Swetha Thakur

Highly motivated and dynamic professional holding close to 9 years of rich experience in Stakeholder and Quality Management with zeal to thrive in a fast paced results oriented business environment. Demonstrate continuous efforts to improve operations, streamline work processes and work cooperatively to provide quality seamless customer service. Mapping stakeholder requirement and providing customized, viable and cost effective solutions in liaison with cross functional activities.

Key Skills

MS Office Tools
Pega & Fenergo Framework tools
Client And Stakeholder Relationship Management
Managing Stakeholder Expectations
People Management
Training, Coaching & Mentoring
Communication skills
Communications To Stakeholders

Professional Experience

Feb 2018
Present
Client Due Diligence Officer
HSBC Bangalore Urban, IN
HSBC Bank India, is an Indian subsidiary of UK-based HSBC Holdings plc mainly in to Wealth and Personal Banking, Commercial Banking, Global Banking & Markets.
Responsible for communication between client and global relationship managers to collect data & documents to fulfil bank wide client due diligence requirements.
Responsible for workforce and workload management.
Responsible for bringing continuous standardization and simplification to process to remove non value added steps.
Adhering to service level agreements and metric requirements at all times.
Responsible to provide solutions raised by peers and other functions.
Responsible for handling the team of 5 members, conducting daily meetings, providing feedbacks on their performance, quality check on the emails to customer and assisting on calls with customer regarding the documentation.
CMG is the single point of contact for all KYC related activities for both internal and external clients.
Responsibility for the gathering of information required to complete Customer Due Diligence (CDD) activities via direct client contact, in the context of Renewal and Remediation driven activities for the assigned global sectors.
Ensure all CDD requests and activities that impact and involve Coverage are resolved within agreed timeframes, that the request and work-flow pipeline is optimized, priorities identified early and issues escalated accordingly.
Develop a detailed understanding of the CDD functions, system, process, policies and procedures in order to advise the Coverage and Clients. Own the resolution of client and business escalations, effectively managing stakeholder expectation at all times.
Performing audit checks through all sector clients, also identify errors and ensure remediation completed without backlog.

Jul 2016
Feb 2018
Testing & Monitoring Analyst (CDD-QA
ANZ Banking Group Ltd Bangalore Urban, IN
The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, commonly called ANZ, is an Australian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
 
Working for KYC Operation New Zealand (CDD-QA). Quality Check of the requests submitted by the banker. 
100% review of all the entity types opened by branch and business bankers for accurate documentation. 
Ensure in performing due diligence of all required processing steps and check parameters defined in the process. 
Flexibility towards business requirement and assisting co-workers. 
Meet all the Productivity and Accuracy targets defined for the process. 
Ensure that all customer requests are completed timely by adhering to procedures and guidelines. 
Responsible to ensure the on boarding or renewals completed on time even for adhoc priority requests. 

Oct 2012
Aug 2016
KYC Specialist
JP Morgan Chase & Co Bangalore Urban, IN
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City. JPMorgan Chase is incorporated in Delaware
Working for KYC Operations (Business Banking QA) function under Consumer and Community Banking. Quality check of the accounts processed by peers in details for all the queues.
100% review of all business accounts opened by branch and business bankers for accurate documentation and account opening requirements.
Meet all the Productivity and Accuracy targets defined for the process.
Ensure in performing due diligence of all required processing steps and check parameters defined in the process.
Flexibility towards business requirement and assisting co-workers.
Ensure that all customer requests are completed timely by adhering to procedures and guidelines.
Ensure all exceptions or deviations are escalated to management on timely basis.

Dec 2009
Sep 2012
Senior Transaction Processing Officer
Mphasis Bangalore Urban, IN
Mphasis Limited is an IT services company based in Bangalore, India. The company provides infrastructure technology and applications outsourcing services.
 
Worked in Payment Services line of Business taking care of the work-flow customer requests. 
The Quality metric threshold was 99.95% and as an operational processer, I have always met my target threshold numbers in Quality, Productivity and Product knowledge tests. 
Took over as a client certified SME (Subject Matter Expert) in Dec 2010. 
As a SME, I was given a small team to handle in terms of their metrics. 
The work-flow team has never missed the quality metrics of 99.95% till date. 
In fact, the quality was 100% for the last 5 months (May to Sep 2012). 
Mentored couples of trainees, due to proper monitoring and training, both have delivered good performance in quality and productivity in the last 6 months. 
Attending weekly Client review calls and ability to manage client calls in the manager’s absence. 
Preparing Daily/weekly/monthly Reports 
Queue management: Making sure the SLA is met with break management capability. 
Conducting weekly Refresher with respect to product knowledge and recent client updates. 
Doing Quality Check on accounts that has been processed by Associates. 

Conducting Product knowledge Test every Month 

Education

May 2004
May 2007
Bachelors Degree in BRB College of Commerce
Gulbarga University
May 2001
Jun 2004
Pre-University in Vishwarayanarayana Junior College
Board Of Intermediate Education

Achievements

2019
Spot Award
Awarded for exceptional work and decision making skills. 
2020
Quarter Award
Awarded for completing highest number of profiles and managing the reports apart from normal BAU.
2018
Star Performer
 Awarded as “Star Performer” for handling highest number of Relationship Managers and meeting the target and achieving their appreciation 

Languages

Hindi
(Native)
Kannada
(Fluent)
Telugu
(Fluent)
English
(Fluent)

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