTU ( Controls Testing Unit) in EUC ( End User Computing ) Team.
• In EUC, handled controls testing for various risk stripes.
• Have been a part of CDA calls with onshore partners and prepared CDA's and Test of One for few controls.
• Prepared and Published Testing proceduresfor new controls and existing controls which needs to be updated.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive successful completion of complex projects within deadlines.
• Completed daily logs for management review.
• Drafted common document templates to reduce time spent creating documents from scratch.
• Volunteered to help with special projects and adhoc assignemtns based on business requirements.

• Departments Worked : EU/US & Global CIP (KYC, KYB, SAR), Hyper Wallet, Global Risk Operations.
• Global - KYC & CIP (2015 – 2022): Verifying new and existing accounts in Global region covering US, EU, APAC, Australia, Middle East & Africa countries (26 countries) for KYC regulations and country based compliance laws.
• Including onboarding of clients based on their respective KYC requirements.
• Reviewing on various documents from individuals and businesses and verifying the authenticity of the customer as per internal policies and Country wise regulations.
• Expertise in reviewing and verifying the documents for Business & Individuals from above mentioned regions.
• SAR : End to end Monitoring and review of Individual and Business accounts and transactions for any unusual activity based on the transaction type, Purchase behavior, money transfers, selling of high risk goods and so on.
• The process is similar to EDD.
• Reporting the suspicious activity to the next level controller in US by complying with internal and external policies and procedures.
• Escalating and Reporting the False information and identity for further review
• Maintaining the required quality level on investigation and adhering to the standard timelines for the review.
• Global Risk Operations & Investigation : Working since (Oct 2022 till Date)
• Monitoring and Investigating Business & Individual accounts for any Potential Risk involved in the account activity or with linked accounts, Transactions, Activities.
• Evaluating the potential and nature of customer transaction and account activity and Limiting the account if any unusual instances found.
• Handling Processes such as Unauthorized Acct activity, Appeals, Spoof Exit, Stolen financials, Buyer & Seller risk operations.
• Placing required and Valid Restrictions on account if found any unusual activity or transactions.
• Well Versed in analyzing customer accounts, Linked Accounts & counterparties, Logins, Txn Activities, etc.

• Company Overview: Financial Crime Compliance, FCC
• Transaction Surveillance Unit (US- FCC)
• Transaction Surveillance unit (USA) deals with monitoring the transactions which are initiated and passes through US for USD clearing
• Transactions are monitored through alerts and cases which are created based on the predefined rules.
• Monitor the transactions in second level (Manager Review) complying with the AML regulations and Internal policies
• Process Enhance alert review and Enhanced due diligence on the assigned alerts and cases
• Review the whole transactions on the specific alerts with relation to the specified rules and procedures and required public domain searches and Accuity search
• Based on the findings, making decisions on the case either to close it or to send it for further enhanced review to US Country Compliance
• Action the cases based on the response from US Country compliance.
• Perform a quality check on the first level reviews.
• Ensure to prepare a clear case disposition for further review.
• Trained around 10 plus new joiners about the process.
• Provided Quality feedback for the first level reviewers on the errors and required improvements.

Transaction filtering team

• Transaction Filtering team deals with the process of analyzing and filtering the transactions for the purpose of anti money laundering to abide with the banking compliance policies.
• To analyze the transaction for suspicious activities complying with sanctions policies and procedures
• To Report the suspicious transactions to higher level authorities for getting proper approvals
• To maintain daily team performance records and reports for purpose of measuring team's effectiveness and improvement
• To reach my daily target to meet up team's SLA
• To undergo trainings for regular updates and improvements in process.
• Tools Expertised: Fircosoft, Norkom , Lexis Nexis, DNB, World check, Accuity, Equifax, Prado, PDA, CCI.