Hi, I’m
Pavesrao Sivakesrao
Senior Analyst
Ampang
Summary
Highly motivated professional with a solid foundation in the AML field, eager to join your company and drive growth through my ideas and talents. Proven track record at the senior level, with five years of experience in Compliance as a Senior Analyst. Exceptional teamwork, leadership, and communication skills honed through this experience. Strong abilities in planning, organizing, and effectively communicating complex information. Self-reliant in analysis and making recommendations, with a background in data modeling and client management. Confident in my ability to make a significant impact on your company's current status and committed to contributing to its ongoing success.
Overview
7
years of professional experience
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK MALAYSIA
Senior Analyst
08.2022 - Current
Job overview
- The primary role involves managing and resolving alerts or cases related to financial crime risks
- Following the Correspondent/Non-Correspondent Banking DOI is crucial, ensuring the processing of risk events aligns with the Assess, Analyze, Act (AAA) process
- In-depth analysis of significant financial crime risk events, such as non-compliant transactions, is performed to identify and report all connected parties, especially cross-border, at appropriate internal levels across relevant jurisdictions
- Managing junior analyst and rechecking their transaction to ensure very decision as per procedures and guidelines
- Leading a new knowledge under Transaction Screening
- Understand new sanctions and Watch-list processes for individuals, entities, vessels, and sanction locations
- Adhere the process guidance by the UK, UN, EU, US and OFAC
- Placed under the US country to adapt the transactions being process in a different time-zone
- Knowledge is being enhances to understand the swift/Bic codes of every bank in the world
- Each and every swift messages need to be analyzed to minimize the risks between sanction remitter's and beneficiaries
- Zeroing any potential mistakes as the transaction being processed is a live transaction
- Any mistake done will bring damage to the banks as transactions has been approved towards the sanction's parties
- Raise and RFI to the relationship managers for cases that has lack of information
- Monitor and block payments that have risks and red flags also could lead to exit the customer
- Contribute the highest volume of cases and efficiency in the team
- Role movement: (maker) to (maker with access to approve payment)
- Being a trainer in the team to train fresh graduates, PBR staffs and Chennai (India) Staffs for L1 process & Procedures
- Spotted unique risk/red flags cases showing vigilance and attentive to details to stop high risk payments at initial stage
- Create a macro template using Excel for Daily arrangement presence for the utilization of team and managers
- Present ideas on improving the leave tracker in the team as well as training assessment to be conducted for addressing knowledge gap
- Promoted to RFI mission is to ensure a speedy and complete fulfillment of requests for information (RFIs) from our banking partners referring to past, current and future payments according to relevant partner agreements, regulations and Wise policies
- Maintaining of no breach of quality marking within 1 year in the team
- Mentored junior analysts, fostering professional development while enhancing overall team performance.
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS (PWC)
Associate - KYC
10.2021 - 07.2022
Job overview
- In this role I'm a part of the KYC team and assist the team to determine the KYC Level of each client
- Investigate potential financial crime, support clients responding to regulatory enquiries, deal with cybersecurity breaches and provide expert advice and opinions in legal proceedings
- Helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution
- Required to investigate client's potential key principals and ultimate beneficiaries as per determined in KYC level
- Performed screening on Potential key principals and ultimate beneficiaries to identify red flags to alert clients for future business opportunities
CITIGROUP TRANSACTION SERVICE MALAYSIA (CTSM)
Compliance Aml Execution Specialist - C5
10.2020 - 10.2021
Job overview
- Assist with the investigations and research on potentially suspicious clients using various internal and external systems and databases
- Document and report the review/investigation findings and prepare case files with the required supporting documentation
- Work with AML team to summarize, in writing, clear and concise findings of the investigation
- Advise senior management on next steps and provide recommendations on the next course of action (relationship retention, termination, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR))
- Assist AML team with managing risks by analyzing the root cause of issues and impact to business
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency
TOTAL BUSINESS PLANNING
Senior Tax Consultant
02.2020 - 08.2020
Job overview
- Computing tax computation, handling advanced tax payable, Review tax junior assignments and all tax related jobs
- Preparing tax computation for all industries companies active and dormant
- Advice and handling advanced tax liability
- Preparing analysis of expenses and capital allowance
- Preparing form e-C and form E
- Interest restriction
- Capital allowance
- Deemed interest
- Review junior assignments and Handling IRB officers on tax matters and cases
- Reviewed financial reports to correctly ascertain taxation and statement requirements.
JMC TAX SERVICES SDN BHD
Tax assistance
12.2017 - 01.2020
Job overview
- Computing tax computation, handling advanced tax payable and all tax related jobs
- Preparing tax computation for all industries companies active and dormant
- Advice and handling advanced tax liability
- Preparing analysis of expenses and capital allowance
- Preparing form e-C and form E
- Interest restriction
- Capital allowance
- Deemed interest
Education
UNIVERSITI OF GREENWICH (UOG)
Bachelor Hons from Accounting & Finance
01.2013 - 01.2017
SEGI COLLEGE KL (SEGI KL)
Foundation from Commerce
01.2012 - 01.2013
Skills
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
UBS Accounting Software
AML (Screening - Lexis Nexis)
Eclipse Transaction - AML
Fenergo -AML
Fircosoft
Swift payment
Actimize (NICE Actimize)
Decision-making
Regulatory compliance
Risk analysis
Enhanced due diligence
Sanctions screening
False positive reduction
Regulatory reporting
Due diligence
Compliance monitoring
Personal Information
- Age: 31
- Nationality: Malaysian
Timeline
Senior Analyst
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK MALAYSIA
08.2022 - Current
Associate - KYC
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS (PWC)
10.2021 - 07.2022
Compliance Aml Execution Specialist - C5
CITIGROUP TRANSACTION SERVICE MALAYSIA (CTSM)
10.2020 - 10.2021
Senior Tax Consultant
TOTAL BUSINESS PLANNING
02.2020 - 08.2020
Tax assistance
JMC TAX SERVICES SDN BHD
12.2017 - 01.2020
UNIVERSITI OF GREENWICH (UOG)
Bachelor Hons from Accounting & Finance
01.2013 - 01.2017
SEGI COLLEGE KL (SEGI KL)
Foundation from Commerce
01.2012 - 01.2013