Shreya Vura

Financial Risk, Compliance & Analytics professional with 3+ years across AML investigations, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, KYC/CDD/EDD, and risk and compliance analytics at Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PhonePe. Turns large transaction and customer datasets into decision insight using SQL, Advanced Excel, Power BI, and Tableau, delivering KPI reporting, trend and variance analysis, executive dashboards, and operational-metrics reporting for leadership. Applies BSA, AML, OFAC, FinCEN, and RBI frameworks to detect financial crime and strengthen controls and uses AI-assisted analysis with Microsoft Copilot to accelerate reviews and reporting.

Partners with Compliance, Risk Analytics, Fraud Operations, Finance, and Internal Audit to reduce operational risk, improve reporting efficiency, and support audits and regulatory examinations.

Financial Risk & Compliance Data Analyst at Bank Of America (2026-06 – Present)

• Led financial risk and regulatory compliance analytics across retail banking, customer onboarding, and payment operations using SQL, Tableau, Excel, and GRC platforms, strengthening adherence to BSA, AML, OFAC, and FinCEN requirements and reducing operational risk exposure by 15% for Compliance and Risk stakeholders.
• Conducted 220+ high-risk AML investigations per month at 99% investigation quality and full SLA compliance by analyzing transaction behavior, customer profiles, sanctions hits, and adverse media in Actimize, LexisNexis, and enterprise case management platforms.
• Cut manual case-preparation time by 20+ hours per month and lifted investigator productivity 18% by implementing an AI-assisted alert-prioritization and case-summarization workflow using Microsoft Copilot and enterprise-approved AI capabilities.
• Improved transaction-monitoring effectiveness 15% by partnering with Compliance, Financial Crime, Risk Analytics, Fraud Operations, Internal Audit, and Technology teams to validate monitoring scenarios, close control gaps, and tune financial-crime detection models.
• Evaluated 450+ KYC, CDD, EDD, and beneficial-ownership reviews per month for high-risk customers to support risk-based decisioning, periodic reviews, and regulatory compliance across multiple banking products.
• Reduced reporting preparation time 30% by building executive compliance dashboards and regulatory reporting in SQL, Excel, Tableau, and GRC platforms to track investigation trends, operational KPIs, and compliance metrics.
• Achieved 100% audit readiness and on-time regulatory submissions by preparing SAR case packages, investigation evidence, and root-cause analyses for internal audits, regulatory examinations, and control testing.

Financial Crimes Administrator at Wells Fargo (2023-08 – 2025-04)

• Resolved 1,100+ AML and sanctions alerts while consistently exceeding SLA targets by reviewing customer transactions, cross-border payments, and account activity in NICE Actimize, FircoSoft, Refinitiv World-Check, and LexisNexis.
• Improved regulatory data completeness 18% during enterprise remediation by executing KYC remediation, Enhanced Due Diligence, beneficial-ownership verification, and customer risk classification across 650+ high-risk profiles.
• Reduced unnecessary alert volumes 16% while maintaining detection effectiveness by identifying recurring false-positive trends and partnering with AML model-governance teams to optimize transaction-monitoring rules.
• Screened customers and payments for financial-crime exposure before onboarding and processing by performing sanctions screening, OFAC validation, PEP screening, and adverse-media reviews in FircoSoft and World-Check.
• Supported complex financial-crime case resolution and escalation decisions by collaborating with Fraud Operations, Global Sanctions, Compliance Testing, Legal, and Business Operations teams on enterprise risk mitigation.
• Reduced manual reporting effort 25% while supporting internal audits and regulatory examinations by producing investigation reports, audit evidence, and executive dashboards in SQL, Excel, and Power BI.

Compliance Analyst at PhonePe (2022-07 – 2023-07)

• Ensured RBI, AML, and internal-policy compliance for 2,000+ merchants by reviewing merchant onboarding, payment transactions, customer verification, and regulatory documentation across digital payment services.
• Achieved 98% operational quality and SLA attainment across 900+ compliance review cases by performing KYC verification, Customer Due Diligence, merchant risk assessments, and account validation.
• Escalated 120+ high-risk cases for financial-crime review by investigating suspicious payment activity, transaction anomalies, merchant behavior, and fraud indicators using transaction analytics and customer documentation.
• Improved compliance review turnaround 15% and strengthened internal controls by conducting compliance monitoring and regulatory control reviews across merchant onboarding and payment operations.
• Improved merchant onboarding efficiency 20% by partnering with Risk, Product, Operations, Customer Support, and Merchant Success teams to resolve compliance exceptions and support regulatory implementation initiatives.
• Reduced manual reporting effort 18% by preparing SQL-based compliance reports, exception logs, operational dashboards, and regulatory summaries in Excel for leadership to monitor payment risk and compliance KPIs.

Master of Management Studies – DUKE UNIVERSITY (2025-07 – 2026-05)

Bachelors – ICFAI FOUNDATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION (2020-06 – 2023-06)