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Professional Synopsis
Management professional endowed with passion for winning and with over 13 years of
experience in Risk Management, Retail Banking Operations, KYC Anti Money Laundering
Operations and client servicing across banking domain.
Currently associated with Standard Chartered Bank GBS, Chennai as Associate
Manager (Quality Control).
A strategist with proven skills in implementing risk policies under Financial Crime
Compliance. Lead a team of 15 members and conducting Root Cause Analysis at
operational level.
Demonstrated abilities in spearheading operations & service aspects with an exposure
to Retail Banking Operations and process migrations.
Gained extensive knowledge about the anti-money laundering laws, KYC procedures
and practices across multiple geographies including United States, South East Asia and
South Asian Countries.
A thorough professional with a proactive attitude, capable of thinking in and out of the
box, generating new design solutions and ideas.
Domain Exposure
Conduct due diligence to identify business risks and devising measures to mitigate the
same across the Financial Crime Compliance domain for the bank at multiple
locations.
Possessing knowledge of gathering requirements from various sources and performing
Quality Assurance.
Making use of available information and interacting with different country Heads for
precise reporting as per AML Norms.
Team Management
Organizational Experience
Banking Experience
Quality Analyst in Control and Sample Testing Team for Corporate Relationships.
Manage daily operational activities of small team of analysts for 3 years. Assign tasks
and responsible for defect management including monitoring and reporting on defect
resolution.
Drive continual process improvement to streamline business management processes
and remove redundancies.
Team Handling in AML/KYC Singapore unit from June 2013 to March 2015
Handled Annual KYC review of Singapore and Suspicious Transaction reports (STR).
Maintains watch list customers and investigates for continued suspicious activity.
Transaction Monitoring and PEP list on fortnight basis. Internal surveillance of Staff
transactions and escalation to Country Head. Handling online process of HiSAVE
account openings. QC on daily basis for all the processes.
Identify root cause of monitoring exceptions and facilitate remediation of exceptions.
Relationship opening, collecting all relevant information and managing the account
opening process and work flow for client requests. Ensure compliance with Banking
rules, Regulations & Procedures.
Accomplishments
Scholastics
BSc from Andhra University, Rajahmundry 2004 with 63%.
IIBF Certification on KYC/AML
Awards and Achievements
Personal Portrait
Name : Y. Ambica
Nationality : Indian
Date of Birth : August 26, 1983
Gender : Female
Marital Status : Married
Languages Known : English, Hindi and Telugu.
Current Location : Chennai
• I hereby affirm that all the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.
(Y. Ambica)