Vineet Khanna

Collaboration and networking with key business stakeholders:

• Continuous engagement with key stakeholders in risk community and with other business personnel including Head of Group Risk Reporting, compliance, and audit team to ensure necessary coverage of thematic risk reviews across groups and entities.

• Prepare risk board reports, monitor resolution of actions assigned, and coordinate with Risk Type Controllers to include the required regulatory inputs.

• Challenge & review the first line control and risk owners to ensure that risk management activities are working as per group standard policies.

Maintain the overall plan of Thematic Risk Reviews for the Global Risk team:

• Responsible for preparing thematic risk review framework, global thematic risk review plan and ensuring its timely delivery by business & other risk personnel across group and entities through second line oversight.

• Responsible for highlighting key themes in the board reports, identified during reviews to ensure remediation plans from reviews are tracked to resolution.

Support end-to-end risk reporting activity undertaken by the Group Risk Reporting team:

• Responsible for continuous improvement of the content and process for producing the risk reports through validating the quality and consistency of the data reported.

• Support the planning and efficient logistics of the risk committees, including review of minutes and tracking of actions

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Managerial and Leadership Responsibilities :

• Managed a team of fifteen individual contributors as direct reports across locations in India and UK with highly demanding internal controls and risk management skills.

• Lead and facilitated incident management reporting as a Gold IMT member, ensuring adequacy and effectiveness of unit’s business continuity during exigencies (Jatt agitation, Chennai flood, Chennai Cyclone – VARDAH, Chennai Chief Minister Demise, Diesel vehicle ban in Gurugram, national/local elections etc.).

• Reviewed and challenged BCM plans as second line risk, engaged with BCM team including senior management on BCM risks & controls to ensure for plans were appropriate for UK and India businesses.

• Challenge & review the first line control and risk owners to ensure that risk management activities are working as per group standard policies.

Operational Risk Management & Controls Responsibilities :

• Conducted Monthly Risk Board meetings and participated in Global Hub India Risk Committee to discuss the risk position of the bank, India level reviews / Audit, action tracking & closure.

• Independently reviewed, advised, and challenged risk vertical for various risk management activities, from both regional and global perspective.

• Effectively collaborated and developed relationship with key stakeholders in risk, compliance, and audit teams to support the identification, assessment, escalation and mitigation of operational risks and to continuously evaluate and improve the control issues.

• Worked in partnership with the risk directors to support their first line responsibilities and by providing guidance on Risk & Control Self Assessments (RCSA), incident analysis & reporting and in strengthening the controls environment.

• Performed deep dives & thematic reviews to understand processes, highlighted gaps in the control environment and recommended remediation steps to address issues in the risk and control environment.

• Provided training to the risk vertical areas on the individual components of the Operational Risk Framework to ensure compliance with the relevant regulations and Bank policies.

• Played a strategic and functional role for the business unit as an enabler and conducted administrative good practices to ensure compliance with external regulations, all RBS policies and procedures, meeting local legislative requirements and align all internal procedures related to various governances & controls.

• Ensured units comply with Group Policies, SOX & other regulatory requirements and helped in completion of SOX review & CEC (Controls Environment Certification).

• Provided independent 2nd line of defence oversight, collaborated with the local 3rd line of defence teams as well as Global Risk Internal controls function, Compliance, Audit, Conduct, Regulatory & Assurance teams to drive mitigation of material risks to the desired level of appetite

• Co-ordinated with business and respective reporting units for designing, Identifying and analysing the Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and ensured these are accurately captured and maintained in ORBIT (Operational Risk Tool).

• Ensured timely adequacy and effectiveness testing of the controls.

Managerial and Leadership Responsibilities :

• Managed a team of twenty individual contributors as direct reports across locations in India and UK with highly demanding internal controls and risk management skills.

• Published dashboards highlighting risks & issues to senior leadership to enable effective end delivery of Risk Objectives and deployed a robust risk and control framework which meets the strategic needs of the Group including communication, training and awareness.

• Challenge & review the first line control and risk owners to ensure that risk management activities are working as per group standard policies.

Operational Risk Management & Controls Responsibilities :

• Developed and owned the controls framework implemented in Barclaycard businesses.

• Reviewed, challenged, and supported businesses with the periodic risk and control assessment, controls adequacy & effectiveness testing, audit & other required certifications (ISO).

• Supported businesses with closure of significant risk issues and establishing Key Risk Indicators through be-spoke risk appetite statements ensuring risks are being appropriately identified, assessed and mitigated to the desired level (Risk Appetite) by the business.

• Liaison between senior management, employees & clients to ensure proper lines of communication critical in addressing a myriad of problems & issues requiring immediate attention & resolve.

• Responsible for managing business list of records for entire Barclaycard as a records manager steward and supported processes to align with information security standards set up by Barclays.