Sivabalan Gnanagani
Lead - Anti Financial Crime (AML)
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Skilled professional with 8+ years of experience in dealing with Fraud and AML risks that prevail in Ecommerce and Banking Industry.
Experience in managing a team as well as individual contributor, depending on the needs of the organization. Proven track record of transforming specific business goals related to growth and efficiency improvements into new system designs.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead - Financial Crime Compliance
Solaris SE
Berlin, Germany
04.2024 - Current
- Manage and develop 2 sub teams with AFC Unit, providing guidance, support, and performance management.
- Identifying gaps, creating aligning SOPs and daily oversee team
performance ensuring SLAs are met. - Owner for internal report preparation and deliver detailed reports on fraud trends, investigation outcomes and risk assessments to senior management.
- Facilitating and conducting training programs to develop the skills & knowledge for the AFC team.
- Drive process improvement ideas to improve systems, processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
- Ensure the overall process, systems are compliant with relevant laws,regulations, and industry standards.
Associate - AML & Global Payment Fraud
Delivery Hero SE
Berlin, Germany
12.2020 - 03.2024
- Be the trusted expert for AML & Fraud prevention strategy across internal functions (Business, Leadership,Finance, Product, Legal) and external partners.
- Ownership of KPI's, define goals and initiatives to improve standard operating procedures & process flow.
- Assist global teams to perform AML/Sanctions monitoring and filing SAR reports to comply with regional regulations and support with any fulfillment of information sharing and law enforcement requests.
- Prepare monthly business review document and effectively communicate across business functions and stakeholders.
- Develop new strategies to detect and control suspicious
transactions by implementing effective Rules and strict Risk profile settings for different verticals & payment methods. - Conduct training sessions to assist new hires with process related learning programs to stay updated with recent trends.
Senior Specialist - Risk Mining
Amazon India PVT LTD
Bengaluru, India
01.2017 - 10.2020
- POC of Bengaluru site for Risk mining team, working with cross functional partners, driving efficiencies,identifying gaps and implementing improvements in AML & fraud prevention strategy.
- Identify patterns of money laundering,terrorist financing & prevent new fraudulent MOs across various platforms & assist SAR team in the submission of SAR reports by providing detailed summary of suspicious activities carried out on Amazon platform
- Worked on several Amazon products such as Amazon Pay, Amazon GC and prevented money laundering basis on organizations SOP's
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
SVCE
Bengaluru, India 09.2012 - 07.2016
Skills
AML & Fraud Investigations
Timeline
Lead - Financial Crime Compliance
Solaris SE
04.2024 - Current
Associate - AML & Global Payment Fraud
Delivery Hero SE
12.2020 - 03.2024
Senior Specialist - Risk Mining
Amazon India PVT LTD
01.2017 - 10.2020
Bachelor of Engineering -
SVCE
09.2012 - 07.2016
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