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Ashita Harshavardhan Gadagotti - Business Data Analyst

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Location: Remote, Remote, USA

Relocation: Any

Visa: H1B

Ashita Harshavardhan Gadagotti Business Data Analyst 313-474-4474 [email protected] Any H1B Experience Proinf LLC California, USA Business Intelligence Analyst Apr 2023 - Present Provide analytical and technical support for Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) monitoring tools. Partner with Fraud Analysts in order to understand their workflow and to utilize their feedback, where appropriate, to strengthen the quality of FCC Data Analytics work product. Leverage technology to enable advanced analytical and data visualization techniques to improve risk detection and increase operational efficiencies. Assist with tuning and optimization of fraud detection models, transaction monitoring system, Customer Due Diligence scoring algorithm, and the Sanctions monitoring system. Support FCC management in the development of an effective FCC model governance program, in accordance with Model Risk Management guidelines, that meets regulatory requirements. Participate in the development and implementation of new reporting functionality and transaction monitoring channels for FCC analytics purposes. Create professional program/reporting documentation in support of AML Transaction Monitoring and related reporting. Provide timely responses to ad hoc data requests from FCC and other internal departments. Assist in the design and governance of FCC monitoring systems (transaction, Customer Risk Rating, Sanctions) to ensure adequate controls are in place. Serve as liaison to Information Technology, Risk Management, and Operations to mitigate compliance risk and ensure audit soundness. Maples Fund Services (Canada) Inc Montreal, Canada Senior AML Analyst Nov 2021 Apr 2023 Conduct skilled AML research, risk assessment, reporting and analytical support in timely manner. Supervising team to ensure project quality and providing compliance trainings. Assisting the Regulatory Compliance Department and partnering in the development and implementation of appropriate AML/ATF processes, policies, and controls across multiple jurisdictions Liaising with clients, investors, investment managers, law firms, internal/external auditors of various jurisdictions for AML Due Diligence across projects, dealing with non-routine information. Oversee/lead the ongoing engagement communications and the reporting process with the client, senior management, and related stakeholders. Lead projects of moderate to complex risk and resource requirements from end-to-end. Briefing and reporting to senior management on project performance and compliance status. Lead critical assessment of AML processes and controls on ServiceNow platform, through stakeholder engagement to facilitate a collective understanding of potential gaps and opportunities. Developed ETL processes to pull data from various sources into the data warehousing system and transform it for reporting applications. Designed and implemented multiple dashboards using PowerBi Power Pivot & Power Query tools to display KPIs related to distinctive areas of interest within departmental operations. Utilized Power Query to pivot and unpivot the data for data cleansing. Extracted, transformed, and loaded ETL datasets with basic modeling variables for each project using SQL queries. Zealot IT Solutions Hyderabad, India Business Data Analyst Feb 2020- Dec 2020 Understand the business functions, identify the KPIs and goals based on business needs that need to be tracked and reported. Transform the business requirements into technical requirements and design documents. Extract and analyze data generated by user activity on web applications. Report findings with data visualizations that are easy to understand. Review and validate statistics and reports with business units. Help to derive insights and recommendations that will increase the quality of user s experiences. Daily ADHOC reports as requested in the company portals which are raised by the business users. Creating PowerBi Dashboard in accordance to the business user requirements. Created DAX queries to generate computed columns in PowerBI, also applied DAX calculated measures and columns. Equiniti KYC Solutions Amsterdam, The Netherlands Business Data Analyst Oct 2018- Dec 2019 Setting up, managing, and developing extract transform and load scripts and tooling. Managing/data cleaning/data merging/data verification of internal and external data. Built Forecast models to specifications outlined by the business needs. Performed structural analysis, ad-hoc analysis, and advanced analysis of data. Developed insightful metrics, dashboards, reports for business leadership using MS PowerBI, ongoing results/tracking of KPIs. Established tracking metrics to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the business teams. Accomplishments: Led the Transaction Monitoring project transition to India. Automated the Sanctions screening project with Selenium, reduced the case handling time from 7 minutes to 3 minutes per case. Equiniti KYC Solutions Amsterdam, The Netherlands KYC Analyst (Consultant) Aug 2016- Dec 2019 Compliance review on KYC Due Diligence files for existing customers across multiple entity types of multinational clients. Performing Customer Due Diligence (CDD & EDD) on new and existing corporate clients in line with relevant regulatory and company standards. Worked as Subject matter expert on required legal documents and Global KYC key operating procedure process for regular review of customers. Undertake quality review of KYC records performed by other analysts. Conducted Quality audit remediation for Dutch regulator (De Nederlandsche Bank). Served as an escalation point for operational issues of screening software (used for PEP analysis, Sanctions, Fraud, Adverse Media, and unusual transactions). Worked with the Deutsche Bank NL for process and policy improvements to encourage efficiencies within the business. Trained new staff in AML/CTF risks, and associated processes. Analyzed deviant transactions for money laundering, fraud, and terrorist financing risks. Education Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology Toronto, Canada Graduate Certificate, Business Analytics. 3.9 CGPA August,2021 Statistics for Analytics, Data Preparation and Handling, Sentiment Analysis and Text Mining, Predictive Analytics, Applied Data Mining and Modelling ICFAI Business School Hyderabad, India Bachelor s in business administration. 3.68 CGPA June 2016 Financial Management, Portfolio Analysis and Securities Management, Risk Management, Financial and Managerial Accounting coursework. Honor Awards President s Honour List, Winter 2021 Term (01/2021 - 04/2021) Seneca College, Toronto, Canada Awarded President s Honour List for achieving term GPA of 4.0 Technical Skills Compliance: Enhanced Due diligence, Sanctions & PEP screening, transaction monitoring, Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD), fraud risks. Financial Crime Compliance data providers: World-check, Lexis-Nexis, ComplyAdvantage Data Analysis: Rest API, Data Modelling, Selenium Platforms: ServiceNow Programming languages and Database query software: Python, R, SQL Reporting: MS Power BI Keywords: business intelligence active directory rlang information technology microsoft Delaware