1. Lakshman Rao Sadhanala CAMS
lakshmansadhanala@gmail.com
Bangalore, India Mobile#+919901028840
Professional Snapshot
To work in a competitive and challenging work environment, contribute to the best of my ability towards the growth
and development of a progressive organization, and to fully utilize my skills to pursue a challenging and rewarding
career.
Specialized in:
 Anti Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorism Financing, Regulatory Monitoring Assessment, Know
Your Customer (KYC), Enhanced Due Diligence Research, Transaction Monitoring, Investigation of
suspicious activity, Account Opening, Training and Quality Assurance.
The key areas, which enhance my ability to perform and deliver efficiency in results, include:
 Sound knowledge on AML/BSA procedures and FATF, BASEL, Wolfsberg, Egmont and European
principles/directives
 Excellent report writing skills and strong audit/review/investigation expertise
 Strong knowledge in analyzing the AML/BSA policies and procedures in accordance with international
standards
 Ability to detect and deter money laundering and terrorist financing methodologies
 Ability to think in diversified ways to mitigate the risks associated with money laundering and terrorist
financing
 Ability to develop strong working relationship with internal and external ‘client’ groups
 Committed to quality and excellence
 Challenged by aggressive deadlines and ambiguous work patterns
 Quick learner and adaptable to changes
Learning & Experience

2. • Senior Risk Consultant - Forensic Investigations - KPMG Oct 2014 – Till Date
 Performing Transaction Look Back on alerted transactions and conducting thorough investigations to
understand customers account activity are in align with the business/personal activity.
 Conducting due diligence on Beneficiaries and Originating Parties, which includes By Order Bank and
Receiving Bank.
 Drafting a detailed report, on the alerted account and recommending the case to SAR or NO SAR
Recommendation.
 Performing Enhanced Due Diligence on the entities & individuals, to identify the business activity,
shareholders, sanctions, PEP’s associated with the company, Adverse News, Global business
establishments, Director’s and as well as the ultimate beneficiaries of the entity.
 Drafting a detailed Enhanced Due Diligence report on the entity or individual and advising the business
risk indicator to the client.
Major achievements from this role are: -
 Received accolades from the Partners, Directors and Quality Team for completing the task within before
the anticipated time, with an excellent quality of work.
• Assistant Manager Transaction Monitoring – Amicorp Management Services, Feb 2014 –
Sept 2014
Profile & Working :-
 Monitoring real time Inward & Outward payments and conducting screening on the involved parties of the
payments, understanding the client/entity structures and collecting supporting documents and checking if
the payments are in line with the client/entity business profile.
 Ensuring all the payments are reviewed and a Compliance Advice is given on a timely manner, before the
payment cut off time.
 Disseminating Compliance Report to Senior Management and Board Members of the Bank.
 Performing Client Risk Rating on all the Prospect Clients.
 Drafting Group wide Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing policies for Amicorp Bank &
Trust licensed under Central Bank Of Barbados.

3.  Reviewing all the Account Opening applications and conducting a due diligence on the Ultimate
Beneficiaries and collecting supporting documents, if any are missed. Understanding the reason for
opening the account & client/entity’s account activity and providing a Compliance Advice, before
establishing a relationship with the bank.
 Currently handling a team of 8 members and providing assistance to the team members in handling their
daily tasks.
• Anti Money Laundering Executive – HSBC – HDPI, April-2010 to January 2104
Profile & Working: -
 Conducting Enhanced Due Diligence on clients such as Special Category Clients (SCCs), especially
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), Banks, Retail Business Units, Money Service Businesses who pose
a heightened risk of money laundering, terrorist financing or other illicit activities.
 Assessing risks associated with the new clients before establishing a relationship with the bank.
 Performing due diligence on clients on an annual basis or when there is a change in risk category
 Conducting enhanced due diligence to verify the identity of the clients and to identify clients who are
associated or has links with money laundering or terrorist financing or criminal background.
 Escalation of suspicious activity to Compliance Business staff while doing periodic review of the client.
 Writing reports, detailing adverse and relevant information on the clients in the Report of Findings and
sharing the investigation results with Business Area.
 Extensive research is conducted on Non Profit Organizations and Entities located in high risk jurisdictions
or offer high risk products.
 Assisting On boarding team to complete the New Account Opening and entitlement request on time by
sourcing required information and documents from external source and internal source.
 Performing investigations on WorldCheck, Lexis Nexis, Regulatory Data Corporation, SAR Database and
other Media searches.
 Regularly reviewing the Federal Register and all US Banking Regulatory Regime Websites of any
regulatory changes which would impact our Bank and update the Regulatory Monitoring Assessment
Team.

