Mangesh Gholap

About Mangesh Gholap

I am heading Financial Crimes and compliance India Transactions Monitoring function at Wells Fargo, leading a team of 45 + financial crime specialists and Data Scientists.I have around 16 + years of experience in the banking and financial services industry. I hold the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Pega Certified Business Analyst ( CPBA) credentials, demonstrating my expertise and commitment in the financial risk and compliance domain.As a program manager and business analyst, I have led and supported various data-intensive projects leveraging tools : Oracle FCCM, PEGA BPM, Microsoft SQL Server, Advanced Excel, and HP ALM. I have extensive knowledge and experience in anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC), compliance, forensic data analytics, fraud risk assessment, fraud investigation, and sanctions violations. I have been hands on with SQL based data loading/ data mining and AML scenario execution methodologies in my previous roles. My goal is to help financial institutions achieve their regulatory and business objectives by leveraging my skills and insights.

Experience

1. Vice President Financial Crimes India and Philippines

   Wells Fargo

   Feb 2024 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   India Geography Lead : Transactions monitoring initiatives rollouts and data analytics transformation programs at Wells Fargo India, leading Middle management and on ground team of 50 fin crime specialists for: 1. AML Model Validation2. Transaction Monitoring including BTL testing and L1/L2 Alert investigations 3. Process Governance for effective AML controls implementations for bank4. AML model analytics using Python, SQL and Power BI

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  B.E., Mechanical Engg.

  2001 — 2004

• ACAMS

  Member: ACAMS

• CFA Institute

  CFA Level 2 Candidate, Finance

  2016 — 2020

• Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General

  2005 — 2007

Skills

• Banking
• Team Management
• Business Transformation
• Business Requirements
• Management Consulting
• Business Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Software Project Management
• Financial Services
• Crm
• Gap Analysis
• Analysis
• Analytics
• Management
• Process Consulting
• Financial Risk
• Pre-Sales
• Project Planning
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Process
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Consulting
• Vendor Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Erp
• Outsourcing
• Business Intelligence
• IT Strategy
• Sdlc