Nirupama
Suryanarayanan
Nirupama is a Principal in PwC’s Financial Crime Unit Technology practice with over 13 years of experience in compliance, risk management and analytics. She has worked with clients in banking, capital markets, asset management and insurance sectors. Prior to joining PwC, Nirupama has assisted financial institutions with their pricing strategy and leverage analytics and technology to define product strategy.
Nirupama has led multiple engagements at large global financial to improve efficiency of compliance program, developing advanced technology solutions and improving the efficiency of their operations processes by leveraging machine learning and advanced analytics. She led multiple transaction monitoring and sanctions optimization and alert review engagements involving assessing the quality of data feeding from source system to monitoring system, defining data governance requirements and the controls, testing of model logic, developing risk-based models leveraging machine learning, customer risk scoring models, threshold optimization, automation of manual processes and investigations. Nirupama has also assisted clients with the regulatory review and remediations of their financial crime, and model development and governance programs.
Nirupama has a Masters in Information Systems and Management with a concentration in Data Analytics and Finance from Carnegie Mellon University. Her prior experience in modelling and statistical analysis also includes developing credit risk and loan pricing models.