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Sahil Chopra

Experienced Risk Manager adept at working and performing well in rapidly changing business environments. A self-starter with logical and solution based approach to given tasks. Manage and analyze all sorts of financial and non-financial risks and propose solutions to minimize them. Proven ability to implement risk and non-risk projects over past 5 years 

Key Skills

Solution based approach
Interpersonal Skills
Process Analysis
Value addition
Process Improvement
Operational Excellence

Professional Experience

Aug 2015
Present
Risk Manager
LeasePlan India Gurgaon, IN
  • Manage, mitigate, and monitor areas of current and potential financial risks, including asset risk, credit risk and liquidity risk. 
  • Assess, monitor and report non-financial risk including Operational risk, Information security, legal and compliance risks  
  • Established robust risk management framework with improvement in reporting and governance along with demarcation of various lines of defense 
  • Formulate, propose and present relevant mitigating strategies on asset risk, credit risk along with non-financial risks to functional owners and senior management
  • Lead the organisational Risk Committees to assess, monitor, measure, and report both financial and non-financial risks impacting the business
  • Risk-control & self-assessment (RCSAs) in collaboration with first line of defense to identify & assess key risks in business processes & formulate mitigation strategy 
  • Operational Risk Management: Reporting of operational risk incidents, highlight lapse in process, impact of operational risk incidents on P&L, along with propsoed mitigating actions
  • Liaising with Internal Audit, Group Audit partners, internal functions for a successful & timely completion, oversee implementation of actionable by senior management derived from audit findings 
  • Drive process improvement projects such as LEAN, MBO, Data Quality Improvement and First Time Right 
Jan 2014
Aug 2015
Analyst
CRISIL Gurgaon, IN
  • Executing and assigning credit rating for medium sized entities, SMEs and Micro Finance Institutions (MFI) operating in India
  • Analysing past and current financial statements, projecting future financial performance, analysing key financial ratios along with business model and evaluating management experience and performance
  • Corresponding and communicating with owners, managing directors and key management personnel to understand the business and revenue model, management experience
  • Presenting credit ratings reports and MFI grading assignments to the rating committee incorporating key performance measures, such as financial performance, ratio analysis as well as management and companys profile.
  • Drafting credit rating reports and finance grading reports and conveying the rating assigned to the client. 
Jan 2012
Mar 2013
Analyst
PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon, IN
  • Assessing and evaluating key business processes such as buying and sourcing, inventory management, sales and distribution and finance and accounts 
  • Identifying risks such as financial risk and operational risk by studying data using MS Excel and to determine the financial impact of inadequate risk management and internal control gaps. 
  • Advising management on how to minimize/control risks while benchmarking current process flows with best practices in the industry to align the internal controls of the organisation with industry standards. 
  • Analysing organisations ERP (SAP, Oracle etc.) data as well as  in-house management information systems
May 2010
Jun 2010
Management Trainee Program
PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon, IN
  •  Conducted primary and secondary research on potential targets for leading offshore client looking for entry into Indian textile industry 
  • Research and analysis on capacity, revenues model, financial statements, and other important developments of potential targets 
  • Prepared company profiles including information such as products, shareholding pattern, revenues and profits, production capacity and basic financial ratios.

Education

Apr 2009
May 2010
Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Services in
University of Pune
Apr 2009
May 2011
Post Graduate Diploma in Management in Sinhgad Business School

Achievements

2015
Implementation of Risk Framework
  • Expanded Risk Management function from tick-box to a robust monitoring & controlling function, including implementation of Risk Governance & Reporting practices, development of local Risk policies & procedures, along with formulation of Internal Control framework for key processes 
2017
Global Accelerator Award
  • Awarded for project management and implementation of best practices while transition from VAT to GST
  • Saved approximately 500 vehicles from early termination basis transition strategy and advisory to clients via Commercial team 

Hobbies & Interests

  • Comics
  • Cooking
  • Traveling

Languages

English
(Fluent)
Hindi
(Fluent)

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