Smriti Purshotham
Melbourne
Summary
Dynamic Financial Crimes Specialist with expertise in anti-money laundering and fraud detection at MUFG. Proven track record in enhancing due diligence and stakeholder management, successfully identifying suspicious activities and implementing robust compliance measures. Adept at conducting thorough investigations and collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize transaction monitoring processes.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Financial Crimes Specialist and AML Analyst
MUFG
11.2023 - Current
- Conduct critical analysis and investigation of daily Alerts generated from the transaction monitoring program for Clients
- Review and assess and conduct ECDD claims/ payment request on high risk, monitored, and potential PEP flagged accounts
- Raise SMRs for suspicious/unusual activities and unauthorised transactions
- Verify payment requests and source of wealth with account holder via outbound calls and/or additional documents
- Support data analysts and run SQL data queries
- Triage inbox and manage escalations, actively provide support to the team
- Provide SME support to the business across all potential instances of Fraud & ML/CTF
- Liaise with key internal and external stakeholders to drive and improve member protections
- CDD and KYC on daily applicants of financial products, obtain and analyse KYC documents, identify false documents, and provide approval or rejection
- Identify and verify Beneficial Owners of different and complex entity types including companies, trusts, other incorporated/non incorporated entities
- Quality Assurance on previous months assessments and provide constructive feedback
- Analyzing members claims, to be able to access the level risk involved on the claim or member's account. This ensure Super funds & members are not only remaining complaint with Legislation, but also ensuring the members details and funds are not getting compromised or at risk of.
Networking and Salesforce Analyst
NextPayments
12.2021 - 09.2023
- Conducted thorough system audits to identify areas of improvement and optimize overall performance.
- Standardized sales processes by configuring custom objects, fields, page layouts, and record types in Sales Cloud environment.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge on industry trends and best practices to ensure continuous improvement in implemented solutions.
- Mapped business requirements to Salesforce features, ensuring optimal utilization of the platform''s capabilities.
- Implemented robust security measures by configuring roles, profiles, permission sets, sharing rules, and field-level security settings in Salesforce orgs.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop customized Salesforce solutions for improved efficiency.
Education
Master of Science - Information And Communication Technology
Latrobe University
Melbourne, VIC08-2021
Skills
- Enhanced due diligence
- Suspicious activity reporting
- Corporate Fraud Investigations
- Transaction monitoring
- Stakeholder Management
- Fraud Preventions
- Auditing
- Counter-Terrorist Financing
- Anti-money laundering
- Fraud detection
Accomplishments
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
Timeline
Financial Crimes Specialist and AML Analyst
MUFG
11.2023 - Current
Networking and Salesforce Analyst
NextPayments
12.2021 - 09.2023
Master of Science - Information And Communication Technology
Latrobe University
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