Anand Kumar Chandrasekaran

• Managed the KYC New Business pipeline for Escrow products by acting as a liaison with designated Front Office sub-Line of Business
• Worked with clients to address and respond to client and partnership management issues.
• Facilitated meetings and discussions between clients, sales, and delivery teams.
• Reviewed new prospect KYC documents to meet requirements and determine business model risk.
• I am currently responsible for managing the KYC periodic review pipeline and acting as a partner for senior relationship managers.
• Providing guidance by acting as a subject matter expert in issues relating to KYC and acting as a bridge between sales and makers

• Analyzing customers’ transactions for evidence of money laundering, fraud, or other illegal activities
• Reviewing financial transactions to identify possible instances of money laundering, suspicious activity, or other criminal activity
• Produced and filed reports to inform senior management of current activities and progress with investigations.
• Completed statistical reviews to uncover trends, patterns, and variations.
• Identified key risks and mitigating factors of potential investments, such as asset types and values, legal and ownership structures, and industry segments.

• Daily identification and scrutinising of customer transactions based on alerts generated by tools( Mantas- Actimize) and various scenarios established by the bank’s procedures and policies.
• In depth knowledge of using tools required for due diligence process such as Lexis Nexis, D&B, RDC, World check.
• Responsible for interacting with relationship managers through information request when necessary in order to obtain missing information necessary for transaction investigation.

Clients- UBS Bank Krakow and Royal Bank of Canada

• Produce timely, high quality KYC profiles with out major issues while giving strict adherence to Customer Identification procedures (CIP) set by the client and the regulatory procedures.
• Ensuring due diligence reviews are undertaken to the required quality and detail on a timely basis.
• Identifying accurate risk rating for individual/non-individual accounts to highlight high risk jurisdictions, cash intensive/high risk businesses and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
• Produced clear, concise performance reports, accurately presenting data for analysis and evaluation.
• Completing extensive due diligence investigations using public and private databases in accordance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML), BSA and other regulatory standards to assist business units and prevent operational and reputation risks.

• Reconciling cash drawer balances at the end of each business day to ensure accuracy
• Preparing bank deposits by counting and recording incoming cash deposits into the bank’s electronic accounting system
• Responsible for answering phones and responding to customer requests regarding their accounts