Santosh Guru

About Santosh Guru

I am a senior Risk & Governance leader with over 20 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry, currently serving as Vice President – Risk Management at Barclays. My expertise spans credit and market risk management, Basel risk transformation, governance, strategy, regulatory compliance, and audit. I specialize in designing, executing, and optimizing enterprise-wide risk frameworks and regulatory controls that protect business growth, improve operational resilience, and strengthen governance maturity. I lead the development of risk systems, analytics, and reporting structures for senior management, regulators, global stakeholders, and I partner closely with business units to embed governance, controls, compliance culture, and risk-based decisioning. With extensive experience managing credit risk, stress testing, capital adequacy, derivatives, and policy frameworks. I collaborate with regulators, internal audit, and cross-functional teams to ensure adherence to governance standards, address emerging risks, and translate regulatory expectations into actionable and measurable business outcomes. As a leader, I believe in building high-performing teams, fostering effective communication and stakeholder alignment, and driving operational excellence through governance, transparency, and accountability. I am passionate about enabling organizations to scale responsibly, navigate regulatory complexity, and strengthen their risk posture to deliver sustainable growth. I am now focused on expanding my contribution in senior leadership roles such as Head of Risk Governance or Chief Risk Officer, where I can leverage my experience to drive enterprise strategy, governance transformation, and long-term business value.

Experience

1. India Lead Governance, Risk & Compliance (Financial Crime) Control

   Barclays

   Oct 2024 — Present · Pune, IN

   Responsible for overseeing and strengthening the organization’s risk management, compliance, and governance framework related to financial crime. This leadership role ensures adherence to regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry best practices, while driving initiatives to prevent, detect, and respond to financial crime risks across the organization.Key Responsibilities:Lead the development and implementation of governance, risk, and compliance frameworks for financial crime, including transaction monitoring, sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML), fraud, and anti-bribery & corruption controls.Provide strategic direction and leadership to local teams, ensuring alignment with global compliance standards and regulatory expectations.Partner with business units to design and implement controls mitigating financial crime risks while supporting business objectives.Drive awareness, training, and culture of compliance across the organization.Monitor regulatory developments and advise management on the potential impact on business operations.Lead investigations of financial crime incidents, liaising with regulators and law enforcement as needed.Serve as a key point of contact for internal and external audits, ensuring timely and effective remediation of findings.Led risk assessments, monitoring, issue remediation and compliance governance.Key interface to regulators, internal audit, and law enforcement agencies.Established remediation programs and governance reporting for senior leadership.Improved controls maturity and audit-readiness.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  Microelectronics

  2002 — 2005

• Jyoti Vihar University

  MCA, Computer

  1999 — 2002

Skills

• Financial Markets
• Trading
• Investment Banking
• Fixed Income
• Operational Risk Management
• Equity Derivatives
• Credit Risk
• Fx Options
• Hedge Funds
• User Acceptance Testing
• Fx
• Credit
• Swaps
• Finance
• Electronic Trading
• Bloomberg
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Trading Systems
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Foreign Exchange (Fx) Options
• Options
• Pdrv
• Requirements Analysis
• Analysis
• Sdlc
• Derivatives
• Middle Office
• Financial Analysis
• Portfolio Management
• Panorama
• Capital Markets
• Management
• Business Analysis
• Equities
• Banking
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• Financial Risk
• Credit Derivatives