Lakshmi Gupta

About Lakshmi Gupta

Summary:Experienced in Third-Party Risk Management and Strategic Sourcing within global banking and consulting environments. • Proven ability to conduct Service Risk Evaluations (SRE) to identify operational, regulatory, and data security risks across vendor engagements. • Skilled in vendor onboarding, supplier evaluation, and risk governance, ensuring compliance with enterprise risk frameworks. • Hands-on experience reviewing Supplier Questionnaires (SQs), Supplier Control Obligations (SCOs), and risk documentation to validate supplier controls. • Strong collaborator with procurement, legal, compliance, and business stakeholders to support compliant vendor contracting and governance. • Experience preparing business approvals, tax engagement risk documentation, and legal risk assessments for high-value vendor contracts. • Adept at maintaining risk trackers, governance documentation, and sourcing project oversight to support effective third-party governance. • Passionate about strengthening vendor risk frameworks, improving sourcing processes, and enabling secure third-party partnerships.Specialties/known applications: MS-office, SAP, Oracle, Ariba, CRM, My-order, Process unity, Service now, Power BI

Experience

1. Sourcing Manager and Risk Utility Specialist

   Deloitte

   Sep 2025 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Responsibilities( Contractual Role)• Performed Service Risk Evaluations (SRE) for third-party services to identify operational, data security, regulatory, and compliance risks prior to vendor onboarding • Collaborated with suppliers to complete Supplier Questionanaires(SQ’s) and Supplier Control Obligations(SCO’s to assess whether vendors have appropriate controls in place to mitigate identified risks.• Review vendor responses to risk questionnaires, supplier evaluation activities to ensure all required documentation was validated before execution of vendor contracts• Partnered with procurement, legal, commercial, compliance, and business teams to review vendor engagements and prepare legal risk reports for contracts exceeding GBP 100K.• Prepared business approvals and risk documentation for tax engagements, outlining key risk considerations for review by compliance and internal stakeholders• Evaluated service risk exposure and assigned risk ratings (Important/High/Medium/Low)based on Barclays risk framework• Maintained risk trackers, governance documentation, and sourcing project updates, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk management policies• Supported supplier performance monitoring, and risk remediation activities to strengthen third-party risk governance• Contributed to sourcing and vendor management initiatives with a strong focus on risk mitigation, compliance adherence, and stakeholder alignment

Education

• Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Marketing and Human Resource Management(HR)

• Neo Convent Senior Secondary School, Paschim vihar

  High School Diploma, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

• Maharishi Dayanand University Rohtak

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

Skills

• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• C++
• Talent Acquisition
• Social Media
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Windows
• Abap(Sap)
• Customer Service
• Project Management
• Human Resources
• Java
• Core Java
• Accounts Payable
• Change Management
• C
• Html
• Vendor Management
• Recruiting
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Office
• Javascript
• Teamwork
• Team Management
• Management
• C,C++ and Java
• Data Analysis