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Bhasker Shukla

Summary

Experienced professional with 5 years in the field of Anti Money Laundering (AML), Transaction Monitoring, Due diligence, and Regulatory Compliance in Banks. Efficient in filing STRs and SARs (Suspicious Transactions/Accounts Reporting). Proven history of handling Retail Consumer Banking Operations and Trade Finance. Certified Shell company specialist and Sanctions screening specialist.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Compliance Associate

Remilty Europe Ltd.
Cork
12.2023 - Current
  • Working within a compliance focused function (2nd line of defense) This function will review unusual activity within customer profiles that may be related to money laundering or fraud. These investigations may lead to regulatory filings.
  • Work with the AML- Compliance team regarding investigations. Identify customer-related trends, patterns and issues associated with money laundering, terrorist financing and other unwanted and fraudulent transaction activity.
  • Ensure the Anti-Money Laundering policies and procedures are always complied with accordance to EU regulations and Central bank of Ireland Regulations
  • Identifying and analyzing the pattern in transactional behavior and determine if SAR filing is required
  • Handling Day to day transaction monitoring for the alerts generated from CRM

Technical Coordinator (Transfer Agency)

Northern Trust Corporation
Limerick
09.2022 - 11.2023
  • Working as Tech Coordinator in Investors AML operations team
  • Complete review of Investor AML/ KYC as per AML/CFT policy
  • Assist with set up of all Investor accounts on the Transfer Agency system Identification of investors that may create money laundering or reputational risks
  • Doing Adverse Media check and conduct due diligence on Investors with help of provided software
  • Requesting appropriate CDD documentation from investors in a timely manner Performance of periodic reviews ensuring investor information and documentation is kept up to date
  • Conducting PEP checks and discounting the same if required as per the policy and procedures
  • Working with line management to ensure that the investor AML team meets the required audit, risk and compliance standards Escalate and assist with resolution of more complex problems and critical issue as referred to Investor AML ongoing monitoring team, as well as those received from internal/ external auditors.

Senior AML Analyst

Shivalik Small Finance Bank
Noida
03.2020 - 09.2021
  • Worked in AML compliance function of the bank, responsible for end-to-end handling of AML alerts, Filing of STRs and Development Part of AML Software
  • Ensure Compliance in document processing of corporate clients and Business Banking clients Create Reports for Potential Suspicious activity revealed with escalated transactions utilizing available tools Contact Clients and accounts managers to obtain additional information and documentation to discount any potential risk or suspicious activity Review daily escalated transactions to recommend false positive or escalated for suspicious activity review Risk Categorization of Customers Based on their risk profile and change in risk profile Based on their transactions
  • AML software Implementation (Project): Implementation of new software in bank as per the guidelines based on central Bank and Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)-India
  • Implementation of dynamic risk approach in audit and risk function of bank in accordance with FATF guidelines
  • Development of regulatory reports on Finacle in the prescribed format along with and testing of new reports
  • Subject matter expert for financial crime and Training for employees

Senior AML Analyst.

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
Mumbai
05.2019 - 03.2020

· Training and mentoring new joiners in AML system (Compass) and alert handing / STR Filing

processes.

· Handled Trade based Money Laundering alerts as additional responsibility and identified and reported

STRs on Trade based Money Laundering.

· High Risk and Negative customer list updating on Bank Records

Sanctions screening on Dow Jones/ Factiva, check on SDN (Specially Designated Nationals).

Customer Care officer (Branch Banking)

Kotak Mahindra Bank
Delhi
10.2015 - 01.2017
  • Handled Consumer banking operations as Branch Operations Manager Roles and Responsibilities Handling of Branch banking operations and customer service, AOF (Account opening forms) checks Abilities in coordinating with internal/external customers for running successful business operations and experience of implementing procedures and service standards for business excellence
  • Managing Parameters of Branch score Card, Service Quality, Voice of customer Managing customer Service and cross selling of Banking products

Education

Master's degree in financial services -

University of Limerick
08.2022

Post graduate program in management/MBA (Major in Marketing) -

ICFAI (Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst of India) Business school
02.2019

Bachelor of commerce (Accounting and Finance) -

Kanpur University
04.2014

Skills

  • Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Macros, High level of proficiency in Excel, Screening on Factiva Data Analytics on MATLAB, FISERV, FICROSOFT, World check
  • Fluent in English and Hindi
  • Compliance Management
  • Project Oversight
  • Financial Performance
  • Regulation Enforcement
  • Document Processing
  • Transaction Verification
  • General Accounting
  • Compliance Review
  • SAR filing
  • Regulatory report filing

References

Available on request

Timeline

Compliance Associate

Remilty Europe Ltd.
12.2023 - Current

Technical Coordinator (Transfer Agency)

Northern Trust Corporation
09.2022 - 11.2023

Senior AML Analyst

Shivalik Small Finance Bank
03.2020 - 09.2021

Senior AML Analyst.

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
05.2019 - 03.2020

Customer Care officer (Branch Banking)

Kotak Mahindra Bank
10.2015 - 01.2017

Master's degree in financial services -

University of Limerick

Post graduate program in management/MBA (Major in Marketing) -

ICFAI (Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst of India) Business school

Bachelor of commerce (Accounting and Finance) -

Kanpur University
Bhasker Shukla