Biswa Kalyan Dash

Compliance Financial Crime CDO)
• Built and operationalised a data governance and assurance operating model, establishing
governance forums, clearly defined roles, accountabilities framework and positioning data
as a strategic asset for Risk, compliance and Financial Crime.
• Delivered risk-based, data-driven oversight and coverage capabilities by designing MI,
dashboards and reporting frameworks to provide management/ governance committees
with transparency on data quality, control effectiveness, and regulatory outcomes (including
BCBS239 alignment).
• Acted as a strategic partner to senior stakeholders, influencing prioritisation, challenging
controls effectiveness, and ensuring alignment between business delivery and regulatory
expectations.
• Enabled automated risk and compliance reporting through integration with enterprise data
lakes, metadata tool, and BCBS239 Committee Tracking System strengthening timeliness,
consistency & auditability of risk insights enabling year end self-assessment of regulatory
compliance & Risk & Controls Self Assessment.
• Designed and implemented a centralised issue management and remediation framework
(Clearing House) strengthening governance, traceability, and timely closure of data quality
and controls issues.
• Embedded data risk controls assessment & mitigation within SDLC and change
management framework ensuring upfront identification of upstream/ downstream impacts
to strengthen control effectiveness aligned to regulatory expectations of Data by Design
at the point of change.
• Leadership, Assurance and Oversight as Data Domain Owner Delegate & Functions CDO:
◦ Classification of critical data and govern demand management ensuring alignment
to risk-based priorities and regulatory expectations.
◦ Directed oversight of the end-to-end data management lifecycle including critical
data elements, glossaries, high-level data flows, interface logics, transformation
logics, data lineage, data slas, inventory of data quality controls and reporting of
data quality issues & resolutions.
◦ Provided governance, oversight and risk management of all data matters including
chairing data quality forums, supporting governance committees with executive
summary and working groups.
◦ Designed, built and executed data quality controls framework identifying failure
points and implementing controls to mitigate data risks, with executive- level
reporting through DQ Health Dashboard.
• Delivered management information and assurance insights enabling senior management,
risk framework owner, bau process owners and governance forms/ committees to identify
emerging risks, track remediations progress of inherent/ residual risks and risk treatment
plans or remediation programs to support risk-based decision making and regulatory
needs.
• Supported Rollout of Metadata Management Tool with adept features and functionalities to
inventories and catalogue enterprise data critical to business and regulatory needs
including data lineage (traceability), Interface/ Transformation Logics and Data SLAs.
• Drove strategic data and risk initiatives through structured business cases, RFI/RFP/RFQ
processes enabling build vs buy decision making to enhance appropriate business/ data
systems implementations to meet regulatory commitments.
• Delivered reusable, scalable data products enabling consistent, controlled, and auditable
data consumptions ensuring completeness, accuracy, timeliness and consistency of data.
• Partnered with enterprise stakeholders to perform requirements gathering, prioritise data
and assurance capabilities maintaining structured backlogs, designing workable solutions
fitting needs and leading User Acceptance/ User Verification Testing to improve BCBS239/
Regulatory reporting accuracy, controls resilience and oversight.

• Financial Crime Controls Mitigation: Delivered multi-year, multi-million-dollar platform implementations for
◦ Sanctions Screening platforms for Transactions Screening using a product suite of FircoSoft as Sanctions Screening
Detection, ECM for Case management, Silent8 for optimization of cases, VARITAS for List Management & IDQ for Data
Quality.
◦ System Integration - Integrated HR, Core-banking and Transaction Banking platforms covering banking book and trading
book through a strategic ETL layer for enabling data consumption and enrichment to strengthen Sanctions Screening,
case optimisation and Case Dispositioning.
• Data Risk Management: Implemented data by design-controlled process to assess and mitigate any data risk through
recommended controls implementation at the point of change.
• Data Quality Remediation: Led an initiative to run a Data Quality Assessment initiative working with internal stakeholders across
the technology landscape for customer data, account data, transaction data and AML Transaction Monitoring within the bank to
identify and prioritise Data Quality issues needing remediation to mitigate the risk of under-alerting and cases of drastical over
alerting by identifying false-positives. Built a comprehensive roadmap and monitoring/ reporting mechanism to remediate the
data quality issues across the point of origins.

