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Place : Singapore
E-mail : [email protected]
Mobile : +65 9008678x
Visa : Personalised Employment Pass Holder (Transferable across employers)
Visa valid until Year 2016
SUMMARY
I am a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) with 10 years of experience in AML compliance, Investigations, and consulting. I am a seasoned banking professional having managed teams of up to 12 staff. My exposure has been across different banking businesses, with strong knowledge in regulations governing – Private Banking, Consumer Banking, & Corporate Banking. I look at AML compliance and Risk management issues from different perspectives – surveillance, due diligence, enhanced due diligence, sanctions, KYC, Anti-bribery, corruption. I have a solid understanding of Singapore, US and UK AML requirements including the MAS notices/guidance, US FFIEC BSA Manual, US INCSR, OFAC requirements, FCPA and the UK JMLSG Notes. In addition, I refer to FATF, FinCEN, UK FSA, Wolfsberg and Egmont Group reviews and guidance. I have had significant people management responsibilities. And made numerous global policy contributions and introduced many new risk management initiatives regionally.
Specialties - AML Compliance, KYC, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery, Privacy and FATCA
Key Highlights
AML Transaction Monitoring / KYC
Published AML Health Check Reports and dashboards and built cases through analysis of transaction patterns and trends. Investigated key business issues behind the numbers and providing clear, concise, timely analysis to the management.
Remain abreast of legal and regulatory changes in order to ensure monitoring and testing practices are up-to-date with regulatory environment. Also providing advice on the wealth advisory and sales processes from the regulatory perspectives.
Performed peer review of investigations (cases and/or SAR recommendations or equivalent) to ensure appropriate dispositions has been recommended; documentation meets or exceeds procedure and policy requirements.
Prepared, reviewed and filed suspicious activity reports (SAR) with regulators, documenting the analysis referencing key facts uncovered in the research process and identified in the analysis process. Also ensured timely delivery of SAR, STR and CTR reports as prescribed by the regulations from time to time.
Reviewed legal definitions, regulatory requirements, categorization and research resources regarding KYC and sanction regimes across the globe, so as to determine the theory and practice of due diligence and sanctions monitoring in the context of AML compliance. Also contribute to clearer policy framing and implementation for the KYC and sanctions-related products and services.
As a Subject Matter Expert on financial crimes and AML Risks, worked with respective business partners, regulators and institutions to track changes in regulatory compliance requirements and identified new rule proposals and established controls.
Trainings
Developed 10 days AML class room training program considering specific risks of individual business lines and targeted role-based individual trainings to ensure that employees are clearly aware of money laundering risks and take appropriate actions to mitigate those risks, also documented attendance records and training materials encapsulating
Importance of the board of directors and senior management place on ongoing education, training, and compliance.
Different forms of money laundering and terrorist financing as it relates to identification and examples of suspicious activity.
Investigation procedures in Transaction surveillance, due diligence/ enhanced due diligence, sanctions, KYC and identification of red flags.
Involved in the development of the Ethics Framework for a key client and led the Singapore and South East Asia Ethics and Fraud training program for the senior management team including the subsequent ‘Train-the Trainer’ sessions with the country heads. This involved creating the ethical pillars, ethical messages, collateral, trainer materials, and participant materials.
People Management
Introduced additional revenue streams and established consulting practice by providing leadership to cross functional launch teams.
Managerial responsibilities for a team of senior executives encompassing performance supervision (management by numbers), conflict management, training and career development.
Adroit in capacity planning and task allocation to team members and MIS reporting on the delivery of the output on a timely basis
SKILLS
Business Software : Mantas, Actimize (Erstwhile Fortent), Detica NetReveal (Erstwhile Norkom),
Falcon, Fircosoft, SWIFT, Base24.
: Data mining –PolyAnalyst, SQL.
Computing skills : MS Access, MS Office (Word, Excel, Power-point)
Special software : Advanced Excel modeling- @ Risk, KADD
Search engines : World-Check/ other Thomson Reuters products, Google, LexisNexis, Dun &
Bradstreet, Bloomberg, Factiva, Dow Jones
AML CERTIFICATIONS
ACAMS - Certified Anti money laundering specialist (CAMS)
Certified in Spot and Stop Card Fraud.
