Due Diligence Associate – Screening & Investigations / Adverse Media / Negative News

3+ years of relevant experience in Financial Crimes, Screening & Investigations, Adverse/Negative News Screening, KYC, AML, Due Diligence, Compliance, Sanctions Screening, or a related risk management function.

University degree in Business, Finance, Commerce, Risk Management, or a related discipline.

Experience conducting research, analyzing complex information, and documenting investigation findings and risk-based decisions.

Key Job Responsibilities ;

- Conduct Adverse/Negative News screening and investigations on customers, entities, and related parties to identify potential financial crime, regulatory, legal, or reputational risks.
- Review and analyze screening alerts and research results from multiple internal and external sources to determine whether adverse information is relevant to the subject under review.
- Perform name-match analysis using available identifiers and contextual information to distinguish relevant matches from false positives or insufficient matches.
- Analyze adverse news information to evaluate its relevance, credibility, recency, severity, and potential financial crime or reputational risk in accordance with established procedures.
- Conduct additional research using appropriate public and internal sources to validate information and support investigation outcomes.
- Identify potential risk indicators associated with areas such as money laundering, fraud, corruption, bribery, sanctions, terrorism financing,



organized crime, regulatory violations, and other financial crime-related activities, as applicable to established screening procedures.
- Determine and document appropriate case dispositions based on available evidence, established decision criteria, policies, and procedures.
- Prepare explicit, concise, and well-supported investigation summaries and disposition rationales, ensuring sufficient evidence is captured to support the decision.
- Escalate confirmed or potentially significant adverse news findings and other identified risks to the appropriate teams or stakeholders in accordance with established escalation requirements.
- Maintain complete and accurate case documentation and adhere to applicable BSA/AML, financial crimes, screening, and internal compliance requirements.
- Effectively manage assigned workload and meet established quality, productivity, turnaround time, and SLA expectations.
- Collaborate with peers, quality teams, subject matter experts, managers, and other stakeholders to resolve complex cases and interpretation questions.
- Identify recurring issues, process gaps, or emerging risk themes and escalate observations to appropriate stakeholders.
- Support process improvements, procedure updates, knowledge-sharing sessions, training, and coaching activities as required.
- Provide guidance and support to less-experienced team members and contribute to maintaining consistent investigation and disposition standards across the team.

📌 Sanction Screening (Bangalore Metropolitan Area)
🏢 Artech
📍 Bangalore Metropolitan Area