Siddhant Johannes

Siddhant Johannes is a highly experienced Financial Crimes Compliance Associate at BlackRock, specializing in the facilitation and audit of Financial Crimes Compliance as well as the implementation of Data Governance Strategy.

With an extensive 7-year background in the Financial Compliance industry, Siddhant's expertise includes BCBS 239 and FATCA Data Quality assessments, evaluating Data Management Maturity through the CMMI DMM framework, conducting Sanctions/Transaction screenings, Transaction Monitoring on Hadoop databases, Customer Due Diligence, KYC, AML risk rating, and Watchlist management.

Siddhant has contributed significantly to the field by publishing corporate white papers on Fraud prevention in the cloud and on Payments disruptors. Additionally, he won the prestigious CFA Research Challenge Asia Pacific in 2013.

His key competencies encompass a wide range of skills such as Business Analysis, SDLC, Audit methodology, Fraud Prevention, Regulatory Reporting, Anti Money Laundering (AML), Regulatory Sanctions, Customer Due Diligence, BCBS, and FATCA.

Siddhant Johannes pursued his education diligently, obtaining an SSC from La Martiniere for Boys in Kolkata, an MBA in Capital Markets from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, and a B.Sc. in Economics Honours with a specialization in Finance from St. Xavier's College.

Throughout his career, Siddhant has held various significant roles with esteemed organizations. He is currently an Associate in the Legal & Compliance - Financial Crime division at BlackRock. Previously, he served as a Lead Consultant in Financial Crimes & Data Governance Strategy, a Consultant in Financial Crimes, a Senior Associate Consultant, and an Associate Consultant at EY. He also gained valuable experience as an Interning Economist at Reliance Mutual Fund, a Volunteer at The Akanksha Foundation, and was a Student of MBA Capital Markets at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS).