About us
Founder and Director
Dr. Giridhar Kannan (Giri) is the Founder and Director at AML SureCheck. In his 20 years of financial crime industry experience across geographies, Giri has held varied roles as a first line banker, compliance regulator (in India) and most recently as a financial crime internal auditor with a big 4 Australian bank.
His significant experience and exposure across all three lines of defence, made him evolve as a subject matter expert in AML/CTF program, Governance, assurance, audit & independent reviews, risk assessments, policy reviews, enforcement proceedings, data analytics amongst others. Some of his notable achievements include identifying and helping businesses fix gaps in key financial crime risks (as an auditor), identifying, and investigating multiple financial crime & fraudulent market practices worth approx. A$80 million (as regulator).
Giri’s Ph.D. (from India) opened doors for him to be part of the academia over the past 10 years. Currently, he is an adjunct faculty at University of Sydney teaching “International Financial Crime” for business school students. He also holds Advanced CAMS – Audit certification which is the global gold standard in AML certifications.
Giri is also a volunteer in the industry mentorship program at Griffith University helping student(s) navigate their entry into the corporate world. Giri has a passion for travel and goes on long drives with his family but as a routine enjoys his early morning walk in his neighbourhood.
Principal Consultant
Tariq Islam holds nearly 20 years of experience in risk management, compliance, and internal audits across financial services, professional services, and the defence sector.
Tariq has spent more than 10 years in delivering AML/CTF projects through remediation and independent reviews during his role as Executive Manager at both CBA and Westpac Banking Corporation.
He began his FC industry career at PwC and worked on assisting the AML/CTF remediation for Tabcorp. He was also a part of the independent review team in multiple review and has conducted a wide range of AML/CTF-focused internal audits coverage (e.g. Update to ML/TF Risk Assessment, TMP, SMR, CDD).
Our Mission
At AML SureCheck, we are on a mission to help businesses check adherence to AML/CTF program compliance through independent reviews and Management consulting.
Our Brand
AML SureCheck got conceived from the founder's mission of helping businesses ‘Check’ (examine the accuracy, quality or detect) adherence of AML/CTF program compliance and be ‘Sure’ (without any doubt) of our independent reviews or advisory.
Our Core Operating Principles
- Tailored & risk based independent reviews per businesses existing AML/CTF Program
- Reports meeting applicable assurance standards
- No consultancy services for reporting entities where we performed independent reviews to avoid potential or perceived conflict of interest