Work Experience
Maclear-GRC, Chicago, United States
Consultant, Professional Services | August 2016 – Present
Processaids, Rajkot, India
Sr. Manager, Operations | November 2008 – July 2015
Processaids, is a consultant to many of India’s largest manufacturers of cement, energy, engineering and oil & gas companies, providing novel solutions from 3M, ITW, Loctite and CRC Industries for their manufacturing plants. To visit Processaids, please click here.
- Managed planning, developing and reviewing of business controls on semi-annual basis of inventory, vendor risk management and information systems, resulting in reduction of non-compliance by 16%.
- Evaluated environmental market risk and competitive product risk. Achieved zero legality breaches by implementing consistent operational controls ensuring growth of 12% annually.
- Conducted business impact and resource allocation study of service projects worth $1 million.
- Executed SAP Ariba, vendor management service, as part of change management to successfully offer techno-commercial bids worth $1.15 million reducing inquiry response time to 48 hours from 1 week.
- Facilitated in drafting of the Acceptable Use Policy governing the use of IT resources of the organization.
- Performed risk assessment of IT general controls of business processes such as application program configurations, logical access controls, anti-virus management, business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Managed all phases of corporate website design project through System Development Life Cycle using agile model, incorporating a business inquiry module that increased cross sale of products by $1.2 million.
- Supported data migration of mail servers to Google Apps for Work, increasing productivity by 30%.
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd., Mumbai, India
Manager, Corporate Banking | April 2008 – October 2008
- Implemented risk based commercial vehicle mortgage to supply chain clients increasing portfolio by 22%.
- Performed price volatility and impact analysis through core banking financial platform Finacle and issued margin calls to over 400 clients as part of the risk management process, resulting in 8% reduction of NPA.
ICICI Bank Ltd., Mumbai, India
Assistant Manager, Corporate Banking | May 2006 – July 2007
- Audited collateral commodities at 5 bonded warehouses and cold storages with SGS as external auditors.
- Performed SOX compliance at corporate branch as part of annual audit to mitigate operational risk by 24%
Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd, Ahmedabad, India
Management Trainee | May 2005 – July 2005
Worked as a summer intern and participated in the launch of “Panasonic Toughbook” laptops in the Indian market. Shared responsibilities along with core team for product research, meeting prospective channel partners and performing live product demonstrations during media briefings.
ADDITIONAL
- Technical Skills – MS Office, MS Visio, ACL, ERP SAP Ariba, HTML, UML, C, C++, Oracle, SQL
- Member – Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), August 2015 to present
- Member – Institute of Internal Audit (IIA), Philadelphia Chapter, December 2015 to present
- Member – ASCEND, Beta Alpha Psi, Temple University, Philadelphia Chapter, September 2015 to present
- Founding Trustee – Wadhar Foundation, a Charitable Trust engaged in social enlightenment of needy