Shashank S
Senior Consultant | AML Compliance | Transaction Monitoring | Business Analysis
Singapore
Summary
Techno-Functional Production Support and Business Analyst with 14+ years of experience in Anti-money laundering, KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Name Screening, Watch List and Sanctions, Business Intelligence Analytics Solutions. Proven record of consistent, excellent performance in Banking solutions in Mantas, ACTIMIZE, Global Interdict, FIRCO SOFT, Database such as Oracle 9i ,10g(SQL), UNIX, Hive(HQL), EAP and reporting tools in and Business Analysis in Banking Domain. Possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills. Driven Senior Consultant with 7 years' experience in the AML compliance and monitoring field. Adept in collaborative problem solving, risk management and creative solutions. Passionate about bringing changes in businesses. Proficient in conducting primary and secondary research.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
Senior Consultant | Business Analyst
Virtusa Consulting
01.2016 - 01.2025
- Mantas- AML Transaction Monitoring
- Role : Business Analyst
- Client : CitiBank
- Incident Tools : ServiceNow
- Languages / Tools : Oracle 9i/10g SQL, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripting
- Monitoring Tools/others : Autosys, CONNECT DIRECT(NDM),EAP, APP Dynamics
- Project Description : Mantas - AML Transaction Monitoring
- The AML MANTAS product provides post transaction analysis of specific client transactions to reasonably identify possible suspicious activity in the both ASIA and EMEA transaction systems
- Global Compliance has deemed the implementation of the MANTAS system to be a priority project for identifying possible money laundering
- The prime objectives of this installation are to ensure compliance with Regulatory requirements to identify suspicious activity and provide timely reporting
- Responsible for preparing GFFD (Go Forward Fix Document) and MDD (Minor Development Document) as part of IMR (Incident Management & Resolution) implementation and get sign off from the business, Regional / In Country compliance and operation team
- Involvement during Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Reviews, Testing, Troubleshooting, Post Implementation Reviews, Co-ordination, Historical Remediation & assist customer in liaison with other supporting teams
- Responsible for technical delivery for ongoing IMR implementation
- Responsible for source system data elements mapping to Mantas Data interface specification
- Strong exposure to stakeholder engagement during all phases of SDLC
- Technical expertise in all aspects of SDLC, Implementation & Integration of application
- Good understanding of the Host product processors feed ingestion to AML Warehouse /Mantas/Actimize/Customer Due Diligence /Enterprise Wide Anti-Money Laundering Risk Assessment/High Risk Account Classified /End to End transaction reconciliation
- Hands-on experience on EAP (EAP abstracts the massive data stored on HDFS as business objects) Tested EAP performance in UAT for IMR databases
- Possess Project Management skills
- Responsible for implementing Automate Account Selection on Historical Remediation for AML Monitoring Platforms -Global project in APAC region and delivered ahead of project implementation timeline
Senior Consultant | PROD Support Analyst
Virtusa Consulting
01.2016 - 07.2018
- Citiscreening System - Compliance
- Client : CitiBank
- Incident Tools : ServiceNow
- Languages / Tools : Oracle 9i/10g SQL, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripting, Actimize
- Monitoring Tools : Autowatch/Nastel (MQ Tool), Abinitio Control Center,CONNECT DIRECT(NDM)
- Application Servers : Websphere
- Project Description : CitiScreening/NESS: Name and Entity Screening System (NESS) provides its users with a mechanism to screen customers and potential customers around Know Your Customer ("KYC"), Enhanced Due Diligence ("EDD"), various U.S
- Sanctions and against various risk lists
- Maintenance and support for Citiscreening and Workflow applications as a L2 lead
- Analyzing alerts based on the customer questions and providing the updates
- Monitoring the batches and helping to users on alert review process
- Bug fixing and Enhancements as per Client Requests
- Actively involved in the production outages and business setup calls
- Manage the change request process such a way that all system changes have been requested through the proper methods
- Strictly following the process to ensure that all incident tickets are logged and tracked and followed through to resolution
- Ensure that adequate documentation for approvals and decisions have been captured, logged and stored
- Manage the process for advising and escalating on any prolonged or major issues identified
- Notify all business areas and managers of any system downtime or delays in reports or new releases or alerts and maintain appropriate tracking logs for these issues
- Creation of monitoring jobs in Autosys and AWP
- Creation of MQ setup for business and performing end to end connectivity testing
- Actively involved in COB Drill tests
- RCA analysis and actively involved in Problem management process with DEV team to ensure the PRB tickets are tracked till the closure
- IMR (Incident Management Report) - Ensuring Business stick to the compliance process of screening names on periodic basis
Senior Consultant | Tech BA
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd.
09.2014 - 01.2016
- Citiscreening System - Compliance
- Client : CitiBank
- Incident Tools : ServiceNow
- Languages / Tools : Oracle 9i/10g SQL, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripting, Actimize,CONNECT DIRECT(NDM)
- Monitoring Tools : Autowatch/Nastel (MQ Tool), Abinitio Control Center
- Application Servers : Websphere
- Project Description : Citi Name and Entity Screening System (NESS) is a key system for managing risk requirements and practices around Know Your Customer (KYC), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and various U.S
- Sanctions
- Worked as Technical Business Analyst
- Understanding Business requirement based on BRD and create Technical Questionnaire
- Setup meeting with Business technical team and gather the technical details required for On-boarding the project in CitiScreening and Actimize (Case Management Tool) application
- In case of Batch file Onboarding, creating the NDM setup and establishing the connectivity with business partner system starting from SIT, UAT and then PROD
- In case of Real Time (JMS- MQ) business product onboarding, creation of MQ setup by exchanging the MQ connectivity template and setting up MQ objects (Sender channel,receiver channel , queues)
- Once the testing is completed in UAT, conducting PVT(Production verification Test) before Business Go-Live in Production
- In case WEBSERVICE onboarding, the WSDL file is shared with business and the connectivity is established through SOAP UI
- Once the PVT is successful, setting up Handover call with production support and ensuring the business contacts and the NDM/MQ/Webservice connectivity setup details are handed over to ensure smooth transition and in case of any issues in prod to reach and communicate to the correct downstream team
- Troubleshooting and fixing issues encountered during SIT and UAT testing
- Documenting all the issues encountered during each SR (Service Request) which is tagged with each business Product implementation and ensuring there is less or no impact to business
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bangalore, Karnataka, India. 01.2004 - 01.2008
Skills
- RDBMS
- Oracle
- PUTTY
- PLSQL Developer
- SQL Developer
- Java/J2ee
- Nastel MQ Tool
- EAP ( Big Data and Enterprise Analytics Platform)
- Autosys
- CONNECT DIRECT(NDM)
- APP Dynamics
- AWP / ABINITIO Control Center
Awards
- Star Award, Citibank Singapore, 2019
- I-appreciate , Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd (India) , 2012
- PEPP, Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd (India), 2011
- We-Applaud, Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd (India), 2014
Timeline
Senior Consultant | Business Analyst
Virtusa Consulting
01.2016 - 01.2025
Senior Consultant | PROD Support Analyst
Virtusa Consulting
01.2016 - 07.2018
Senior Consultant | Tech BA
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd.
09.2014 - 01.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
01.2004 - 01.2008
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