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Interview Graduate

Accounting & Business

Ummay Kawthar Bengah, 25
Mauritius
Studied Financial Risk
Management/Banking and Finance
at Sunway University
Currently employed by HSBC
Bank, Mauritius

Tell us about your job scope and key
responsibilities in your company.
To note, it’s only my ?rst year of working. I am in the
operations department. My job basically consists of
processing entries and doing compliance jobs. As entries, I
re-activate and close accounts of corporate clients, process
their tax payments, loan repayments, credit card repayments,
amongst others. I carry out searches and check whether
accounts were/are held by suspicious individuals and
entities on different databases of the bank and report to
the compliance department which eventually responds to
queries from both local and international ?nancial regulatory
bodies. So my responsibilities are basically to be very careful in
reporting my found searches and to make sure that all entries
have been correctly processed.

Tell us about your typical working day.
My work is more or less, routine. For the ?rst half of the day,
I concentrate on my compliance tasks and reply to queries, if
any, whilst for the other half, I process entries. I must admit
it is a race against time especially in the second half, where
a lot of departments send their entries to be processed. It is
very challenging especially at the end of the month, given
that we have cut-off times.

How well did your undergraduate course prepare
you for your real working life?
Admittedly, I believe that a degree is a passport to enter
the working world. I am de?nitely not applying what I
have learnt. I am only mastering the system, processes
and procedures of the bank. But, I fully believe that the
knowledge acquired will be fruitful later on, in my career,
once I manage to get to the higher positions.

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How different is the real working world
compared to your expectation during your
undergraduate years?
I studied Financial Risk Management/Banking and Finance.
I was hoping to get a job in the risk department during my
university years. Hence, for me, I was hoping to really apply
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