Advisory Risk Management Manager
CurrentProvides advisory consulting services to top-tiered financial institutions in areas including enterprise risk, operational risk, credit risk, internal audit, QC/QA and regulatory compliance, etc. including working with internal and external auditors (e.g. Corporate Audit Services, OCC, FRB, etc.) Consistently exceeding expectations leading teams of consultants on various client engagements. • Stood up a credit file review testing program for a client to ensure consumer mortgage credit and underwriting practices adhere to the bank’s loan policies. Provided recommendations and detailed reports with metrics to help the client to easily identify future deficiencies. • Managed teams of examiners who audited and evaluated third party vendors for compliance with federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations, and internal bank policies and procedures. Ensured quality and testing timelines are met along with continuous training of the team. Authored a Policies and Procedures Handbook for the client in order to answer to regulators as well as facilitate future staff training.• Served as Project Manager within a client’s default mortgage servicing department’s First Line of Defense (FLoD). Responsible for change management managing areas around risk management self-assessments, issues identification, validation, tracking, and remediation• Successful client work requires top notch communications, organizational, and other soft skills to frequently navigate through client corporate cultures, complex organizational structures, and working with various staff levels including C-suites, senior executives, managers/supervisors and individual contributors in order to contribute to sustainable client deliverables • Received the KPMG Encore Award within 3 months with the firm • Promoted within one year of joining the firm