Vice President
Fiserv
Total years of experience :26 years, 3 Months
Finance, Risk, Cyber Security & Analytics - Fiserv Audit & Advisory
Fiserv is a FORTUNE 500 company that offers technology solutions to the financial world, including banks, credit unions and securities processing organizations. It provides account processing systems; electronic payments processing products and services, such as electronic bill payment and presentment, card-based transaction processing and network services.
Selected achievements include:
• Leading various audit and advisory projects - finance, operations, compliance and IT security.
• Leading the data analytics transformation program to enhance analytics capabilities with a focus on audit efficiency and business insight.
• Leading the finance transformation advisory effort, with a focus on efficiency and cost reduction.
• Monitoring business risk and developing related strategies to assess the control framework in relation to risks.
• Serving as a trusted advisor on regulations, risk and operational matters to various business units.
• Identifying meaningful recommendations and enabling related change.
• Present periodic reports to the Audit Committee and management summarizing results of audit and advisory activities.
• Managing a team of professionals with diverse skills, to ensure the proper execution of the audit and advisory strategy across multiple businesses.
Senior Manager responsible for strategic leadership, business development, client delivery, change management, analytics and management of the overall function. As the senior manager in charge of the Financial Services Risk Management (FSRM) team, I grew the portfolio of services provided to leading global financial institutions. Specifically, I advised numerous clients, including large banks and insurance firms, on BSA/AML, OFAC/Sanctions risk, FATCA, CRS, FCPA and compliance matters, including risk assessments, technology assessments, operating model assessments and independent reviews. In addition, I led various engagements to enable the integration and fulfilment of Enterprise Risk policy and practices
Client projects
• Working strategically with the business, pioneered analytical capabilities to mine data that enabled better decision-making.
• Working with the regulator, led a project to review oversight functions for a Bank, with a focus on risk management, finance, internal audit and compliance.
• Implemented Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) technology.
• Led a project to review the M&A strategy for a company including the post-merger integration process.
• Streamlined the finance and planning process including a root-cause analysis of missed forecasts to budget.
• Transformed business results by aligning the finance team with business functions and reduced costs through process and system improvements, new organizational structure and a shared services delivery model.
• Led multiple projects to implement new accounting standards and assist on critical issues arising from changes in accounting standards and regulatory requirements, new business activities and business acquisitions.
• Strategically transformed the SOX execution process through control rationalization/optimization.