To meet new challenges at work and face them with my innovative thoughts and technical expertise.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Process Specialist (SME)
Cognizant Technologies Solutions India Pvt Ltd
07.2022 - 04.2024
Results oriented certification supervisor dedicated to providing excellent service by developing operational and procedural improvements to increase productivity and efficiency
Successful at building strong cross enterprise professional relationships
Understanding the project requirements of client and worked from initial development phase till the completion
Worked in POS certification for EMV & MSR with different Merchants, Vendors & Gateway
Tested Various Sale functionality on POS across all the card brands
Validate the transactions with ISO8583 Specifications
Executed the test cases of refunds, reversals, timeout, verification in entire phase of certification
Worked in test scripts and test data across all BAU projects in POS & Terminal
Validated terminal transactions via swiped cards, DIP/TAP and manually input data
Format validation of POS entry mode, POS condition code for the Merchant & terminal ID
Experienced in certification POS testing in all type of industry (Ecommerce, Direct Marketing industry, Retail, Airlines
Planning managing, implementation and certification of projects for different bank, merchants via certification for different card networks as VISA/MASTERCARD/AMEX/DISCOVER.
Senior Analyst (FRMU)
Hexaware Technologies
02.2021 - 07.2022
Monitoring the Citi bank Commercial Credit Cards Transactions
Risk monitoring: Monitoring Commercial Credit cards transactions through Falcon applications
Monitoring both online and POS transactions all over the world
Reduce fraudulent transactions with cards
Transaction cancellation mail send to the particular merchant as well as acquiring bank to cancel the transaction
Then Initialize the process to block the card and reissue the new card to the customer
Monitor travel plans of HNW customers to prevent lapses and ensure smooth transactions
Prepare and share the Regulatory reports for Turkey and Nigeria region
Query handling and resolve
TAT Calculation for team
Publish KPI MIS
Prepare Daily Production Analysis file and participate client call
Prepare and share the trigger report for LATAM region
Reassigning the investigation cases to the respective teams based on client call
Monitoring the payment and credit to avoid money laundering.
Associate
Unimoni GBS PVT LTD (Associate of UAE Exchange Centre LLC)
04.2017 - 04.2020
Multicurrency prepaid card /payroll card (UAE Exchange Centre LLC)
Core Activity: Supporting Activity
Risk Monitoring: Review and analyze the authorization report on hourly basis and identify the suspicious transactions
Based on rule defined
The suspicious transactions will be shared to GCC (global contact center) for our customer confirmation
Based on the CH response the cases will be analyzed
Handling the acquirer /merchant transactions confirmations and queries
Managing the MasterCard ADC (Account Data Compromise Alert) report and take appropriate action
Handling Central Bank (CBUAE) Fraud Reporting for all fraud related transactions on monthly basis
Worked on MasterCard’s FRM Application for live transaction monitoring
Creating rules based on the recent fraud trend to mitigate the frauds
Monitor the False-positive ratio to ensure that the rules and tightened and the False-Positive ratio is brought down to acceptable limits
Monthly MIS for the transaction monitoring team will be shared to internal stakeholders
Transactions management & Card Issuance: Handling Second level escalations for all the card related query received from Global Call center, customer & Branch
Analyzing all the exceptional cases and negative balance cards on daily basis & taking an appropriate action to mitigate the risk and financial loss
All the transactions are monitored through various reports
The decline or any issue in transactions are reported to the technical team and ensure that the issues are resolved
Any Technical issue in the third-party system are identified and take up with product and development team for the fix
Register the customer to issue the new card for salaried employees with internal system (Amigo)
Generate the cards and share the details with vendor to print the card
Manage the fee setup for re issuance and inactive cards
Manage the ATM fee setup for various currencies in periodically (1st & 15th of every month as per SLA)
Creating the salary information file and confirmed with biller (Employers) to disburse the salary to the employees
Verify the necessary documents and provide funding authorization for salary disbursement
Dispute Management: Coordinate with the dispute team to raise chargeback for the disputed transactions and take it up with the Master Card Team for staging
Collect and verify the necessary documents to raise the charge back
Follow up done till the closure of the dispute – First Chargeback, Second Chargeback, Good faith cases
Ensure that the credit received for CBK raised and fund released to card account for successful chargeback and Write Off cases are done as per process
Managed to ensure that all CBK raised are in compliance to the Master card regulations & statutory requirements, by reporting fraud transactions to SAFE
Non-customer disputes are identified and processed by exploring all the available reports through proactive analysis.
