Amar Wadhwa

Associate Consultant

Pune, Maharashtra, India19 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led a team of 150+ consultants in Risk and Compliance.
20 years of experience in Financial Crime System implementations.
Key role in creating Agile/Scrum and AML CoEs.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Financial Crime and Compliance expert with extensive experience in IT consulting.

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Skills

Core Skills

Domain ConsultingNew Business Development

Other Skills

Practice DevelopmentAgentic AIFinancial CrimePractice headAMLComplianceNetRevealRequirements AnalysisSDLCBusiness AnalysisSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Project ManagementAgile MethodologiesUnix Shell ScriptingSolution Architecture

About

• Built and Led the Anti-financial crime and compliance practice/CoE at Capgemini Invent. • 20 years of experience in IT Consulting in Financial Crime System implementations – across AML – Transaction Monitoring, CTF/PEP/Sanctions, KYC/CDD(Customer Due Diligence), Fraud, FATCA, CRS compliance domains. • Includes over 4 years of onsite experience in Australia/NZ region. • Diverse Experience of working with Banking and Financial institutions across the Globe. • People Leader - Led a team of 150+ Consultants in Risk and Compliance Space, grew overall team to 800+. Part of the Foundation Leadership team at Invent. • Key Role in creating Agile/Scrum, Business Analyst and AML CoEs in Invent India. • Responsible for developing Business and Capability in Financial Crime and Compliance domain and supporting related RFP/RFI/RFx Proposals and Responses. • Hands-on experience on leading Product solutions like NetReveal and Actimize. • Managing Operations and Delivery, along with maintaining key client relationships.

Experience

Infosys

Principal Consultant

Dec 2025 – Present · 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Domain ConsultingPractice Development

Capgemini invent

3 roles

Director

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

New Business Development

Program Manager

Apr 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Senior Manager

Apr 2019 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs

Leading the Next Gen Compliance work-stream in DRR (Data, Risk and Regulatory) practice. Responsible for Delivery assurance and optimization along with managing a talented bunch of people.

Capgemini

Manager

Feb 2018 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune Area, India

Working with Risk and Compliance CoE to further strengthen the expertise in Risk, Financial Crime and Compliance Domain.

Infosys

3 roles

Senior Consultant

Jul 2017 – Feb 2018 · 7 mos

Working as a Consultant in AML/CTF/FATCA/CRS/Sanctions Risk and Compliance Domain.

Technology Lead

Promoted

Oct 2011 – Jul 2017 · 5 yrs 9 mos

Application development (NetReveal/Detica (Norkom), Actimize, Unix, Oracle SQL), maintenance and production support, includes 2 years of onsite experience in Australia and 2 years of onsite experience in New Zealand. Worked with Banking and Financial institutions throughout my career.

Technology Analyst

Aug 2006 – Sep 2011 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Worked in Application development, maintainance and production support environment. Have 2 years onsite experience (Australia).
Strong banking domain knowledge. Worked in various roles and capacities both at offshore(Pune, India) and onsite (Australia).

Suncorp (via infosys ltd)

Software Engineer

Nov 2006 – Apr 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Brisbane, Australia

Worked in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
Was involved in Design, development, maintainence and production support of the Applications. Handled Release Mangement and Onsite-Offshore Coordination and other Stakeholder Management activities.