Manager
First Abu Dhabi Bank
Total years of experience :13 years, 3 Months
Strategic and People management Highlights:
* Examined and managing a team of 6 analysts for a sanctions screening process at Fircosoft to 13 countries, to
potential matches are identified, reviewed to identify false positives matches and, ensure that staff are motivated,
monitored
* Support the implementation of the Bank’s Group-wide compliance (sanctions advisory team) strategy with the First
Line of Defense to ensure the efficient management of the Sanctions Payment Screening; providing sanctions
expertise for risk assessment
* Led projects to implement and UAT testing of Fuzzy Logic, match score, oversaw UAT, carried out complete filter
tuning, created rules & list management for Fircosoft, Knowledge Transfer Lead, publish industry related white paper
* Work closely with the Technology, Data & Reporting Team on KPI, KRI, and MIS for reporting to senior management
Strategic and People management Highlights:
* Keep abreast of CBUAE regulations and strategies to manage the Risk Appetite for the exchange
* Managed a team of 3 compliance analysts, reviewed transaction monitoring and Sanction/ PEP screen, and KYC
* Administering Compliance Department & filing of STR/ SAR to GoAML and Review and submission of Central bank
reports
* Maintaining and develop compliance policy and training material as per the regulation for Central Bank of UAE,
* Responsible for examination for internal/ external and Central Bank and In-house AML/CTF training
* Coordinating with Regulatory Authorities/ Law Enforcement bodies for requested inquiries
Sanctions Advisory for HSBC Middle East, North Africa (MENA) Global Banking & Markets, on the base of
triggers alerted by payment team, Global trade team (Export/ Import team), KYC renewal team, or Internal Watchlist
* Examined SWIFT messaging, direct and indirect sanctions exposure for the clients & on group level and ensured the
same is under HSBC threshold (5%), Gathered information from business (RM) regarding the trigger, signed sanction
letter, and GRM review
* Advice the bank whether the relationship (client) should be continued, exit, or refer to CSRA (Client Sanctions Risk
Approval)
Conducted periodic review for Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), Global KYC to
Enhance Due Diligence (CDD and EDD) on a wide range of entities types (commune, major corporate companies,
public and private-owned company, LLC, supranational, and SPV) as per the risk-based approached files according to
Tier 1 to Tier 4 countries
* Extract the various document i.e. COI, Manager Proof, Listing Proof, Identify the ownership/ Shareholder structure and
Ultimate Beneficiary Owner (UBO) as per risk rate
* Identify the adverse info (negative info) and need to validate provided by Financial Security Head office (FSHO) France
* Examined Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), Sanctioned Individuals/Entities (SDN List), and mitigated risks associated
with financial crimes
Monitored transactions for LPL Financials, San Diego, USA (Leading broker-dealer) based on Wire transfers,
Monetary Instrument, ACH (Automatic Clearing House) transactions triggered in MANTAS, and RDC
* Identified and investigated suspicious activities & cases related to money laundering or terrorist financing for
Escalation in Inactive Accounts, in Behaviour - Product Utilization (CIB-PU), Transaction Round Amount, Rapid
Movement Funds Activity with Cash Third Party Disbursement, Structuring and so on, on those bases we escalated
SAR to the onshore team
Worked for B2B banking voice process for Banking staff training for MI logs
* Audit the MI logs (monetary instruments- cashier’s check, money order, traveler’s check, and foreigner checks) of the
banking center for cash, and the non-cash transactions
* Drafted and filed SAR/ CTR for the money laundering cases in Transaction Review Memo (TRM) application (in-house
tool) for Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FINCEN)
Drafted Fee and Cost file for Bank of America for Mortgage Process, in Foreclosure Payoff, send to the client (Law
firm- KassShular) and Bank
• Assisted as
Worked for RBS, Natwest and ABN Amro Bank (Global KYC)- Index the case with the Sort Code and Account
Number, Identify and verify the end to end KYC related documents for corporate and individual clients
* Analysis of the customer's ownership structure and identification of its Beneficial Owner
* Get Line of business (LOB) for client approval if a client is Money laundering allegation / SDN/ PEP found
courses: CAMS- ACAMS (The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists) (2021)
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