Nikhil Mahesh

At Amazon Development Centre, I lead end-to-end investigations into complex transaction monitoring alerts across international and domestic payment activity. I draft SARs, CTRs, and STRs across US, EU, UK, and Indian jurisdictions covering typologies from terrorist financing to account takeover and phishing.

I've spent more than five years investigating high-risk customer and merchant behavior across global marketplaces, including the US, UK, Brazil, Canada, EU, Australia, Singapore, and India. My work identifies red flags such as structuring, mule activity, rapid fund movement, invoice recycling, fraud, and high-risk geographic signals.

I improve detection through rule-trigger optimization, SQL, risk mining, and false-positive reduction initiatives. I also mentor new hires, lead cross-skilling across payment products and geographies, and developed a negative-news screening template for the Brazil marketplace.