TRISIT SAMANTA
Summary
Motivated professional with over 10 years of experience within the financial sector. Specialization in client onboarding and client management. Experienced in monitoring complex account activities. Strong relationship management skills. Highly adept at comprehensive AML, KYC, OFAC policies, transaction and project management. Adept in developing and implementing strategic and measurable steps to achieve desired operational outcomes. Guided the implementation of strategies designed to achieve planned goals.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Analyst I
AML Right Source
2023.07 - Current
- Trained, managed, supervised, and mentored analysts; performed first and second level reviews for quality assurance
- Optimized project management, resulting in timely deliverables and improved client satisfaction rates.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify areas of improvement, leading to increased operational effectiveness.
- Nurtured strong working relationships with clients, ensuring their needs were met while exceeding expectations on deliverables.
- Completed transactional analysis over an 18-month account look-back review period to detect unusual and suspicious transactional activity.
- Performed quality assurance of transaction monitoring to identify suspicious activities for all client accounts, maintained client documentation and submitted Suspicious Activity Reports when necessary.
- Drafted and filed suspicious activity reports (SARS) with FinCEN
- Recognized as top performer within respective teams, consistently exceeding daily production standards consistent with quality assurance guidelines
- Demonstrated initiative through the creation and distribution of model guidelines to streamline quality and production standards, and increase efficiency and consistency amongst teams
- Manage process escalations by working with stakeholders
- Establish and monitor dashboards to perform review of execution and improvement ideas
- Identifies key global and local influencers to ensure work gets delegated to respective team member
- Identify, evangelize and create a team with the right mix of resources across teams for successful delivery of project
- Pro-actively identify and resolved team issues and concerns
Process Specialist
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
2022.08 - 2023.06
- Review KYC records for accuracy, completeness and validity; analyzing client's financial reports, overall business, prospects, and CIP documentation.
- Conducted comprehensive research on client's backgrounds, verifying identities and assessing risks for potential financial crimes.
- Communicate daily updates to Senior Managers and key stakeholder on the status of Client's KYC records.
- Identified potential suspicious activity by performing transaction monitoring and escalating cases for further investigation.
- Discuss and escalate any complex issues surrounding client types, structures and CIP requirements with Quality Assurance team.
- Subject matter resource for KYC/AML due diligence teams and train newly hired individuals.
Business Process Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
2021.03 - 2023.08
- Performed End to End KYC periodic review on Investment banking profile clients, corporate and retail clients,
- Assessed various special risk factors, including identification of ultimate beneficial owners or legal representatives acting as politically exposed persons (PEPS), material negative news, or other special risk factors identified by the bank to constitute a high-risk recommendation (the issuance of bearer shares; links to a high-risk industry or country; and complex corporate structures)
- Provided risk rating recommendations and conducted determinations for maintaining or exiting a relationship
- Implemented and maintained appropriate KYC and enhanced due diligence compliance standards
- Researched and compiled detailed client reports to provide management teams with actionable insights.
- Cultivated thorough knowledge of rules, federal regulations, and business regulatory laws.
- Attended daily briefings with supervisors to discuss issues with screening processes.
Assistant Manager
ICICI Bank
2014.08 - 2021.03
- Researching, analyzing, evaluating, and documenting Know Your Customer (KYC) information to protect the company against the risk of money laundering activity & compliance
- Performed the required KYC screenings on customers documenting the information obtained on the client's as required by global KYC procedures
- Coordinated with internal partners such as Front, Middle, and Back Office staff to obtain required information and applicable documentation related to client on-boarding and KYC production
- Monitored and processed electronic transfers from customer's accounts while identifying and Screening (PEP, Sanction Adverse Media) & reporting suspicious transaction and activity.
- Monitoring of the Customer transactions according to the Triggers Alerted by the system which are pre systemized patterns which will alert if threshold limit has been crossed.
- Provide control functions such as requesting and receiving KYC record sign offs from client owners.
- Supervised day-to-day operations to meet performance, quality and service expectations.
- Routing SWIFT message (MT103 & MT202,MT205) for disbursement requests received to Operations group from branch or Credit Middle Office team.
- Following the process & procedure of the bank & ensuring compliance to rules and regulations of the bank including latest circulars and notifications.
- Achieved faster turnaround times for client onboarding, conducting detailed background checks and financial analyses.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma in Banking Operation - Banking Operation
NIIT- IFBI
Kolkata06.2014
B.Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Narula Institute of Technology
Kolkata, India06.2013
Skills
- AML/KYC Regulations
- Transaction monitoring
- Client Onboarding, Customer Due Diligence (CDD).
- Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
- Sanctions Screening,PEP Screening, Adverse Media Screening, Payment Screening
- AML/OFAC/FinCEN Regulatory Policies.
- LexisNexis , RDC
- Risk Analysis & Management Business Risk Assessment &
Analysis. - Report Writing
- MS Office (Excel, word, & PowerPoint).
- Analytical and Critical Thinking,Team Player
Certification
• AML KYC certification from IIFB
Accomplishments
- Process Improvement
Worked in close collaboration with internal teams, acting as SME to improve local due diligence process by implementing and comply with domestic and international regulatory requirements by streamlining end to end process. - Intergrade screening tools with LVTS payment system
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
- Supervised team of 17 staff members.
- Targets and Completions
Achieved monthly KYC remediation targets as one of the top KYC support, with high volume record completion.
Timeline
Senior Analyst I
AML Right Source
2023.07 - Current
Process Specialist
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
2022.08 - 2023.06
Business Process Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
2021.03 - 2023.08
Assistant Manager
ICICI Bank
2014.08 - 2021.03
Post Graduate Diploma in Banking Operation - Banking Operation
NIIT- IFBI
B.Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Narula Institute of Technology
• AML KYC certification from IIFB
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