Stephen Pecchia

About Stephen Pecchia

Summary:I am a Risk Management and Internal Audit executive that helps financial services companies improve their financial and operational resilience by partnering with peers and colleagues to implement and execute programs designed to identify, monitor, and manage risk. An experienced leader that has assembled high functioning teams tasked with the responsibility for driving strategic organizational change to achieve risk mitigation and regulatory compliance. I am a trusted advisor to peers and colleagues in the areas of governance, risk, and compliance.Accomplishments- Developed an innovative cyber resilience plan taking a holistic yet business centric approach that was submitted to the firm’s regulators and is now being implemented- Led the development and maintenance of the recovery and wind-down plans for three systemically important financial market utilities. The plans were approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission- Developed strategic advocacy outreach with various regulators on the topics of financial and operational resilience and cyber resilience and co-authored two white papers on these subjects- Spoke at international FSB and CPMI-IOSCO conferences on CCP Recovery and Resolution and Operational Resilience- Served as a Deputy General Auditor with responsibility for the delivery of advisory and assurance services to all businesses, wholly owned subsidiaries, and joint ventures. Maintained and managed relationships with executive management and senior business leaders to discuss emerging control issues. Led and supported the execution of strategic enterprise risk initiatives, special projects, and controls assessments.Skills and core competencies include:• Internal Audit• Business Partnering• Financial Resilience Planning• Operational Resilience Planning• Continuous Improvement• Mentoring• Talent Development• Risk Assessment• Technical Writing• Team Development• Regulatory Reporting• Business Continuity PlanningContact info:s••••••••@gmail.com34••••••56

Experience

1. Director of Business and Technical Resiliency Oversight

   Fannie Mae

   Oct 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US

   I serve as a subject matter expert in resiliency operational risk management to help lead and drive governance, risk management and project management activities across Fannie Mae\'s second-line of defense Data, Technology, Cybersecurity, and Resiliency (DTCR) Risk Management program. I collaborate with peers to deliver cross-functional, end-to-end risk oversight across all technology related domain areas including applications, infrastructure, business resiliency and data management and work with peers and colleagues to drive effective oversight and challenge of risk management activities. Furthermore, I am responsible for technology-related initiatives for risk oversight, identification, assessment, and monitoring.

Education

• Fordham Gabelli School of Business

  MBA, Information and Communication Systems

  1995 — 1998

• Fordham University

  BS, Inforamation and Communications Systems

  1989 — 1993

Skills

• Executive Management
• Information Security
• Financial Services
• Vendor Management
• Aml
• Risk Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Business Continuity
• IT Management
• Financial Risk
• Operational Risk Management
• Sdlc
• Governance
• Internal Audit
• Disaster Recovery
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Information Security Management
• Operational Risk
• IT Audit
• Derivatives
• Financial Analysis
• Information Technology
• Cisa
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Auditing