YALAMARTHI AMBICA

Mobile: + 91 7204488096 Email: ambica0526@gmail.com

Looking for career enrichment opportunities in Compliance / Advisory / Anti-Money

Laundering /Risk Management with growth oriented organization.

Professional Synopsis
 Management professional endowed with passion for winning and with over 13 years of
experience in Risk Management, Retail Banking Operations, KYC Anti Money Laundering
Operations and client servicing across banking domain.
 Currently associated with Standard Chartered Bank GBS, Chennai as Associate
Manager (Quality Control).
 A strategist with proven skills in implementing risk policies under Financial Crime
Compliance. Lead a team of 15 members and conducting Root Cause Analysis at
operational level.
 Demonstrated abilities in spearheading operations & service aspects with an exposure
to Retail Banking Operations and process migrations.
 Gained extensive knowledge about the anti-money laundering laws, KYC procedures
and practices across multiple geographies including United States, South East Asia and
South Asian Countries.
 A thorough professional with a proactive attitude, capable of thinking in and out of the
box, generating new design solutions and ideas.
Domain Exposure
 Conduct due diligence to identify business risks and devising measures to mitigate the
same across the Financial Crime Compliance domain for the bank at multiple
locations.
 Possessing knowledge of gathering requirements from various sources and performing
Quality Assurance.
 Making use of available information and interacting with different country Heads for
precise reporting as per AML Norms.
Team Management

 Leading a team of 15 Members along with their performance reviews.

 Monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in operations and
meeting their targets.
 Coordinate discussions with each direct report regarding goal setting, performance
reviews and career development planning and incentive/salary administration.
 Coached team to higher performance levels, resulting in accepting new project with
existing team size.
 Coordinate and plan capacity, assign work for staff. Interface with varying levels of
management and staff.
 Manage staffing in accordance with program specific workflow (i.e. down-staffing, up-
staffing). Capacity Planning and threshold analysis on what if results prior production.
 Leads individual projects and work groups that will be presented to Senior
Management and Compliance.
 Close process gaps across new migrations. Streamlining efforts for attainment of goals
of the company and taking care of the mission & vision.
 Supporting various analysts in the team with the assessment & analysis of cases.
 Making sure of no breaches on SLA and QA levels within the threshold.
  Maintained a professional and friendly working dialog with coworkers, supervisors and
clients. Developed long term relations through friendly service and firm knowledge.
 Reacting quickly to outage and crisis situations by communicating
with supervisors and coworkers to resolve the source Issue quickly.

Organizational Experience

 Working as an Associate Manager in Standard Chartered Bank since March 2015.

 Worked as a Deputy Manager (Band I) in ICICI (International Operations Group) from
June 2007 to March 2015.

Banking Experience

Role in SCB since March 2015 to till Date:

Quality Analyst in Control and Sample Testing Team for Corporate Relationships.

 Responsible for managing the flow of operations to ensure operating schedules,

processing and procedures are met and staff is adequately trained.
 Manage overall work schedules and production according to productivity standards.
Ensure the coordination of process cross-training and development of staff.
 Performing daily, weekly and monthly reports to ensure that scheduling staff shifts,
lunches, breaks and time off is in compliance. Delegating tasks to employees
appropriately while encouraging growth and career development.
 Maintain compliance risk assessment consistent with the risk assessment framework
established by the Chief Compliance Officer.
 Manage testing support during the Software Development Life Cycle involved in the
production of QIA tools.
 Draft Addendums as and when required. Liaising in setting up different HUB’s.
 Manages and prepare responses to audit findings or other regulatory information
requests in a timely and comprehensive manner.
 Serves as the first point of reference in the absence of the Quality Head by developing,
nurturing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders.
 Report monthly CST test results in the organizational risk framework systems of the
bank. Report monthly and ad hoc test results to the stack holders.
 Train the relevant staff across other quality improvement and assurance whenever
required. Handled Business Continuity exercises for Unit.
 Facilitate, promote and co-ordinate understanding of management and implementation
of operational risk.
Role in ICICI Bank: Experience in Anti Money Laundering Team:

Worked in AML/KYC Domestic team from June 2007 to May 2013

 Manage daily operational activities of small team of analysts for 3 years. Assign tasks
and responsible for defect management including monitoring and reporting on defect
resolution.
 Drive continual process improvement to streamline business management processes
and remove redundancies.

Team Handling in AML/KYC Singapore unit from June 2013 to March 2015

 Handled Annual KYC review of Singapore and Suspicious Transaction reports (STR).
 Maintains watch list customers and investigates for continued suspicious activity.
Transaction Monitoring and PEP list on fortnight basis. Internal surveillance of Staff
 transactions and escalation to Country Head. Handling online process of HiSAVE
account openings. QC on daily basis for all the processes.
 Identify root cause of monitoring exceptions and facilitate remediation of exceptions.
 Relationship opening, collecting all relevant information and managing the account
opening process and work flow for client requests. Ensure compliance with Banking
rules, Regulations & Procedures.

Accomplishments

 Over 13 Years of Experience in AML/KYC.

 Handled Account Opening team, RPC Hyderabad for 3 Years.
 Handled Singapore Accounts opening team for 2 years. Publishing Snapshot, Daily
report and Quality report. Handled Quality control Relationship Opening Team.
 Professional experienced working in fast paced environments demanding strong
organizational, technical and interpersonal skills.
 Appreciation from Operations Head for Successful Completion of the A3 Project

Scholastics
 BSc from Andhra University, Rajahmundry 2004 with 63%.
 IIBF Certification on KYC/AML
Awards and Achievements

1st prize in TALISMA RE-ENGINEERING PROJECT at ICICI BANK

Projects

A3 PROJECT and TALISMA RE-ENGINEERING PROJECT at ICICI BANK

Personal Portrait

Name : Y. Ambica
Nationality : Indian
Date of Birth : August 26, 1983
Gender : Female
Marital Status : Married
Languages Known : English, Hindi and Telugu.
Current Location : Chennai

• I hereby affirm that all the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.

• References available upon request from academic and industrial Collaborators/Peers.

(Y. Ambica)