Saurabh Chhabra, CAMS, IIBF

Experience

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  RBS

  Sept 2013 - Mar 2018

  - Experience in CDD/KYC/AML field - MBA Finance, (CAMS) Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist and also certified in (IIBF) Indian Institute of Banking and Finance - Worked as a Senior Analyst in CDD department with Royal Bank of Scotalnd.- Periodic review of High risk customers (UK clients)- Imparted process trainings to new batches & visited chennai to trained a fresh batch of 20 FTE's for setting up a periodic review process.- Client Screening for Uk Customers- Lead calls with Project Team , Change Team & Business .- Interact directly with the Manchester team through mails & calls for process gaps and updations related to process.- Leading project with change team (UK) and prepared training material along with Quality Controls to carry out Periodic Review process- Prepared MIS for team's productivity & Quality Scores on weekly basis- Took refresher sessions to achieve 100% quality scores- Won Silver & Bronze Ovations nominated by Higher Management . Show less -Experience in CDD/KYC/AML field - Achieved 100% productivity & Quality as per the policy requirements.- Certified in (IIBF) Indian Institute of Banking and Finance - Done KYC Remediation for Business Banking customers (UK clients).- Periodic review of High risk customers (UK clients)- Lead Access Management for CDD Department.- Accredited as an Analyst and checker in all Entities.- Worked on Action Plan Responses (APR) i.e. Due diligence on customers done by directly involved with Relationship Managers (RM's) for the updated information.- Prepare MI for KYC Remediation and Periodic Review of UK clients and shared it with stakeholders on weekly basis. Show less

  • Senior Process Associate AML - CDD/KYC - Business Banking

    Jul 2015 - Mar 2018

  • Process Associate AML - CDD/KYC - Business Banking

    Sept 2013 - Jun 2015
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  Paytm Payments Bank

  Mar 2018 - May 2019

  Team Lead - Risk & Compliance

  • CAMS,Working as a Team Lead under Risk & Compliance Department for Paytm Payments Bank, evaluation and reporting of suspicious transactions (STR’s)• Reporting to Dpty. MLRO (Money Laundering Reporting Officer)• To liaise with RBI and FIU India, investigate and ensure timely resolution of cases escalated to Bank• Heading AML( KYC, CDD, EDD, Periodic Review, Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions/PEP screening, Watch list Management and Training) compliance desk for Paytm Payments Bank• Formulated Process Training Framework & got it implemented in Operations Teams post HOD’s approval• Establish an AML & Risk Program (E-Modules) with Assessment for Bank Employees • Provide a mechanism to ensure that regulatory guidelines are promptly disseminated within the Bank and to monitor compliance with the regulatory guidelines• Liaise closely with the AML/KYC Officer to gather inputs on the emerging trends for compliance testing• Providing compliance testing results to the AML/KYC Officer to review products, processes or frameworks• Maintain a repository of MIS (Screening/Monitoring) & share MIS on monthly basis with Senior management.• Prepared Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) & Quality controls from Compliance end for AML operations (Screening of Sanction/PEP, Monitoring of Wallet & Banking customers)• Trainings to newly onboarded employees in AML operations. Show less

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  Genpact

  May 2019 - May 2021

  Assistant Manager, Financial Crime Compliance | AML

  Working as an Asst. Manager under Financial Crime Compliance/Anti Money Laundering / Transaction Monitoring: Responsible for identifying and researching the patterns, trends and anomalies in complex transactional and customer data to detect, prevent, mitigate and 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 (UK & US regions).- Performed end to end business research on the customers due diligence related to the source of funds.- Performed detailed analyses to detect patterns, trends, anomalies and schemes in transactions and relationships across multiple businesses/products.- Prepare a disposition for the customers on the performed due diligence research and reviewed transactional activity.- Conducting 100% Quality Review of the process.- Prepared suspicious activity reports for the customers.- Identified training opportunities and developed, conducted, and assisted with a wide range of BSA/AML- related training.- Involved in hiring for different clients (AML Domain) Show less

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  Barclays

  May 2021 - Sept 2022

  BA4 | Financial Crime Compliance | AML

  Working as BA4 under Financial Crime Compliance/Anti Money Laundering / Transaction Monitoring: Responsible for identifying and researching the patterns, trends and anomalies in complex transactional and customer data to detect, prevent, mitigate and report suspicious activity related to money laundering, terrorist financing and structuring.- Using transactional and customer records, external data, publicly- available information, and other information to identify suspicious or unusual activity (UK Business Clients)- Prepare Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) and report it to NCA (National Crime Agency)- Prepare a disposition for the customers on the performed due diligence research and review transactional activity.- Working on Actimize (Case Management Tool)- Perform end to end business research on the customers due diligence related to the source of funds.- Working on different business entities like Sole Trader, Partnership, Limited Company, etc.- Maintain a repository of MIS (Transaction Monitoring) & share productivity MIS on daily basis with senior management. Show less

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  AML RightSource

  Oct 2022 - Apr 2023

  Manager

  - Leading and mentoring ~60 people team including 3 Team Leads - Worked on multiple workstreams/workflows related to Fraud disputes, Credit risk, User Policy Operations, Risk User Experience, etc.- Set up a ~50 people team as the pilot batch in Noida location - Worked for an Irish-American based payment services provider- Liasing with US Counterpart and client on daily basis to check the status of multiple queues team is working upon- Preparing Deck/Metrics for WBR (Weekly Business Review) and MBR (Monthly Business Review) call with the client- Meeting SLA in terms of productivity and quality- Publish daily report to US counterpart and senior management in India- Leave management for ~60 people team and recon with the internal tracker- Performance reviews for the team members were conducted on quarterly basis - Reporting to the Director, Managed Services Show less

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  Genpact

  Apr 2023 - now

  Manager