Ambica Guddeti

Senior Process Executive @Cognizant

KYC Analyst - Sanctions screening• Responsible for performing sanctions review on clients who has exposure to sanctions countries and investigating the business relationship of the client with bank. Work with all customers with sanctions to consider additional controls relating to their payments. • To ensure full compliance with pertinent rules and regulations. Escalating issues discovered during ongoing reviews and assessment of AML/OFAC compliance risk that require escalation to senior management for direction on resolution.• Experience in reviewing and investigating transactions with reference to payments, L1 are closed by recording public searches and escalations further if identified containing potential matches against sanction list: OFAC, United Nations, European Union and others.• Responsible to perform full review on the customer by understanding their nature of business, transaction history of the client and perform various checks to understand the total level of exposure and risk appetite.