Akshat Saxena

About Akshat Saxena

Akshat has over 11 years of global experience in fraud technology and cybersecurity risk management. He holds an MBA degree in strategy and business analysis from the Schulich School of Business at York University, a bachelor\'s degree in telecom engineering, and several certifications, including Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Certified: Cloud Fundamentals and Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft and LinkedIn.Akshat\'s areas of expertise in fraud span four areas - fraud strategy, fraud operations, fraud risk mgmt, and fraud solutions implementation. He has helped clients centralize their fraud functions, scale up and accelerate their fraud transformation journey, executed roadmaps, stood up the fraud technology governance forums, performed fraud risk assessments based on OCC & COSO frameworks, helped with fiscal planning and funding management, enhanced the fraud business & loss reporting, helped implement Pega smart dispute (SD) solution and managed business requirements for debit card products. Akshat has expertise in delivering strategic advisory services in enterprise fraud strategy and risk management, cybersecurity risk management, target operating models (TOM), digital transformations, maturity assessments, crown jewels lifecycle management, PMO, and executive reporting. He helps C-suite executives and board members understand and mitigate fraud and cyber risks, secure their financial institutions, and enhance their fraud and cyber risk posture. He excels at building fraud and cyber risk strategies, gaining buy-in from senior stakeholders, and re-envisioning the financial institution\'s defensive position. He is passionate about leveraging technology and innovation to solve complex business problems and deliver value to his clients.

Experience

1. Management Consultant

   Accenture

   May 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   I have joined \'Accenture Strategy\' as a Management Consultant (Management Level: Team Lead). In this global role focusing on Management Consulting within the CFO & Enterprise Value-Risk and Compliance practice, I will have the exciting opportunity to work on fraud strategy and fraud risk advisory engagements for clients worldwide.Key Experience Highlights:• Designed and set up a national-level anti-fraud operations centre for a Central bank in the Middle East• Defined the mandate and blueprint of the Central Bank’s Industry Fraud Prevention Department and Anti-fraud Operation Centre• Designed the proposed technical architecture for two anti-fraud transaction monitoring use cases: a) Mule Accounts solution to track and trace funds and unknown mule accounts; b) Real-time transaction scoring solution for instant payment transactions• Developed a framework for vendor scoring and provided the shortlisted vendors, drafted the full implementation roadmap, developed SOPs, regulatory & risk management framework, and operationalization initiatives• Developed key process maps, governance structure, escalation flow, committee charters, organization structure, roles, responsibilities and headcount, job roles and descriptions• Performed benchmark analysis of the anti-fraud operations centre capabilities for 2 jurisdictions - India and Malaysia

Education

• Schulich School of Business - York University

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Financial Services and Strategy

  2015 — 2017

• Amity University, Noida

  Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering

  2008 — 2012

• St. Mary’s Convent School

  HSC, PCM

  2006 — 2008

Skills

• Teamwork
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• C++
• C
• Business Analysis
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Regression Testing
• Financial Analysis
• Java
• Strategy
• Telecommunications
• Analysis
• Perl
• Microsoft Office
• Ericsson Oss
• Networking
• Team Leadership
• Project Delivery
• Javascript
• Management
• Sql
• Wealth Management
• Integration
• Enm
• Manual Testing
• Eniq
• Business Strategy
• Emc Storage
• Requirements Analysis
• Technology Consulting
• Nms
• Data Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Network Security
• Project Management
• Unix
• Consulting
• Technology Risk
• Sdlc