
Amy Patel
Operations Risk Manager
Summary
With eleven years of operational oversight and project management professional experience within a Big 4 accounting firm, two Investment Banks and a passion of helping others. The depth of my experience offers you opportunity to hire a seasoned banking professional – one who can bring operations strategic initiatives, client relationship building and working in projects with tense deadlines to your team to have a running start into the role providing efficiency and productivity.
Experience
Operations Risk Manager
Morgan Stanley & Co. / NEW YORK
Primary go-to contact for the Chief Operating Officers, Sales & Trading employees, Desk Heads and supervisors to address escalations and ad hoc fire drills to ensure adherence to firm policies and procedures as First Line of Defence (Front Office Risk)
Spearhead quarterly meetings with COOs and Desk Heads to discuss metrics in depth to identity and enhancement gaps in risk
Daily operational oversight and supervision over teams in NY, Ireland and Mumbai [12 employees] to ensure completion and accuracy of tasks performed, and lead biweekly meetings to ensure accuracy and efficiency of tasks
Project manage global IT development for Risk’s Dashboard to comply with regulatory and audit requests and redesign the platform to satisfy firm requirements
Risk and Governance Manager - COO office
Barclays / New York, NY
Design, implement and monitor internal control testing, Global IB review based on Regulatory requirements by writing reports for senior management, scripting testing strategies based on the business area’s implemented controls, and providing input on the most effective and efficient testing approach
Project manage the internal control testing by directing the planning, designing, production and management of testing under strict deadlines
Administer team meetings and one-on-one interviews during internal control review with business process owners, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls based on Control Inventory, documentation and Reporting