SANTHOSH KUMAR RAJENDRAN
Vellore,Male
Summary
5+ years of experience in Operations, Compliance, TM, AML, KYC, Sanctions, and financial crime investigations due diligence domain with leading international Banks/firms. Experience in handling various Regulatory and Compliance processes within banking operations such as E2E AML, KYC, Customer Due Diligence, Enhanced Due Diligence, transaction analysis, Risk-Based Investigation, Financial Intelligence Unit, SAR filling, and customer name screening, including Adverse Media, Sanctions & PEP screening through different internal and external tools. Managed a team of 50+ resources as an offshore Delivery/project lead for one of the reputed FINTECH companies on a Risk-Based Investigation project.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Lead Sanction Screening
FUTURESOFT INDIA PVT LTD
Bengaluru, Karnataka
07.2022 - Current
- Analyzing and Screening of suspicious activities of transactions triggered in Bridger for money laundering activities and identifying issues and ensuring timeous reporting of suspicious transactions
- AML Sanction screening to Identify, escalate and/or report any unusual or potentially suspicious transaction activity in accordance with corporate policy and guidelines
- Tools used to analyze the AML screening are salesforce, OII, World compliance, internal records and public domain
- Handling a team of 10 people by providing support and guidance to ensure the process knowledge by adhering to the procedure and monitoring their quality.
- Extraction of High Priority Risk reports in a timely manner, distribution of the same to peers and adhering to the client's SLA.
Team Leader
TELEPERFORMANCE
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
08.2021 - 06.2022
- Checking of daily shrinkage, preparation of attendance and productivity file also monitoring the queue and assigning the team accordingly
- Handling a team of 16 members by monitoring on a regular basis and finding the outliers by doing RCA and action plan accordingly
- Handling daily client calls, weekly calls, WBR and MBR
- Analyzing the trigger event, customer profile and the SOF provided and acting according to RBI guidelines
- Based on the transactions made by the customer identifying the suspicious activity and escalating or approving the case according to the risk involved in it
- Handling the cases in the EDD portal with the previous back-office notes and risk involved in the case by escalating it to REMU or FIU
- Handling the team with their productivity and quality providing updates according to the client requirements
- RBI investigations are based on the SAR by updating the 6 major steps in the case notes based on the customer profile
- Four eye checks for the cases which are to be handled with high priority
- Daily client calls, QC calibration with the team and doing RCA for bottom performers by providing required action plans and follow ups
- Conducting daily scrum meetings, sprint planning meeting after getting confirmation regarding priority tasks from product owner.
Transaction Screening Analyst
FUTURESOFT INDIA PVT LTD
Bengaluru, Karnataka
06.2020 - 08.2021
- Identifying suspicious activities / transactions on customers debit and credit transactional activities based on the defined detection scenarios
- Review and analyze underlying data gathered against OFAC, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Terrorist Financing (TF), Human Trafficking and other red flags to assess whether the alert should be recommended for escalation or to be closed with no further action
- Extraction of High Priority Risk reports in a timely manner, distribution of the same to peers and adhering to the client's SLA
- A Part of 6-member team to test and work on a new internal tool having a scope to change the outlook of screening for the Client
- Handling of One trade Ticketing tool, a sensitive, impactful platform with external contact points of various Stakeholders of the company, clients based out of different time zones
- Updating TSR files and handling of C1 run in a timely manner
- Achievements:
- Recognized as Gratitude hub for Consecutive productivity and good quality
- Proposed successful ideas to remove redundant processes in day-to-day work.
