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Vineeth Kizhussery

Hyderabad

Summary

Dedicated Manager of Risk with over 10.5 years of experience, including more than 3.5 years in leadership roles managing large teams. Skilled in operational and fraud risk management, control evaluation, Transaction monitoring and Third Party Risk Management. Proficient in implementing risk mitigation strategies and conducting thorough investigations. Possesses CISA certification and an MBA in HR. Excited to contribute expertise in risk reduction, team leadership, and process improvement to support the company's mission of maintaining strong risk management practices.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager Risk Investigations

Amazon
09.2020 - Current

Risk Management and Control testing

• Design and implementation of Risk mitigation strategies

• Risk investigation, Risk Management, fraud detection and reduction

• Control assessment & testing, implementation

• Monitoring and creating risk elimination programs for business

• Execute investigations with moderate to high risk and complexity

• Develop and implement risk monitoring, risk reporting processes, and controls while evaluating and reporting results

• Implementation of procedures and controls

• Design, maintain and execute the control evaluation scripts, identify control deficiencies

• Conduct audits to evaluate controls in place and identify gaps

• Assessing control design and performance through Risk Control Self-Assessment practices (RCSA)

• Escalation Management- working on customer and VP level escalations

• Conduct Root cause analysis

(RCA) using elite frameworks like 5 WHY, Fishbone analysis to identify the root of the problem and scope

  • Manage root cause analysis of issues and incidents, identifying and implementing control improvements
  • Monitor and evaluate transactions
  • Create plan of action with short- and long-term solutions to mitigate risks
  • Leading projects, developing and maintaining project plans, schedules, monitoring and reporting project progress and share reports with stakeholders
  • Drive process improvement through Automation and continuous optimization for improving existing tools process and manual efforts to eliminate/mitigate risk
  • Interpret and develop policies and procedures for functions with moderate & high complexity

TPRM (Third Party Risk Management) US,UK and IN

• Coordinate activities across lines of business to ensure TPRM program requirements are met

• Review of third-party sellers, supplier, investigation of third-party for risks

• Validate Compliances as per 3rd Party Risk Management Framework by Business unit

• Implement processes and ensure compliance of Vendor Risk Management framework

• Identification of risks from third party and creation of measures to mitigate these risks

• Creation of metrics and programs which will enhance compliance for third party organization framework

• Conducting risk assessments and continuous monitoring

• Timely audits across segments like inventory, categories, documentation

• Implementation of control measures both automated and manual to mitigate and prevent risk

• Onboarding of third-party vendors or sellers, customers

• Measuring third party performance and implementing programs to improve performance

People Management

  • Manage and lead internal investigation team of more than 25 employees and implement risk based internal investigations
  • Mentor coach and develop team members
  • Monitor,drive and improve team performance
  • Ensure SLA, productivity, Quality and Utilization are met
  • Managing stakeholder communication across multiple lines of business on operational milestones, process changes, escalations
  • Conduct Interviews as part of recruitment
  • Conduct One to One with every member of the team
  • Talent review and performance appraisal

Sr Risk Investigation Specialist

Amazon
09.2016 - 08.2020
  • Monitoring and investigation of financial transactions
  • Risk investigation on customer accounts to eliminate/mitigate fraud
  • Performing risk assessment and analyzing trends
  • Mitigate current and emerging risk exposures associated with activities and operations
  • Develop and implement risk monitoring, risk reporting processes, and controls
  • Evaluation of controls in place through audits
  • Monitor, measure, evaluate, and report on impact of decisions and controls to relevant business group
  • Review and analyze basic business challenges that require research, evaluation, and selection of alternatives
  • Creation of detailed reports on L1 and L2 investigations

Process Associate

DELL International Services
03.2015 - 08.2016
  • Handled tax queries and issues related to US Sales Validation of Tax exemption documents Handled escalations, emails and calls Worked on tax credits Handled customer calls and emails

Analyst- Customer Due Diligence

HSBC
08.2013 - 02.2015
  • Performed due diligence required for new customers
  • Screening of documents provided by customer
  • Identified threats/fraudulent in money laundering (AML)
  • Performing L1 and L2 investigations
  • Identification of Fraud and creating SAR

Education

MBA - Human Resource Management

Amity University
Hyderabad
06.2013

BSC - Statistics and computer science

Nizam College
Hyderabad
06.2011

Skills

  • Risk Management
  • Business Control Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • People Management
  • Escalation Management
  • Problem Solving
  • Transaction monitoring
  • Fraud detection
  • Metrics/KPI Management
  • Third Party Risk Management (TPRM)
  • Microsoft office (Word, Excel and Power Point)

Certification

  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), ISACA No 242477257
  • Lean yellow belt Six sigma certified

Timeline

Manager Risk Investigations

Amazon
09.2020 - Current

Sr Risk Investigation Specialist

Amazon
09.2016 - 08.2020

Process Associate

DELL International Services
03.2015 - 08.2016

Analyst- Customer Due Diligence

HSBC
08.2013 - 02.2015

MBA - Human Resource Management

Amity University

BSC - Statistics and computer science

Nizam College
Vineeth Kizhussery