Risk Consultant
Cognizant
Total years of experience :12 years, 1 Months
Risk Consultant, Cognizant ' (May 2014 - till date)
Consultant from the risk consulting division of Cognizant with 6 plus years of professional experience. Proactive, result-oriented finance professional with a strong combination of technical and analytical skills. Experience of domain consultancy and business development (proposals and collateral preparation, client presentations) while with the Risk & Compliance practices at Cognizant and Wipro. Excellent understanding of financial risk domain - market, credit & liquidity risk and associated Basel/other regulations.
DOMAIN EXPERIENCE
Liquidity Risk
Business Analyst for Liquidity Risk Program at Leading Global Financial Services
Analyzing the Basel Liquidity Risk regulations and their adoptions across Seoul, Sydney and Singapore branch of the bank.
Market Risk
Business Analyst for Market Risk Report at Mutinational Banking and Financial Services
Built flexible infrastructure to deliver automated Market Risk- Credit Product reports to Risk Managers and Traders and made it scalable to extend it to other Products.
Business Analyst for Quantitative Testing of VaR Calculation at Leading Global Financial Services
Validated VaR and time series calculations for various new risk types from Quantitative perspective by building excel sheets.
Credit Risk Analytics
Business Analyst for IRB PD Model Validation Framework at Indian Multinational IT Services
Worked as a Subject Matter Expert for building in house IRB PD Model Validation Accelerator to: standardize & automate validation procedures and limited off system data manipulation. Created four functional engines and one reporting facility to assess:
(i) Data Quality and Statistical Analysis
(ii) Performance Evaluation and back testing
(iii) Benchmarking
(iv) Exceptions and Override Analysis
(v) Reporting - Model Validation team, Internal Audit team & CRO/Risk managers
CORPORATE CAREER CONTOUR
Cognizant Business Consulting:
Working with Cognizant as Risk Consultant from 5th May 2014 to till date
Key Responsibilities:
Participates in creating GTM collaterals for Cognizant Risk practice
Implementing Liquidity Risk Framework for the bank entities in APAC region
Worked as Business Analyst for creating a Strategic Market risk reporting architecture for Credit product by transforming the complex macros used by Risk Managers to simplified excels for developers to develop BO reports
Trained the development team on Market risk basic concepts
Wipro Technologies:
Working with Wipro Technologies as Risk Analytics Consultant from 6th June 2011 to 2nd May 2014
Key Responsibilities:
Assisted Wipro’s Risk Analytics Director in creating GTM collaterals on Risk Analytics
Prepared the Specification Document for IRB PD Model Validation Framework
Organized demos for Client Partners showcasing Wipro’s capabilities in Model Validation area
Performed Regulatory VaR calculations for various risk types that are currently not part of VaR system
Created training documents on Credit Risk for new joiners
Trained Banking team Business Analysts on SPSS in performing and interpreting univariate analysis, comparison of means, Multiple Regression, Factor Analysis
Managed End to End Bid of formal or informal RFIs and RFPs from existing and prospective Clients in Risk Analytics Domain.
Programmer Analyst, Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd (Jun 2007 - May 2009)
• Re-engineered FX Bookkeeping Application for JPMC from COSMIC Mainframe platform to a web based platform
• SPOC (Single Point Of Contact) from offshore for GDS-STS Reconciliation Application for JPMC
• Responsible for designing smart schema, creating dashboards for user view, assigning user privileges, writing matching criterion, creating workflow tools, system testing, code reviews, documentation and participated in issue resolution activities in GDS-STS Application
Cleared CFA Level 2 Appeared for CFA Level 2 in June 2011
Qualification Institute / Organization Board / University Year % / CGPA MBA NMIMS NMIMS 2011 2.93 / 4
B Tech (IT) Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur Deemed University 2007 82.7 %
XII Saint John's Sr. Sec School, Kota CBSE 2003 80.6 %
X Saint John's Sr. Sec School, Kota CBSE 2001 81.6 %