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Bahrain

Bahrain

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Responsible for performing risk assessments on all departments that includes, but not limited to: Application, IT Infrastructure & Third Party / Vendor.• Analyze the identified risks and assign risk ratings abiding the Group policy. Consult with business to develop corrective action plans.• Maintain the IT Risk register, Control catalogue, Issue management track records, Policy and Procedures.• Work closely with CISO, CIO and all IT heads and ensure IT Information Security awareness among all IT teams.• Represent the IT team as the First Line of Defense during internal and/or external audit and ensure to remediate the audit findings and recommendations. Close coordination with Second and Third Level of Defense.• Hands on experience on the banking regulatory requirements (liaising audits and performing IT security assessments) across MEA region viz.: CBB; SAMA; CBK; CBUAE (NESA); QCB; SARB and ECB (that includes JST).• Track non-conformities or observations raised by the internal / external auditors with relevant stakeholders.• Proven track record in drafting, assessing and ensuring the control design and effectiveness.• Periodic IT control assessments (I&P – monthly controls and OPC – biannual controls), following up on the mitigation plan.• Responsible for conducting IT Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) for the region.• Key role in driving the Shadow and Light IT Program across all businesses in the MEA region.• Responsible for executing security metrics (KPI / KRI, dashboards, etc.) for various Board level Committees / forums.• Defined & implemented several Information Security Standards – Procedure, guidelines and SOPs.

Manama, Capital Governorate, Bahrain

• Key team player in the IT & Cyber risk management team responsible for performing Application, Infrastructure & Third Party risk assessments across MEA region.• Represent the IT team as the First Line of Defense during internal and/or external audit and ensure to remediate the audit findings and recommendations.• Hands on experience on the banking regulators regulatory requirements (liaising audits and performing IT security assessments) across MEA region viz.: CBB; SAMA; CBK; CBUAE (NESA); QCB; SARB and ECB• Proven track record in drafting, assessing and ensuring the control design and effectiveness.• Key role in driving the Shadow and Light IT Program across all businesses in the MEA region.• Performed datacenter access reconciliation across region.• Conducted periodic security awareness trainings for IT and Business Operations on needed basis. • Gathered, analyzed and logged the IT Historical Incidents based on the Group’s (Head office) criteria using dedicated tool (HI360) and followed up of associated action plans.• Responsible for preparing security metrics for various Board level Committees / forums.• Maintained the IT Risk register, Control catalogue, Issue management track records, Policy and Procedures.

Chennai Area, India

• Standardized all the GIS procedures and Policies as per the defined framework for Standard Chartered Bank.• Ensured all the GIS processes, procedures/SOPs and guidelines are classified as per the bank’s policy and procedures.• Worked with various stakeholders across such as Business, IT and other internal functions.• Responsible for ensuring correct, complete and up-to-date information based on organizational, legal and regulatory requirement.• Ensured the alignment of procedures, guidelines and process documentations with respective Policies.• Performed IT security control gap assessment based on ISO27001 and NIST Cyber security framework (CSF).• Planned and conducted security awareness trainings for new hires and existing employees.• Established and maintained the Control Library for Group Information Security.

Chennai Area, India

• Ensured software compliance in line with Organizational Security and regulatory requirement• Experienced in liaising with third parties on Software procurement and maintenance.• Reconciliation activities through Industries best practices.• Prepared and published monthly dashboard to the Senior Management Team.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Analyzed & categorized IT risks identified across EMEA region across all processes within General Electronics EMEA.• Implementation & design of procedures on Governance Risk Framework.• Prepared Business Impact Analysis and was an active member in the BCP corporate team.• Preparing monthly review dashboards to the Senior Management Team.• Played an important role in Software Asset Governance across EMEA region.

Chennai Area, India

• Conducted operational risk assessments for retail and credit card business operations for CapitalOne Bank, US.• Performed Application Risk assessments.• Access Administration, periodical access review and reporting.• Monitoring multiple mailboxes that address various queries regarding the Access Controls; Production Management and fulfill the request related to workspace access. • Reviewed privileged user actions in Credit card application which allows the privileged users to view and potentially update non-public personal information (NPI)• Reviewed password parameter settings and unsuccessful logon attempts as per Password policy metrics.

Chennai Area, India

• Reviewed and scrutinized the required final documents for the loan disbursement• Core process involved loan decision - approving / Rejecting and giving final recommendation on the loan.• Verify borrower’s income documents along with their DTI.

Chennai Area, India

• Documents verification at the secondary level and checking the Funds availability in the Dummy Accounts• Checking the customer’s credibility through anti-money laundry checks• Involved in opening bank accounts and issuing Credit cards• Activating Money Transfers; Cheque Lodgments; Clearing Queries from the customer and retaining the customer.

Master'S Degree, Cyber Forensics And Information Security, First Class

Master’S Degree, Ancient History And Archaeology

Bachelor'S Degree, History

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