Associate Vice President (Mar, 2016
–May, 2021) at NatWest Group (Formerly, Royal Bank of Scotland)
• Stakeholder management and team building – Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders in Treasury
including Treasury Markets, RBS Treasury, RBSI Treasury, Commercial & Private Banking Front Line, Audit, and IPV
‒ Attend meetings with PRA and JFSC (New Jersey regulator), and prepare response for regulatory/audit queries
• People management – Set up Treasury Risk in India including four functional areas: Non Traded Market Risk, Market data,
Pension risk, and Liquidity & Funding risk
• Market Data methodology review framework – Defined the framework for reviewing the market data used for VaR
calculations including definition of scope and materiality, review methodology for Credit Spreads, Interest Rate Risk and
FX, backtesting, and proposed a governance framework for future changes
• Developed the model for market risk factor expansion for swap rates, inflation index and cross-currency basis risk saving
the firm GBP 30k per year
• Worked with model validation to declare and review the usage of the legacy VaR model for IRS portfolio including
validation with an alternative approach (parametric VaR)
• Developed the model to capitalize the market risk of strategic and legacy equity positions of the bank
• Developed the methodology for historical data post LIBOR transition for SOFR and ESTR
• Stress testing and Capital – Set up the regulatory and internal stress testing including scope, methodology, policy and
mandatory procedures for NatWest Holdings post ICB in 2019
‒ Pillar 1 capital charge including interpretation of the guidance and methodology
‒ Increased the scope of stress testing to include the hedge ineffectiveness for EBA 2020 exercise
‒ Developed market risk capital optimization tool for the liquidity portfolio
‒ Short term assignment in UK – End-to-end delivery of the first legal entity level market risk ICAAP post ICB
• Non Traded Market Risk (NTMR) – Management of market risk of including defining, monitoring and measuring the risk
‒ Annual review of the Group Risk Appetite along with the Franchise and Legal entity for the key risks such as
gap risk, credit spread risk, pipeline risk, prepayment risk, accounting volatility risk and basis risk
‒ Risk opinion in Treasury ALCO and Board papers on new products and interest rate risk management
‒ Impact analysis on Pillar 2A capital and LAB portfolio from the Coronavirus scenario
‒ Impact of LIBOR transition on market risk management – basis risk and LAB positions