ALFRED YEBOAH
Kissimmee,FL
Summary
Risk management professional with comprehensive understanding of financial risk assessment and mitigation. Adept at identifying and analyzing potential risks, implementing robust risk management strategies, and fostering collaboration to achieve organizational goals. Known for adaptability and reliability in dynamic environments, combined with strong analytical skills and keen eye for detail.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Third-Party Risk Analyst
AgriSolve
08.2023 - Current
- Led cybersecurity, privacy, operational, and financial risk assessments across AgriSolve’s digital agriculture platform, reducing high-risk exposures by 40%.
- Strengthened data governance by implementing policies for farmer data protection, responsible data use, and consent tracking, improving privacy readiness.
- Conducted algorithmic bias and model-risk testing for AI-enabled credit scoring models, increasing fairness and decision transparency.
- Enhanced IAM with MFA, privilege reviews, and stronger access controls, reducing unauthorized access attempts by 78%.
- Built enterprise risk registers, dashboards, and heat maps, improving leadership visibility and accelerating remediation decisions by 30%.
- Performed BIAs and supported incident response and disaster recovery planning to improve operational resilience.
- Led due-diligence and security reviews for fintech providers, weather data vendors, and supply-chain partners, strengthening third-party oversight.
- Collaborated with engineering and product teams to integrate secure-by-design principles into platform architecture.
- Delivered cybersecurity and fraud-prevention training to field teams and partners, increasing secure-practice adoption by 45%.
- Strengthened API and integration security for payments, weather systems, and credit bureaus, reducing API-related vulnerabilities by 35%.
- Provided actionable risk insights during platform enhancements aligned with ISO 27001 and NIST RMF.
Operational Risk & Compliance Specialist
Grameen Foundation USA
07.2012 - 11.2025
- Designed and implemented a global safeguarding and compliance framework across 9 countries, achieving zero policy violations for over 5 years.
- Built and led a network of 25 compliance focal points, delivering training programs with 98%+ completion, raising organization-wide compliance capability.
- Integrated IT, financial, and operational audits, identifying and remediating 12 major cross-functional gaps, improving audit efficiency by 40%.
- Managed 30+ operational and compliance incidents globally, achieving a 97% reduction in repeat cases through systematic root-cause analysis.
- Co-developed automated compliance dashboards, reducing reporting time by 60% and enhancing executive decision-making.
- Strengthened cybersecurity, data protection, safeguarding, and vendor risk across global programs.
- Established standardized vendor due-diligence, contract compliance, and monitoring processes, reducing vendor-related risks.
Education
Master of Science Degree - Development Practice
University College London
United KingdomBachelor’s Degree - Economics and Sociology
University of Cape Coast
GhanaSkills
- Cybersecurity Risk Management
- Third-Party & Supply-Chain Risk
- Data Governance & Privacy
- Incident Response & BIA
- Vendor Due Diligence
- API & Cloud Security
- Platform & Ecosystem Risk
Websites
Accomplishments
- Documented and remediated a critical process/control weakness, reducing residual risk by 68% and improving overall risk posture across the business unit.
- Partnered with CISO, IT, and business leaders to co-develop a risk assessment program that improved identification of high-impact risks by 87%.
- Improved risk reporting efficiency by 94% by integrating ServiceNow GRC to automate risk assessments, issue tracking, and compliance workflows.
- Enhanced operational resilience by assisting with End-to-End Incident Management, contributing to a measurable improvement in control maturity or incident response readiness.
Certification
- ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
- CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) Certification
- CompTIA Security+ Certification
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Third-Party Risk Analyst
AgriSolve
08.2023 - Current
Operational Risk & Compliance Specialist
Grameen Foundation USA
07.2012 - 11.2025
Bachelor’s Degree - Economics and Sociology
University of Cape Coast
Master of Science Degree - Development Practice
University College London