Ankit Bhardwaj

About Ankit Bhardwaj

A result oriented professional with 22 years of Banking Financial Services experience covering: Operational Risk & Governance Oversight – Managing Governance Framework, Regulatory Assurance, SOx Controls Testing and Risk Oversight, Controls Assurance, Risk Appetite Reporting and Analysis, BCBS239 Assurance, Risk and Control Assessment, Strategic Planning and Project Management, Stakeholder Management including Internal Audit. Financial Control – Financial Control and Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Reconciliation & Substantiation, Transformation and Transition Management, Strategic Planning and Stakeholder Management

Experience

1. Assistant Vice President

   Barclays

   Feb 2019 — Present · Noida, IN

   Managing a team of controls testers ensuring quality assurance of the controls tested for operational and technology controls for different payment schemes under Bank of England.\\\\n•Defining the scope of regulatory attestations as per the code of conduct provided by payment schemes annually that covers different technical and operational requirements to mitigate risks.\\\\n•Conducting the oversight of scheme control requirements complied by technology and operations control owners.\\\\n•Providing delivery of a highly visible, business focused and pragmatic operational risk agenda to ensure compliance with Barclays’s policies and standards consistently across the teams.\\\\n•Guiding and coaching the control testers to aid the resolution of business risk and control issues and setting ‘right first-time culture’.\\\\n•Provide independent control oversight by assuring the production and maintenance of Risk and Control Assessments (RCSA), Risk Event reporting, and supporting issue remediation\\\\n•Provide teams with delivery of a highly visible, business focused and pragmatic operational Risk agenda to ensure compliance with Barclays policies, standards, frameworks and procedures consistently across the teams\\\\n•Establish and maintain an effective risk culture through regular risk and control trainings, effective governance around timely closure of control issues, review processes and lead remediation of any identified control gaps. Identifying opportunities for automation of manual controls\\\\n•Engagement with key stakeholders within the Operations, Technology, and relevant Business Units both in India and outside of India but not limited to Internal Audit, External Audit and Compliance\\\\n•Understanding of the regional operational and regulatory environment and its impact leading to proactive assessment of regulatory exposure and supporting management in escalating concerns\\\\n•Identify, report and manage Operational risk events and resulting issues/actions for management visibility and awareness.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Education

• Delhi University

  B.Com (P)

  1992 — 1995

• Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

  PGDBM, Finance

  2003 — 2006