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Arun Kumar G

Arun Kumar G

Summary

Strategic and detail-oriented Risk & Compliance Specialist with 14 years of experience in control testing, issue verification, regulatory compliance, and operations management in global financial institutions. Adept at managing risk remediation programs, leading audits, designing testing frameworks, and building automated dashboards to track and report risk exposure. Recognized for building strong stakeholder relationships and driving high-quality governance across first and second lines of defense.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Control Management Specialist

Wells Fargo International Solutions Pvt Ltd
11.2022 - Current

Roles and responsibilities:

  • Diligently verify critical risk/high risk/regulatory issue remediation efforts through meticulous examination, ensuring all aspects are thoroughly scrutinized for accuracy and completeness.
  • Strategically devise and implement detailed testing approaches to evaluate the effectiveness of both the conceptual design and practical implementation of issue remediation plans.
  • Execute comprehensive control tests as an essential component of the issue verification process, evaluating the functionality and integrity of established controls to maintain organizational resilience.
  • Provide expert mentorship and support to junior testers, cultivating a collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement. Facilitate in-depth discussions on observations and insights, empowering team members to refine their skills and deliver high-quality workpapers that meet industry standards.
  • Prepared informative and interactive PowerBI based dashboards to manage team assignments, calculate resource requirements on a periodic basis.

Sr. Issues Management Analyst

Mr. Cooper
05.2021 - 11.2022

Roles and responsibilities:

  • Managing control activities within operations by validating issues and root causes to ensure appropriate remediation plans are in place.
  • Assessing adequacy of internal controls, documentation, process and procedures intended to ensure compliant operations.
  • Ensuring consistency of issues Management process, change of Law and data driven testing processes, level of details and quality testing and reporting methodology as it relates to ensuring issues have been remediated.
  • Reviewing issues opened by internal and external third parties (Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae etc.,) with respect to the designated business units examine documentation and preparing closing packet to summarize test results, risk ratings, process patterns and practices for closure.
  • Conducting special audits by performing sample testing to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the remediation activity conducted by the business.
  • Carefully articulating response to audit queries in partnership with business leaders.
  • Periodically review and update policies, procedures and process flow diagrams and obtaining relevant approvals prior to publishing.
  • Mr. Cooper, formerly Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc. provides servicing and originations for homeowners throughout the United States and is one of the largest mortgage servicers in the United States with a servicing portfolio of approximately $500 billion and more than 3 million customers.

Senior Specialist

Ocwen Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd
03.2013 - 04.2021

Roles and responsibilities:

  • Identify gaps which includes process opportunities and discuss with respective BU's and working on action plan, remediation and updating the policy procedure in defined tool.
  • Manage Risk identified process which includes discussing or tracking of issues and advising right remediation. Issues are being monitored through risk tool where BU's worked on action plan and remediation. Follow up timely on remediation risk items.
  • Manage project initiatives to investigate potential financial loss of non-compliance, resolve control gaps and improve risk management exposures.
  • Manage validation/testing process to monitor servicing operations practices to ensure they comply with applicable federal/state laws, government agencies, investor rules and internal policies.
  • Tracking and validation of process opportunities received from various sources (internal Audits, external bodies etc.
  • Timely revisit to the documents governing the process & enhancing them with updated procedures, practices & regulations applicable and well versed with regulatory testing requirements and practices.
  • Engaging in coordination with the routine business unit testing and assessment efforts with other Ocwen line of defense or control units.
  • Work with various business unit and clients for representatives and process owners to review and fix process.
  • Ensuring effective communication between Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit and other third line of defense enterprise organizations and first line business units to effectively address audit related issues.
  • Well versed with US regulatory requirements like HPA etc.
  • Prepare periodic reports and track program progress and status of testing.
  • Building control reports for BU's based on the requirements by using tool SQL and automation of the report with the help of BIS team.
  • Ocwen Financial Corporation is a servicer of residential and commercial mortgage loans, special servicing and asset management services. Ocwen is licensed to service mortgage loans in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and two U.S. territories. Ocwen has been servicing residential mortgage loans since 1988 and subprime mortgage loans since 1994.

Process Associate

Magna InfoTech Pvt. Ltd
12.2012 - 03.2013

Roles and responsibilities:

  • Analysis of Residential Loans having PMI.
  • Analyzing, Reconciling and Processing monthly, annually Premiums.
  • Generating, analyzing and forwarding Monthly Defaults Reports to Different MI Companies.
  • Magna InfoTech Pvt. Ltd joined as contract employee deputed to Ocwen Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Associate

First Advantage offshore Service Pvt. Ltd
06.2011 - 07.2012

Roles and responsibilities:

  • Collating candidate's complete documents from the concerned departments.
  • Detailed cross verification of candidates details i.e. Education, Previous Employment, Address, Civil and Criminal offence.
  • Interaction with concerned departments for further clarifications if any.
  • Preparation of Candidate 's comprehensive report and sending the same to the respective clients via email.
  • Team SME (Subject matter Expert).
  • First Advantage, a talent acquisition solutions provider, offers companies around the globe solutions to improve their decision making and process for talent acquisition across the employment continuum. First Advantage supports thousands of clients globally, including hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies.

Education

Master of Business Administration - Finance

Sikkim Manipal University
Bangalore
12.2019

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting

Bangalore University
Bangalore
12.2012

Skills

  • Microsoft Office
  • Issues Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Control Testing
  • Compliance Testing
  • Risk Management
  • Issue Validation
  • Risk Assessment
  • Root cause Analysis (5 why's)
  • Power Bi

Accomplishments

  • Received the Champion award from Senior management Risk and Compliance in 2021 for clearing all aged findings at Mr. Cooper.
  • Received spot award for fixing the process gaps in 2019.

Languages

Kannada
English
Hindi

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Guru raja Rao A
  • Date of Birth: 1991-02-12

Skill Sets

  • Microsoft Office
  • Certification in Advance Excel
  • Certification in (VBA) Visual Basic Application, Macros
  • Issues Management, Control Testing and Risk Management
  • Root cause Analysis (5 Why's)
  • Structured Query Language (SQL) Oracle database
  • Power Bi

Hobbies and Interests

  • Listening to Music
  • Dance
  • Cricket

Timeline

Sr. Control Management Specialist

Wells Fargo International Solutions Pvt Ltd
11.2022 - Current

Sr. Issues Management Analyst

Mr. Cooper
05.2021 - 11.2022

Senior Specialist

Ocwen Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd
03.2013 - 04.2021

Process Associate

Magna InfoTech Pvt. Ltd
12.2012 - 03.2013

Associate

First Advantage offshore Service Pvt. Ltd
06.2011 - 07.2012

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting

Bangalore University

Master of Business Administration - Finance

Sikkim Manipal University
Arun Kumar G