LIKITH SURESH

Ph: 8123164233
slikith433@gmail.com

PROFILE SUMMARY
KYC/AML Professional with 5 years of in-depth experience in investment banking, client
on-boarding, Periodic Reviews, Screening, Transaction Monitoring and in assessing the clients
risk.

EXPERIENCE
DEC 2022 – PRESENT
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
COMMON WEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA PRIVATE LIMITED -

• Responsible for conducting comprehensive research and/or background investigations on

individuals, entities, organizations or locations to identify and disposition associated
sanctions, PEP and associated risks.
• Screening customers, prospects and/or transactions against various reporting lists and
regionally based sanctions watch list. Understanding of sanction lists.
• Review and analyze due diligence data from variety of sources (i.e Jarvis, Commsee, Smart
allocator, Pegasus and World Check ) to determine overall risk and submit regulatory reporting
and requests.
• Understand compliance risks inherent in the business and the regulatory environment in
which the business operates and, where appropriate , review and utilize CBA wide Austrac Risk
assessment to monitor business risk and enhance the control environment.
• Evaluates risks to determine permissibility under AML regulations works with high risk
customers(e.g. Structuring cash deposits, Terrorists financing and CEM exploitations) to
understand customer account and activities. To Provide appropriate directions to the line of
business and escalates other risks appropriately.
• Actively identifying process improvement initiatives, implementing solutions, while
Maximizing productivity.

JUNE 2021 - DEC 2022

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
ERNST & YOUNG -LLP
• Review and action all cases/alert in accordance with the standard operating procedure and
identify and report all risk and compliance issues, breaches, suspicious and unusual
activities to mitigate the risk associated with.
• Develop a strong understanding of client’s Anti-Money Laundering program, policies and
procedure, and requirements-in order keep oneself updated with the latest changes.
• Monitoring and reviewed customer account transactional activities on individual and
business accounts and make recommendations for further review or closure.
• Reporting to higher management documenting the file with supporting documents,
deciding either to close the account or continue monitoring.
• Drafting and providing information to support Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) or
equivalent for regulatory filing.
• Have an experience of working in OMNI, FILENET, CRYSTAL, FIRCO, PHEONIX, WORLDCHECK
 JAN 2019 – MAY 2021
ASSOCIATE
HSBC ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING INDIA PVT LTD -
• Ensuring that all cases are actioned with in the stipulated SLA.
• Assisting in identifying systematic procedural weakness and additional training
Requirements for the L1.
• Monitoring transactions which focus on identification of suspicious patterns of
transactions which may result in the filingof Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).
• Investigating alerts with enhanced due diligence of the transactions alerted.
• Conducting research that utilized internal and external public and private
databases to compile a portfolio of informationon funds transfer and or check
instrument products/transactions.
• Monitoring and reviewed customer account transactional activities on individual
and business accounts and makerecommendations for further review or closure.
• Responsible for identifying and researching the patterns, trends and anomalies in
complex transactional and customerdata to detect, prevent, mitigate and report
suspicious activity to prevent fraud, money laundering and identity theftlosses.
• Have an experience of working in UCM, CLM, CAMP, RDC SEARCH, OWS, WORLD
CHECK, BMM, SCION, FIRCO, UCM, NGT, CEASAR, ECHAMPS and GCRM.

EDUCATION
(2016-2018)
MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
R N S INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
BANGALORE UNIVERSITY (68.22%)

(2012-2015)
BACHELOR’S OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
M E S INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
BANGALORE UNIVERSITY ( (62.22%)

SKILLS
• Experience in Name/Sanction screening, KYC review, Transaction monitoring
• Extensive knowledge about the AML.
• Experience on Quality management.
• Computer literacy and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, outlook).
• Quick learning, Eye on detail, proactively plan and execute tasks with minimal supervision
• Ability to work independently and meet the business deadlines with accuracy,
demonstrate accountability and ownership
• Strong time management, Prioritization, work organization and multi-tasking skills.
• Ability to interact with business units, clients, compliance, senior management effectively
and build good working relations.
• Intermediate knowledge on MS office tools and possess strong commitment to team
environment dynamics, Thrive in team environment

NOTABLE CREDITS
• Quality Champion- UK PEP Streamlining in HSBC for the year 2019 quarter 2.
• Weekly Champion all Queues for the year 2020(August and September).