Suraj Parihar
Senior Compliance Analyst at Transak- Claim this Profile
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Julieta Medina
I was impressed with the work Suraj did at Transak. He is a fast learner and is very talented. During the time we worked together he showed a bias for action and ownership every day, excelling in completing various tasks with minimal guidance. I recommend Suraj to any company that is looking for a Risk professional able to raise the bar and push forward on a daily basis.
Praveen Kumar
Suraj is an inspiring leader who encourages and instills confidence in his team. He has got very good skill in Fraud investigation and identifying new fraud typologies. He is working with me in Transak and have seen him grown from an associate level to Team Lead position. I strongly recommend him.
Julieta Medina
I was impressed with the work Suraj did at Transak. He is a fast learner and is very talented. During the time we worked together he showed a bias for action and ownership every day, excelling in completing various tasks with minimal guidance. I recommend Suraj to any company that is looking for a Risk professional able to raise the bar and push forward on a daily basis.
Praveen Kumar
Suraj is an inspiring leader who encourages and instills confidence in his team. He has got very good skill in Fraud investigation and identifying new fraud typologies. He is working with me in Transak and have seen him grown from an associate level to Team Lead position. I strongly recommend him.
Julieta Medina
I was impressed with the work Suraj did at Transak. He is a fast learner and is very talented. During the time we worked together he showed a bias for action and ownership every day, excelling in completing various tasks with minimal guidance. I recommend Suraj to any company that is looking for a Risk professional able to raise the bar and push forward on a daily basis.
Praveen Kumar
Suraj is an inspiring leader who encourages and instills confidence in his team. He has got very good skill in Fraud investigation and identifying new fraud typologies. He is working with me in Transak and have seen him grown from an associate level to Team Lead position. I strongly recommend him.
Julieta Medina
I was impressed with the work Suraj did at Transak. He is a fast learner and is very talented. During the time we worked together he showed a bias for action and ownership every day, excelling in completing various tasks with minimal guidance. I recommend Suraj to any company that is looking for a Risk professional able to raise the bar and push forward on a daily basis.
Praveen Kumar
Suraj is an inspiring leader who encourages and instills confidence in his team. He has got very good skill in Fraud investigation and identifying new fraud typologies. He is working with me in Transak and have seen him grown from an associate level to Team Lead position. I strongly recommend him.
Credentials
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Chainalysis Reactor Certification
Chainalysis Inc.May, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Siddharth Menon Teaches Cryptocurrency
unlu®Dec, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Introduction to Anti-Corruption
UNODCJun, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Understanding Transnational Organized Crime
UNODCMay, 2020- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Transak
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United States
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Compliance Analyst
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Dec 2022 - Present
• Investigate and prepare SARs for filing with the NCA and other FIUs;• Responsible for execution of ongoing monitoring process for Anti-Money Laundering(AML)• Investigate complex cases, typologies and transaction alerts for cryptos on blockchain using chainalysis• Conducting risk assessments, periodic/trigger reviews and enhanced due diligence for potentially high-risk client • Supporting the MLRO, BSA Officer and Deputy MLRO with the approval of high risk partner and transactions;• Being point of contact and provide compliance assistance to first line analysts in relation to defined processes;• Ensuring other ad-hoc tasks, depending on the development of the regulatory framework and department’s activities; Show less
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Team Lead
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Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Transak is a developer integration for a fiat-to-crypto payment gateway. This solves the important problem of allowing mainstream people and businesses to access crypto and blockchain.• Responsible for managing entire transaction monitoring team within risk operations• Working with the compliance & operations team to develop strategy and roadmap for improving our in-house built risk engine for minimizing fraud.• Developed risk metrics to measure current performance for default rate (fraud loss), chargeback, (CTS/FTS), team performance, risk engine performance.• Timely initiation of follow-up actions including SAR filing to MLRO, targeted review (PEP & sanctions) & EDD process.• Investigating chargeback disputes and taking action according to Visa & Mastercard rules.• Trend analysis on fraud pattern/trends & accordingly develop risk rules & implement within risk engine and sardine (risk tool) to flag these high-risk fraud alerts.• Closely worked on carrying out several high priority investigations related to crypto-transactions payments fraud ( CC-DC , Modulr (Bank transfer (SEPA)) , & internal compliance fraud.• Developed risk ops KPI’s to ensure to track, measure, report, and evaluate team performance.• Coached team members periodically on metrics as well as career aspirations Show less
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Senior Risk Analyst
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Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
• Daily basis monitoring and reviewing of crypto-transactions, business partner and individual profiles in order to identify unusual and suspicious activity.• Investigating & representing chargeback and taking action according to Visa & Mastercard rules. • Identify and analyze alerts generated by the screening system in order to identify politically related individuals, entities involved in financial crime, as well as sanctioned or terrorism-related entities.• Partner onboarding by conducting KYB’s (Know your Business) for new partners for API integration which help partners to use our crypto onramp services in the Defi space.• Establishing partner's risk ranking depending on partner's bussiness type, ownership and background history.• Comply with rules and regulations, including without limitation, AML and OFAC/Sanctions requirements all internal policies, procedures and guidelines.• Knowledge in AML/KYC, Sanctions, PEPs & Sanctions screening & EDD• Training new & existing team members for updating the knowledge gap and handling the queries. Show less
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noon
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Netherlands
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Risk Analyst
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Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
• Detect, analyze and mitigate fraudulent transactions on Noon's ( UAE , KSA & Egypt ) marketplace. • Dealing with fraud and Risk associated with the payment ecosystem . •Investigating accounts / transactions and make decisions regarding their validity based on available tools like SIFT & Cybersource . • Monitoring real time queues and identifying high risk transaction and proactively taking action to improve efficiency and reducing time to new fraud Modus Operandi. • Maintaining Service Level Agreement for optimum customer experience. • Performing analysis on a large dataset to get the trend of defects in the relative performance of payment health on daily basis. • Deep diving, conducting root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions on fraud pattern/trend . Show less
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Paytm Payments Bank
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India
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Fraud and Risk Analyst .
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Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
• Investigation of fraud cases involving Paytm bank / Wallet accounts. • Monitoring of transactions / accounts and identification of suspicious activities. • Providing support to all Banks across the nation for real-time fraud cases . • Handling Wallet , Debit/Credit Card , NB & UPI fraud cases reported by Banking Authorities , Law Enforcement Agencies and Customers . • Handling financial fraud i.e ( ATO , DTO ,CTO ,Transfer money fraud , Phishing , Vishing , Sim swap , Identity fraud etc. ) & ensuring protection of genuine accounts. • Monitoring of suspicious Paytm wallets / bank account and fraud PG/Wallet/Offline merchant by analyzing the volume of amount/count of the transaction. • Coordinating with merchants regarding risk involved transactions . • Managing all sorts of escalations ( Grievance , Nodal Officer , Banking Ombudsman , RBI , Legal Team etc ) • Preparing Root cause analysis / Investigating report writing . • Ensure confidentiality of all information collected during investigation . • Part of online platform named - STOP BANKING FRAUD / Urgent Fraud ( Paytm ) - with an initiative to prevent the rise of online fraud with the help of LEA & the leading banks in case of real time unauthorized transactions . • knowledge of AML frameworks, OFAC, CDD, EDD, KYC, regulatory compliance along with comprehensive understanding of FATF Recommendations and RBI regulations. Show less
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Education
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2014 - 2017
Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University
Bachelor of Science - BS, PCM
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