About

Astha Mehta is a finance professional with over 6 years of experience in financial analysis, investment valuation, anti-money laundering, client on-boarding, KYC, client due diligence, and financial technology. She is a certified FRM and CFA Level 1, with a keen interest in SQL, VBA, and excel modeling. Astha's expertise lies in business valuation and regulatory compliance, and she has strong analytical and interpersonal skills. She has worked with high net worth customers, evaluating KYC requirements for a population of over 3,500 clients, consistent with customer risk rating. She has also assessed customer documentation for completeness and authenticity to facilitate customer onboarding and ensure client identity is not fraudulent. Astha has experience liaising with clients, investors, and client operations teams to communicate customer onboarding processes and requirements and follow up with requests for information to obtain any missing documents or information. She has performed enhanced customer due diligence (ECDD) and conducted research on clients, including corporate clients such as private companies, public companies, holding companies, and trusts. In her previous roles at Scotiabank and Deloitte, Astha has investigated customers and associated parties for Office of Foreign Assets and Control (OFAC) sanctions, Lexis/Nexis, and other application adverse media and negative news. She has identified and dispositioned false positive alerts and identified cases/customer relationships with sanctions or politically exposed persons (PEP) to ensure assignment of appropriate risk rating. Astha has analyzed transactions to identify unusual or suspicious account activities and has checked for source of wealth information (SoW) information and corroboration for compliance with regulatory client policies. She has also risk identified potential risks with customer screening, transaction activity, and SoW corroboration, prepared risk assessment reports, and documented case narratives. Astha holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Banking and Financial Services from t.a.pai management institute and an Engineer’s Degree in Civil Engineering from JSS. She has a tech stack that includes SQL and research scientist and has relevant experience of 7.85 years. Currently, she works as a Capital Markets Consultant at First Derivatives.