Laundering Analyst Customer Service

JUDE UWAZIE

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Tel: 202-***-****) Email: **********@*****.***

P R O F I L E

Self-motivated senior-level compliance and AML Analyst with significant years of relevant experience in monitoring AML/BSA trends for related industry practices, ranging from preparing required reports; Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs); Evaluating transactions for Money laundering and Fraud activities within the AML framework, along with reviewing negative feeds of OFAC/Watch List/PEP Alerts generated by automated systems. Demonstrated history of successful compliance administration and effective strategy implementation, while providing high-quality guidance to management as well as facilitating efficient and accurate unit operations. Skilled in areas of compliance and corporate security with focus on fraud prevention, halting financial crime and terrorist financing, and quality assurance of information and/or reports. Experience working with KYC and has experience following the USA Patriot Act and Bank Secrecy Act standards. Completed extensive due diligence investigations using public and private databases in accordance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML), BSA and other regulatory standards to prevent risks. Ensuring compliance for financial institutions, partnering with executives and stakeholders during investigations and audits to advise regarding best practices and strategies to protect assets and mitigate fines and sanctions. Dedicated, influential executive with reputation for building compliance programs from the ground up on an international scale, minimizing risk, and developing corrective actions to mitigate impact of discrepancies. Expert in the identification and implementation of financial and business management strategies to capture cost improvement opportunities while impacting bottom-line profits. C A R E E R O B J E C T I V E

Eager to join the fast-paced environment and bring my expertise on board and develop my career further. Seek opportunities to transform company practices into fresh, cost-effective solutions leading to more efficient operations.

A R E A S O F E X P E R T I S E

• International Regulatory

Compliance

• Compliance Consulting

• Stakeholder Relations

• Program Leadership

• Anti-Bribery/Sanctions

• Anti-Money Laundering

• Due Diligence

• Know Your Customers (KYC)

• M&A Compliance Integration

• Corporate Benefits

• Performance Assessment

• Process Improvement

• Revenue Enhancement

• Entrepreneurial Initiative

• Client Acquisition & Retention

• Portfolio Optimization

• Financial Reporting & Analysis

• Financial Statements

• Forecasting & Projections

• Conflict resolution

• Interdepartmental

communications

• Credit & Income Analysis

• Risk Assessment &

Management

• Business Transformation

Solutions

• Contract Negotiations

• Policy Development

• Requirements Gathering &

Analysis

• Enterprise Implementations

• KPI Dashboards & Scorecards

• Data Mining & Analytics

• BI, ERP & Big Data Platforms

• Fraud investigation

• Audit Procedures

• Corporate Benefits

• Performance Assessment

• Entrepreneurial Initiative

• Client Acquisition & Retention

• Portfolio Optimization

C O R E C O M P E T E N C I E S A N D S K I L L S

• Experience in conducting due diligence reviews on individual and business accounts and update KYC profiles in accordance with KYC requirements.

• Thorough understanding of Anti Money Laundering (AML) procedures and hands on experience of working to insure AML compliance at client’s place.

• Remarkable experience working with AML investigations, security operations and fraud prevention; Proficient in performing Anti-Money Laundering Program.

• Audit and gauge the effectiveness of corporate policies, procedures, and standards by which an organization’s financial, operational, and informational processes are managed; view and approach processes from a broad perspective, as they pertain to the organization’s strategic position.

• Capable of understanding and adhering to policies, procedures & standards throughout the organization as well as ensuring the corporate vision for risk compliance at all times.

• Strong knowledge of day-to-day objectives in providing financial status and projections using the principles, practices, and procedures of accounting, financial records, and transactions; analyze statistical/financial data and interpret information with an eye for detail using excellent analytical/organizational skills.

• Interact amicably with all levels of management and staff regarding operations, productivity, and performance gains; openly promote a winning attitude and foster transparent accountability while consistently exceeding performance goals and expectations. P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E

Coinbase Anti-Money Laundering Analyst August 2021 – Till Date

• Investigating complex financial crime specifically relating to on-chain crypto currency’s investigations.