• Financial Crime Controls Mitigation: Delivered multi-year, multi-million-dollar platform implementations for
◦ AML Transaction Monitoring using a product suite of FCCM MANTAS as AML Detection Engine, ECM- Enterprise Case
Management for Case Dispositioning & IDQ for Data Quality.
◦ System Integration - Integrated HR, Core-banking and Transaction Banking platforms through a strategic ETL layer for
enabling data consumption and enrichment to strengthen AML Monitoring, case optimisation and Case Dispositioning.
• Data Risk Management: Implemented data by design-controlled process to assess and mitigate any data risk through
recommended controls implementation at the point of change.
• Data Quality Remediation: Led an initiative to run a Data Quality Assessment initiative working with internal stakeholders across
the technology landscape for customer data, account data, transaction data and AML Transaction Monitoring within the bank as
well as PWC as a supporting team to identify Data Quality issues. Built a comprehensive roadmap and monitoring/ reporting
mechanism to remediate the data quality issues across the point of origins.

• Performed Requirements Management, Functional Solution Design, UAT and Implemented a NextGen platform integrated with
salesforce to manage Mortgage Partnership Programs - Prospective Partner Assessment using Salesforce and Partner Onboarding,
Account Management, Marketing Responsibilities Evaluation and Certification of Mortgage Partnership programs including Join
Ventures with Realtors and Builders.
• Has built a team of analysts to prepare Strategic Business alliance to perform Market Research and prepare reports on the outcomes
of the result of the Mortgage Partnership Programs.

Sanctions Screening
• Designed and Implemented Global Technology Platform to perform Disclosure of Outside Directorship, Political Contributions, Take
Preclearance of Trades and enable Personal Account Statement Reviews.
• Designed and Rolled out Technology Solution for Gifts and Entertainment to address the Anti-Bribery & Corruptions regulatory
need.
• Managed the L3 BAU team to delivery enhancements to the existing AML Transaction Monitoring Platform and Established a team
of efficient and effective AML Analytics team positioned across Kuala lumpur, Singapore, New York and Bengaluru, India engaged
to support on Threshold Analysis, Optimizing of Thresholds through Tunning of Scenarios, performing Statistical Analysis and Back
Testing to reduce the number of false-positives while performing auto-closure of cases.

• Designed and Implemented Global Technology Platforms to perform Fraud Detection, Prevention and Control of 1 st party and 3rd
Party Fraud in following areas:
◦ Implemented Falcon Fraud Manager for Online Payments Profiling
◦ Rolled out Detica Net Reveal for Debit Card Transaction Profiling
◦ Implemented ColreLogic FraudMark for Mortgage Scorecard
◦ BAU for Actimize for Cheque Clearance

• Performed Requirements Management, Functional Solution Design, UAT and Implemented a NextGen platform integrated with
salesforce to manage Mortgage Partnership Programs - Prospective Partner Assessment using Salesforce and Partner Onboarding,
Account Management, Marketing Responsibilities Evaluation and Certification of Mortgage Partnership programs including Join
Ventures with Realtors and Builders.
• Has built a team of analysts to prepare Strategic Business alliance to perform Market Research and prepare reports on the
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outcomes of the result of the Mortgage Partnership Programs.

As a Team Lead of the QA Team, my roles and responsibilities are as following:
• Understanding the Requirements and validating those against the Functional Spec.
• Understanding the dimensions of customizations.
• Design the Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Risk Management, Test Environment Management and Scheduling
the Testing Phases.
• Record Problems and issues, manage triaging of calls to manage defect closure.
• Testing Status Report Preparation and updating to various forums including various Management teams and Client.

• Understanding the Requirements and validating those against the Functional Spec.
• Understanding the dimensions of customizations.
• Design the Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Environment Set-up and Executing the SIT/ Regression Testing Phases.
• Record Problems and issues, manage triaging of calls to manage defect closure.
• Testing Status Report Preparation and updating to various forums including various Management teams and Client.

• Understanding the Requirements and validating those against the Functional Spec.
• Understanding the dimensions of customizations.
• Design the Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Environment Set-up and Executing the SIT/ Regression Testing Phases.
• Record Problems and issues, manage triaging of calls to manage defect closure.
• Testing Status Report Preparation and updating to various forums including various Management teams and Client.