Akshay Singh

• Manage process completion by following up on requests from risk management professionals, consultants, and assisting client team.
• Coordinate with global partner risk management to prioritize and plan personal independence audit schedules, including defining objectives, identifying data sources, understanding processes, and analyzing related risks.
• Lead multiple assignments on weekly, monthly, and half-yearly bases, applying judgment to initial consultations or submission reviews.
• Study key compliance requirements of firm and regulatory risk management rules and policies.
• Act liaison between client teams, other risk management team members, and various functional areas within firm.
• Develop and complete various risk-based, operational, and compliance audit programs under minimal supervision of global partner of risk management.
• Manage tasks and activities promptly, being responsible for specific outcomes, and utilizing analytical and project management methodologies and tools.
• Developed network within risk management and across firm, applying judgment to initial consultations and/or submission reviews.
• Refer to existing policies but propose solutions to issues through situation-specific inquiries and research due to frequency of unique situations.
• Take responsibility for overall project management and project delivery to engagement teams.
• Audit financial portfolio of auditors, including managers, executive directors, and partners.
• Developed strong relationships with clients, resulting in increased trust and repeat business engagements

• Develop and maintain project plans, collaborating with local compliance officers to ensure accurate and timely regulatory filings, ad-hoc inquiries, and other projects.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, adhering to core project management processes and procedures within the team while upholding high quality and consistency.
• Define and articulate project scope, milestones, and dates with minimal oversight.
• Ensure efficient and effective project delivery through project meetings, follow-ups, detailed scheduling/planning efforts, risk and issue identification, and production of quality project artifacts.
• Cultivate and sustain effective working relationships within the compliance department and with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide support to the global compliance department on various projects and initiatives as requested.
• Assist with cross-team initiatives for the global compliance department.
• Monitor emails of credit rating professionals for thematic reviews and conduct post-trade monitoring to identify policy violations.
• Conduct investigation interviews as a member of the investigation review committee, alongside senior legal and compliance members.
• Deliver compliance training sessions as part of new hire orientation.

Audit the financial portfolios of auditors, including managers, executive directors, and partners.

• Conduct research on securities using various internal and external tools such as Thompson One, Morningstar, and Bloomberg.
• Analyze financial, business, and personal relationships of engagement teams.
• Assess risks associated with engagements involving audit clients.
• Analyze independence of engagement teams worldwide in accordance with EY global independence policy.
• Perform insightful business and market research using leading resources like D&B, Factiva, Bloomberg, Capital IQ, Audit Analytics, and BoardEx to support EY teams with necessary information for market growth and new audit client/engagement acceptances.
• Conduct extensive research on Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and Global Stock Exchanges to gather information on clients, affiliates, officers & directors, substantial stockholders, mergers, and acquisitions.
• Review SEC filings such as 10k, S-1, F-1, 20F to extract required information for submission to PCAOB.
• Serve as subject matter expert on various QRM policies and act as primary contact for customer teams.
• Perform research on EY internal databases (GFIS, PACE, GWL, GIS) to identify any business relationships, financial/family relationships, and litigation/conflict matters involving client, its affiliates, officers & directors, and substantial stockholders

• Manage purchase, sale, rental, or development of properties.
• Monitor real estate income and expenditure, including collecting payments.
• Determine rental income and negotiate lease agreements.
• Authorize expenditure for maintenance, repair, equipment, and supplies.
• Negotiate contracts with vendors, suppliers, and contractors.
• Supervise maintenance workers, cleaning crews, contractors, and groundskeepers.
• Keep property owners informed on taxes, occupancy rates, and lease expiration dates.
• Address complaints from residents and tenants.
• Prepare financial statements and records.
• Provide regular reports to real estate owners and investors.

• Deliver excellent customer service in friendly and courteous manner consistently.
• Possess comprehensive knowledge of banking products and services to address customer inquiries effectively.
• Enhance customers' banking experience by promptly attending to their needs and resolving challenges efficiently.
• Strictly adhere to all bank policies, procedures, code of conduct, and regulatory guidelines in daily tasks.
• Inform and recommend new banking products to customers based on their needs.
• Provide account status updates and account balance information to customers.
• Follow established rules and guidelines to open new bank accounts.
• Propose effective strategies to promote bank products/services and increase customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with staff in other bank departments through positive interactions to provide assistance.
• Participate in marketing and awareness campaigns to expand customer base.
• Foster and maintain positive relationship with customers, addressing inquiries promptly and resolving issues for maximum satisfaction.
• Safeguard customers' confidential information and ensure it's used only for official purposes.
• Assist in conducting financial and marketing transactions as needed.
• Redirect complex customer complaints and challenges to appropriate channels for resolution.