Compliance Analyst
SOCIETE GENERALE GLOBAL SOLUTION CENTER
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
05.2018 - 01.2020
- Analyzing and Screening of suspicious activities of transactions triggered in FircoSoft for money laundering activities and identifying issues and ensuring timeous reporting of suspicious transactions
- AML Sanction screening to Identify, escalate and/or report any unusual or potentially suspicious transaction activity in accordance with corporate policy and guidelines
- Deftly handled the Screening documentation for clients and business in the PARIS region, experienced in liaising with clients directly and business contact on a global basis
- Analyze and review transactions on a case-by-case basis and resolve or escalate as needed
- Screening all the EBA, COBALT and SEPA IN&OUTWARD transactions using application FircoSoft to identify whether the customer is in SDN (Specially Designated Nationals), OFAC and World Check List by performing appropriate level checks
- Mail Box - PARIS & ASIA- Communicating with front / middle office regarding the transactions related queries received from the team
- Supporting team with referral activities by preparing various queries and reports in accordance with RBFS and Regulators
- Handled allocation of work and helped the team in clearing the daily BAU and actively participated in UAT testing
- Achievements:
- Recognized as Bumblebee of hub for Consecutive 150+% productivity and good quality
- Were moved to Checker Level (Validator) after only 2 months in the process
- Participated in AML/KYC certification program in Société Generale Global Solutions Center.
06.2014 - 01.2018
- Been as a sole proprietor in Ilavarasi Textiles (Hyderabad) and also been managing for Jyothika Silk Mill in Surat where in handling multiple buyers and sellers based on the market trend.
Education
Certified Investment Banking Operations Professional Securities and Derivatives End to end Trade life cycle of Listed and -
B. Tech - Biotechnology
Jeppiaar Engineering college, Anna University Chennai
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 08.2010 - 04.2014
H.S.C -
Sri Vidya Mandir Matric Hr. Sec. School, Sri Vidya Mandir Matric Hr. Sec. School Uthangarai
Skills
- Professional Skills:
- AML - Financial Crime Compliance / Transaction Monitoring and Sanction Screening (Risk Monitoring)
- Products: FircoSoft, Lexis Nexis Bridger, World Check, FileNet, Dow Jones, SAP GTS, Prime Compliance Suite, BIS, One trade ticketing tool, Power BI, Assist//Ck
- Knowledge of ISO 20022, handling of SEPA and SWIFT Transactions with MT and MX formats according to AML Compliance program
- Fluent in MS office, MS Excel
- Knowledge of AML (Investigation, Monitoring and Detection Scenarios)
- Knowledge of KYC Transaction Monitoring (SAR, EDD, PEP, Remediation)
- Knowledge of Sanction Screening and Disambiguation (INWARD, OUTWARD,
- IN-OUT)
- Knowledge of Accuity World Compliance and Google to translate Cyrillic, Mandarin, French and other Global Languages for due diligence according to SPL database
- Extensive experience in Business Analyst from initial requirement analysis till the delivery of the product in various sections of banking domains( Payments, Cards, Credit & debit , Crypto & Gambling )
- Diverse industry experience in banking domain
- Always having Quality oriented mind setup and Strong analytical and Problem-solving skills
Accomplishments
- Expertise in Team Handling
- Positive Attitude
- Self-Confident & Quick Learner.
Languages
English
Fluent
French
Elementary
Tamil
Native
Telugu
Fluent
Hindi
Advanced
Work availability
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Lead Sanction Screening
FUTURESOFT INDIA PVT LTD
07.2022 - Current
Team Leader
TELEPERFORMANCE
08.2021 - 06.2022
Transaction Screening Analyst
FUTURESOFT INDIA PVT LTD
06.2020 - 08.2021
Compliance Analyst
SOCIETE GENERALE GLOBAL SOLUTION CENTER
05.2018 - 01.2020
06.2014 - 01.2018
B. Tech - Biotechnology
Jeppiaar Engineering college, Anna University Chennai
08.2010 - 04.2014
Certified Investment Banking Operations Professional Securities and Derivatives End to end Trade life cycle of Listed and -
H.S.C -
Sri Vidya Mandir Matric Hr. Sec. School, Sri Vidya Mandir Matric Hr. Sec. School Uthangarai
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