Raheem Farook

Raheem Farook

Experienced AML Analyst seeking for opportunities to apply my skills and experiences
India

About Me

Experienced AML Analyst in investigating suspected money laundering and terrorist financing activities. Collecting and correlating the information obtained from the customers to identify potential risks and determine the…

Experience

Risk Analyst

Amazon
Jun 2020 - Present · 6 years

Conduct due diligence reviews of corresponding banking transactions of customers flagged for suspicious activities within the Amazon Pay US product service
Analyze transaction statistical data and tool-based data for the identification, prevention and detection of potential suspicious or unusual activities, transactions or customer behavior by performing transaction analysis, investigations and related accounts activities.
Analyze if the customer accounts have been compromised by fraudsters for performing illegal activities or theft purposes.
Investigate on merchant accounts and transaction with the customers to identify if the merchant account is a fraudster.
Maintaining current understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing issues including the policies (OFAC, BSA/AML, US PATRIOT Act), procedures, regulations, industry best practice, criminal typologies and developing trends.
Documentation of the findings and proposing the upstream team to file final report for audit and regulatory requirement and take account level action on the accounts performing suspicious activities.
Work along with the technology team for the development of ML based algorithms that can be used for the detection of suspicious activities at a higher accuracy and efficiency.

Risk Control Analyst (AML Analyst)

Bangalore
Jun 2020 - Present · 6 years 1 month

Conduct due diligence reviews of corresponding banking transactions of customers flagged for suspicious activities within the Amazon Pay US product service
Analyze transaction statistical data and tool-based data for the identification, prevention and detection of potential suspicious or unusual activities, transactions or customer behavior by performing transaction analysis, investigations and related accounts activities.
Analyze if the customer accounts have been compromised by fraudsters for performing illegal activities or theft purposes.
Investigate on merchant accounts and transaction with the customers to identify if the merchant account is a fraudster.
Maintaining current understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing issues including the policies (OFAC, BSA/AML, US PATRIOT Act), procedures, regulations, industry best practice, criminal typologies and developing trends.
Documentation of the findings and proposing the upstream team to file final report for audit and regulatory requirement and take account level action on the accounts performing suspicious activities.
Work along with the technology team for the development of ML based algorithms that can be used for the detection of suspicious activities at a higher accuracy and efficiency.

Risk Control Analyst (AML Analyst)

Amazon Pay US, Bangalore
Jun 2020 - Present · 6 years 1 month

Conduct due diligence reviews of corresponding banking transactions of customers flagged for suspicious activities within the Amazon Pay US product service
Analyze transaction statistical data and tool-based data for the identification, prevention and detection of potential suspicious or unusual activities, transactions or customer behavior by performing transaction analysis, investigations and related accounts activities.
Analyze if the customer accounts have been compromised by fraudsters for performing illegal activities or theft purposes.
Investigate on merchant accounts and transaction with the customers to identify if the merchant account is a fraudster.
Maintaining current understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing issues including the policies (OFAC, BSA/AML, US PATRIOT Act), procedures, regulations, industry best practice, criminal typologies and developing trends.
Documentation of the findings and proposing the upstream team to file final report for audit and regulatory requirement and take account level action on the accounts performing suspicious activities.
Work along with the technology team for the development of ML based algorithms that can be used for the detection of suspicious activities at a higher accuracy and efficiency.

Tax Analyst

Bangalore
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 year 6 months

Prepare moderate to complex US Tax returns for the clients, Hands on experience on tax laws, including tax code and regulations
Prepare returns with Tax equalization and additional tax reporting Forms like Form 1116, Form 2555, Form 8938, Form K-1, FinCEN 114, Form W-7, Form 8858 (QBU Reporting), Form 8621(PFIC Reporting)
Hands on experiencing a variety of foreign income statements used for reporting the worldwide income on US Tax returns
Identification of out of scope services at the preparation level to charge the client accurately for additional service
Hands on experience in client call communication to support initial call requesting information
Assist the Tax Support team as Bot Runner in reviewing daily RPA bot dashboards and reporting its status and activities
Assist Global immigration team by providing visa assistance to client’s resources distributed globally

Tax Analyst

Unknown Company, Bangalore
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 year 6 months

Prepare moderate to complex US Tax returns for the clients, Hands on experience on tax laws, including tax code and regulations
Prepare returns with Tax equalization and additional tax reporting Forms like Form 1116, Form 2555, Form 8938, Form K-1, FinCEN 114, Form W-7, Form 8858 (QBU Reporting), Form 8621(PFIC Reporting)
Hands on experiencing a variety of foreign income statements used for reporting the worldwide income on US Tax returns
Identification of out of scope services at the preparation level to charge the client accurately for additional service
Hands on experience in client call communication to support initial call requesting information
Assist the Tax Support team as Bot Runner in reviewing daily RPA bot dashboards and reporting its status and activities
Assist Global immigration team by providing visa assistance to client’s resources distributed globally

Curvelogics Technologies
Dec 2019

Entity Recognition Algorithm
Collected test data by scrapping headline data from finance news
Based on the keywords, trained the information to identify which type of finance vertical will the news belongs to
For example: If the news involves the term Income tax, the algorithm will predict it as Tax news, if the news involves the term share price, the algorithm will predict it as Investment based news
Analyzing the User Experience of an AR Web-based application
Gather the KPI’s of the web application obtained by the client and from Google Analytics for identifying the problem
Investigate key problems such as Site Traffic Issues, Technical Issues, Content and Visualization Issues, and Navigation Issues with the help of Google Analytics and Data Visualization using Python
Gave Insights on the problems faced and proposed solutions

Audit And Tax Assistant

Ernst & Young
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019 · 1 year 5 months

Prepare moderate to complex US Tax returns for the clients, Hands on experience on tax laws, including tax code and regulations
Prepare returns with Tax equalization and additional tax reporting Forms like Form 1116, Form 2555, Form 8938, Form K-1, FinCEN 114, Form W-7, Form 8858 (QBU Reporting), Form 8621(PFIC Reporting)
Hands on experiencing a variety of foreign income statements used for reporting the worldwide income on US Tax returns
Identification of out of scope services at the preparation level to charge the client accurately for additional service
Hands on experience in client call communication to support initial call requesting information
Assist the Tax Support team as Bot Runner in reviewing daily RPA bot dashboards and reporting its status and activities
Assist Global immigration team by providing visa assistance to client’s resources distributed globally

Skills

Analytics Data Evaluation Financial Services Google Analytics Risk Assessment Techniques Correspondence Oversight Python C++ Java Pandas Scikitlearn Numpy Matplotlib Regex MS Excel Tableau PowerBI CCH by Wolter Kluwer Automation Anywhere MySQL NoSQL (MongoDB NodeJs) Lexis Nexis Experian Scikit-learn NumPy Regular expressions Microsoft Excel Power BI NoSQL MongoDB NodeJs Machine Learning Data Visualization US Taxation Robotic Process Automation Database Management Problem Solving Critical Thinking Creative Thinking Interpersonal Skills Active Learning
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