Certified in FINRA AML Courses
GRADUATE QUALIFICATIONS
Madurai Kamaraj University April 2001
Bachelor of Engineering, Major in Electronics and Communication
E-mail : [email protected]
Mobile : +65 9008678x
Visa : Personalised Employment Pass Holder (Transferable across employers)
Visa valid until Year 2016
SUMMARY
I am a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) with 10 years of experience in AML compliance, Investigations, and consulting. I am a seasoned banking professional having managed teams of up to 12 staff. My exposure has been across different banking businesses, with strong knowledge in regulations governing – Private Banking, Consumer Banking, & Corporate Banking. I look at AML compliance and Risk management issues from different perspectives – surveillance, due diligence, enhanced due diligence, sanctions, KYC, Anti-bribery, corruption. I have a solid understanding of Singapore, US and UK AML requirements including the MAS notices/guidance, US FFIEC BSA Manual, US INCSR, OFAC requirements, FCPA and the UK JMLSG Notes. In addition, I refer to FATF, FinCEN, UK FSA, Wolfsberg and Egmont Group reviews and guidance. I have had significant people management responsibilities. And made numerous global policy contributions and introduced many new risk management initiatives regionally.
Specialties - AML Compliance, KYC, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery, Privacy and FATCA
Key Highlights
AML Transaction Monitoring / KYC
Published AML Health Check Reports and dashboards and built cases through analysis of transaction patterns and trends. Investigated key business issues behind the numbers and providing clear, concise, timely analysis to the management.
Remain abreast of legal and regulatory changes in order to ensure monitoring and testing practices are up-to-date with regulatory environment. Also providing advice on the wealth advisory and sales processes from the regulatory perspectives.
Performed peer review of investigations (cases and/or SAR recommendations or equivalent) to ensure appropriate dispositions has been recommended; documentation meets or exceeds procedure and policy requirements.
Prepared, reviewed and filed suspicious activity reports (SAR) with regulators, documenting the analysis referencing key facts uncovered in the research process and identified in the analysis process. Also ensured timely delivery of SAR, STR and CTR reports as prescribed by the regulations from time to time.
Reviewed legal definitions, regulatory requirements, categorization and research resources regarding KYC and sanction regimes across the globe, so as to determine the theory and practice of due diligence and sanctions monitoring in the context of AML compliance. Also contribute to clearer policy framing and implementation for the KYC and sanctions-related products and services.
As a Subject Matter Expert on financial crimes and AML Risks, worked with respective business partners, regulators and institutions to track changes in regulatory compliance requirements and identified new rule proposals and established controls.
Trainings
Developed 10 days AML class room training program considering specific risks of individual business lines and targeted role-based individual trainings to ensure that employees are clearly aware of money laundering risks and take appropriate actions to mitigate those risks, also documented attendance records and training materials encapsulating
Importance of the board of directors and senior management place on ongoing education, training, and compliance.
Different forms of money laundering and terrorist financing as it relates to identification and examples of suspicious activity.
Investigation procedures in Transaction surveillance, due diligence/ enhanced due diligence, sanctions, KYC and identification of red flags.
Involved in the development of the Ethics Framework for a key client and led the Singapore and South East Asia Ethics and Fraud training program for the senior management team including the subsequent ‘Train-the Trainer’ sessions with the country heads. This involved creating the ethical pillars, ethical messages, collateral, trainer materials, and participant materials.
People Management
Introduced additional revenue streams and established consulting practice by providing leadership to cross functional launch teams.
Managerial responsibilities for a team of senior executives encompassing performance supervision (management by numbers), conflict management, training and career development.
Adroit in capacity planning and task allocation to team members and MIS reporting on the delivery of the output on a timely basis
SKILLS
Business Software : Mantas, Actimize (Erstwhile Fortent), Detica NetReveal (Erstwhile Norkom),
Falcon, Fircosoft, SWIFT, Base24.
: Data mining –PolyAnalyst, SQL.
Computing skills : MS Access, MS Office (Word, Excel, Power-point)
Special software : Advanced Excel modeling- @ Risk, KADD
Search engines : World-Check/ other Thomson Reuters products, Google, LexisNexis, Dun &
Bradstreet, Bloomberg, Factiva, Dow Jones
AML CERTIFICATIONS
ACAMS - Certified Anti money laundering specialist (CAMS)
Certified in Spot and Stop Card Fraud.
Certified in FINRA AML Courses
GRADUATE QUALIFICATIONS
Madurai Kamaraj University April 2001
Bachelor of Engineering, Major in Electronics and Communication
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