PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of strong consulting background in Data governance, New product development, Operational risk management, Change management, Accounting, Program, Project, Risk, Financial Reengineering, Global Transitions, Internal Audit, finance and accounting, risk management, developing strategies, Offshore - onshore resourcing, Basel, Regulatory risk, Dodd frank, COSO,COBIT, regulatory, operations management, business analysis, financial modeling, accounting, variance analysis, SOX, compliance, data process mapping, costing, requirements gathering and in-depth knowledge of finance business processes.
• Focus areas include Operational Risk, Risk/compliance assessments, RCSA,GRC, Third - Party Assessments, skills assessments, Business Impact analysis (BIA), Vendor risk, Vendor management, Business process re-engineering
• Significant experience in program management, project management, Policies, procedures, control and ORM framework
• Strong regulatory and Basel PM with change management and CCAR, FRY14Q reporting projects
• Experience in driving profitability, consulting engagements, process improvements, simplification and compliance across the business and be a change agent. Managed integration and development of processes for business needs across the organization and supported long-term planning for overall business strategy
• Part of internal audit group conduct audit and preparing audit reports. Manage client engagement, RFPs, proposals
• Green Belt (GB) and Lean Ace certified. Black belt trained with experience in various process improvements quality projects driving productivity and business impacts. Also lead financial re-engineering projects, Data Mining & Analysis, and product integration concepts and methodologies
• Lead and manage data governance business team to drive issue resolution, risk identification and mitigation, change and dependency management to achieve group goals in accordance with Company policies and practices
• Managing cross functional global teams, developed and analyze business requirements; work with technical teams on functional specifications and reporting to senior leadership
• Enhance standard MRA’S and MRIA’s communication, tracking, and resolution processes
• Ensure the OCC overall and all lines of business individually analyze volume and trends in MRAs to determine whether risks are changing
• Create, manage and facilitate a Business Data Governance process to identify and understand critical data issues in terms of business impact/risk/opportunity, and drive issue resolution
• Identified and documented master data rules of engagement and uses; data integration and impact; metadata content and flows, and data quality requirements and standards to prevent problems and establish adherence with regulations
• Green belt and process improvement projects which resulted in improved efficiency, increased revenues and reduced man-hours .Automation of processes which resulted in reducing cost and saving time
• Projects which resulted in prevention of revenue leakage of $38.5 million per year
• End to End data / process mapping of all banking work streams (Commercial, Treasury, traded products, Retail ) identifying various sources of data and how it flows through various hops on Microsoft Visio and presented to CRO
• Lead various data quality projects on process improvements driving productivity and business impacts (Delivered $87MM of business Impacts projects in Jan-Jun ‘12)
• Managed multiple projects (40+) at a given point of time & manage huge diverse teams including vendor risk management
• Implementing Basel II and Basel III Impacts and Risk Assessments
• Managing a huge team and leading the Capital and risk transformation project for fed
• Reviewing all policies and procedures and methodology, Risk appetite (RCSA, ORM, BCM, TPRM)
• Establish governance framework to define policies, key processes
• Leading work streams in the capital and risk transformation
• Develop ORM metrics including RCSA, Issues Management, Risk Acceptances
• Develop reports for ORCC and ERMC meeting
• Research and record process breakdowns and act as a first line of defense for work streams ensuring compliance
• Proactively lead and support teams to identify and mitigate risk, within assigned area(s) of responsibility
• Develop and strengthen relationships with business partners and risk control functions
• Develop data management plan/strategy for the new product development (Plenti- Launch)
• Perform risk analysis and creation of ORM framework
• Develop change management plan, create vision for change, communicate need for change making change permanent
• Review COSO internal control requirements and conduct process excellence using six sigma/lean
• Reassess existing processes and create new ones that most effectively anticipate, manage and reduce risk
• Review all legal mandates
• Oversees investigations of all escalated OFAC/Global Sanctions cases

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Office, working knowledge of Oracle, Mainframe sessions, Macros and Minitab.
• Foxpro, Cognos, Oracle ERP,ORACLE,SQL Developer, Toad, Business objects, MS Office, MS VISIO,ICAM, Oracle, Cosmos, Support central workflows, Agile methodology, Clarity, Archer, Asset Liability Management (ALM),MS Project, Open pages, SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Regulatory and operational risk Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create the scope of the program and any changes handled through change management process
• Manager for data remediation project, creation of program structure, tracking updated and reporting, resource planning
• Create and manage a process to define data quality targets and business metrics for priority data sets. Set objectives and priorities collaboratively; and align business rules content with business leadership. Facilitate the decision-making process where needed.
• Establish and oversee the Enterprise Data Governance Council and Enterprise Data Working Group, including preparation and facilitation of all meetings
• Define and implement enterprise approaches for managing master data, reference data, metadata and data quality initiatives
• Leading the data tracing and data governance initiatives with all work streams( Commercial, Traded Products, Retail, Credit Risk, Pillar 2 ICAAP,CCAR)
• Lead the data governance day to day operations to deliver on information quality, standards and value, while working closely with other IT and business leaders
• Create a corrective action plan to address weaknesses, with specific accountability and responsibility assigned for timely follow-up
• Establishing contacts with various stakeholders and understanding reference data and its impact on the risk, costs, and capital of financial enterprises
• Oversee the implementation and use of data governance workflow, metadata, glossary and master data management tools.
• Lead the analysis of issues in the governance of enterprise data, including problem, opportunity and solution resolutions; define the prioritization of data governance projects and manage related tasks and activities to completion by collaborating with internal business owners, 3rd party vendors and clients
• Train and monitor employees to ensure delivery of quality program executions
• Ensure readiness for change across business by ensuring effectiveness of change management programs that will result in the early adoption of the new solution and business processes
• Handling multiple complex operations projects in all the work streams; responsible for overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of projects ensuring consistency with department strategy,
• Issue Management - Identify all issues and risk events and implement corrective action
• Manage creation of all process documents like SIPOC, RASCI, FMEA, SWIM LANES
• Manage internal & external audits, Sarbanes Oxley initiatives, and special projects, primarily financial reporting, accounting and IT
• Developing the audit approach, supervising the engagement team, and controlling the timing and quality of client deliverables in accordance with internal guidelines, tools and methodologies
• Created audit program design, audit budget development, audit report preparation and audit findings follow up presentation
• Lead project control team to develop a plan for execution of projects within time and budgetary parameters and optimising resource utilisation & Implementing controls to prevent revenue leakage
• Partner with technical/business leaders and staff to drive operational performance and act as champion for cost optimization, productivity, inventory accuracy and utilization

Process Excellence leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Apply expertise across the complete project lifecycle, lead project sessions such as estimation, requirements, scheduling/planning within an iterative development ( Agile) framework
• Maintain effective working relationships with senior leadership to seamlessly integrate the areas of focus into the overall strategic objectives and activities of the organization
• Worked as a business partner with operational team to evaluate/improve business processes and arrive at mutual cost-effective solutions