Vijay Rajan Ravi
Chennai
Summary
13+ years of overall experience 3+ years of Business analysis experience in Banks & Product based companies. 10 years of experience in banking operations in a leading MNC Bank. Hands on experience in various AML products like Actimize, Fircosoft, Bridger (Lexis Nexis), Norkom & World Check Experienced in project management tools like, Jira, Confluence, Talmos, Axon etc Worked on multiple integration's involving various Core Banking Applications SWIFT, FED, CHIP Messages, Native XML messages (SEPA, PACS, PAIN) & Trade messages. Implementation experience involving Middleware systems like EDMi, Solace and message-oriented Middleware (Websphere MQ) Experience in End-to-End data flow from/to multiple upstream and Downstream systems and have worked in Data Lineage, Profiling, Truncation control & Data SLA.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Business Solutions Manager
Standard Chartered Global Business Services
08.2022 - Current
- Preparing Functional system specification document, Requirements trace-ability matrix as per business requirement and obtain approval from various stakeholders
- T Project Management role to create business case, development & testing for automation
- Understanding payments business process requirements
- Interaction with business and technology teams to analyse and assess automation feasibility
- Gathering project requirements and creating workflows
- Developing artefacts to meet defined design/solution approach
- Creating Design documents, mentoring team and reviewing work done
- Worked on Multiple ISO Projects
Business Analyst
Okool Manpower Consultancy and recruitment services
12.2021 - 07.2022
- Prepare the Functional system specification document, Requirements trace-ability matrix as per business requirement and obtain approval from various stakeholders
- Facilitate any technical or functional change request during the SDLC
- Closely co-ordinate with technical teams in completing the technical solution as per business requirement
- Assist testing teams with SIT, UAT, Regression and production deployment testing (UVT)
- Provide FSD/BRD walk through for business, stakeholders and assisting business go live and providing post live support on any bugs that are reported by users.
- Implemented best-practice methodologies that improved overall project delivery timelines while maintaining quality standards.
Business Analyst
Standard Chartered GBS- Chennai
02.2019 - 12.2021
- Fircosoft’s Transaction Screening solution implementation for the bank
- Implemented best-practice methodologies that improved overall project delivery timelines while maintaining quality standards.
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
- Supported software development projects by defining clear requirements and effectively communicating them to technical teams.
- Increased resource efficiency by analyzing detailed business requirements.
- Performed gap analysis between existing systems or processes and desired state, identifying areas for improvement or enhancement.
- Actively participated in team meetings to share knowledge, exchange ideas, address challenges, and collaborate on potential solutions.
Consultant
PWC SDC
11.2016 - 05.2018
- Reviewed Cases worked by analyst on various KYC Simplified Due Diligence, Customer Due Diligence and Enhanced Due Diligence regarding wide range of entity types (Trusts, LLC& Partnerships, Corporations, Money Service Business, Natural Person, Government entity, Private Entity, Etc) synthesized finding and assessed risk levels based on utilizing various databases that includes LexisNexis, RDC, PCR and Public Domain searches.
- Ensure that all documentation and data collection was complete, or escalate to Delivery Leaders where appropriate.
- Liaise with Clients, Front Office, Compliance, Legal, and Operations as necessary as part of the KYC Refresh
- Daily Huddles to Identify the Team’s Progress and to explain them on identifying and prioritizing daily targets.
- Identifying the involvement of Special Risk Countries, Sanctioned Countries in the case and escalating them on timely basis
Business Process Lead
TCS
11.2015 - 11.2016
- Conducting holistic review of the alerts for possible Money Laundering or Terrorist Financing.
- Requesting for more information about the customer to the concerned Relationship Manager.
- Performing Quality Assessment for the alerts reviewed by the team members.
- Providing ideas to improve the process.
- Providing Training to the New joiners on Reviewing the Customer Profile, Articulating the Finding, Various Red flags.
Assistant Manager
RBS
03.2014 - 10.2015
- Updating the screening systems with the latest watch lists for all countries by monitoring international, local & internal sanctions lists according to the regulators and laws.
