Mihir Bothra

- Lead a team of five for a project in the U.S. MNC bank.

- Conducted comprehensive AML risk assessments of high-risk customers and transactions, identifying potential vulnerabilities, and recommending mitigation strategies.

- Working for a risk compliance division as a second line of defense to provide input in the Asset Wealth Management sector.

- Provided training to new employees, imparting knowledge on AML/KYC processes, regulatory guidelines, and best practices, facilitating their onboarding, and skill development.

- Provided subject matter expertise (SME) for team members in process guidance.

- Executed KYC maker and checker responsibilities for a reputable bank.

- Demonstrated leadership by effectively leading the team during critical situations.

- Review maker performance and identify the training requirements and knowledge gaps.

- Conducting training sessions and sharing common errors, best practices, and strategies with the team to improve the efficiency and quality of their cases.

- Conducted customer due diligence (CDD), identification and verification, screening, risk assessment, and account activity reviews on UK banking customers.

- Performed client outreach to collect missing KYC information from the customer to conduct a review.

- Avoiding any duplication of documents and data updated in the system.

- Completion of the client profile based on the gathered information from business, and calculating the risk rating of the customer to classify and perform the KYC/AML reviews accordingly.

- Analyzing clients' reports and data, and documenting reports accordingly.

- Moving the accounts that do not meet KYC requirements to terminated status.

- Maintained the internal production tracker, publishing the monthly performance data of the team.

- Working on KYC for all types of clients, such as funds, financial institutions, and public limited companies. SPVs for the European, German, and EMEA regions.

- Ensuring that I meet the yearly deadlines of the client, and channeling my tasks to work better.

- Conducted in-depth financial analysis and developed detailed reports, leading to a 15% increase in cost-saving initiatives.

- Utilized advanced Excel skills to streamline financial data processing, resulting in a 20% improvement in efficiency.

- Preparing a processed form report detailing all the information and generating a risk rating.