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Work History
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Pratik Arora

Pratik Arora

Wroclaw

Summary

Bachelor of science (Information Technology) with certification course in Business Analysis. Passionate professional with 10 years' experience in compliance, technology & IT international stakeholder management. Formulate strategic and operational objectives with data management, project management, operations excellence, and Information security.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Data Protection & Information Security Partner (DSP)

Bosch
10.2023 - Current
  • Developed and upheld comprehensive Security Concept adhering to ISO 27001 standards, ensuring robust regulatory compliance across Bosch.
  • Manage information security needs, risks, and governance for IT Departments.
  • Conducted meticulous internal audits and provided essential support during external audits, reinforcing trust and transparency.
  • Offered expert consulting on Data Classification, GDPR compliance, privacy assessments, incident response, hardware security, national ISP regulations, and access management.
  • Work towards ensuring business practices of departments in line with Internal and external requirements.
  • Risk mitigation, evaluation, and consultation support to avoid major IT breach.
  • Implemented quarterly awareness training sessions on emerging risks and compliance issues, fostering culture of continuous learning.
  • Facilitated creation and revision of Risk Assessments for applications, ensuring up-to-date protection measures.
  • Extensive International and diverse stakeholder management support.
  • Following Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) ideology to make it more effective.

Technical Compliance Officer

Credit Suisse
02.2021 - 09.2023
  • • Spearheaded governance framework oversight, recommended strategic updates, and engaged with key stakeholders for feedback, ensuring continuous improvement and maintenance of framework.
    • Collaborated with Data & Artificial Intelligence Solution Team to facilitate rigorous testing processes, aligning with stakeholder requirements.
    • Managed decision-making process, delivering critical analysis and insights, and effectively escalating production and infrastructure issues to mitigate risks.
    • Contributed to enhancement and execution of global compliance strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
    • Partnered with IT Chief Compliance Office to update processes and system roles, enhancing governance and compliance measures.
    • Implemented and fine-tuned key risk scenarios and use cases, leveraging periodic metric data for informed risk management.
    • Supported deployment of compliance products, reinforcing business controls and operational integrity.
    • Conducted supervisory reviews of Center of Excellence (CoE) team's work, guaranteeing timely and accurate reporting, analysis, and resolution of alerts, with meticulous documentation and record-keeping.
    • Provided expert guidance to business and operations teams on implementation of relevant policies and adherence to regulatory requirements, fostering a culture of compliance.

Team Leader in Financial Compliance Operations and Risk Analysis

SS&C Technologies
06.2020 - 02.2021
  • Team oversees administration of compliance department inclusive of risk analysis.
  • Establishing root cause, analysis and regular feedback with timely SLA and managing KPI to review procedures and training requirements, to prevent recurrence of root cause.
  • Managing team (AOM) productivity of team and work allocation.
  • Gathering, engineering, specifying business requirements to establish an effective process.
  • Managing FCA regulatory monthly reporting for any breach or escalations, promoting productivity, quality standards.
  • Managing liaison between management companies, customers, relationship managers.

Senior Advisor in Operation Management and Global Wealth Solutions

Willis Towers Watson
04.2016 - 09.2019
  • Conducting quality monitoring for key activities across pre-placement, billing and post placement renewal activities.
  • Informing operations about failure areas with SOP adherence and process effectiveness.
  • Analyze large data sets, perform ad-hoc analysis, Work Allocation and Personal KPI maintenance and GAP analysis on basic of past performance and compliance regulatory.
  • Improve operational management systems, processes, and best practices.

Senior Executive in Cash & Treasury Operations

Citibank N.A.
10.2014 - 10.2015
  • To ensure quality delivery of banks' products to clients.
  • Preparing monthly MIS report capturing number of queries reported and resolved.
  • Constantly review processes and identify changes (both process and technology changes)
  • KPI for in house Vendor activity and managing Interest compensation.

Officer in Global Operations Group

ICICI Bank Ltd.
11.2012 - 10.2014
  • Dealing in serving customer in proactive manner handled various privilege segmentation of customer relating to closure of consumer loan service requests.
  • Coordinating with Bank Reconciliation Team in case of doubtful status of cheque for which clearance not received.
  • Data mining, Data cleansing, Data gathering Pan India and KYC rectification of customer.

Education

Certificate - Change Management Prodegree (Business Analysis)

Imarticus Training Institute
Mumbai
06.2018

Post Graduate Diploma in Banking Operations -

Institute For Finance, Banking And Insurance (IFBI)
Mumbai
01.2012

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

G.N Khalsa College, Mumbai University
Mumbai
01.2011

Skills

  • Compliance monitoring and reporting
  • Risk Control
  • Management information reporting
  • Internal controls evaluation
  • Audit Management
  • Ethics and corporate governance
  • ISO 27001
  • Details oriented
  • Team player
  • International stakeholder management
  • Communication
  • Critical thinking
  • Time management and interpersonal

Accomplishments

  • Top 3 , Bosch Ambassador Award 2024.
  • 7 Rave bars winner for the extra "Support" to the team and work.
  • Best Project award to complete "Backdated Project in ICICI Bank"

Additional Information

  • Awareness Project (Bosch)- Creating the SOPs and Project guidelines to streamline whole Awareness system for Bosch Digital.
  • MCN (Multi Cultural Network), Credit Suisse - Heading the MCN for culture exchange, meetups and support to all immigrants when moved to a new country.

Languages

English
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Proficient
C2

Timeline

Data Protection & Information Security Partner (DSP)

Bosch
10.2023 - Current

Technical Compliance Officer

Credit Suisse
02.2021 - 09.2023

Team Leader in Financial Compliance Operations and Risk Analysis

SS&C Technologies
06.2020 - 02.2021

Senior Advisor in Operation Management and Global Wealth Solutions

Willis Towers Watson
04.2016 - 09.2019

Senior Executive in Cash & Treasury Operations

Citibank N.A.
10.2014 - 10.2015

Officer in Global Operations Group

ICICI Bank Ltd.
11.2012 - 10.2014

Certificate - Change Management Prodegree (Business Analysis)

Imarticus Training Institute

Post Graduate Diploma in Banking Operations -

Institute For Finance, Banking And Insurance (IFBI)

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

G.N Khalsa College, Mumbai University
Pratik Arora