Sagar MG

• Evaluated effectiveness of current risk management processes and identified opportunities for improvement.
• Analyzed existing policies, procedures and processes for potential areas of risk exposure.
• Identified areas in need of improvement with regard to compliance with internal controls.
• Trained and developed employees in effort to contribute to overall professional growth.

• Entrusted with the responsibility of executing control testing and validation activities for the Commercial Banking LOB; designed and executed tests to validate the identified controls for Design and Operating Effectiveness.

• Working with the control managers and corresponding control testers to ensure that all control testing is completed on a regular basis with no discrepancies

• Engaged in root cause analysis; performed tests to validate corrective actions taken by LOB to remediate deficiencies identified in other reviews.

• Control testing was carried out by conducting walkthrough meetings with stakeholders, and evaluating the effectiveness of the control performance.

• Communicated potential drawbacks and findings to the business partners, and recommended corrective actions for a quick resolution.

• Identified process inefficiencies and proposed solutions to improve process flow.

• Conceptualized templates using advanced tools for control documentation for process improvement; appreciated by the control managers.

• Engaged in Controls alignment across LOBs for efficient controls testing; create similar test steps and discussion of issues/findings identified.

• Delivered multiple projects within timelines and as per quality standards that involved multiple stakeholders.

• Assisting the VP with control testing planning and scoping.

• Independently working and supervising multiple clients with 3-4 staff members and managing close to 4,000 hours of work per annum.
• Primarily involved in reviewing and supervising the work done by Staffs and working on complex areas and also handling the administrative work such as reaching out to local teams to involve in additional procedures where GDS can assists, creating B2A trackers and being part of the set meetings etc.

• Performance and review of substantive procedures in line with International Accounting Standard (IAS), International Financial Reporting System (IFRS) for Banking & Capital Markets .

• Prepare lead sheets and compare the results with trial balance

• Document walkthroughs through MS Visio and MS Excel.

• Performed an independent walkthrough and test of the controls, and led the Step One and Step Two meetings with the onshore teams and client, respectively.

• Lead the multiple audit assignments simultaneously Lead training on various technical topics and provide engagement/client specific training

• Identifying the operational risk and analysis of the process

• Performing control testing in accordance with SOX Act 2002 Review of Loan files – Verifying the supporting documents, Calculation of Financial Ratios.

• Involved in Compliance Testing in the HUD and USAP sector where we executed 80% of the work from GDS.