Prateek Sarkar

Financial Crime Analyst with 3 years of experience across banking, consulting, and fintech environments specializing in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Transaction Monitoring, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), Sanctions Screening, PEP Screening, Adverse Media Screening, and Fraud Investigations. Proven ability to identify suspicious financial activity, perform risk-based investigations, and support regulatory compliance while consistently achieving quality and SLA targets. Currently strengthening analytical capabilities through SQL, Power BI, Python, Data Analytics, Prompt Engineering, and AI Automation to combine financial crime expertise with data-driven decision making.

Seeking a long-term opportunity to contribute to Financial Crime Compliance and Risk Analytics.

Data Annotator (Freelancing) at Innodata (2026 – Present)

• Annotate financial crime and AML datasets to improve AI model performance for transaction monitoring and sanctions screening.
• Validate structured and unstructured data to enhance model accuracy while reducing false positives.

Senior Analyst – AML / KYC at NatWest Group (2024 – 2025)

• Conducted end-to-end financial crime investigations involving KYC/CDD reviews, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), customer risk assessment, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, PEP/adverse media checks, fraud detection, and regulatory compliance.
• Performed risk-based analysis of customer profiles, transactional behaviour, source of funds/wealth, beneficial ownership, and cross-border activities to identify money laundering typologies and financial crime risks.
• Prepared comprehensive investigation reports and SAR/STR recommendation narratives, documenting findings and escalating high-risk cases while consistently exceeding quality and SLA targets.

AML Analyst at EY (2024 – 2024)

• Conducted end-to-end AML investigations involving customer due diligence, sanctions screening, enhanced due diligence, transaction analysis, and customer risk assessments for global financial institutions.
• Assessed customer profiles, ownership structures, source of wealth, and sanctions exposure to identify regulatory risks and ensure compliance with AML/CFT requirements.
• Prepared investigation documentation, regulatory findings, and audit-ready case files supporting compliance and remediation activities.

Associate Analyst - AML at AML Right-Source (2023 – 2023)

• Investigated transaction monitoring alerts by analysing customer behaviour, transaction patterns, UBO structures, source of funds, and financial crime typologies including structuring, layering, and mule activity.
• Conducted KYC/CDD reviews, sanctions screening, adverse media screening, fraud detection, and enhanced due diligence to support end-to-end investigations.
• Produced detailed investigation narratives and escalation recommendations supporting SAR/STR reporting and regulatory compliance.

Process Associate – AML Support at Genpact (2022 – 2022)

• Conducted KYC/CDD reviews, customer onboarding, periodic reviews, and customer risk assessments using a risk-based approach.
• Performed sanctions screening, PEP screening, adverse media reviews, document verification, and beneficial ownership analysis to identify high-risk customer relationships.
• Supported AML investigations through transaction review, fraud detection, regulatory documentation, and compliance monitoring.

Master of Business Administration in Finance – IMS Noida

Bachelor of Engineering – CSVTU, Chhattisgarh