Asitha Gunawardena

Experience

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  HSBC

  Dec 2014 - Jan 2021

  Exposure- Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Middle East• Worked as the subject matter expert and support higher management in daily tasks including branch inquiries related excel trackers, data capture spread sheets, updates, and new trainees.• Proactively engaged with business area to solve the matters related to branch inquires, relationship managers, local branches and contact matrix etc.• Working with Investigative Reporting team on case escalations/ negotiations Exposure- Sri Lanka, Maldives, Malaysia, Vietnam, BruneiDaily AML investigations, customer due diligence, cheque request verifications, cash voucher request verification, branch inquiries verification and updating production trackers etc.

  • Analyst - Financial Crime Risk Operations

    Sept 2018 - Jan 2021

  • Associate- Financial Crime Risk Operations

    Dec 2014 - Sept 2018
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  GTN Technologies (Pvt) Ltd

  Jan 2021 - Mar 2022

  Executive – Transaction Monitoring & Middle Office

  I was working for GTN Middle East Financial Services (DIFC) Ltd (UAE entity) and GTN Asia Financial Services (Pte.) Ltd (Singapore entity) simultaneously. GTNME and GTNASIA are full-service brokerage firms offering the widest market coverage and depth of products across the globe. Global Market Technologies supports the onboarding and middle office functions for GTN.Overall responsibilities and duties• Created a Transaction Monitoring process to identify anomalous activities in deposits and withdrawals of all the clients. Planned, created, executed, and developed the Transaction Monitoring project with relevant risk parameters and a formal procedure for the function. Identified unusual activities were report to MLRO. • Reviewed, uploaded and managed over 2000+ connected party names on Refinitiv World Check One daily ongoing screening for over 200 global clients.• Overlooked the transaction monitoring function and sanction screening function while training and managing two subordinates to complete the daily and monthly reviews on given deadlines.• Conducted internal audits for the onboarding team as per management requirements.• Assisted the team on onboarding clients, managed master clients lists, PEP registers, FATCA reporting function, existing reviews and weekly team performance evaluation for the assigned tasks. • Weekly and on request providing reports and presentations to the management to evaluate the progress and to help the decision making process. Show less

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  GTN Middle East Financial Services (DIFC) Ltd

  Jan 2021 - Mar 2022

  Executive – Transaction Monitoring & Middle Office
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  HSBC

  Mar 2022 - now

  • Manager - Investigative Reporting- Financial Crime Investigations

    May 2022 - now

  • Assistant Investigations Manager (Triage) - Financial Crime Investigations

    Mar 2022 - May 2022