Experience

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  Ernst & young

  Apr 2007 - Jun 2007

  Financial analyst internship

  Analysed cost per hour for client charging and prepared reports.

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  Goldman sachs

  Jun 2008 - Jan 2012

  Lead associate - client onboarding

  The core responsibility was on boarding of clients in the Institutional business and enhancing client experience. Co-chaired a project which revolved around identifying and eliminating inconsistencies within a function performed across various regions. This project was key in achieving time saving and efficiency for the team.Member of the Risk Working Group which helped identify imminent risks within all functions performed by various teams within the department and liaising with team managers to build solutions to eliminate these risks.Client Confidentiality Risk Mitigation Project which involved elimination of confirmation methods that could lead to breach of Client Confidentiality agreements with clients; worked closely with the Trade Booking Teams to achieve the same.Project which involved reviewing all the Standard Settlement Instruction formats used to settle trades in various markets. About 99 formats were reviewed across 41 markets.Worked with various teams on process enhancements which helped classify client accounts for various businesses.Project Guide and Formal Mentor for Interns and was key in training new joiners since I was the process expert.Facilitated new business flows, for e.g.; the International Prime Brokerage Business and the Brazilian Entity of Goldman Sachs.Core functions included; ownership of account opening across entities and businesses, review of daily reports and incomplete trades, facilitation of trade enrichment, extensive interaction with both internal and external clients, managing risk on a day-to-day basis in terms of maintaining client confidentiality, ensuring smooth trade flows and maintaining integrity of client data. Show less

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  Genpact

  Feb 2014 - Jan 2017

  Manager - client due diligence

  Part of a pioneer initiative in centralised client due diligence and onboarding. Set up processes and teams in UK (London), India and Singapore to drive banks to adopt the utility model for client due diligence.

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  Standard chartered bank

  Jan 2017 - Oct 2021

  The role involved managing of the client due diligence reviews and onboarding (enhanced and mandatory due diligence) of the high risk and sensitive clients of the bank. Primary responsibilities included policy interpretation and guidance around handling of the bank’s Retail clients with primary focus on conducting client reviews to assess any financial crime risks and / or risks due to potential or proven sanctions nexus or other risk indicia such as suspicious activities, adverse media, politically exposed persons (PEPs), high net worth and ultra-high net worth client onboarding and periodic and trigger reviews for clients based on presence of any additional risk factors. Show less The role involved management of the Request for Information (RFI) Unit for the India hub covering 43 countries across Transaction Monitoring and Name Screening surveillance supported by a 60-member team. The key responsibility of the team was to act as a quality check and conduit between the analysts and the business to obtain information pivotal to analysing risk events generated in the system. The team consisted of subject matter experts in the Compliance space and the expectation was for this team to ensure risk events are correctly assessed prior to reaching out to the business for further information; a critical part of the role was for the team to be able to differentiate between risk relevant and risk irrelevant transactional and behavioural patterns of SC clients in various markets. Show less

  • Head AML-CDD Individual Banking

    Feb 2021 - Oct 2021

  • Unit Head - High Risk and Ultra High Risk Client Due Diligence

    Jul 2019 - Feb 2021

  • FCC Support Advisor

    Jul 2020 - Sept 2020

  • Senior Manager - Financial Crime Surveillance Unit

    Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
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  Oaknorth bank

  Nov 2021 - now

  • Associate Director, EDD and Financial Crime Investigations (2LOD)

    Sept 2023 - now

  • Senior Manager Client Onboarding

    Apr 2022 - Aug 2023

  • Manager Client Onboarding

    Nov 2021 - Apr 2022