Rashmi Rajagopal

About Rashmi Rajagopal

As a Vice President at HSBC, I am responsible for overseeing and managing data privacy and risk across the organization, ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal standards, and providing advisory and guidance to the first line of defense. I have over fifteen years of experience in the financial services industry, with a focus on data protection, surveillance, operational risk resilience, and risk assessment (RCSA)I hold an Executive MBA from IIM Calcutta, a Bachelor\'s degree in English Literature from Christ University, and a Risk Nanodegree from HSBC. I am also an ICA certified compliance professional and a Lean certified practitioner. I have developed and led multiple teams, as well as collaborated with global and regional stakeholders, to deliver effective and efficient solutions for data privacy and risk mitigation. My goal is to leverage my skills and expertise to help HSBC achieve its strategic objectives and maintain its reputation as a trusted and responsible financial institution.

Experience

1. Vice President

   HSBC

   Jun 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Providing technical advice/ support globally to ensure stakeholders understand and are aware of the control environment & assessment of Data Operational riskRisk Identification, Analysis and Assessment of Enterprise / Operational RisksPerforming targeted deep dive into material or emerging/unknown risk areas due to a change in threat profile or business strategy, to enable structural risk response or remediationManaging issues/events as it occurs, perform root cause analysis and lessons learnt, remediate vulnerabilities, reduce exposures, fix gaps to improve control environmentAdvising 1LOD Business & Functions teams to ensure risk control owners have clear understanding of the effectiveness of control environmentMonitoring external regulatory environment to get early sight of emerging Data risks,regulatory changesDelivering tailored & specific expertise on Data / Operational aspects enabling 1LOD to successfully deploy/operate mitigating key controls and change within their businessPerforming review & challenge activities as part of 2LOD risk management, oversight on issues, event and incidents including specialist oversight of technical controlsProvide support in completion of ERM and regulatory reporting obligations (RAS, top & emerging risks, risk profile reporting, Opinion papers)Engaging with risk owners, control owners & risk stewards to ensure risks are managed in accordance to policyOverseeing compliance, through the RCSA process, Top Risk Assessments Incident Management processChallenging the 1LOD & influencing to ensure Risk specialist advice & guidance is understood & followed by working in conjunction with Business & Functions teamEstablishing workflows by building, and maintaining effective processes / DOIs to perform Risk Assessments, Risk Monitoring and Risk AdvisoryRisk Steward for:Data Privacy and Retention Risk Data Management Data IntegrityEnterprise Risk ManagementData GovernanceBad dataData confidentialityBCBS 239RCSA

Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

  Executive MBA, Finance, General

  2014 — 2015

• International Compliance Association

  ICA Certificate in Compliance, Regulatory Compliance

• Christ University, Bangalore

  Bachelor's degree, English Language and Literature/Letters

  2006 — 2009

• HSBC

  RISK NANODEGREE, RISK AND TECHNOLOGY

  2018 — 2019