Indy Kaur-Peterman

About Indy Kaur-Peterman

Indy Kaur-Peterman is a performance-driven, strategic, and process-focused Operational Risk Management Executive, showcasing subject matter expertise in operational risk management, audit and assurance, and program management best practices. She performs risk and compliance reviews in alignment with regulations, policies, and protocols while designing and implementing robust frameworks to manage operational risk. She exhibits 18+ years of transferable experience in cultivating and implementing best-in-class risk management initiatives across Fortune 100 and 500 organizations while optimizing data to improve business processes and operations. She administers consulting and advisory services to valued clientele and stakeholders while devising innovative, scalable, and compliant solutions to streamline operations, mitigate discrepancies, and minimize operational risk. She implements project management tools and best practices to oversee multiple projects simultaneously, utilizing prioritization and time management capabilities to complete initiatives in alignment with requirements.Through dedication towards achieving operational excellence in terms of risk management, Indy displays transferable expertise in designing and implementing operational risk management systems across service portfolios while building mutually beneficial and win-win relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. She earned a winning reputation for monitoring the risk landscape through identifying emerging and future risks while facilitating continuous process improvements and streamlining operations. She possesses a proven track record of success in consistently exceeding business expectations, proposing innovative solutions to optimize operational performance, and thriving within fast-paced, complex, and global work environments. She adapts seamlessly to change by quickly learning new methodologies within rapidly evolving work environments.As an analytical and dynamic professional, Indy crafted leverages advanced capabilities in Microsoft Excel to minimize workforce requirementswhile increasing productivity and efficiency. She utilizes a collaborative leadership style to motivate and empower teams towards achieving organization goals while administering coaching, mentoring, training, and development for employees to exceed target goals. She analyzes operational risks and controls while strategically planning, executing, and evaluating test plans using risk-based methodologies, thus ensuring effective risk coverage across the organization.

Experience

1. Director Operational Risk Officer for Finance, Risk, and Compliance

   BNY

   Jan 2020 — Present · New York, NY, US

   MULTI-DIVISION OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT | SCENARIO ANALYSIS CHANGE MANAGEMENT | RISK IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT• Assume a multifaceted and all-encompassing director role, managing second line of defense functions for organization operations, including corporate finance, risk, and compliance.• Build high-performing team of operational risk officers to administer operational risk management framework, encompassing risk and controls self-assessments, quarterly high-level risk assessments, key risk indicators, operational risk events, scenario analysis, and business process changes.• Manage (5) units, including Finance, Risk & Compliance, Legal, HR, Marketing & Communications.• Serve as a main point of contact between 1st & 2nd line of defense for operational risk management.• Earned increased responsibilities and promotion based on performance excellence.• Utilize transformational and collaborative leadership style to complete large work deliverables.• Employ advanced leadership capabilities to oversee and supervise a diverse global team in India.• Implement operational risk management framework to review and assess applications regarding operational risk management while identifying and executing risk coverage for corporate functions.• Perform an integral role, cultivating robust operational risk management procedures, along with conducting risk identification and assessment across corporate functions.• Track and monitor operational risk issues for business units, along with investigating root causes of risk.• Cultivate and maintain documentation regarding risk management best practices and procedures.• Attain recognition for directing top performing risk management bank units.• Coordinate cross-functionally to achieve business goals and work with senior management to perform accurate operational risk reviews.• Executed strategic business plans to eliminate and mitigate non-financial and operational risks.

Education

• Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya

  Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm.), Business/Commerce, General

  1997 — 2000

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

  Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.), Accounting and Finance

  2013

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Chartered Accountant (C.A.), Accounting and Finance

  2000 — 2004