Pankaj KumarDirector, Risk Advisory – Financial Services
Background
- Pankaj is Director with Risk Advisory- Financial Services.
- He is a qualified Chartered Accountant, DISA, CFE and a graduate in Commerce.
Skills
Expert in wide range of service offerings, including:
- Internal audits including SOX, IFC/ICFR, special reviews, quality assessment reviews,
- Regulatory compliance framework like FCA (UK), HMA (Hong Kong), MSA (Singapore)
- Drafting of SOP’s and IA Charters. ITGC and application control reviews
Professional experience
- Pankaj has around 18 years of total experience in Internal Audit, Risk Management, compliance, Internal Controls, Quality Assurance Reviews (QAR) across various Banking, Financial Services and Insurance industries. In his last stint he was heading an Internal Audit team for a US based Fintech. He has led a number of risk management, compliance and other consulting projects for various multinational Banks.
His experience includes:
- He has led various internal audit projects across financial service sector. He has worked with various financial services industries and has in-depth experience across multiple areas including commercial bank, corporate
- banks, retail banks, bank treasury, Investment banking, etc. He has been managing end to end audit lifecycle i.e. from initiation, planning, execution, management reporting and audit committee reporting.
- He has worked on developing robust framework for QAR, benchmarking the same with IIA standards & local regulations for various countries of operation, conducting quality assessment reviews, etc.
- He has worked on implementation of Artificial Intelligence in the Auditing process with the help of inhouse IT team to develop real time monitoring tools to move certain areas on real time audit module.