Preethi S

Process - (Payment Screening)

• Evaluated all real-time incoming and outgoing transactions to ensure no entities, individuals, countries, or terrorist organizations involved in messages/payments are subject to sanctions per lists subscribed by client
• Meeting cut-off deadlines and TAT standards.
• Conducted comprehensive quality review of sample payments to detect any sanction-related concerns

Process - (Customer Screening)

• Evaluated customer watch lists encompassing OFAC SDN List, PEPs, RCAs, terrorist organizations, and sanctioned vessels.
• Comparing key attributes such as Name, Age, Gender, Geographic Location (for individuals) and Name, Country of Incorporation, Nature of Business, Principal Shareholders (for entities)
• Responsible for matching Name Matches, Alias Names, Anagrams, Fuzzy names etc.
• Conducting research on hits identified during forward screening, reverse screening, and batch screening.
• Executed judgmental decisions based on investigative analysis to assess whether hits warranted escalation as potential matches or closure as false positives.

Process - (Transaction monitoring)

• Contributed to AML transaction monitoring system for detecting institutions associated with transactions that may indicate money laundering or terrorist financing
• Analyzed transactional and customer records with external data and publicly-available information to identify suspicious or unusual activity.
• Executed comprehensive analyses to identify patterns, trends, anomalies and schemes in transactions and relationships across multiple businesses/products.
• Clarify investigative writings with relevant findings and evidence to determine case escalation or closure as non-suspicious.
• Validated sources and optimized fund utilization for customers.

Process – (KYC, CIP, CDD, EDD, Negative news search)

• Customer Identification Process related to corporations and individual clients.
• Conducted negative news searches to identify potential risks for corporate clients.
  Executed customer due diligence processes to assess compliance and credibility.
  Enhanced due diligence on corporate clients by analyzing detailed business profiles.
• Further analyzing profile risk by investigating geographical risk, product risk, country risk, industry risk, involvement of PEPs.