Edwin George K

Experience

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  Infine Corporate Solutions

  Jul 2018 - Feb 2021

  Financial Accountant

  Preparing financial documents such as invoices, bills, and accounts payable and receivable.Completing financial reports on a regular basis and providing information to the finance team.Assisting with budgets.Completing bank reconciliations.Entering financial information into appropriate software programs.Processing business expenses.Coordinating internal and external audits.Verifying balances in account books and rectifying discrepancies.Verifying bank deposits.Managing day-to-day transactions.Posting daily receipts.Reporting on debtors and creditors.Encoding accounting entries for data processing.Sorting financial documents and posting them to the proper accounts.Reviewing computer reports for accuracy and meticulously tracing errors back to their source.Resolving errors in financial reports and correct it Show less

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  EY

  Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

  Remediation for entity,individuals,PEP and MAF along with Transaction monitoring and EDD Screening according to the Central Bank requirements.PEP and Sanction list screening.Screen individuals and entities against global sanction lists issued by OFAC, EU, UN and other international and government agencies.Reviewing of individuals and business entities hit by high risk scenarios.Identify false hits, partial hits and true hits.Ability to review documentation for sanction related matches.Good knowledge of regulatory practices in AML, OFAC and sanctions and local laws.Analytical and deductive reasoning skills.Overall Transaction Monitoring and Alert investigation Experience.First person who is tested Portal cases in EY for a MENA region project.Facilitated trainings for new recruits on the functions and processes in KYC/AML domain.Assisted in the process of creation of the remediation tool of EY.Worked for business consulting team supporting EY Stakeholders in MENA to perform KYC Remediation.Co-ordinating with RM if clients information is missing in the KYC form.Calculate risk profile of customers based on the central banks established risk assessment methodology to complete KYC remediation of individual and entity customers.Conducting Enhanced Due Diligence on High risk cases by validating the customer information from external sources and perform additional independent transaction monitoring analysis and conducting screening.Conducting transaction analysis in high risk cases.identifying gaps for in scope customers in information and documentaion required to completed KYC remediation.Ensure key stakeholders are kept informed of the progress and challenges and escalating issues where appropriate. Show less

  • Business Consultant

    Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

  • Business Consultant

    Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
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  HSBC

  May 2023 - now

  CDD Analyst

  Review customer profiles to identify possible patterns of money laundering and terrorist financing activities, and ensuring compliance with applicable internal policies, procedures and external regulations.Review and analyse network banks for suspicious/unusual patterns of activity utilising various internal systems, reports and external data sources.Conclude whether further investigation is warranted based on a reasonable assessment of information obtained.Review, collect and transmit supporting details to the next level upon the conclusion of the review. Prioritise work to ensure the review is completing within the service level agreement.Adhere strictly to compliance and operational risk controls in accordance with company and regulatory standards, policies and practices.Coordination and communication on all the regulatory gaps, process improvements with stakeholders. Following appropriate escalation matrix and proactively highlight questionable profiles based on logical judgement.Provide a supporting role to on-shore business partners and assist in reviewing alerts and provide support on all AML and KYC monitoring functions performed by Global CDD and RBB.Conduct end to end KYC due diligence for global clients, including corporates, sole trader, partnership. Collect, verify and analyse customer information such as identification documents, financial statements, and transactional records.Responsible for establishing and managing complex KYC processes.Ensuring the implementation of KYC checks as per the governing rules and regulations.Performing initial risk classification and performed due diligence for on boarding the client.Verify and authorizing the transactions.Responsible for conducting detailed income and KYC screening of the customers as required by the global KYC procedures.Updating database in system with latest sanction list published by authorities.Identification and verification of UBO, IBO, Source of wealth, Source of fund. Show less