MEERAN WEJHI

Operations & Financial Crime Leader

Banking · Payments · KYC/AML · Digital Assets : 8+ years

I am Meeran, a Banking & Payments Operations and Financial Crime leader with 8+ years across cards, payments, loans, KYC/AML, and digital assets compliance.
Currently working as Senior Operations Manager at Rimee Ltd, owning end-to-end service and control delivery across 3 digital payment channels: building SOPs, risk thresholds, and real-time payment monitoring dashboards that reduced escalation response time by 40%.

Former Operations Manager – Cards, Payments & Loans at Amana Bank PLC, where I led a 25+ member operations and compliance team, drove a 15% increase in process efficiency, reduced avoidable errors by 17%, and earlier ran KYC/CDD onboarding for 500+ customers/year at 98% accuracy with zero internal audit findings.
I graduated with an MBA from London Metropolitan University and also hold a BBA (Hons) in Business Administration.

Operations Leadership
Operating model designProcess re-engineeringSLA managementCross-functional governanceContinuous improvement
Banking & Payments
Card & payment opsLoan servicingTransaction monitoringChargebacks & disputesReconciliation & settlement
Risk & Compliance
AML/CFTKYC/CDD/EDDSanctions & PEP screeningFraud preventionAudit readinessVASP due diligenceFATF Travel Rule
Tools
JiraZendeskIntercomCompass CDDwithPersonaAmana eKYCOffice 365Google Workspace
Languages
English (C1)Sinhala (C1)Tamil (C1)German (A1)
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