Ashik Azeez

Experience

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  Wipro Ltd

  Dec 2008 - Jun 2010

  Associate

  o Vetting the UBS clients as High, Medium and Low Risk.o The main objective is to identify and access whether it is appropriate for UBS-IB to enter into or be in a relationship with the client.o Analyze the clients as per risk type and collect the documents required and upload the documents in client tools as per AMLC.o Understand and need to perform due diligence on UBS client base and their risk profile.o Doing Quality Check (QC) of the vetting for the KYC low, medium and high risk review team. Show less

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  Deutsche Bank

  Jun 2010 - May 2013

  Process Supervisor

  o Perform KYC checks for New Client Adoptions/ Periodic Review clients adopted in Singapore, Frankfort, and UK region as per the framework for effective prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing at Deutsche Bank for TFFI, CMFI and TSS business line.o Liaising with the business to determine what docs are required as per KYC guidelines and performing enhanced due diligence searches on the client.o Ensure process documentation is relevant and updated regularly of the process to audit standards.o Obtain and update all missing client documentation from RM / Client and modify client data, Risk rating calculation, Uploading and verification of Client documents.o Escalation to AML Compliance as per the escalation criteria and providing final approval of the request.o Identify ways to improve processes and updating the Key Operating Procedure for the team.o To ensure error free processing by performing quality checks and providing various assistance for the team.o Proactively highlighting the potential issues to top management and Compliance.o Handle escalations for process related issues.o Preparing MIS Reports, Resource utilization, daily weekly & monthly presentations to the onshore counterparts. Show less

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  Standard Chartered Bank

  Jun 2013 - Feb 2017

  Associate Manager

  Conduct enhanced due diligence of the Bank’s higher risk customers, establishing timely review schedules and accurate risk identification and monitoring to perform and prepare annual or other periodic reviews of customers so that customer retention decisions can be made that are appropriate to the risks associated with the customer. Includes ongoing analysis and monitoring of Money Service Businesses, Trust Related Accounts, Wholesale Banking Business, Foundations and other customer relationships meriting enhanced due diligence review.Prioritize daily workloads for staff & coordinating the daily allocation of work on a risk basis to ensure effective completion.Liaise with the Relationship Manager teams/Front office to explore opportunities to resolve the long standing profiles and bring them to the expected KYC standards and also respond to adhoc queriesResponsible for the team's accuracy, completeness, and consistency of information within the bank’s systems in the day-to-day processing of the team.Provide guidance in the role of subject matter expert in KYC through Quality Check review of the team in order to maintain quality at the optimum level and fostered a culture among the team members to consistently seek to achieve zero quality errorsOrganized training workshops to improve the performance of the members who were lagging behind in terms of performance.Motivating the team by giving positive feedback for the job well done and pointed the areas for improvement to reduce the percentage of errors.Interacting with QA, RM, and FCC for resolving escalated queries and issues via mail and daily call.Monitoring & reporting on team standards & performance to the top management and focusing on team issues & achievements. Also brainstorm with the team to gather process improvement ideas. Show less

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  EY

  Mar 2017 - now

  Manager