1. DASTAGIR HUSSAIN. S
Mob No - +971 56 9731803
E-mail Id - ars_new@ymail.com
Professional Synopsis
An astute Banking Professional with 6 years of experience. Able to work in high pressure and
known for high quality deliverables.
Sound knowledge in outward remittance, Anti-Money Laundering Operations and KYC (Know
Your Customer) norms. Deft in processing outward remittances (MT103 and MT202) and handling
various transaction filtering queues like Red List filtering, Sanctions filtering etc. in accordance to
Global Compliance procedures. Also having Swift Alliance knowledge.
Educational Qualifications
MBA in Finance & Marketing – 2010 from Sri Ram Engineering College (Anna University,
Chennai, India).
Skills & Proficiency Matrix
Excellent understanding of Banking services and products.
Sound knowledge in International Banking Practice and Accounting Standards.
Adaptable and self-motivated in a fast moving environment.
An effective communicator with strong people management, coordination, analytical and
problem solving skills.
Employment Scan
First Gulf Bank, UAE
As a (Payments Specialist) processor in outward remittance team (TBO – central ops)
from Oct 2013 to till date.
Key Responsibilities
To process outward MT103, MT202 payments (AED and FCY).
To process outward MT103, MT202 loan payments (AED and FCY).
Processing credit card, salary and various other payments.
Processing fixed deposits (AED and FCY) payments and various other payments received
from other teams.
Maintaining high level of SLA and processing all the payments before the cut-off time.
Clearing Nack messages in Nest application which has been rejected in central bank
system.
Clearing Nack messages in Swift Alliance.
2. Preparing manual messages in Swift (MT103 and MT202).
Preparing MT199, MT999 messages and checking RMA in Swift Alliance.
Check and verify blacklist records and detect suspicious money laundering transactions
and report the same to the compliance team.
Preparing end of the day reports and reporting the treasury status to the money
market team.
Preparing monthly MI for outward remittance.
Reconciliation of Nostro Accounts on daily basis.
Responsible to clear outstanding Nostro Charges related to Outward Payments.
Preparation of proofing for other departments as assigned by Senior Management.
Responsible to check and reconcile for all SWIFT incoming messages related to concern
departments.
Provide cross departmental training to other operational staff members.
To Handle pre-facto and post-facto remittance enquiries.
The Royal Bank Of Scotland, India
As a Crisis Incident Manager and Business Monitoring Officer in Group Incident Management
and Business Monitoring team of Global Transaction Services, Operations Strategy Architecture and
Change, Operations Command Centre from Dec 2010 to July 2013.
Description
Opening high critical incidents and monitoring Elite client’s payments, reports and applications.
Key Responsibilities
To analyze the severity of an incident on the basis of Criticality 1 – 5.
To decide and raise severity incidents based on the business impacts caused because of
various issues in payments, reports and applications.
To engage in (BCG) Business Contingency Group call with Clients and inform about the issues.
To co-ordinate stake holders and support teams in the Business Contingency Group call and
make sure the issue is resolved as soon as possible without any business impacts.
To analyze, collate and provide the impact list (MI) to the stake holders and clients during
business outage and to decide whether to close an incident after the business outage.
Pro-Actively monitoring/detecting and escalating the problems and issues to the right channels
of teams in Payments within the stipulated time frame and to make sure whether all payments
are processed before the actual cut-off time.
3. To reduce the client impact at various levels, this ultimately makes the clients happy and
trustworthy on having a healthy relationship towards the business.
To maintain a SLA (Service Level Agreement) with a high level of accuracy and also
responsible for Daily Reports and Monthly MI.
Transaction Filtering team - AML Operations
Part of “Project Webb” as a checker in (RBS INDIA P.Ltd) Transaction Filtering team,
AML operations, Global Transactions Services for over 3 months in a team size of 120.
Description
Project Webb was a special project of (OFAC) Office of Foreign Assets and Control, an agency
of the United States Department of the Treasury. Started in order to filter those transactions before
further processing which contains some suspicious elements violating the OFAC norms.
Key Responsibilities
Handling all SWIFT transactions in the transaction filtering queue using Fircosoft application.
Responsible for approving the payments with all compliance checks and ensuring payments
are being processed and cleared before EOD as per procedural guidelines.
Skillfully dealing with Client and Financial Institution (MT103 & MT202) payments to prevent
Money Laundering. Maintaining MIS and Tracker on a daily basis. Ensuring all internal & risk
checks are performed in terms of AML view before processing a transaction to prevent the
bank from fraudulent/terrorist activities.
Handling the filtering queues of transactions for more than 40 countries. Detect and escalate
to the MLRO if any suspicious element is found in a payment which may ultimately end in a
compliance issue for the bank.
UAT & Implementation
Successfully did UAT’s and implemented many release in Maxtrad (Trade Application) in RBS.
Successfully did UAT’s and implemented various changes /enhancements in T24 globus and in
BPMS.
Technical Qualifications
MS-Office and Tally 9.0
Achievements
Received many number of Spot ovations within the Team.
Nominated for Silver Ovation and Continuous Improvement Award.
Received Bronze Ovation for team as a whole.
Won first prize in business quiz intercollegiate competition in PG.
Secured centum in commerce in higher secondary examination.
4. Personal Details
Date of Birth :
Marital Status :
Languages Known :
18th
Dec 1987
Married
English, Tamil, Hindi and Urdu.
Permanent Address for
Communication : #5, Venkateshwara Nagar, Ist Street,
Ist Part, Kodungaiyur.
Chennai - 600 118.
Passport No. : KO365843 (Valid upto 24-Feb-2022)