Abhijit Mukherjee

In my current role as a Anti Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring (AML TM) specialist, my key responsibilities are as follows:

• Leading a team of highly skilled reviewers, who perform investigative research on transactions of Wealth Management/ High Net Worth clients. The team specializes in identifying complex transaction patterns and potential money laundering risks and escalate if necessary to the Financial Crime team.
• Evaluate adequacy and effectiveness of policies, processes, procedures and internal controls and subsequently, lead process re-engineering initiatives optimize process to ensure Regulatory Compliance.
• Single point of contact to handle queries pertaining to Regulatory inspections, external audits and internal audits carried out in Asia Pacific countries.
• Undertaken New Joiner training content development, training delivery, mentoring and quality checks historical alert reviews conducted
• My contributions to the team has won me multiple "kudos" awards and appreciations.

I had joined KPMG Telecom Forensic team as a Manager. Subsequent to being promoted as Associate Director in 2013, I started leading AML projects, which comprised of investigations and risk assessments, Regulatory compliance assessments and KYC remediation. Key projects:

• AML projects In India and Asia Pacific countries. I was seconded to KPMG member firms in Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Bangladesh, to lead teams from diverse geographies. Such projects have won me individual appreciation from stakeholders such as Regulator (Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority) and have won accolades for the teams I led.
• Fraud investigations (and risk assessments) in Telecom domain. I was seconded to Africa for two years as a investigation lead in geographies such as Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leon, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.
• Led more than 10 investigations (including suspect interviews) in areas of fraud, bribery and corruption and process non-compliance. Led cross-functional teams to win four "Super Team Awards" and personal "kudos" award in sectors such as IT, Service industry and Automobile industry. Alongside have conducted Foreign Corrupt Practices Act due diligence assignments.
• Published a KPMG point of view document entitled “The Color of Money- Black or White”. This was an industry acclaimed synopsis on key methods of circumventing banking system to deposit black money into the financial system post Demonetization 2016.

I has joined as Assistant Manager- Training in TTSL in 2005.

In 2007, I was promoted as ManagerOperations and thereafter to Senior Manager- Internal Audit & Business Process Reengineering in 2009.

Key contributions:

• Led the cloning fraud mitigation program in TTSL, ensuring 95% cloning fraud mitigation
• I led multiple critical projects under President’s office in TTSL to ensure Regulatory compliance. I played a pivotal role in implementing Mobile Number Portability (MNP) across verticals. Awarded Super-star of the month for leading cross functional teams.
• Re-engineering of the Purchase Order process 4. Roll-out of Field Inventory Tracking System, Fraud Management System

Key responsibility was managing a team of 3 agencies (collection and credit verification) in North Bengal.

• i had formulated and implemented Credit and Collection process during launch phase of Bharti Airtel Ltd. in North Bengal

• Sole resource of Retail Asset Collections for Calcutta managing 5 agencies and delinquency of secured and unsecured loans

• Managing delinquency of Credit Card portfolio for Calcutta
• Site visits for potential fraud instances

• This was my first professional assignment. I started as an Officer in the out bound call-center of Standard Chartered Bank - Credit Card Collections