We are looking for experienced professionals for a Due Diligence Screening & Investigations role with a primary focus on Adverse Media / Negative News Screening and Financial Crime Investigations.The role involves reviewing screening alerts, conducting detailed research on customers and entities, performing name-match analysis, identifying false positives, assessing financial crime and reputational risks, documenting investigation findings, and escalating significant adverse information.

Key Responsibilities

- Conduct Adverse Media / Negative News screening and investigations on customers, entities, and related parties.
- Review and investigate screening alerts using internal and external research sources.
- Perform name-match analysis using customer identifiers and contextual information.
- Identify and differentiate true matches, false positives, and insufficient matches.
- Assess adverse information for relevance, credibility, recency, severity, and potential risk.
- Identify risks related to money laundering, fraud, bribery, corruption, sanctions, terrorist financing, regulatory violations, and other financial crimes.
- Conduct additional research using public and internal sources to validate findings.




- Prepare clear and concise investigation summaries and case disposition rationales.
- Escalate significant or higher-risk findings as per established procedures.
- Maintain accurate case documentation and meet defined quality, productivity, turnaround-time, and SLA requirements.
- Collaborate with SMEs, quality teams, managers, and other stakeholders on complex investigations.

Required Skills

- Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience in AML, KYC, Financial Crime, Adverse Media Screening, Due Diligence, EDD, Screening & Investigations, Sanctions Screening, or Compliance.
- Hands-on experience in Adverse Media / Adverse News / Negative News Screening is highly preferred.
- Understanding of AML, KYC, BSA, EDD, sanctions, financial crime, and reputational risk.
- Experience in alert investigation, name matching, false-positive identification, risk assessment, and case disposition.
- Robust research, investigation, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.
- Strong written communication and investigation documentation skills.
- Ability to handle high-volume cases while meeting quality and SLA requirements.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

📌 Due Diligence Associate (Hyderabad)
🏢 Allegis Group
📍 Hyderabad