Manas Ranjan Patnaik
Raygada
Summary
Solutions-focused, meticulous, and result-oriented MBA professional with a career in the IT Risk and Compliance industry with good knowledge and experience in the field of Third Party Risk Management. Looking for opportunities where my skills can be utilized to the best of my potential and thereby be an asset to the organization.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Intern, Product/CoE (Payments)
Bajaj Finance Limited
Pune
04.2024 - 05.2024
- Strategically recommended enhancements for the Bajaj Finserv app to enhance user experience and acquisition.
- Benchmarked against 8+ competitors, analyzed user behaviour with CleverTap, to identify 15+ improvement opportunities. Focused on enhancement of UPI, PPI and BBPS and other essential features.
Associate, Cyber Risk and Regulatory (TPRM)
PwC SDC
Kolkata
08.2022 - 05.2023
- Performed third-party cyber risk assessment based on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework for over 200+ vendors across diversified fields of service.
- Conducted ongoing third-party cyber risk assessments to identify and evaluate complex business and technology risks related to third parties.
- Performed design and operating effectiveness tests of vendors' internal controls.
- Provided periodic status updates including potential risks and delays to project managers and clients.
- Assisted vendors in developing third-party risk management programs, including risk assessment process flows, questionnaires, and reports.
- Analyzed risks, potential impacts, and detailed control gaps based on risk assessments.
- Performed due diligence and vendor interactions to understand various implementation strategies and processes.
- Mentored new joiners about TPRM practice end-to-end to ensure team efficiency improvement.
Intern, Cybersecurity Risk & Regulatory (TPRM)
PwC SDC
Kolkata
03.2022 - 08.2022
- Trained on the information security domain and its control objectives.
- Assessed 7+ vendors of varied levels of risk.
- Attained good understanding of product-level and enterprise-level risk.
- Focused on leveraging evidences to perform control testing on vendor security controls.
Education
MBA - Data Science & Data Analytics
SYMBIOSIS CENTRE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Pune03-2025
B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
GANDHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Visakhapatnam04-2022
Skills
ISO 27001
PCI DSS
NIST SP 800
Due diligence
Control Testing
Risk Assessment
Data analysis
SQL
Python
Accomplishments
- Best Student Award, Symbiosis Centre of Information Technology, 2025.
- Merit Scholarship Awardee, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Visakhapatnam, 2022.
- Young Achiever Award, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Visakhapatnam, 2022.
Affiliations
- Single Point of Contact of Institutional Social Responsibility committee at the Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology, Pune, 2024.
Publications
- Comparative Study of Stock Prices: The Co-Movements of Sectoral Models of Index Market in India, IEEE, 2024
Timeline
Intern, Product/CoE (Payments)
Bajaj Finance Limited
04.2024 - 05.2024
Associate, Cyber Risk and Regulatory (TPRM)
PwC SDC
08.2022 - 05.2023
Intern, Cybersecurity Risk & Regulatory (TPRM)
PwC SDC
03.2022 - 08.2022
MBA - Data Science & Data Analytics
SYMBIOSIS CENTRE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
GANDHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
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