Praful Pednekar, IT RISK CONSULTANT

Praful Pednekar

IT RISK CONSULTANT

Ernst & Young

Location
India - Mumbai
Education
Master's degree, Computer Science
Experience
10 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 4 Months

IT RISK CONSULTANT at Ernst & Young
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since March 2024

• Evaluated the design and operating effectiveness of IT controls, identifying and documenting control deficiencies
and developing corrective action plans to address them.
• review and assess control through established framework
• Participate in elaboration and implementation of a local IT service management and governance framework.
• Complied with SOX guidelines and developed policies to maintain compliance with other regulatory status.
• Performing internal and external IT risk assessments, conducted Performing and testing IT general (ITGC) and
operational controls for various OS and Database technologies compliance.
• Reviewing SOC1 and SOC2 report.
• Prepared audit reports to highlight issues, liaising with managerial staff and presenting findings to resolve.
• Evaluated work of audit juniors for quality and compliance. • Reviewed and updated existing audit tests
programmes and testing procedures

ITGC AUDITOR at Hdfc Bank
  • India - Mumbai
  • January 2022 to March 2024

• Performing IT risk assessments, conducted GAP analysis against the industry standards and providing
recommendations on.
• Monitor and analyse security events and audit the AWS cloud log trail files.
• Auditing AWS cloud backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Reviewing SOC1 and SOC2 report.
• Quarterly review of compliance level check for cloud database and servers.
• Checking on restricting of direct access to database or servers on cloud.
• Use of AWS IAM to ensure the user permission.
• Conducting reviews to identify risk areas and establish a protocol.
• Working with Internal Audit to maintain compliance of Database.
• Review and refine the patching process and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to identify and address any
gaps, and maintain updated documentation.
• Quarterly publishing Dashboard to higher management and governance Team.
• Facilitate timely regulatory submissions, engage with both internal and external auditors, and ensure the closure
of any observations or findings.

DATABASE AUDITOR at Hcl Technologies
  • India - Mumbai
  • June 2021 to December 2021

• Conducted audits of System, verifying activities complied with procedures and policies.
• Prepared audit reports to highlight issues, liaising with managerial staff and presenting findings to resolve.
• Evaluated work of audit juniors for quality and compliance.
• Reviewed and updated existing audit tests programmes and testing procedures.

INTERNAL AUDITOR AND DATABASE ADMINISTARTOR at Tata Consultancy Services
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2017 to June 2021

Internal Auditor:
• Conducted audits of System, verifying activities complied with procedures and policies.
• Prepared audit reports to highlight issues, liaising with managerial staff and presenting findings to resolve.
• Evaluated work of audit juniors for quality and compliance.
• Reviewed and updated existing audit tests programmes and testing procedures.
Database Administrator:
• Installation of Oracle 11g databases in production, development and test environments depending on project
requirements.
• Setting and managing user management, space management granting required privileges to users.
• Applying upgrade patch, maintenance and interim (opatch) patches on all the databases.
• Creating and assigning appropriate roles and privileges to users depending on the user activity.

L1 DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR at MINDCRAFT SOFTWARE LTD
  • India - Mumbai
  • October 2015 to February 2017

• Involved in the database audit process, working with an audit team, running different scripts and explaining them
the roles of users.
• Involved in user management, creating new user ids, assigning them roles and privileges, monitoring their activity.

PRODUCTION SUPPORT at HDFC BANK LTD
  • India - Mumbai
  • January 2014 to October 2015

• Monitoring and responding to system alerts
• Troubleshooting and resolving system issues

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at University Of Mumbai
  • November 2013
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at University Of Mumbai
  • June 2011

Specialties & Skills

Tripwire
Oracle Database
IT Governance
IT Audit
AWS Cloud
IT Security Risk Management
Teamwork
IT Compliance & Governance

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Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

AWS solution Architect (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2022
ISACA CISM (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2023
ISACA CISA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2023