Smita Acharya

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 12+ years in investment banking leadership
  • Expertise in risk and control management
  • Passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Financial Services with a strong focus on Operations and Risk Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementTechnology InfrastructureAudit ManagementReportingTechnology StrategyTeam ManagementReconciliation ManagementControl ImplementationAutomationException ManagementRegulatory Compliance

Other Skills

Project GovernanceCommunicationLarge Scale TransformationFinanceInvestment BankingFinancial ServicesBankingAccount ReconciliationStrategic PlanningManagement

About

I am a self-motivated, energetic and highly adaptable leader with an ability to build and sustain long-term relationships with clients and colleagues. An accomplished professional with 12+ years of wide-ranging experience in the investment banking industry. As a VP I have experience and led multiple teams across Operations, Technology Infrastructure and Internal Audit divisions My expertise lies in all aspects of Operations, Risk & Control Management, Books & Records Reconciliation, Exception Management, Legacy Tool Elimination, New Technology Implementation, End User Computing, Project Management, Disaster Recovery and Contingency Planning, Change and Incident Management, Financial and Expense Planning, Service Delivery and Transformation, Vendor Management and negotiations I have been heavily involved with Senior leadership to Facilitate, Organize and Execute Technology Infrastructure business plans, working with leadership and Technology Infrastructure teams worldwide including BCP strategy planning and success I am extremely passionate and good with analytical and problem-solving skills with capability to synthesize high amount of data to drive business strategies and actionable insights. I have demonstrated a track record of cross-functional stakeholder management and leadership through influence Being a strong independent woman leader with a journey full of challenges, I have always been passionate and played a crucial role in various diversity programs which aims to hire, retain and support talented women to break the glass ceiling and played a part that creates and environment for successful professionals, Also lead the Sports Committee Bengaluru that thrives on employee’s fitness of physical, mental health and overall well-being To summarise, my core competencies include: - Books and Records Reconciliations and project management on automation of the same - Strong operational controls and standards to mitigate the financial and reputational risk - Manage BAU functions globally and cross collaboration - Disaster Recovery and Business Contingency Planning - Senior Management reporting including Audit Committee and Risk Committee Reporting - Strong People Management skill and Thought Leadership - Talent Acquisition, Retention and Career Progression

Experience

Wells fargo

Senior Lead Technology Business

May 2021Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · India

Project GovernanceCommunicationLarge Scale TransformationProject ManagementTechnology Infrastructure

Goldman sachs

5 roles

Senior Vice President

Jun 2018May 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Vice President

Promoted

Feb 2013May 2021 · 8 yrs 3 mos

  • Technology Stratergy Manager & Audit Committee Board Reporting Team Manager
  • Managed 9-member team as part of Reporting and Technology Strategy Office (TSO) in Internal Audit Division, Bengaluru, responsible functionally and team’s career progression
  • The Technology Strategy Office (TSO) is responsible for driving the execution of strategic priorities as defined by the Internal Audit leadership team. TSO works closely with leadership to define objectives of strategic initiatives, identify project risks, communicate technology priorities and execute project-related activities according to plan
  • Responsible for preparing the GS Group Audit Committee (AC) materials as well as for providing key metrics for the Global Audit Director and Internal Audit (IA) Executive and IA Global leadership teams to facilitate audit plan and findings management. Assisted three key annual departmental processes: (1) Risk Assessment (2) Plan Development and (3) Skills Assessment

Project Manager Team Lead

Promoted

Feb 2011Jan 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Managed a team of 4 members who were responsible for migration of key reconciliations of exceptions
  • and control functions of Tokyo trade market
  • Worked on introducing a new control function that resulted in unlocking of ~1$ million client money funds that were caused due to TimeZone difference.

Associate

Promoted

Feb 2010Jan 2011 · 11 mos

  • Led a global project for de-commissioning legacy tools and build a strategic system to automate Exception Management by collaborating with key-stake holders and technology teams, which brought down manual exceptions by 80%.
  • Managed an initiative involving analysis of ~1 million accounts to avoid fraudulent activities, resulting in closure of more than ~18K dormant accounts

Senior Analyst

Jan 2008Jan 2010 · 2 yrs

  • As an operations analyst, was responsible for identifying inter company trade related exceptions across various entities and resolving them.
  • Worked closely with executive management on quarterly risk assessments and SOX process as part of regulatory requirements.

Education

JAIN College

Business

Jan 2006Jan 2008

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