Enterprise risk, credit, compliance, and digital banking advisory — grounded in 35+ years across capital markets, commercial lending, treasury, and Third-Party Risk Management at top-tier U.S. financial institutions.
Financial services doesn't tolerate generic risk advice. Basel III/IV, FFIEC, SOX-ITGC, NYDFS, OCC heightened standards, FRB SR letters, anti-money-laundering, fraud, ratings agency expectations, and the credit cycle itself — each demands specialized fluency. Generic ERM templates fail here.
OfficeBeat's finance vertical is led by senior practitioners with documented track records at banks of every size, capital-markets infrastructure, payments, and asset management. We translate regulatory complexity into board-ready decisions and operating-ready controls — without slowing the deal pipeline.
Targeted, fixed-fee engagements that ship in weeks — not the open-ended retainer model. Each starts with a 2-week diagnostic.
Portfolio strategy, counterparty modeling, PD/LGD/EAD calibration, stress testing, concentration analytics, and CECL/IFRS9 implementation support.
Stand-up or refresh of ERM frameworks — risk taxonomy, appetite, KRIs, board reporting, and integrated governance aligned to COSO ERM and ISO 31000.
NIST CSF maturity, FFIEC CAT alignment, Zero Trust architecture, incident-response playbooks, and cyber-insurance readiness.
Vendor tiering, due-diligence workflows, ongoing monitoring, renewal & offboarding controls. Designed for regulator scrutiny without strangling procurement.
ServiceNow IRM, Archer, MetricStream — selection, implementation, content design, and operationalization. Reduce manual monitoring up to 70%.
OCC, FRB, FDIC, NYDFS, SEC — pre-exam diagnostics, MRA / MRIA response, formal-action remediation, and SOX-ITGC support.
Origination platform diligence, workflow modernization, underwriting workbench design, and risk-aware product launches across small business through middle-market.
Treasury services digital strategy, cash management modernization, payments rails diligence, FX & liquidity risk frameworks, and treasury operations risk & controls.
Operating model design, agile delivery enablement, vendor portfolio rationalization, and modernization of core platforms with risk built in.
Pre-LOI risk diagnostic, IT & cyber due diligence, integration risk planning, day-1 / day-100 readiness, and post-merger control rationalization. Both buy-side and sell-side.
Risk-informed strategic planning, growth-portfolio prioritization, enterprise governance framework design, and board-level decision support across capital deployment, M&A, and digital investment.
Interim CRO / CISO, board & audit-committee prep, regulator engagement, and crisis incident command — engaged by the month for moments that don't justify a full-time hire.
Trading-floor risk, post-trade operations, market infrastructure (CLS-style settlement), liquidity, intraday exposure, and OMS/EMS platform risk. Direct CLS Bank experience.
First-party / third-party fraud taxonomy, controls design across payments and lending, fraud-loss reporting, model tuning, and customer-friction trade-off analysis.
Identity & access management strategy, privileged access reviews, Zero Trust segmentation, SOC operating-model design, and security tooling rationalization.
Risk-aware cloud strategy, control baselines for AWS / Azure / GCP, FedRAMP-adjacent posture for regulated workloads, and cloud-vendor concentration risk frameworks.
Strategic vendor segmentation, RFP design, contract structure with risk clauses, ongoing performance & risk monitoring, and concentration / single-point-of-failure analysis.
For trust banks, fintechs, and traditional banks entering digital-asset services: custody risk, AML for crypto, market infrastructure diligence, and supervisory-expectation alignment (OCC, NYDFS BitLicense).
Extracted from 35+ years of finance practice. If it's not on this list, ask — chances are we've seen adjacent.
Founder & CEO, OfficeBeat LLC — 35+ years in information technology, capital markets, enterprise IT, and Risk Management.
Amit is widely recognized for his strategic vision, transformational leadership, and consistent delivery of excellence across capital markets, enterprise IT, and Risk Management. He has been instrumental in delivering robust portfolio management solutions and enterprise governance frameworks across Commercial Lending, Treasury Solutions, Digital Banking, IT, Security, Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), and Corporate Strategy.
Amit's skillfully and patiently led our leadership team through the ERM process, despite initial skepticism from some members. He understood our business and tailored the program specifically to our organizational context. The leadership team found the process genuinely valuable and transformative in focusing on the issues that truly matter most to our long-term success.
The fact that we instituted a formal ERM program directly contributed to our ability to achieve a significantly higher credit rating. That improved rating reduced our total bond interest expense by over $2 million — a direct, quantifiable return on our investment in enterprise risk management. The ROI exceeded every expectation we had going into the engagement.
Whether you're prepping for an exam, modernizing a core platform, or building ERM for the first time — start with a 60-minute consultation.