Kumar Saurav

Experience

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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2016

  Financial Analyst

  • Role: KYC Analyst• Providing valuable inputs to the process by liaising with the respective clients to increase efficiency and reduce manual intervention to the minimum.• Monitor payments and expenditure.• Represent Payments internally and externally for the area of specialization to Audit, Compliance, Legal, Lexis- Nexis, OFAC, World check & Regulatory bodies.• Review of all potential OFAC transactions stopped by payment filtering systems. • Maintained records of all transactions referred to Compliance Officer. • Support Compliance Managing Director with OFAC regulatory examinations • Ensure adherence and strict compliance with the bank, IFSA, OFAC, and regulatory guidelines. • Monitored all accounts to ensure the release of proper funding payments.• Experience in identifying OFAC sanctions risks on commercial banking clients (CMB).• Responsible for performing sanctions review on clients who have to sanctions countries and investigating the business relationship of the client with the bank. Work with the list of customers with sanctions connections to consider additional controls relating to their payments. Show less

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  Accenture in India

  Nov 2016 - Dec 2018

  Senior Process Analyst

  • Role: CDD Senior Analyst• Anti-money laundering, KYC, Due Diligence• Providing valuable inputs to the process by liaising with the respective clients to increase efficiency and reduce manual intervention to the minimum.• Monitor payments and expenditure.• Represent Facebook Payments internally and externally for the area of specialization to Audit, Compliance, Legal, IFSA, OFAC & Regulatory bodies.• Review of all potential OFAC transactions stopped by payment filtering systems. • Maintained records of all transactions referred to Compliance Officer. • Support Compliance Managing Director with OFAC, Lexis-Nexis, World check regulatory examinations • Ensure adherence and strict compliance with the bank, IFSA, OFAC, and regulatory guidelines. • Monitored all accounts to ensure the release of proper funding payments.• Experience in identifying OFAC sanctions risks on commercial banking clients (CMB).• Responsible for performing sanctions review on clients who have to sanctions countries and investigating the business relationship of the client with the bank. Work with the list of customers with sanctions connections to consider additional controls relating to their payments.• To ensure full compliance with pertinent rules and regulations. Escalates issues discovered during ongoing review and assessment of AML/OFAC compliance risk that require escalation to senior management for direction and resolution.• Experience in reviewing and investigating transactions with reference to payments L1 alerts are closed by recording public searches and escalations further if identified containing potential matches against sanctions lists: OFAC, United Nations, European Union, and others Show less

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  HSBC

  Feb 2019 - Dec 2021

  International Case Manager

  Have been on Business Travel for 3.5 months as a part of the Short-Term Assignment (STA) for Staff Training and working in Pune (Maharashtra).Working with Commercial Banking Clients (CMB)Update KYC profiles in accordance with the HSBC Global Standards, which includes completion of CDD (Customer Due Diligence) template, undertaking due diligence and obtaining documents as required from the client / Relationship Manager (RM)Ensuring AML regulations and HSBC policies and procedures are fully implemented which are in lines with Global Standards.Ensure KYC escalation policies are followed and issues are escalated to KYC Management as applicable, perform screening review hits to determine course of action, and refer to Compliance & the business as required.pAssist with other project requirements as directed by KYC delivery managers, and respond efficiently to other adhoc requests.Review extended due diligence to assess risk by forwarding comments to Compliance for agreement and approval.Handled team of 18 members.Contacting the customers Via Email or phone to collect information and documents required.Preparing daily / weekly / monthly capacity plan for the team by assessing the forecasted volumes against the available work forces.Queue Management to ensure completion of work within the specified SLA with maximum productivity and quality.Record the daily progress of the staffs and highlight good and underperformance to management.Promote team work and highlight individual achievements.Deputize Managers and ensuring smooth flow of work in their absence.Excellence in developing & Maintaining relationships with business stakeholders; defining service, delivery standards while ensuring adherence to delivery model while managing the SLAs; Exhibited excellence in managing various activities pertaining to setting up of targets, SOP & SLA management, Budgets, Quality assurance, business analysis, MIS reporting and so on. Show less

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Dec 2021 - Apr 2024

  Business Process Lead

  Department: Wealth Management, Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Know Your Customer (KYC) Remediation➢ Handling Team of 28 Members➢ Working with Commercial Banking Clients (CMB)➢ Record the daily progress of the staffs and helping them in the Training.➢ Queue Management to ensure completion of work within the specified SLA with maximum productivity and quality.➢ Record the daily progress of the staffs and highlight good and underperformance to management.➢ Promote team work and highlight individual achievements.➢ Deputize Managers and ensuring smooth flow of work in their absence.➢ Excellence in developing & Maintaining relationships with business stakeholders; defining service, delivery standards while ensuring adherence to delivery model while managing the SLAs; Exhibitedexcellence in managing various activities pertaining to setting up of targets, SOP & SLA management, Budgets, Quality assurance, business analysis, MIS reporting and so on. Show less