Ambika Mehra
Pune
Summary
With over 10 years of experience in Legal Operations, Contract lifecycle management and Corporate Compliance, I am acting Compliance specialist within Accenture Data and Artificial intelligence Compliance program. Active participation to support in the development, implementation and monitoring of its global compliance programs by ensuring Global compliance operations, leading the Legal and Regulatory development process, ensuring stakeholder management and managing the Quality management processes for ensuring that AI solutions and Data governance practices are properly designed, developed, implemented, and used in accordance with Accenture internal Policies, Standards and good practices. Self-directed and driven Transition/Project Management professional with comprehensive background leading risk mitigation project, compliance solutions and Change Management, Legal writing and content management, managing E-GRC tool to ensure Legal Clause Analysis, Contract abstraction, Legal Research, Customer Vetting and due diligence, redrafting of financial ISDA agreements, Content management, Risk Management, Supervision of Legal and compliance AI models and Regulatory mapping.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Compliance Specialist
Accenture Pvt Ltd.
Pune
01.2023 - Current
- Part of the core Compliance team within Accenture’s new global Data & Artificial Intelligence compliance program
- I have been part of this program since the inception and supporting in building this compliance program to ensure Accenture meets contractual obligations, legal and regulatory requirements as well as voluntary commitments made in the fields of data governance and applied (artificial) intelligence, with a strong focus on bringing Accenture’s values and culture to life
- Support in designing and building, in a phased approach, a comprehensive compliance program aligned to Accenture’s framework of compliance, reflecting leading industry practice
- Part of a global and diverse team of dedicated experts in Data governance and Artificial intelligence
- Leading the New legal and regulatory development process to ensure Accenture meets contractual obligations, legal and regulatory requirements as well as voluntary commitments made in the fields of data governance and applied (artificial) intelligence, with a strong focus on bringing Accenture’s values and culture to life
- Identified and map the relevant current and future legal, regulatory and policy requirements as well as voluntary commitments and industry best practices, and translate them into Accenture policy, standards and controls
- Support in developing the tools and concepts for, and to conduct, reviews and assessments, with a focus on high-risk ones, to ensure ongoing compliance
- Closely work with risk, information security and other teams to build and run the program, supporting our risk and quality management as well as post market monitoring, each as relevant for the scope of the program
- Support client facing work such as client assessments and contracts
- Partner and interact with key business stakeholders and senior individuals across Accenture, to ensure data and AI compliance issues are considered at the outset of new services, offerings, projects, products and initiatives
- Keep abreast of technology trends and developments and their impact, and develop guidance, training and thought leadership for internal audiences
- Build and maintain strong and trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders, in particular with legal and business teams, and interaction with clients, as needed
- Effectively work with a team of legal professionals and business teams in remote locations, providing advice and guidance in an engaged, business focused and pragmatic manner
Compliance Manager
Legasis Private Limited
Pune
06.2022 - 12.2022
- A subject matter expert with the combination of Legal and Compliance in Domestic and international law
- Having expertise in Compliance solution implementation for clients on various statutory compliance matters, framing and conducting internal compliance framework for them.
