Aleesha Ghaffar
Senior Consultant
An ICA AML Advanced Certificate Financial Crime SME with extensive knowledge in Sanctions, List management and Payments.
Aleesha's expertise lies in List management, Pep, Name and Payment Screening. Fircosoft Utilities and Payment types such as IS020022, MX/MT.Aleesha has worked as a senior analyst within financial crime for 6 years with an additional 2 years’ experience in project and stakeholder management.
Experience in working for Tier 1 Banks:
- Setting up screening filter configuration settings, thresholds and impact assessments.
- Effectiveness and Efficiency testing in Fircosoft.
- Performed Customer and Payments Screening Health Checks to review the Filter effectiveness and provide observations and recommendations.
- Creating and testing complex rules to reduce false positive alerts for Sanctions Screening in Fircosoft.
- Conduct independent deep dive reviews and assessments to determine root cause(s), assess control environment, escalate issues, and identify/monitor remedial actions to mitigate against the risk of future losses.