- Data enhancement and validation (manual validation by performing a regression test for the sanctions filter).
- Validating the suppression of the repeated hits against the lists in customer transactions
- Periodically reviewing and updating regulatory & compliance watch lists.
- Contributing to the development of Group list management process and procedures.
- Developing and maintaining a framework for the list management operations team
- Conducting a regular Quality check on the creation of global and local country watch lists
- Identifying and mitigating risks in the list management process.
- Managing stakeholders in relation to review of list management activities
Senior Executive
RBS
11.2012 - 03.2014
- List Management (Updating OFAC,BOE,EU,NSPLC,BIS,Internal List, Country External List)
- Request Management (Updating Good Guy List and Adhoc entries recommended by Group Sanctions Team)
- Recommendation for Alert Rate Fine Tuning
Sanctions Screening SME
RBS
09.2008 - 07.2012
- To handle a team of 15 staffs and to ensure that all cross border and domestic transactions are cleared within the respective
- Clearing house/currency cut-offs which hit the filter against various sanctions list which is provided by the regulators.
- Ensure that the alerts in Client screening applications are cleared within agreed TAT which hit the filter due to SDD, CDD, EDD
- Ensure team adheres to internal quality standards and guidelines as agreed with our stakeholders and to provide regular refresher and need based training to the staffs whenever required.
- Engage in weekly calls with onshore counterparts to ensure deviations are discussed and resolved at the earliest.
- Analyzing unusual transactions to detect Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing with respect to the OFAC, EU, UN, Internal and local Sanctions and Ensuring that all the payments falling in the Sanctions queue are properly investigated and released before the Cut-off to meet the SLA.
- Reconciliation of end-of-the-day queues and generating MIS report.
- Analyzing customer records in Client filtering projects w.r.t. Sanctions & PEP screening.
- Responsible for training new joiners (peers) on AML and Sanctions Screening process and Quality Control Check with respect to the transactions and the documentation.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Commerce
Gurunanak College
Chennai08.2006
Skills
- Proficient in Financial Crime Risk & Compliance, Sanctions Screening Change management, watchlist management
- Navigated through multiple functional lines to deliver business outcomes by Influencing stakeholders on strategy & vision
- Experienced in creating process design & workflows related to Integration of Payment Processing System with Sanctions Screening
- Business Analysis
- User Acceptance Testing
- Requirements Gathering
- SharePoint
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 07/11/1985
Certification
- AML KYC Global Compliance Training
- Training on ECBA
- Certified Scrum Master(Scrum Alliance)
- Certified Scrum Product Owner(Scrum Alliance)
Domainexpertise
Legal & Compliance Technology
AML- Transaction Screening, List Management, Request Management, Name Screening, Transaction Monitoring, KYC.
Clearings & Settlements, SWIFT, Batch payments
Data Quality Management Framework
Experienced Business Analyst with a demonstrated history of working in AML & Compliance project implementations in Banking and IT Industry.
Experience in Working in both Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
Experience in Working on Firco Trust, Fircosoft Multi list Manager, Firco Safe Keep, Global Fircosoft Screening
Timeline
Senior Business Solutions Manager
Standard Chartered Global Business Services
08.2022 - Current
Business Analyst
Okool Manpower Consultancy and recruitment services
12.2021 - 07.2022
Business Analyst
Standard Chartered GBS- Chennai
02.2019 - 12.2021
Consultant
PWC SDC
11.2016 - 05.2018
Business Process Lead
TCS
11.2015 - 11.2016
Assistant Manager
RBS
03.2014 - 10.2015
Senior Executive
RBS
11.2012 - 03.2014
Sanctions Screening SME
RBS
09.2008 - 07.2012
Bachelor of Arts - Commerce
Gurunanak College
- AML KYC Global Compliance Training
- Training on ECBA
- Certified Scrum Master(Scrum Alliance)
- Certified Scrum Product Owner(Scrum Alliance)
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