Sonika Grover Smith

Background

About Sonika Grover Smith

Sonika is MBA qualified risk professional with an exceptional record of over 15+ years of assessing risk and driving compliance projects across a wide range of industry verticals including financial services technology utilities and banking. Sonika has experience working with diverse teams across geographies and a keen interest in understanding and appreciating cultures which help in ‘getting things done’ seamlessly. Sonika has proven success in establishing and implementing the risk strategy onshore and for the Asia Pacific region. She has demonstrated ability in communicating and implementing operational risk strategy to geographically dispersed teams. Sonika is known for her ability to quickly review existing systems find gaps and turn around processes to ensure risk is managed. Her focus is on delivering value to the business by translating complex compliance requirements into tangible actions and to cross-functional partners by way of integrating controls into the processes. Sonika provides a hybrid of ‘Risk Management’ and ‘Project Management’ skills which benefit the business by way of not merely identifying and mitigating risks but building compliance and risk management into the processes using a Project Management approach.