managing director, BANKING
Email: kmehra@accumepartners.com
K.D. is the Managing Director for Banking in New York. He has
over 25 years of experience in bank operations, audit management,
BSA/AML and regulatory compliance. He has extensive experience
managing internal audit and overseeing internal audit plans,
internal audit programs and audit workpapers. K.D. is responsible
for overseeing all banking client relationships in New York. In
this capacity, he meets regularly with the Board of Directors,
Audit Committees, Audit Committee Chair and executive
management of financial institutions clients, as well as with their
regulators and external auditors. K.D. interacts closely with the
Senior Audit and Head Office Management for international banking
clients.
K.D. leads engagements at domestic and international banks,
including BSA and other compliance audits. He is responsible for
regulatory compliance across US offices, interfacing with
regulators and training staff across offices on regulatory
compliance issues. K.D. reviews and updates various audit programs,
including BSA/AML, Trade Finance, Treasury Operations, etc. He
designed an audit program for BSA/AML and Federal and State
Regulatory Compliance for a money services business.
Prior to Accume, K.D. was a Regional Head of Banking, where he
implemented organizational reorganization and established internal
reporting and control procedures. He also implemented business
planning and reporting, risk assessment procedures, an internal
audit program and coordinated and implemented a plan for migration
of branches to new application software. K.D. is also the former
Vice President of BSA/AML for the US region of a financial
institution, responsible for formulating policies and procedures
and overseeing implementation, introducing procedures for
self-testing by branch compliance officers and conducting AML
self-audits at offices, determining parameters for risk assessment
of customers and AML monitoring and due diligence procedures.
Previously, he was also the former Regional Head of Technology,
responsible for project implementation and support and training
users and system administrators on the system issues.
K.D. is a Certified AML Specialist (CAMS) and a Certified
Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM). He is certified in
programming. K.D. is a BSA/AML Trainer and has also written several
articles on BSA/AML and related matters. He is a member of the
Association of Certified AML Specialists, Institute of Certified
Bankers, Institute of Internal Auditors and Association of
International Bank Auditors. He is a graduate of the University of
Lucknow in India (M.S., Physics; B.S., Statistics).