Manjunatha CR

Key, Role & Responsibilities: Profile Summary: (9 + years)

● I have been doing QC role for our team to check few sample cases on a weekly basis just to have a quality control as per audit concern.

● I have conducted periodic business review statistics with the internal teams about team’s progress.

● I have conducted Case sharing and knowledge sharing sessions with the global forum.

● I have been joining few leadership sessions to discuss about the system issues, AHT concerns and idea’s portal highlights notifying to senior management.

● Directing end-to-end Sanctions activities inclusive of establishing, executing, and verifying Merchant Products from scratch.

● Check for the negative news on the parties which could lead to money laundering or terrorist financing

● Raising request for information about the counterparts & Purpose of the transaction if information is insufficient

● Processing Different types of queues Like Country Sanctions, CIP, SDN List & PEP List (Politically Exposed Person), Real Time Scanning.

● Preparing MIs for tracking turnaround time of the transaction on regular basis to meet customer expectation and circulating among the stakeholders.

● Analyze a wide selection of client documentation in order to extract key information and validate client details

● Client research through various public & 3rd party data providers website

● Frequent interaction with the onshore team in terms of sourcing the required details and documents.

● Acting as a training specialist; training team members and taking skill development sessions to enhance and evaluate understanding of policies & procedures.

● Exposure on the process specific application/software like NORKOM, BAE Systems, Admin tool, World Check, Scope, Venmo and Zen desk, FircoSoft, SCM ,PDA and Braintree Tool.

● Review and action payment transactions held for sanction related matches. Conducting end-to-end meticulous reviews of cases pertaining to potential illegal activity, global watch lists, or activity in violation of the economic and trade sanctions administered by OFAC.

● Documentary proof of suspicious activities or transactions (SARs/STRs) and ensure effective record keeping of suspicious transaction identified and reported accordingly.

● Performing due diligence (CDD/EDD) reviews for customers while adhering to know your customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) standards.

● Reviewed Risks and method of Anti-money laundering, and Terrorist Financing, Human Trafficking and Smuggling, International AML/CFT Standards, Conducting and Responding to Investigations, Responding to Law enforcement actions, Assessment of AML/CFT Risk, Know Your Customer, Sanctions and Embargoes, Investigations, AML/CFT Cooperation between Countries, Customer Due Diligence, Screening and Transaction monitoring.

● Highly capable of evaluating, investigating, and resolving process/subject matter issues and concerns.

● Proficient in developing compliance controls over the portfolio with Risk assessment and providing advice to business team on remediation measures for escalations.

● Responsible to perform full review on the customer by understanding their nature of business, buyers and suppliers, transaction history and perform various check to understand the total level of exposure and risk appetite of Customers through Real-time scanning, Watch list Management, PEP and Venmo users.

● Experience in reviewing and investigating transaction with reference to Payments and reaching out to customers seeking additional information for differentiating or dismissing in accordance with Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).

● Review and action payment transactions held for sanction related matches.

● Ensuring compliance with all AML laws, regulations, guidelines, written procedures; OFAC, CIP, CDD, EDD, KYC, customer/transaction monitoring.

● Responsible for performing Sanctions review on clients who has exposure to sanction countries and investigating the business relationship of the client.

● Performed Sanctions/AML Investigations utilizing Norkom application and various peripheral supporting applications, i.e., search engines, proprietary database services (Lexis Nexis, World Check etc.).

● Collaborating with Internal outreach support and Subject matters and Quality Assurance teams.

● Presenting requirement logics to onshore team whenever required and maintaining good relationship.

•Responsible for reviewing and screening the payment transactions held for sanction related matches.

• Responsible for monitoring, authenticating, and repairing messages sent via SWIFT by

Deutsche Bank across the globe.

• Updating / Recertification of the Key Operating Procedure as when any changes occur.

•Preparation of weekly and monthly Performance Status Reports to Senior Management.

•Ensuring EOD work is completed within the cut-off time frame and implementing robust strategies

To ensure excellence in service delivery.

•To establishing RMA relationship between Deutsche Bank and its clients.

•Accountable for responding and resolving client queries via SWIFT, Mail or Telephone appropriately.

•Knowledge and functionality of various SWIFT messages (MT 103,202 types etc.).

•Escalate to higher level in case of any major issues (timely Escalation).

•Knowledge in HSM Administration, SWIFT Net Link and SWIFT Alliance Gateway.

•Provide supports on the weekend for application related releases and to support for

Business hours of Middle East countries.

•To release messages from filtering application which filters financial messages against

Terrorist and fraudulent activities as well as organizations across the globe listed in

Special Risk Client List (As per deutsche bank compliance policy).

• It includes the monitoring and completing the entire cycle of a payment.

I.e., The payment processing, investigations, and payment filtering.

•Incident reporting of all the internal and external breaches.

•Performing ad-hoc cash risk assessment and creating repository for the sub-processes of GMO.

Enlisting and clearance of the SIIs (self-identified issues) on a monthly basis

Which arise out of fraudulent payments.

•MIS preparation and 4-eyes check.