Tangudu Shalini

Investigate cases of fraud and money laundering, identifying potential links with external accounts, and analyzing complex networks. Provide guidance to team members on investigations and liaise with law enforcement, including writing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) when required. Lead projects to develop financial crime processes, ensuring quality assurance in PEP/Sanction/AML alerts, investigations, SARs, and customer interactions. Conduct customer relationship reviews related to CTR, EDD, and SAR compliance, adhering to regulatory guidelines and bank practices. Utilize strong investigative and analytical skills to formulate rationale behind decisioning 'alerts' within cases, as part of lookbacks.

AML Transaction Monitoring and SAR.

Lead, coach, and motivate a team of 07 AML reviewers, ensuring all KPIs are met and exceeded.

Perform supervisory activities, including assessment of staffing models and training.

Development and performance assessments.

Maintenance of a stable operational environment and clear allocation of duties within the team.

I have also contributed towards production, as the hiring process was in progress to form the teams.

Responsible for identifying and researching the patterns, trends, and anomalies in complex transactional and customer data to detect, prevent, and mitigate.

Report suspicious activity related to money laundering, terrorist financing, and structuring.

Used transactional and customer records, external data, publicly available information, and other information to identify suspicious or unusual activity.

Maintained strong investigative skills, the ability to work independently, and demonstrated extensive banking and Compliance knowledge.

Identified multiple significant cases, red flags, and patterns associated with the laundering of illicit funds.

Ensured clear and concise narration of the research to describe if the alert is supposed to be closed or escalated.

Performed detailed analyses to detect patterns, trends, anomalies, and schemes in transactions and relationships across multiple businesses/products.

Assisted and provided information to support Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR), or. Equivalent for regulatory filing.

Manage and oversee AML FIU Operations and make suggestions for team, infrastructure.

processes

Lead, coach, and motivate a team of 15 AML reviewers, ensuring all KPIs are met.

exceeded

Experience developing typologies, trends, analytical assessments, and heat maps.

Motivate, support, and develop staff to enhance and maintain the ability to adapt to the changing requirements of a continuously evolving business environment.

Perform supervisory activities, including assessment of staffing models and training.

Development and performance assessments.

Maintain oversight for the 314(a), 314(b), law enforcement requests, NTFIU, adverse.

Information profiling and regulatory inquiries processes.

Create and/or review policies and procedures for various functions within the FIU.

· Coordinate with cross-functional groups to provide resolution for escalations and

complex scenarios

· Establish and maintain a robust inventory of controls, operational metrics, and report

Handling a training team, taking complete responsibility and ownership of providing end to end process training.

Providing in-depth training on theoretical and technical aspects.

Taking up trainings within the Scheduled Training Plan.

Providing trainings on framed training modules, process flow charts, and end to end.

Multiple tools handling skills.

Allocating various tasks to the trainees based on the process requirements.

Evaluating their performance.

Providing timely feedback and monitoring the trainees to improve their performance.

Preparing pre- and post-assessment knowledge tests for evaluating the scores.

Publishing timely assessment scores and performance report to stakeholders.

Extensively worked on data for understanding the business requirements

Working with NICE ACTIMIZE.

· Focus on identification of suspicious patterns of transactions which results in the filing of

Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) or Suspicious Transaction Reports

· Investigate and assess alerts relating to potential money laundering risks in the

organization

Ensure efficient identification and monitoring of activities and transactions considered.

suspicious

· Ensure timely and efficient reporting of transactions considered suspicious.

Review on cases suspected of money laundering and terrorist financing, and thus.

mitigating the risk to the money service business

· Assist in preparing Suspicious Activity Reports and Suspicious Transaction Reports

· Conducting Enhanced Due Diligence on customers with high risk factors and suggesting

restrictions or termination of accounts basis the risk involved pertaining to the product.

· Perform EDD on users/customers with the use of Lexis nexis, Secretaries of State and

other tools

Working with FINACLE, Finacle Customer Relationship Management, SAS

· Process of Savings account, Current account, TASC account, NRI account and SHG

account end to end process. Account opening form verification & DVU

· KYC Document scrutinization for individual customer and Constitution document

scrutinization for entity like document issued by Central/State government, municipal,

local authorities, Income Tax Department etc. Verifying the Pan, Sag file & Authorized

signatory

· Scrutinization of Trust, Association, Society, and club account related constitution

documents. Namely Trust deed, Registration certificate, Board resolution, Bye laws,

Certificate of incorporation, Memorandum of association and Article of association

· Process of account servicing and modification of RD, FD, PPF, Re-KYC (Revalidation),

Locker, Addition and Deletion of customer Name, Signature and Nominee

· Inventory management & DD issuance

· Preparing of process Charts, Graphs, sheets

Process the SR (service Request) within the Turn Around Time. Professional