Hrishikesh Pillai

• Produced reports highlighting leading Key Risk Indicators, Operational Loss Incidents, status of standard operating procedures for functions, data to assist management with making strategic plans and operational decisions.
• Conducted monthly operational risk meetings and generated reporting to support risk monitoring and management.
• Delivered presentations and training courses to promote best practices for in risk management and processes.
• Developed risk assessment matrices and templates to increase visibility of risks and facilitate decision making.
• Engaged with Group risk,fraud and Information security teams, collaborating on implementation of risk strategies in the first line.
• Planned, performed and implemented RCSA workshops for 30 different processes to identify potential gaps or weaknesses in existing controls as part of the analysis.
• Developed leading Key risk indicators on the result of RCSA, ensuring that indicators are identified to facilitate the ongoing monitoring of identified risks and controls.
• Instituted contingency plans, ensuring business continuity through cross-training, documentation and data backups.
• Coordinated the closure of Open High Risk Audit Issues to engaging with unit heads and Internal Audit, facilitating compliance to internal Balance score card metrics.
• Assessed key risks and mitigating factors of a project implementing a Onboarding KYC system.

• Conducted RCSA workshops across 3 different business groups (CIB, Group Finance & Group Risk).
• Promoted enterprise-level risk management practices and helped instill strong culture focused on protective policies and procedures.
• Ensured Risk assessments incorporated Data privacy risks in line with GDPR regulations.
• Reviewed Operating procedures, vendor agreements, product papers to identify potential risks and ideal mitigation strategies.
• Engaged with a Big 4 firm to establish a robust Outsourcing policy covering outsourcing regulations across 16 International locations.
• Reviewed Operational loss incidents ensuring CAPA and sign off business heads.
• Delivered presentations and training courses to promote best practices for techniques and processes.
• Taught employees how to control risks at front line, including how to interpret and apply sound policies.
• Implemented a Governance Risk Compliance Tool for managing the operational risk database.

Significant Accomplishments

• Awarded a Certificate of Recognition for contributing on ‘Staff Handbook on Code of Ethics' - 27 May 2018
• Conducted Risk assessments in Muscat and Mumbai for Corporate Investment Banking processes

• Conducted a 3 Lines of Defense review for “Debt Issuance” operations, reviewing Process risk, Compliance risk, HR risk and Information security risk (access review and control).
• Reviewed the Regulatory Tax operations process for French and Italy transaction tax process migrated from London to India. Highlighting 19 significant risk, resulting in satisfying the multiple regulatory requirements and improving the overall control environment of the process.
• Reviewed periodically SWIFT High Value payments MT 103, MT 202 to review adherence to procedure and segregation of duty.
• Conducted Transaction monitoring reviews periodically to identify Missed transaction deadlines or incomplete transactions
• Conducted weekly KRI risk review meetings with process heads onshore and offshore to highlight process bottlenecks and spike in volumes by tracking KRI trends.

Significant Accomplishments

• Awarded Star of the Month twice for Top Performance and Leading Risk and Control Initiatives.

• Organized the ‘ Risk Case Study Event' as a part of the Control Awareness Week for DB Pan India in 2015.

• Wrote and published the Finance monthly report to the senior management at SSC and the Onshore stakeholder's.
• Lead the Capacity Planning exercise to establish right metrics and mechanism to measure services performance.
• Monitored and tracked the issue portal to identify and close issues based on the priority.
• Assisted the project manager to create the Business Continuity Model for Shared Service Center.
• Prepared project scope documents, trend analysis of Quality Reports.
• Reviewed and published the weekly KPI report involving charts and graphs to the senior management.

Significant Accomplishments

• Awarded Star of the Month for completing the Capacity Model across all Finance and Accounting dept
• Completed 2 Six Sigma Green Projects Belt

Standardization & Simplification of Finance & Accounting Processes

Quality Assurance Review (QA Lite & QA Plus)

• Captured key points of discussion, decisions and assigned actions in bi weekly Risk and Control meetings in Mumbai & London.
• Performed weekly spot checks of Transaction reports, Monthly payments
• Reported and reviewed Operational Risk Incidents ad hoc for Equities Operations, Fixed Income Settlements.
• Engaged with Operations team to complete yearly self assessment of Standards of Risk and control.
• Prepared weekly Process Risk Indicators report, daily Failed Trades summary for Senior Management.
• Trained new staff in Mumbai & Bangalore extensively for 6 weeks to take on Risk and control duties. Parallel hand over from London documenting SOPs and approvals.
• Monitored to reduce high value pending Nostros in Europe equities by identifying the Red KRIs and reported monthly to Senior risk Managers

Significant Accomplishments

• International Experience: Worked 2 years in London with Deutsche Bank in European Securities Control and transitioned seamlessly the duties to India (2009 – 2011)
• Secured a PG academic qualification scholarship in International Business Practice from Mountbatten Institute and University of Cambridge (2010). http://www.mountbatten.org/about-us (2009-2010)