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Information Technology - Technical Professional of the Year
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2024-10-24 14:44:57

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2024-10-24 16:04:16

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2024

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TBE103970

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2024-10-24 06:51:49

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Shiksha Rout

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shiksharout@yahoo.co.in

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Question 1 : Provide a brief description / background of your nominated organizational, departmental, team, or individual circumstance. (Your response to this question will be used for public display if your entry is awarded.)

Shiksha is a highly skilled Risk professional with over six years of focused experience at her company, providing advanced risk assessment and compliance frameworks across a diverse client portfolio, including financial services, banking, healthcare, fintech, and other critical industries. As a CISA and CRISC-certified professional, Shiksha has conducted multi-regional risk engagements, serving clients across Canada, Mexico, Chile, India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Egypt, Cyprus, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Singapore.

Her technical expertise spans core enterprise technologies such as Oracle ERP, Flexcube core banking, SAP, SWIFT payment systems, FTS Paymentsafe, ServiceNow, Windows OS, and SQL database management. Shiksha excels in adapting to client-specific proprietary systems, ensuring seamless integration into existing IT landscapes while maintaining high standards in security controls, system compliance, and audit processes.

Shiksha led end-to-end audit cycles, covering planning, execution, and reporting, along with key project management tasks like resourcing, budgeting, and client communications. She performed QA reviews to ensure audit consistency with regulatory frameworks and conducted control deficiency assessments, root cause analysis, and risk evaluations. Shiksha provided internal control assessments to identify IT gaps, advising on enhancements and regulatory updates. Her expertise includes specialized audit support for system implementations, data migrations, and testing of critical controls such as segregation of duties, privileged access, and change management.

Apart from her technical expertise, she actively mentors High School and Undergraduate Students via the D-180 mentorship’s program under her company's wing since 2018.

Question 2 : Outline your nominated organizational, departmental, team, or individual achievements, dated 1-3 years prior, based on your selected categories.

Lead, supervised and trained high-performance consultants, associates and interns across the team to meet audit quality milestones and objectives.
§ Managed end-to-end audit cycle and phases assigned projects, including planning, execution of the appropriate audit programs, and reporting of the
audit results; also lead other project management tasks, such as resourcing, budgeting, and managing internal and external client communication.
§ Performed first level (QA) reviews of the audit papers to ensure consistency with the audit frameworks, as well as regulatory and statutory
requirements.
§ Perform evaluation of control deficiencies, root cause analysis, and risk mitigating procedures to support the overall audit opinion.
§ Perform internal controls assessments to identify control gaps in the IT environment and advise clients on recommendation for improvements, as
well as, sharing latest regulatory updates and industry trends and leading practices.
§ Contributed and tested specialized audit and/or advisory projects related to system implementation, data migration and acquisition migration of
technologies.
§ Lead the testing of segregation of duties, privileged user access and change management procedures

Question 3 : Provide examples of the strategies / plans you have introduced, in order to attain your nominated organizational, departmental, team, or individual achievements. Explain why the highlighted achievements are significant / unique.

During her tenure at one of Canada’s largest intuitive POS and payments firms, Shiksha Rout spearheaded the implementation of a User Access Review (UAR) system designed to optimize workflows and enhance operational efficiency. The project leveraged advanced access control algorithms and sophisticated data/user mapping methodologies to streamline the audit process. The payment company had been grappling with inefficiencies caused by legacy infrastructure, fragmented application ecosystems, and manual processes, leading to bottlenecks and inaccuracies in key functions across Finance, Compliance, Legal, and Risk departments.
Shiksha Rout’s key responsibility was to lead the execution of the User Access Review (UAR) implementation across more than 40 applications, from initial planning through post-implementation support. She utilized advanced Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems, cloud computing solutions, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) tools while adhering to industry best practices. This involved defining the project scope, selecting optimal business processes, upgrading workflow systems, coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders, managing project timelines and budgets, and ensuring seamless user adoption and integration.
Shiksha initiated the project by performing a thorough system audit and process gap analysis to identify inefficiencies, performance bottlenecks, and security vulnerabilities within the existing infrastructure. Leveraging this analysis, she led a cross-functional initiative, developing comprehensive solution design documentation and conducting iterative pilot sessions with Application Owners to map business requirements to technical capabilities. She produced detailed fit/gap analyses and functional specification documents, which were then transitioned to the technical team for system architecture development. Concurrently, Shiksha collaborated with business stakeholders to define test case scenarios, design test scripts, and prepare user access review (UAR) protocols, ensuring the solution’s readiness for rigorous validation in the post-development phase.

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