- Preparation of comprehensive Regulatory mapping of statutory compliances applicable to clients
- Assist clients in a broad range of compliance and dispute resolution matters including internal investigations, anti-corruption, due diligence, corporate compliance and risk minimization strategies
- Played pivotal role in various IT enabled legal solutions to support Due Diligence, Contract Management, Compliance Management and Litigation Management
- First hand interactions and physical client visits to corporate offices, branch offices, manufacturing units, warehouses etc and designing of structure for Compliance Solution
- Prepared and reviewed audit reports for non-compliances and provided elaborate reasoning and a legal basis for each observation
- Conducted GAP analysis and compliance training sessions for several clients
Data Scientist
Wolters Kluwer
Pune
11.2019 - 06.2022
- Working as a legal and technical support role to create and enhance Legal tools through Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and NLP
- Acting prominently in Content management, Rule modeling, Legal Research, and classify or categorize Taxonomy updates
- As a part of governance, risk, and compliance team, to work on configuration, maintenance, and support of portfolio of Legal AI models and related products to provide expertise in Legal and risk compliance
- As a part of Content management team, focus is on Legal Rule modeling through NLP tagging in AI model using Lexis, Reg change and CLM and to ensure regulatory changes are correctly applied to the Legal Tool so the customers do not face compliance issues and meet their SLA’s
- The other part of my profile was to work on AI model Releases, QA testing of tool, and feature enhancement of Tool to make the AI workable for end-users and increase UI performance and to create and track metrics for various models
- Work on model delivery to Production deployment team and coordinate model platforms deployment
- Working in the enhancements and development of content ingestion through Machine learning, and NLP by supporting Developer to create new API for work automation
Knowledge Specialist
Infosys BPM
Pune
06.2019 - 10.2019
- Working on a pilot project which relates to review and abstraction of commercial contracts like Lease and License Agreement, Master Lease Agreement, Rent Agreements, and their subordinated agreements for a telecommunication company
- Also liaising with IT Team for enhancement of contract management tool to automate abstraction of key clauses
- Analyze and review commercial legal contracts for abstraction of key clauses
- Seek additional documents from client’s legal team to sensitize tool with all key clauses
- Perform quality checks of contract and their related documents in accordance with project guidelines
- Tracking quality for the QC’ed work to generate weekly/monthly individual/team accuracy reports and sharing the same with the client
- Maintain database of contracts and supporting documents to develop statistical models to train Contract management tool
Business Venture
Jhansi
08.2017 - 04.2019
- Company Overview: Started a business venture relating to Organic Dairy
- Our company goes by the name - Tatya Milk Works Private Limited
- Our company provides organic milk and ghee to consumers
- Prepared legal documentation related to incorporation of company in ROC
- Manage vendor contracts, their payments, and receipts
- Responsible for compliance with FSSAI rules and regulations
- Helped with annual balance sheet filing in ROC
- Started a business venture relating to Organic Dairy
- Our company goes by the name - Tatya Milk Works Private Limited
- Our company provides organic milk and ghee to consumers
Sr. Associate
Thomson Reuters (Now EY)
Mumbai and Pune
11.2012 - 08.2017
- Developed and implemented core processes for CLM including contract tree structure, repositories framework, project playbooks, process roadmap
- Coached, mentored and trained team members in order to improve their job performance
- Worked on various document review platforms (Relativity, Xerox)
- Prepared MBR and QBR decks for internal and external stakeholders Collaborated with other departments to ensure timely completion of projects within budget constraint
- Managed and reviewed contract management for various products such as ISDA, PB, REPO and LDO with different counterparties, prepared training materials on digitization of agreements and data capture of key clauses on the system, trained resources and drafted terms related to regulatory regulation, 871m protocol for counterparties
- Administers modifications to reduce implementation risk, as directed, and works to ensure compliance, risk and control documentation and notification of all appropriate representatives and regulators
- Maintaining legal repository and updating statutory compliance tracker
- Conducting Compliance reviews to ensure the counterparties adherence to laws, rules, and regulations as per the Company’s Agreement
- Vetting of the counterparties, negotiators, and authorized signatories to ensure end to end drafting cycle of an amendment is covered
Education
B.A. LLB. - Law
ILS Law Collegw
Pune05-2012
Skills
- Regulatory Compliance expert
- Regulatory Compliance Adherence
- Compliance Monitoring and Oversight
- Compliance protocols
- Responsible AI
- Data Governance
- Legal Solutions expert
- Contract specialist
- Contract Negotiations
- Due Diligence
- Data Scientist Expert
- Regulatory understanding
- Legal Research
- Regulatory knowledge
- Training delivery
- Legal Operations Support
- Research proficiency
Certification
Artificial Intelligence Governance Professionals certification by IAPP 2024
Six Sigma White Belt Training Program 2012
Awards
- Employee of the Year Award, 2016, Thomson Reuters
- Quarterly Award, Accenture Responsible Artificial Intelligence Program
Timeline
Compliance Specialist
Accenture Pvt Ltd.
01.2023 - Current
Compliance Manager
Legasis Private Limited
06.2022 - 12.2022
Data Scientist
Wolters Kluwer
11.2019 - 06.2022
Knowledge Specialist
Infosys BPM
06.2019 - 10.2019
Business Venture
08.2017 - 04.2019
Sr. Associate
Thomson Reuters (Now EY)
11.2012 - 08.2017
B.A. LLB. - Law
ILS Law Collegw
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