Sayee Narayanaa Venkatakrishnan
Toronto,ON
Summary
AML Compliance Professional with 9+ years of experience in areas ranging from AML Transactions Monitoring (Investigations), Sanctions and Embargo payment screening, Name screening, Optimization, Oversight and AML Control Operations (Internal QC Audit) and Trade Operations (Letter of Credit & Trade Collection). AML is my interest and Niche.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Analyst - Payment Screening, AML Operations
Scotiabank
Toronto, Canada
06.2022 - Current
- Review, analysis and, where applicable, escalation of SWIFT payment/messages generated from HotScan application.
- Analyze and review payment/messages escalated to CMT MTO Investigation for further escalation to the GFIU Level 2.
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of SWIFT payments.
- Handling Mail box.
Quality Controller - Compliance - Financial Crime, FILTRAGE (Optimization, Oversight and Controls)
Société Générale Bank
Chennai, India
12.2020 - 08.2021
- Perform Internal QC Audit for screening platforms.
- Reviewing and validating all optimization requests of the central Fircosoft Filtering Platform and Name screening platform.
- Monitors and perform Quality check on the optimization process.
- Reviewing and controlling the setup of local screening framework, identify potential misalignment with group standards and agree on action plans to remediate identified gaps.
- Alert List Management, Filter Tuning, Good Guy creation, Control, and supervision of Internal and External lists.
Senior Analyst, Sanctions & Embargo Filtering
Société Générale Bank
Chennai, India
02.2017 - 11.2020
- Identifying, Analyzing, and Investigating (using advanced linguistic analysis) Real-time payments in SWIFT and SEPA.
- Perform validation (4 eye check) of L1 Analysis on alerts generated by the filtering of third-party databases against Sanctions and Embargo lists.
- Writing Investigation report to summarize findings and adjudication outcome, supporting rationales and risk assessments.
Senior Process Associate, Trade Finance Operations and AML Transactions Monitoring
NatWest Group (Formerly, The Royal Bank of Scotland)
Chennai, India
07.2014 - 02.2017
- Handling Trade Collections, L/C Negotiations, L/C Payments, Reimbursement claims payments, MT103 and 202 Payments, MT742 claims.
- Monitoring the historical transactions for unusual or suspicious behavior to detect ML/TF.
Education
Financial Services Compliance Administration -
Seneca College
Toronto, Canada05-2022
Bachelor of Commerce -
University of Madras - Vivekananda College
Chennai, India04-2014
Skills
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Investigation
- Canadian Regulations
- Diploma in Financial Accounting using Tally ERP 90
- DELF A1 Pro - French Language Certified
- Currently Pursuing ACFCS
- Handled applications like Mantas, Actimize Sam, Citrix, World Check, Lexis Nexis, Global Relay, back office, Hot Scan, CMT, KYC2020
Accomplishments
- Employee of the Quarter for Q2 2018.
- Received Appreciation email from Paris Team Supervisor for Processing 2008 Real-time payments in a day with Nil quality miss.
- Played a pivotal role in training new joiners in the FORCES team and transitioning them to go live.
- Attended training session in Lean Six Sigma.
- One of the top 4 candidate selected to travel to Paris, France in April 2019 to train Paris colleagues on the Validator role and to attend workshop from across functions.
- Won Validator of the year - 2019.
- Won Quality Star award for maintaining 100% accuracy, during the year 2015.
References
Provided Upon Request
Languages
English, Tamil
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Senior Analyst - Payment Screening, AML Operations
Scotiabank
06.2022 - Current
Quality Controller - Compliance - Financial Crime, FILTRAGE (Optimization, Oversight and Controls)
Société Générale Bank
12.2020 - 08.2021
Senior Analyst, Sanctions & Embargo Filtering
Société Générale Bank
02.2017 - 11.2020
Senior Process Associate, Trade Finance Operations and AML Transactions Monitoring
NatWest Group (Formerly, The Royal Bank of Scotland)
07.2014 - 02.2017
Financial Services Compliance Administration -
Seneca College
Bachelor of Commerce -
University of Madras - Vivekananda College
Certification
Currently pursuing CFCS (Certified Financial Crime Specialist).
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
On-SiteRemoteHybridLanguages
Tamil
Native language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
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