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Sangeetha VK

Business Risk & Compliance
Chennai

Summary

BUSINESS RISK MANAGEMENT & Compliance

A Passionate Risk and Compliance Professional pursuing the emerging trends in BFSI domain.

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a professional position in Operations Risk Management with an organization of repute where my work experience will have valuable application and utilization of my opportunity for advancement.

ABOUT

3 Years of experience in Compliance, Risk Management, information security and controls and 6 Years of Experience in Investment Banking Operations.

• Effective communicator.

• Part of the entity’s risk management team and challenge business and various stake holders in order to mitigate or minimize the applicable risk.

• Policy Rollouts and Controls Testing.

• Managing internal issues emerging in the organization.

• Tester of operational risk and business controls.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Associate Manager

State Street HCL Services
Chennai
08.2019 - Current

Risk & Compliance

• Conducted physical security audits in order to assess the effectiveness of access control, surveillance and protection of hardware, software and networks and establishing the report to stakeholders and management.

· Responsible for providing Compliance Approval on Due Diligence.

· Responsible for Company Policy Roll out to all the Employees.

• Responsible for performing Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) in order to establish a consistent framework for assessing operational risk and the overall effectiveness of the internal control environment across the entity.

• Being an individual contributor design, maintain and execute the control testing framework to identify control deficiencies if any.

• Escalate issues/findings to the management as required and document the testing results as per organization risk management policy.

Liaising with business to remediate the potential findings and regular monitoring.

• Reviewing the business SLAs as per the organization standard and providing update to stake holders and business.

• Being a Compliance Officer, responsible for assessing Sensitive position employees and Yearly Business Recertification.

• Monitoring Recorded Lines of Business and Policy Breach.

• Periodical review on Business Mandatory courses.

• Assessing Operational Incidents and Suggesting Controls to Mitigate the Risks

• Ensuring the business renews the application access license as per the contract without affecting the production.

• Conducted clear desk sweep activity once in quarter as per the organization policy and providing report to the management.

• Brainstorming innovative ideas to create awareness sessions and have conducted interactive puzzles via emails during

• Cyber security awareness month.

• Being a part of First Line of Defense (FLOD), coordinate for the entire internal and external audits basis the audit requirements.

• As a part of JV Assurance program testing the design effectiveness of existing controls and implementing new controls in case of risk identification.

• Auditing Exit management review.

• Conducting roadshows and floor awareness sessions on information security policies.

• Responsible for delivering induction to new joiners.

Business Operations Specialist

Aon Hewitt
Chennai
03.2015 - 11.2016

Process: Payment Processing, Documentation & payroll

Job Profile

· Maintaining the data related to client accounts, transactions & payment details and any changes keeping it up to date.

· Ensuring the allocated tasks are performed within the cut-off and updating the checklist without fail.

· Paying special attention to the high value cash payments and ensuring the payment is processed without any delay.

· Checking with clients in case of mismatch in the SSI & getting the correct SSI from the client.

· Handled the Lien marking and set-off project and simplified the process by implementing new procedures for delinquent customers.

· Liaising with multiple teams and preparing the daily/monthly/weekly reports on a timely manner and circulating the same to the respective stakeholders.

· Checking with client regarding the SSI and to ensure the payment is made to the clients, without any issues or escalations.

· Conducting daily team huddles and addressing the issues raised by the teammates.

Senior Associate

Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
04.2014 - 02.2015
Process: Trade Settlements

Job Profile

● Ensuring the timely settlement of trades and movement of funds done within the currency cut-off.

● Liaising with the middle office and closers team in order to clear the discrepancies between the trade packs and positions.

● Sending the manual payments to various clients & financial institutions.

● Allocating the cases to team members on previous day itself so that the trades were processed on same day without fail.

● Managing the mailbox and escalations as per the agreed TAT and the transactions are processed as per the KPI & SLA.

● Cross trained on the CITI application (SCRITURA) which is used to receive the faxes from agent bank and investors for borrowing.

● Responsible for maintaining the Master feed list which contains loan admin details of the agents and CITI in the loan syndication process.

Associate

Wipro
Chennai
11.2011 - 02.2014

Job Profile

· Setting up the Standard Settlement instructions for facilitating the transfer of funds between lenders and borrowers. · Building the data of new investors and respective contact details for easy contact and making the payments or sending the notices. · Allocating the work on a daily basis to manage each and every activity effectively. · Responsible to manage the payment instructions to process the receipt / payment of fee / interest between the CITI participant deal and Agent deal. · Clearing the cash breaks and circulating the report to the top management. · Investigating the breaks where the offset entries are missing and checking with internal teams to get them cleared. · Worked across various process like Scritura, Expedite & Disclosure.

Education

MBA - Banking And Financial Support Services

National Institute of Business Management, Kerala, India
06.2017 - 04.2018

Bachelor of Commerce - Commerce & Financial Accounting

Guru Sri Shanti Vijay Jain College For Women , Chennai, India
06.2008 - 04.2011

Skills

Microsoft office

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Timeline

Associate Manager - State Street HCL Services
08.2019 - Current
National Institute of Business Management - MBA, Banking And Financial Support Services
06.2017 - 04.2018
Business Operations Specialist - Aon Hewitt
03.2015 - 11.2016
Senior Associate - Tata Consultancy Services
04.2014 - 02.2015
Associate - Wipro
11.2011 - 02.2014
Guru Sri Shanti Vijay Jain College For Women - Bachelor of Commerce, Commerce & Financial Accounting
06.2008 - 04.2011
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