Senior AML/KYC Professional | Financial Crime Compliance | Risk Identification and Mitigation | 4.5+ Years across APAC, MENA, UK, Australia, UAE & Nordic
- APAC
- MENA
- UK
- UAE
- Nordic
- Australia
- 4.5+
- Years in financial crime compliance
- 6
- Regulatory regions covered
- 98%+
- QC accuracy rate
I've spent the last 4.5+ years in the thick of financial crime compliance — investigating complex money laundering typologies, building quality frameworks, and working across some of the world's most varied regulatory environments. What keeps me going isn't just catching the bad guys — it's finding smarter, cleaner ways to do it. I believe compliance professionals who understand technology have a real edge, and I've made it a point to be one of them.
Piyush Sharma
Senior AML/KYC Professional · Builder at heart
At my current organisation, I identified a recurring bottleneck — analysts were spending significant time manually copying client data from the CRM across multiple fields into EDD and SAR templates. It was tedious, error-prone, and entirely solvable.
I designed and deployed an automation pipeline using Microsoft Power Automate to systematically capture all relevant client data and documents from the CRM. This was then fed into a custom Microsoft Copilot agent I built, which extracted structured key-value pairs — lifetime funding, withdrawals, age, occupation, nationality, residence, and more — and populated the EDD/SAR template automatically.
The result: average handling time dropped by approximately 50%, measured against manual AHT benchmarks, with a near-zero error rate. The tool was rolled out to a select group during the initial hyper-care period.
{
"lifetime_funding": ████████,
"withdrawals": █████████████,
"age": ███████████,
"occupation": █████████,
"nationality": ██████████████,
"residence": ████████████
// …and more
}
✓ EDD/SAR template populated
The Pipeline
- 01
CRM
Client data & documents
- 02
Power Automate
Systematic capture flow
- 03
Copilot Agent
Key-value extraction
- 04
EDD / SAR
Template auto-populated
0%
Faster
Average handling time cut vs. manual AHT benchmarks
≈0
Near-Zero Errors
Structured extraction replaced manual copy-paste
PA + AI
Power Automate + Copilot AI
CRM capture pipeline feeding a custom Copilot agent
Every role built on the last — from reading transactions, to shaping the process, to owning quality on the most complex cases.
- 01 · The Entry Point
Transaction Processing Representative / Analyst
Where it started — learning to read the story behind the transactions.
- Transaction monitoring across alert queues
- AML investigations and escalations
- Built the foundation in typologies and red flags
- Star performer
- 02 · The OptimiserCurrent
Process Developer
Moved from prcessing the cases to being a part of it.
- Transaction Monitoring for a big 4 Australian Bank
- Analyzing AML typologies based on client's transactional behaviour along with any potential CSE activity
- SAR/SMR/TTR and Disclosure reporting to Austrac
- Report automation via macros
Regional Exposure
- Australia
- 03 · The DependableCurrent
Senior KYC Analyst & QC Reviewer
Complex cases, quality ownership, and bringing new analysts up to speed.
- Complex EDD / NOB investigations
- Quality control reviewer with a 98%+ accuracy rate
- Mentored 1–3 new analysts per batch
- Escalating unresolved high-risk cases to CEO, Chief Risk Officer, and AMLRO for relationship retention or termination decisions
Regional Exposure
- APAC
- MENA
- UK
- UAE
- Nordic
- MER
- AML
- KYC
- CDD/EDD
- SAR
- KYB
- Transaction Monitoring
- Quality Control
- Process Development
- Microsoft Copilot
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- Advanced Excel
- KX
- FinScan
- Crypto Asset Investigations
- Correspondent Banking
- Cash-Intensive Businesses
- Beneficial Ownership
- Regulatory Compliance
- Risk Management
- SMR/TTR/IFTI Reporting
- Red Flag Detection
- AML Typologies
- Adverse Media Screening
- Audit Readiness
- PEP/Sanctions Screening
A selection of complex investigations — details shared on request.
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