Varun Segu
Bangalore
Summary
Persistent leader eager to lead and grow organizations. Skilled in strategic planning, problem-solving, and communication with good understanding of business principles, project management and team leadership. Collaborative with relentless work ethic.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Executive Director
JP Morgan Chase & Co
09.2020 - Current
- Overseeing the regulatory reporting team of 60+ FTE spread across Bangalore and Mumbai including hiring, training, and performance management, to ensure efficient operation and achievement of goals.
- Cultivated company-wide culture of innovation and collaboration.
- Monitoring changes in regulations and ensuring accurate and timely submission of reports (Y9C, 009, FFIEC031, BS28, Report 2 etc.) to regulatory authorities across US and non US regions
- Identifying opportunities to optimize reporting processes, implementing best practices, and leveraging Intelligent automation tools / technology to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, such as auditors, regulators, and senior management, to provide insights and address regulatory reporting requirements.
- Assessing and mitigating risks associated with regulatory reporting, implementing controls, and ensuring data integrity and accuracy.
- Overseeing the preparation of comprehensive and accurate regulatory reports, analyzing data for trends and insights, and presenting findings to key stakeholders.
- Establishing robust governance structures, ensuring accountability, and providing oversight of the regulatory reporting function
Collaborating with other departments, such as finance, CDO, technology to integrate regulatory reporting requirements into broader organizational processes and systems. - Managing and providing oversight to business KPI / KRI
- Fostered work culture of collaboration and inclusion to increase morale and reduce turnover.
- Aligned department vision, goals, and objectives with company strategy to achieve consistently high results.
- Led recruitment and development of strategic alliances to maximize utilization of existing talent and capabilities
Vice President
JP Morgan Chase & Co
03.2018 - 09.2020
- India Head for liquidity risk analytics function which is responsible for ensuring the firm-wide reporting of liquidity risk (5G, PRA110) data to US and UK regulators
- This team was established in India during March’18 and was responsible for setting up this team from ground zero in India
- Managing a team responsible for ensuring accuracy and completeness of data, explaining business drivers for period over periods moves and accountability of data level adjustments related to data quality issues for 5G submissions to FED
- Accountability on team responsible for creation and e2e distribution of reports to stakeholders across liquidity, collateral, recovery and resolution and supporting LOB around LCR, NSFR, treasury decks etc
- Train, mentor, coach the team to develop subject matter expertise in relevant products and functional areas & help the build out of the cross-LOB team
- Manage new volume – including supporting regulatory interpretation and design & implement robust and low risk solutions to meet new volume requests
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
Senior Manager
Genpact USA
09.2016 - 02.2018
- Providing consultative guidance on data management and data governance related principles, while working as per client proposals
- Managing a team responsible for developing data management framework/ processes on data governance, data policy, data standards, data stewardship, data lineage etc
- Managing a team responsible for developing solutions using DM tools like Collibra
- Informatica
- Engagement with Chief Data Officers and their teams to keep them appraised on the progress of the project and own e2e execution of project delivery within agreed timeline
- Defined a methodology for identification of Critical Data Elements
- Managing a team responsible for establishing meta data strategy to include business data dictionaries for use within the clients organization
- Partnered with key clients to create appropriate, data quality controls, escalation procedures, and issues-resolution priorities
- Authoring, scripting and implementation of Data Quality rules to identify exception and quality of data
Senior Manager
Genpact India
09.2014 - 09.2016
- Leading the portfolio risk reporting team responsible for producing the credit & investment risk management reports to Commercial Risk Officers and
- Regulatory Bodies
- This includes Credit Quality Disclosures, Concentration risk reporting, Commercial asset quality trends, Top client exposures, PD/LGD rating shifts
- Liaising with various business units to understand portfolio shifts & create meaningful commentaries
- Partnered with the commercial CRO of an NBFC to design the Commercial reporting package
Associate
JP Morgan Chase & Co
12.2008 - 08.2014
- India Lead for operations team which was responsible for ensuring accuracy, timeliness and completeness of data sourced from various risk systems which used by multiple stakeholders such as credit, liquidity, market, finance etc
- Partner with Stakeholders to analyze and help fix data quality issues identified upstream
- E2E ownership of data received and analysis for any data quality issues on daily basis and own effective e2e remediation of DQ issues and enhancements across all Lob's
- Trained and mentored junior staff
Analyst
Northern Trust
01.2007 - 11.2008
- Started corporate career part of FX operations team responsible for executing FX transactions as per client requirement
- Optimized core processes to improve business performance and operational agility.
- Recommended process improvements to continually identify, analyze and fix constraints and challenges.
- Created and managed project plans, timelines and budgets.
Education
MBA - Finance
Bharathidasan University
01.2005 - 1 2006
Bachelors of Commerce - undefined
Bangalore University
01.2003 - 1 2005
Skills
Stakeholder Relations
Operations Management
Strategic Planning
Project Management
Innovation and Creativity
Negotiation
Certification
Digital Transformation and Innovation - IIM Indore
Timeline
Digital Transformation and Innovation - IIM Indore
09-2023
Executive Director
JP Morgan Chase & Co
09.2020 - Current
Vice President
JP Morgan Chase & Co
03.2018 - 09.2020
Senior Manager
Genpact USA
09.2016 - 02.2018
Senior Manager
Genpact India
09.2014 - 09.2016
Associate
JP Morgan Chase & Co
12.2008 - 08.2014
Analyst
Northern Trust
01.2007 - 11.2008
MBA - Finance
Bharathidasan University
01.2005 - 1 2006
Bachelors of Commerce - undefined
Bangalore University
01.2003 - 1 2005