Maneesha Garg

Biography: Maneesha has over 25 years of strong due diligence, finance and accounting experience with KPMG in India, American Express and Agilent Technologies. In her last 16 years with the firm, she has steered new service lines, built multi-cultural and dimensional teams, managed global account relationships, and built client relationships at the executive level. She has been engaged in mitigating risks around credit portfolio, helping with and influencing clients for optimising business results.

Maneesha specialises in background screening, corporate intelligence, third party risk management, counterparty due diligence on supply chain and providing strategic risk mitigation methodology across a broad spectrum of fraud and ethic related issues and events. She has been a key architect of the set-up and success of Verifications Services and Counter Party due diligence services in KPMG in India. She has helped clients across IT/ ITeS, consumer markets, telecom, retail and financial services in risk assessment and delivering combined risk methodology based on gathering data and intelligence, including sanction screenings, deep research, and operationalising the deliverables in line with compliance and regulatory mandates. She has also led engagements on KYC related to customer onboarding, anti-money laundering and rolling reviews.

In addition to being a forensic practitioner, Maneesha actively engages in business discussions for HR, finance, insight led sales, and customer operations, leveraging her insights to identify and implement strategic improvements that analyse workflows and help achieve desired outcomes. Her leadership has been instrumental in growing and incubating leading practices for these services both internally and externally, leading to increased efficiency and stronger business relations.

Her prior experience includes over six years with American Express in financial control and in her last role with Agilent technologies, she headed the Credit and Collections department for Americas and Canada region, and provided onsite leadership for Europe and Asia Pac teams, in credit portfolio management to mitigate imminent risk and controlling bad debts.

Areas of Expertise: Architecting, setting up, and managing large operations and delivering value and business outcomes for clients. Her core area of interest is forensic where she has used her experience in corporate intelligence, background screening and due diligence to mitigate the risk of fraud and address ethics issues.