Brito Varghese, Senior Risk Management Officer

Brito Varghese

Senior Risk Management Officer

KFH Capital Investments Company

Location
Kuwait - Al Kuwait
Education
Master's degree, Finance
Experience
16 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months

Senior Risk Management Officer at KFH Capital Investments Company
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since October 2017

Support Risk Management Division in the establishment of a comprehensive risk framework for identification, measurement, analysis, mitigation and monitoring Investment, market, operational, reputational, strategic and liquidity risk.
 Deploying overall risk management framework across the Company.
 Monitor adherence of Business Units to the risk management framework and strategy approved by the Board.
 Work with Risk Management team on the implementation of controls within the company, as necessary.
 Analysis and development of appropriate risk management methodologies and tools for measuring or evaluating risk.
 Review policies in the light of Company-wide risk management and highlight any concerns and mitigations to the Risk Management Team
 Contribute to the development of risk policies and procedures in coordination with the business and non-business units.
 Preparation of risk reports for Board risk committee, CMA and other stakeholders.
 Monitor and provide risk management support in remediation of control issues identified via internal, external or self-assessment reviews/exercises.
 Provide risk related awareness and information for personnel in key controls, as per risk management requirements, where necessary.
 Preparation of review of proposals, new products & services, documentation and reports, from business functions to monitor the potential exposures and recommend appropriate actions for managing the involved risks.

Treasury Officer at M H Alshaya Co
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • October 2011 to September 2017

• Prepare the Daily Cash Management and Debt Management Reports
• Monitor available short term cash position and assess requirements for the appropriate Partnership member.
• Support interbank/interoffice operations, cash management, liquidity control and cash unmatched operation
• Maintain the Partnerships loan facility in respect of rollover periods, capital and interest payments.
• Monitoring credit rating changes, updating counterparty listings and advising the Treasury Analyst and Group Treasury Manager accordingly.
• Suggest ways to improve returns for the un-utilized cash balances
• Regional Cash & Collateral optimisation, liaison with other Business Units. Daily contact with other regions and external counterparts
• Oversee check of daily comparison of forecasted movements against real time position using intra-day reporting on Treasury Cash Concentration accounts
• Bank Management (w.r.t Deals, Purchases, Forwards, Swaps etc)

Financial Broker at Kuwait Asia Brokerage
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • April 2011 to September 2011

• Trading in the International Markets (Forex, Commodities(Gold, Silver, Oil), Stocks, etc)
• Providing excellent service to the clients, Promote company products and services.
• Well versed with Fundamental and Technical Analysis in the Global market and providing investment recommendations to the clients.
• Bought and sold for clients. Managed and reviewed portfolio.

• Adept in creating, developing and executing short and long term financial strategies customized to meet the Clients need in profit driven, customer focused environments.
• Commended for flawless performance in the monitoring and execution of 75+ trades weekly within high volume, time critical environment.
• Grew customer base, adding new clients for the firm. Earned a reputation for expert financial advice and superior customer service that resulted in strong referral business

Exchange Executive at Mind Share
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • May 2010 to July 2011

• Maintenance of tactical Media Plans
• Working with the Senior Associate and Manager, as well as implementation groups, assists in the development of budget allocations across media, media mix scenarios.
• Forecasting and reporting advertisement needs and top management.
• Maintains and communicates up-to-date records of the implementation of the plan
• Provides research and analysis to deal with various issues that arise in the execution of the tactical plan
• Develops agency point of views on media opportunities for submission to the client
• Meets with sales representatives to obtain information about their products.
• Well Versed with Invoicing and Booking Orders with the Media.

Pricing Analyst at Northern Trust Corporation
  • India
  • August 2007 to October 2009

Business/ Pricing Analyst
• Well-trained in reviewing market reports for accuracy and provide pricing recommendations, coordinate with marketing, risk management, and auction operations to ensure consistency in the extraction and interpretation of data
• Played vital role in the transitioning of new processes, involving global share-market movements, to Bangalore centre. In the process, gained valuable experience training and supervising staff
• Highly-experienced in interacting with investment managers and staff worldwide, to ensure smooth inflow of data
• Well trained on Corporate Actions and pricing methodology for the CA events
• Highly trained in pricing securities in exchanges worldwide and analyzing market movement of these shares

Corporate Compliance Anti-money Laundering (AML) Officer
• Individually managed and monitored deposit oriented operations involving privately owned ATMs and OFAC/ PEP clients, to assure proper control over and compliance with the AML programs
• Adept in the principles of anti-money laundering and abreast with current AML policies, regulations and procedures, in subsidiary agencies worldwide
• Superior analysis and investigation skills in modeling customer transaction patterns using standard software
• Strong organizational and analytical skills in addition to excellent documentation skills of appropriate business decisions and follow-ups.
• Responsible for monitoring the suspicious cash/ cheque transactions of Privately owned ATM’s
• In Charge of monitoring MEILS (Monetary Exchange Log Sheets) and Wire transfers for accuracy and suspicions activities and discrepancies.
• Responsible for preparing monthly/ weekly report’s for the team’s performance on an actual and forecasted, analysis for the top management.
• Familiar with SAR (Suspicious activity report), BSA (Bank secrecy act), FinCEN (Financial crime enforcement network), CTR (Currency transaction report) and EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence)

Education

Master's degree, Finance
  • at St. Josephs College of Business Administration
  • May 2007
Bachelor's degree, Finance
  • at Baldwin’s Methodist College
  • May 2005

Specialties & Skills

Finance
operations
Business Administration
Money Laundering
Bloomerg
Global Invest One
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Reflections
Reuters 3000 Xtra

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certified Risk and Compliance Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2018
Certified Enterprise Risk Manager (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019