• Transaction monitoring to identify suspicious activities.

• Conducting deep-dive investigations into various customer-facing security issues including account takeovers, phishing, SIM swaps, cryptocurrency thefts, and more.

• Escalates high risk suspicious activity and determined if a SAR should be filed with Financial Crimes Enforcement Network(FinCEN)

• Providing the business with recommendations to mitigate customer-facing security issues that you’ve investigated

• Working closely with cross-functional partner teams such as Threat Intelligence to enrich your investigations

• Acting as the go-to subject matter expert to assist partner teams with implementation of proposed mitigations

• Writing runbooks on investigative best practices and finding ways to automate pieces of the investigative lifecycle

• Block-chain analysis, Kyc review and Filing SAR

Bank OZK AML Analyst May 2017 – July 2021

• Conduct research that utilize internal and external public and private databases to compile a portfolio of information on funds transfer and or check instrument products/transactions.

• Accountable for a Correspondent Banking team’s success, including profitability, sales, customer service and staff development. Ensures that the correspondent banking goals are aligned with the corporate strategy.

• Delivers goals for all sales metrics and sales activities to drive the expected results; monitors the achievement of goals by individual Correspondent Banking Relationship Managers, and holds team members accountable for performance.

• Calls on existing correspondent banks with Relationship Managers or on own behalf.

• Assist and provide information to support Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) or equivalent for regulatory filing.

• Maintain a strong investigative skills; the ability to work independently, demonstrated extensive banking and Compliance knowledge.

• Review documentation to prevent fraud, money laundering, and identity theft losses.

• Document and report all findings in case management software.

• Prepare management reports on department activities and findings.

• Present strategies and findings at monthly department meetings.

• Support development of procedural improvements to maximize effectiveness. Work Mates LLC, Upper Marlboro, MD (One Street Company) AML Analyst Feb 2016 – April 2017

• Responsible for identifying and researching the patterns, trends and anomalies in complex transactional and customer data to detect, prevent, mitigate and report suspicious activity related to money laundering and structuring.

• Performed monthly AML risk-based review and analysis on individual and business accounts and made recommendations for further review

• Validating KYC risk compliance based on research of customer records, verification of account purpose and legitimacy, analysis of transaction activity.

• Reviewed documentation to prevent money laundering, and identity theft losses.

• Utilized knowledge of AML laws including BSA Patriot Act and US Treasury guidelines.

• Prepared and filed Suspicious Activity Reports.

• Conducted KYC/EDD reviews for Small Businesses.

Polaris Bank Enugu State, Nigeria. AML Analyst June 2012 – August 2015

• Investigated Irregularities and non-compliance issues.

• Monitored overall compliance with CBN laws, Regulations and Internal policies.

• Conducted investigations on Cases and Alerts produced through the banks automated Anti-Money Laundering System

• Well versed in completing and reviewing Enhanced Due Diligence Investigations

• Gathered, prepared & packaged documentation & information on a diverse group of customers, accounts & monetary transactions in accordance with Federal regulations & specific bank requirements, standards & processes

• Assessed compliance with banking laws, and reported suspicious entries and actions.

• Applied KYC/AML compliance procedures to identify, and verify fraudulent transactions.

• Performed Risk assessment to understand the level, significance and scope of risk identified.

• Created awareness and improved homogenous compliance culture

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E D U C A T I O N A L Q U A L I F I C A T I O N

University Of Nigeria, Enugu State, Nigeria August 2011

• Bachelors of Science, Economics

T E C H N O L O G I E S

• Lexis Nexis, World check, ACTIMIZE, World base, GiAct, Swift, Duns & Bradstreet, ISO Claim Search, Decision Net, Iso MedSentry, People finder, Google, MS Project, Requisite Pro Requirements Management tool, MS Excel, MS SharePoint, Pivot Tables, Microsoft Office Suite, Jira, Pacer, SQL Server Management Studio, Active Director, Web Design Modification, Windows 2000/2003/2007 and Mac Systems.

R E F E R E N C E

Available on request

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