Role capstone5-7 focused daysAdvanced
AML case workflow
Risk Management and Compliance portfolio artifact 3 of 5
Build
Model, memo, dashboard, notebook, or deck.
Explain
Clear assumptions, insight, and recommendation.
Show
Resume bullet and interview story.
What you are doing
Act as a junior Risk Management and Compliance analyst. Use public information to produce a decision-ready work product for a manager or interview panel.
Show that you can apply Risk modeling, Credit analysis, AML/KYC, Indian financial regulation, Statistics in a practical analyst workflow, not only explain the theory.
What to make
Risk Management and Compliance portfolio artifact 3 of 5
Deliverables
- Professional brief
- Financial model or analytical workbook
- Presentation deck
- Source log
- Interview talking points
- Source and assumption log
- One-page executive summary
- Final memo PDF
How to start
- Pick a borrower, issuer, or sector case.
- Collect financials, debt schedule, ratings, business profile, and management commentary.
- Define the lending/rating question and time horizon.
Step-by-step execution
- Analyze revenue quality, margins, leverage, coverage, liquidity, and working capital.
- Identify business, financial, management, and industry risks.
- Run base and stress cases for cash flow and debt servicing.
- Assign an internal risk view or rating direction.
- Write monitoring triggers and early warning signals.
Data and sources
- Public filings, official regulatory material, public datasets, company career/domain research, and a documented source log.
- Annual report
- Credit rating rationale
- RBI/SEBI filings where relevant
- Sector data
- Company news and lender disclosures
Tools to use
- Excel or Google Sheets
- Docs
- Slides
- Python
- Public filings
- Google Docs
- Excel
Quality rubric
- Clear problem statement and role context
- Source-backed assumptions
- Clean model, memo, notebook, or dashboard
- Decision recommendation with risks
- Resume bullet and interview talk track
Resume bullet
Built a Risk Management and Compliance capstone on aml case workflow using public sources, structured analysis, and a decision-ready output.
Interview talk track
- Problem: explain the business question and why it matters for Risk Management and Compliance.
- Method: describe the data collected, assumptions made, and analysis performed.
- Decision: state the recommendation, key risk, and what would change your view.
Linked skills
Credit analysisPrepare a credit memo with ratios, covenants, and rating driversStatisticsEstimate beta, volatility, correlations, and confidence intervalsRisk modelingCalculate VaR, expected shortfall, and stress losses for a portfolioIndian financial regulationMap one product or role to SEBI/RBI/NISM compliance obligationsAML/KYCDesign an AML/KYC risk scoring checklist and escalation workflow
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