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Debarun Sengupta

Bengaluru

Summary

Risk Professional with 13 years of experience in managing Non Financial Risk and Financial Crime Operations.

  • Strengthened the organisational compliance posture by leading end-to-end Risk and Control Assessments (RCA), determining severity rating and assessing the overall health of control environment to ensure risk is managed within the set appetite.
  • Drove optimisation opportunities engaging Stakeholders across regions to simplify risk and control footprint.
  • Executed rigorous testing of Controls and Monitoring Assessments to identify gaps and partnered with stakeholders to drive timely remediation.
  • Directed Senior Governance meetings, providing executive-level reporting on risk and control environment and the status of remediation efforts.
  • Successfully navigated complex stakeholder landscapes across the Three Lines of Defence to address assurance and audit findings and ensure business-owned risk and controls met all NFR standards.
  • Expert in the end-to-end lifecycle of Issue and Event Management, undertake thematic reviews and track remediation till closure.
  • Played a pivotal role in the adoption of GenAI tools in compliance including UAT testings and governance discussions.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Control Manager, Global Chief Control Office, FC Investigations

HSBC Group Management Services - STA
12.2024 - Current
  • Collaborated with FC Investigation control owners to drive control excellence through rigorous review of monitoring assesments, identifying gaps and challenge control wordings to ensure alignment to framework.
  • Review and manage Issues and Events. Perform thematic reviews.
  • Liaise with 2LOD to address review and challenges and track remediation.
  • Present paper to the FC Exco forum on the trend analysis and current health of risk and control environment.

Assistant Vice President, Global Chief Control Office, Risk and Compliance

HSBC HDPI
Bengaluru
06.2023 - Current
  • Advise Risk owners on the execution of Inherent and Residual risk assessments, providing data-driven insights to calibrate risk severity and evaluate the maturity of internal control environments.
  • Review and monitor Control Continuous monitoring plans to ensure Design effectiveness and Operating effectiveness are done timely and meet required quality.
  • Deliver trainings to 1LOD on risk management approach and promote healthy risk culture.
  • Liaise with 2LOD and 3LOD to address audit and assurance findings and track remediations.
  • Support monitoring of Risk Appetite thresholds alongside 2LOD.
  • Ensuring Data Quality exceptions are managed in a timely manner.
  • Aggregation and reporting of data for governance meetings for Global Risk and Compliance RCMMs, EXCO and NFRM board.
  • Manage and track issues and events owned by the Function.
  • Sampling of function owned issues on a monthly basis to check if quality standards are met. Undertake Issue Review and Read Across activity.
  • Oversee Employee Compliance activities such as PADs, OT and TA attestations.
  • Preparation of MI reports for trend analysis and delta changes using Qlik dashboards.

Control Manager, Global Chief Control Office, Resilience Risk

HSBC Group Management Services - STA
05.2024 - 03.2025
  • Perform Risk assessments for Resilience Data risks for Global Risk and Compliance.
  • Review and monitor control continuous monitoring plans to ensure Design and Operating effectiveness are done timely and meet quality.
  • Support and drive risk taxonomy and control library changes, optimisation opportunities engaging all regions within the function.
  • Providing updates in key governance data forums like Exco, RCMM governance meetings.
  • Undertake Issue Management, Issue thematic reviews.
  • Transition and annual refresh of Global Trade Surveillance process map into ARIS.

Manager, HSBC UK Chief Control Office, Risk and Compliance

HSBC HDPI
Bengaluru
08.2021 - 05.2023
  • Support HBUK Risk Owners to undertake risk Assessments and manage risks in Helios.
  • Support HBUK Control Owners to manage controls in Helios. Challenge controls descriptions and monitoring rationales, suggest optimisation opportunities to maintain quality control environment.
  • Support HBUK Control Owners to manage, obtain approvals for changes to SOX and ELC controls. Obtain half yearly Internal SOX certification.
  • Monitor control Assessments and continuous monitoring plans to confirm the controls are upto date and fit for purpose.
  • Governance and management of Issue and Actions in Helios. Undertake Issue Read Across, Issue Enrichment and Review process to ensure quality standards are met.
  • Monitor Data Quality Exceptions in a timely manner to drive high quality standards across the Function.
  • Follow ups on pending and incomplete certifications relating to Employee Compliance aspects like GPAD, OT and TA activities.
  • Providing updates in governance forums such as RCMMs, UK Compliance Opco etc.
  • Produce minutes and track Actions.
  • Records Management and classification. Annual attestation and Data Retention schedules as per the guidance.
  • Produce MI reports using Helios, Qliksense dashboards.

Production Quality Control, HBEU, KYCs

HSBC HDPI
Kolkata
06.2017 - 07.2021
  • Audit the client KYC profiles to ensure timely completions meeting the required quality standards.
  • Address queries of Relationship Manager and Client Managers.
  • Ensuring accurate and timely reporting of SAR escalations to Financial Compliance Teams.

Analyst, HBEU, KYCs

HSBC HDPI
Kolkata
04.2016 - 06.2017
  • Perform Customer due diligence (KYC) in the On-boarding team in line with KYC AML policies and procedures.
  • Perform EDD reviews on complex types such as TRUSTs ; SPVs ; Correspondent Banks ; Funds etc.
  • Work closely with Tax Record Team to ensure proper Tax Classification w.r.t. to FATCA AND CRS procedures for new onboardings.
  • Perform Name Screening against SDN and OFAC lists. Sanctions & Name-search screenings for negative news conducted through business tools. Review the possible alerts and escalations of True alerts to compliance.

Relationship Manager

Religare Securities Limited
Kolkata
09.2015 - 03.2016
  • Acquire HNI client relationships and maximise portfolio opportunities.
  • Conduct comprehensive review of client portfolios, including meeting with clients and advisors to assess strategies based on investments, identify opportunities, and prepare customised asset allocation suggestions.

Client Officer

Axis Bank Ltd
Kolkata
07.2013 - 02.2015
  • Perform daily branch banking operations efficiently.
  • Build and maintain the CASA portfolios through acquisition of new relationships and providing quality customer service.
  • Suggest strategies to enhance customer experience.

Education

Bachelors - Information Technology

West Bengal University of Technology
West Bengal, India

Skills

  • Governance and Reporting
  • Control Management
  • Risk Assessments
  • Microsoft Office
  • Data Dashboards
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Problem Solving

Languages

English
Proficient
C2

Timeline

Control Manager, Global Chief Control Office, FC Investigations

HSBC Group Management Services - STA
12.2024 - Current

Control Manager, Global Chief Control Office, Resilience Risk

HSBC Group Management Services - STA
05.2024 - 03.2025

Assistant Vice President, Global Chief Control Office, Risk and Compliance

HSBC HDPI
06.2023 - Current

Manager, HSBC UK Chief Control Office, Risk and Compliance

HSBC HDPI
08.2021 - 05.2023

Production Quality Control, HBEU, KYCs

HSBC HDPI
06.2017 - 07.2021

Analyst, HBEU, KYCs

HSBC HDPI
04.2016 - 06.2017

Relationship Manager

Religare Securities Limited
09.2015 - 03.2016

Client Officer

Axis Bank Ltd
07.2013 - 02.2015

Bachelors - Information Technology

West Bengal University of Technology
Debarun Sengupta