To succeed in an environment of growth and excellence and earn job which provides me job satisfaction and help me achieve personal as well as organizational goals.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant manager - Sanctions screening
Mashreq Global services
04.2019 - Current
Handling 10 members of team with preparation of MIS reports, updating SOP, sharing daily volumes, calls and calibrations with senior management, preparing shift plans, managing leaves, conducting monthly one on ones and working on feedback mechanism, monitoring cut offs, resolving queries on screening sanctions which deals with screening payments on fund transfers, ach, swift transfers, wire transfers and credit card payments, I have been part of the other multiple tasks and projects I am also part of production additionally as and when there is spike in the volumes.
Screening, incoming and outgoing wires and domestic and cross border payments SWIFT MT103, 202, 300, 199, 195 and treasury operation and MT 320, MT 202.
Conducting credit card frauds and fund transfers where and daily identifying cash transactions on MSB.
Screening domestic and cross borders funds transfer swift payments/ messages in sanctions filter tool FircoSoft and automated clearing house (ACH).
Monitoring daily volumes and OFAC cases and ACH payments LCY and FCY MT 102, 202 and 499 and 103 series.
Handling payments queries and cancelations MT 195 and MT 196 and MT199.
Handling mail box and ensuring escalations are addressed.
Sanctions screening of SWIFT messages meeting requirements of regulatory OFAC, EU, HMT, MBHO UN and particular country regulators requirements.
Reconciling Vostro and Nostro accounts on the clients.
Clearing high value payments and treasury deals trade payments.
Performing Analysis for identification of negative information and sanctions, advising SWIFT copy related issues which are indicators of unusual activities.
Performing Public domain search for identification of profiles of entities and for identification of any adverse information.
Performing 100% Analysis on Risk events for identification of unusual Patterns against the customer’s Profile.
Performing alerts which are the indicators of the unusual activities in the customer account to find out the genuinity of the transactions.
Sanction screening for individuals, entities and Vessels and other terrorist organizations.
Team Lead – AML Financial Crime Compliance
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2014 - 04.2019
Handling a team of 10 members, Preparing MIS Report, Monthly business review, Project status review & FTE utilization, Perform Quality Analysis for Team Members, Attending Managers calls and circulating minutes of meeting, conducting Huddles for the team, encourage team to document good practices followed on floor and include them addendum and training materials upon approval from management.
The process deals with the collection and analysis of customers basic identity (CIP) profile information, transactional behavior, adverse information, brokers information involved and customer on boarding.
Reporting suspicious part of the existing account there by determining the risk involved in it and reporting the same also assessing and the basic duties begins with.
Identifying OFAC alerts in Actimize such as Political Exposed Person, that may be, located and doing business with US Sanction and Embargo countries.
Supplied proof that False Positives were proven to be correct and updated Actimize.
Researched client information via Google and LexisNexis.
Submitting PEPs to compliance, after been identified to be added on SDN list.
Reviewing and updating client files with missing and updated information to satisfy compliance requirements on the CAMS.
Senior Team Member – Trade Logistics
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2012 - 04.2014
Providing the support trade document to customs which is used to reduce duty and tax in order cross the border between countries on basis of mutual trade agreements etc.
Handling weekly calls with client and acting as a point of contact for the client for all queries and escalations.
Performing detailed analysis like RCA and Deep Dive for the escalations and implementing the same for the process improvement in upcoming months.
To bring excellence and assuring quality standards by identifying the defects and resolving them.
Dealing with escalations and solving business critical issues.
Facilitating training and coaching for new hires and bottom quartile associates.
Contacting the classification team to collect the Harmonized System (HS), part number and Trade documents details Hosting Weekly, Bi-weekly and monthly meeting with clients.
NAFTA Qualification: Analyzing the parts which import to US and validate whether eligible for Free Trade Agreements as per the US government regulations. like NAFTA.
Developing telephone handling procedures.
Delivering Continual Service Improvement and best practices across teams.
Senior Team Member – Trade Logistics
JP Morgan Chase
03.2008 - 08.2012
Working on several Free Trade Agreements like, NAFTA, DR-CAFTA, PEPTA, US-KOREA, US-COLUMBIA, US-ISREAL, GSP AFFIDAVIT, CA-CHILE, CA-COLUMBIA.
Performing Broker Entry Accuracy Audit process, that is Comparing the Commercial invoice with Canada customs invoice and proving the audit results to the client team.
SPL: Screening suppliers with the “Restricted party database” to ensure, they do not trade with any such entities. If not, they can be subjected to heavy penalties.
Entire logistics process migrated from JP MORGAN to TATA CONSULTANCY on August 31, 2012. Livingston International took over project along with employees and technology.
Received Best performer of the Month for several times.
Received many appreciations from higher authorities of the process.
Earned leadership status by setting inspirational goals and setting examples.
On-boarded new process smoothly and managing it efficiently.
Education
B. COM -
Bangalore University
Bangalore, Karnataka
06-2008
Skills
Ability to motivate and lead others
Ability to be the primary contact for coordinating daily operations
Ability to develop teams and individuals through team processes and performance management
Ability to provide coaching and guidance to a team on a variety of procedures
Ability to supervise a mid-size team while making independent decisions
Outstanding problem-solving and negotiation skills
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to build rapport and trust quickly with work colleagues
Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
Steep learning curve
Sanctions screening
Regulatory compliance
Fraud detection
Team management
Risk analysis
Process improvement
Training and coaching
Quality assurance
Accomplishments
Received Best performer of the Month for several times.
Received many appreciations from higher authorities of the process.
Earned leadership status by setting inspirational goals and setting examples.
On-boarded new process smoothly and managing it efficiently.
Languages
Hindi
Kannada
Tamil
Telugu
Tulu
English
Hindi
Kannada
Tamil
Telugu
Tulu
Present Location
Bangalore, Karnataka
Key Competencies And Skills
Ability to motivate and lead others.
Ability to be the primary contact for coordinating daily operations.
Ability to develop teams and individuals through team processes and performance management.
Ability to provide coaching and guidance to a team on a variety of procedures.
Ability to supervise a mid-size team while making independent decisions.
Outstanding problem-solving and negotiation skills.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Ability to build rapport and trust quickly with work colleagues.
Strong Analytical and interpersonal skill, Steep learning curve.