Officer – Central Risk Unit (Transaction Monitoring)
HDB PVT LTD
02.2012 - 04.2017
Monitoring the HDFC Cards Transactions
Risk monitoring: Monitoring Credit, Debit, Prepaid and Forex cards transactions through bank applications
Monitoring both online and POS transactions all over the world with HDFC cards
To analyse / assess / study in detail the pattern of frauds and risks involved and take preventive & corrective actions
Provide inputs for devising new specs for risk monitoring system based on emerging Fraud trends
Reduce fraudulent transactions with cards
Convey the message to customer about the fraudulent transactions
Investigate about fraudulent transactions with customer
Transaction cancellation mail send to the particular merchant as well as acquiring bank to cancel the transaction
Then Initialize the process to block the card and reissue the new card to the customer
Monitor travel plans of HNW customers to prevent lapses and ensure smooth transactions
Cross sell EMI products to customers during transaction monitoring.
Relationship Officer
SPARK BIND COMPANY
10.2010 - 01.2012
Conducted research to identify new opportunities for bringing about innovation in events
Discussed specific requirements and expectations concerning the event with clients
Managed and developed a strategic plan of action to ensure that the cost of the event remains under the pre-determined budget
Searched and negotiated suitable venues or locations as per the requirement and budgetary constraints of client
Carried out all the functions as per legal guidelines and regulations
Facilitated communication with professionals, including venue management, stand designers, caterers, contractors and equipment rentals to ensure efficient running of an event
Trained new and existing staff prior to the event so that all operations and duties were executed smoothly and as per clients’ guidelines.
Senior Field Development Officer
SMILE MICROFINANCE LTD
02.2008 - 07.2010
Monitoring the business performance of individual team members
Training and recruiting the new team members
Provide training to the new groups about the Micro finance program and evaluate them before disburse the small loans
Verify the KYC, repayment ability of the customers
Monitoring the repayment and ensure 100 percent collection with in the TAT
Monitoring the overdue payments by every month
Preparing and submitting the reports on daily, weekly and monthly
Reduce the risk of fake customers and fraudulent documents.
Office assistant
MASTER ADVERTISERS Virudhunagar
12.2004 - 11.2007
Manage daily activity
Maintain attendance of office staffs
Resolve customers queries
Support front desk activities
Keep books for billing and payments
Prepared weekly and monthly report and update calendar of appointments.
Education
BBA -
Sri Kalishwari College - Sivakasi
01.2004
XII Std -
KVS Higher Secondary School, Virudhunagar
01.2001
X Std -
KVS Higher Secondary School, Virudhunagar
01.1999
Skills
Merchant Certification
Working Experience in ISO8583 Specification
Transaction Monitoring in cards domain
Multi-currency negative balance analysis
Basic Knowledge in Charge back with MasterCard association
Fraud investigation and Creating Rules to Alert suspicious Transaction
Prepaid card operations
Good working experience in VRM – Visa Risk Manager, EMS – Expert in Monitoring System and PRM – Proactive Risk Manager to monitoring the suspicious transactions with various type of cards
Experience in DCMS (Debit Card Management System) to maintain debit cards
Experience in Universal banking application Vision Plus to maintain and manage the credit card and customer profile
Languages
Tamil
English
Personal Information
Father's Name: S Gnanasundaram
Date of Birth: 09/14/83
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Disclaimer
I declare that the details furnished in this resume are true to the best of my knowledge.
Timeline
Process Specialist (SME)
Cognizant Technologies Solutions India Pvt Ltd
07.2022 - 04.2024
Senior Analyst (FRMU)
Hexaware Technologies
02.2021 - 07.2022
Associate
Unimoni GBS PVT LTD (Associate of UAE Exchange Centre LLC)
04.2017 - 04.2020
Officer – Central Risk Unit (Transaction Monitoring)