4.  Monitoring for Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals List updates and inform
the Onshore and Offshore team of the changes.
 Reviewing Enforcement Actions and Guidance's released in US Banking Regulatory Regime Websites
and update the Regulatory Monitoring Assessment Team.
Major achievements from this role are: -
 Received appreciations from Internal and External Quality team for processing the requests with
exceptional quality.
 Completed a Yellow Belt Project on "WorldCheck Optimizing and Leveraging Funds". Project "WOLF"
was aimed to identify the Inactive ID's for the WorldCheck application and to return the licenses which
would be a cost saving to the bank.
 Global OFAC Monitoring Team appreciated for regularly monitoring and completing the OFAC SDN
Updates within the SLA.
 Received appreciation from the US North America Compliance Senior Management Team for successful
completion of Good Governance Project before the anticipated timeline.
 BCP team has appreciated for updating the BCP Database within the expectations of the Business
Partners.
Previous Experience
• Quality Coach and Process Trainer HSBC – HDPI, November 2008 to March 2010
Profile & Working: -
 Worked as a Quality Coach for a team of 16 associates, who deal with responding to inquiries from UAE,
Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, & Oman customers regarding their Banking and Credit card queries.
 Conducted Card Services training for 7 batches, for the agents who have joined the CS Internet and CS
Correspondence processes.
 Handled ISD phase for the new trainees and monitored their individual performance and regular quality
feedback sessions were conducted.
 Responsible for conducting Quality analysis on a continual basis to identify the critical errors and discuss
the plan of action with the management to reduce the errors.
 Deputized the team, in absence of my Line manager and handled team issues.

5.  Took the lead to identify Procedural gaps in the process and ensure that the same is updated after
liaising with the Business Partners thus ensuring that the process is Audit Ready. This helped to a large
extent in the Department getting a Satisfactory Rating in the Group Audit.
 Played a key role in designing and implementing the new Quality CE form.
 Coached the associates who were in PDP by regularly monitoring their performance and shared best
practices with them, to improve their productivity and quality.
 Controls are placed in Kana application for the HBME eMessaging process, to track the emails
processed by the agents in the Non Secure queue.
 Established excellent business relations with the business partners.
Major achievements from this role are:
 Accredited as Process Trainer on Legacy and Metris procedures.
 Received Special Recognition award for implementing Customer Experience Quality form across the
Card Services department.
 Received appreciation from the Business Area and peers for preparing Quality presentation on the new
KANA Quality form.
 Proactively trained additional executives for specialized queues like balance transfers and collections;
• HSBC – HDPI (HSBC Electronic Data Processing India P. Ltd), September 2005 to
Septmerber 2008
Joined HSBC on July 25
th
2005 as a Customer Service Executive in CS-Internet and as a member of
the pilot batch I played a key role in stabilizing the process. After completing one year in a core credit cards
process, I was internally promoted to Credit Card Services as Trainer and Quality Audit Checker.
Grown & nurtured in a highly motivated team environment with high degree of receptivity & change
orientations.
Major achievements from this role are:
 Part of the team which received "Team of the Quarter Award" for Q3 2009 and also Q2 2006.

6.  Received "Top Performer Awards" for the month of August and October 2007.
 Ensured that all files and procedure manuals were in place and contained no customer information,
during the Internal Control Department review of Card Services.
 Ensured that all files and procedure manuals were in place and contained no customer information,
during the Internal Control Department review of Card services;
 Planned & organized Rewards and Recognition functions on various occasions within the section and
has utilized the allocated section budget effectively.
Education
 Bachelor of Commerce & Economics from Andhra University.
 Certified Anti Money laundering Specialist from Association of Certified Anti Money laundering Specialist
(ACAMS)
Personal Details
Date of Birth : July 16
th
, 1980
Nationality : Indian
Marital Status : Married
Lakshman Rao Sadhanala

7.  Received "Top Performer Awards" for the month of August and October 2007.
 Ensured that all files and procedure manuals were in place and contained no customer information,
during the Internal Control Department review of Card Services.
 Ensured that all files and procedure manuals were in place and contained no customer information,
during the Internal Control Department review of Card services;
 Planned & organized Rewards and Recognition functions on various occasions within the section and
has utilized the allocated section budget effectively.
Education
 Bachelor of Commerce & Economics from Andhra University.
 Certified Anti Money laundering Specialist from Association of Certified Anti Money laundering Specialist
(ACAMS)
Personal Details
Date of Birth : July 16
th
, 1980
Nationality : Indian
Marital Status : Married
Lakshman Rao Sadhanala