Brijesh Handa
AML and Crypto/VASP compliance analyst
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AML and Crypto/VASP compliance analyst with over 4 years of experience (including 3.5+ years dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain-related AML), analysing transactions, dispositioning alerts, and conducting KYC/EDD across derivatives, funds, and virtual asset service provider (VASP) portfolios. Skilled in blockchain analysis tools (Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM Labs) and identifying crypto-specific typologies such as mixers, chain-hopping, and ransomware payments. Experienced in mentoring junior analysts and seeking to bring this expertise to a team oversight role in AML/crypto compliance.
Experience
Senior Analyst - ECLERX - PUNE, IN
(2025-10)
- Conducting end to end KYC and onboarding for financial products including derivatives, funds, and virtual asset service provider (VASP)/crypto clients.
- Conducting AML/CFT processes and alert dispositioning across crypto and traditional financial products, using blockchain analysis tools (Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM Labs) to trace on-chain activity and identify typologies such as mixers, chain-hopping, and ransomware payments.
- Pioneered standardized documentation checklist that was adopted company-wide, reducing incomplete application submissions.
- Streamlined the KYC documentation process by implementing a digital on boarding system, reducing manual errors and improving client satisfaction scores.
- Trained and mentored new hires on KYC procedures and compliance standards, enhancing team productivity and knowledge retention.
- Assisted in the review and verification of customer documentation, achieving a 95% accuracy rate and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Supported senior analysts in conducting end to end KYC on clients.
- Ensuring appropriate regulatory requirements should be adhered to.
Senior Associate; Associate - GENPACT - GURUGRAM, IN
(2022-06 - 2025-10)
- Conducting transaction monitoring and alert analysis on a cryptocurrency exchange platform, understanding counterparty/wallet risk and satisfying AML/CFT requirements for virtual asset transactions
- Conduct KYC details, customer due diligence, Enhance due diligence on High-Risk Customers and Political Exposed Persons.
- Reviewed transactions and alert activities for money laundering activities, identifying red flags and escalating within AML framework for further investigation.
- Managing queues of alerted crypto cases and escalation for risk review, covering typologies such as scams, dark net markets, mixers/tumblers, chain-hopping, ransomware payments, gambling, and terrorist financing, using Chainalysis, Elliptic, and TRM Labs for on-chain tracing.
- Perform research and articulated findings in a precise and concise manner.
- Finding the information of the user from the open search domain.
- Finding the negative media of the user to ascertain the risk and exposure
- Analysing information from open search media
- Gathering information from the internal databases
- Assessment of the risk appetite of the user
- Report the findings and making the decisions
- Proficiency in SAR filing and documentation (SAR Filing FIU’s such as – AUSTRAC - Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre; FINTRAC - Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre; NCA – National Crime Agency; TRACFIN – The Treatment of Intelligence and action against clandestine financial circuits; SEBPLAC - Intelligence processing and action against clandestine financial circuits)
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - D.A.V. COLLEGE AMRITSAR (Guru Nanak Dev University) (2019)
AISSCE - Commerce - D.A.V. Public School, LAWRENCE ROAD (AMRITSAR) (2016)
