Founded an ‘Entrepreneurial Venture’ to provide innovative solutions to customers seeking to improve the efficiency of operational, financial and technology risk management frameworks for business processes and seeking independent reviews of their risk financing options. Risk Quotient has grown and successfully executed assignments for MNCs in the Oleochemical and Financial Services markets in South East Asia, US and EU.

Member of global Supply Chain practice, with a talented Energy Natural Resources and Utilities team, with a mission to provide innovative market solutions for a full range of Downstream Supply Chain challenges.

Rakesh worked on several complex multi-million dollar projects initially in EU and later on Global SAP Roll Outs in different geographies. Primary responsibilities included being embedded as a member of SAP project teams to conduct a thorough analysis of the newly designed business processes together with key stakeholders. Rakesh helped successfully conceptualise, design, build, test and implement operational and financial risk mitigation frameworks to reduce the ‘risk of failure’ of these business processes. In addition to emphasizing the ‘automation’ of manual activities, the focus was on deploying a set of Key Risk Indicators to provide an ‘early’ warning of operational challenges to make the solution sustainable.

SOX Lead with 120 professionals in the team across 3 locations in Malaysia and UK, tasked to make the Global SAP system SOX compliant.

Rakesh led a team of professional consultants to market, design, build and implement Operational and Financial Risk Management frameworks for Energy Clients.

Statutory Audits, Due diligences for M&A, Founding Member of Outsourced Internal Audit Team

Rakesh joined the London offices of Saffery Champness, a 40 partner UK firm with 400 staff in the UK. Successfully completed a 4 year training program to qualify as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants England & Wales with first time passes at professional exams.