Naresh Harie
I turn ungoverned, high-risk data into trusted foundations for analytics and AI. Forensic analytics background. Big 4 pedigree.
Re-engineered metadata enrichment across 50,000+ SAP tables, mapping columns to business process, domain, and business and logical terms. Replaced manual stakeholder-interview sessions with LLM-based classification, compressing a multi-year effort into roughly three months.
Data and AI Governance specialist with 25 years across financial services, telecommunications, retail, and the public sector, including senior roles at Deloitte, EY, and PwC. I build enterprise governance capability from the ground up. I led Africa's first two Collibra data governance implementations, at Standard Bank and Capitec.
My forensic analytics background spans procurement fraud investigation, anti-money-laundering, revenue assurance, and the detection of terrorism-financing in financial messaging. Over my career I have identified revenue leakage and recovery opportunities exceeding US$200 million.
I am building the data governance foundation for one of Africa's largest retailers to support responsible AI deployment, and am pursuing the IAPP AIGP certification to formalise a move into AI governance leadership.
AI & Data Governance
Framework design, governance operating models, data quality, metadata & lineage, MDM. Regulatory alignment: POPIA, GDPR, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF.
Forensic Data Analytics
Procurement fraud, anti-money-laundering, revenue assurance, and billing integrity across banking, telecoms, and public sector.
Governance Tooling
Collibra, Manta Lineage, Data360, Trillium, with enterprise integration via Mulesoft and REST APIs.
Analytics & Modelling
SAS, SQL Server, PowerDesigner, Power BI, QlikView. Enterprise data modelling and data-flow mapping.
- Building the enterprise data governance foundation for Africa's largest retailer, serving millions of customers daily across the continent.
- Designing governance frameworks, data quality policy and controls, and metadata management to support responsible AI deployment and trusted analytics at scale.
- Accelerated SAP metadata enrichment across 50,000+ tables using LLM-based classification, compressing a 4 year manual effort into 3 months.
- Matured the Group data governance competency, shifting governance from a project-level activity to a consistent enterprise discipline.
- Designed an end-to-end data governance model for embedding into the Group's governance tooling.
- Lockhat Inc: internal analytics, dashboarding, system implementations, data migrations, cloud application development, and process automation.
- Bargain Group: enhanced the warehouse management system (SQL, Power BI); built store-distribution ticketing linked to live dashboards; matured enterprise information management.
- Eskom: led the supply chain forensic analytics engagement. Surfaced major procurement irregularities; findings handed to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
- Auditor General of South Africa: matured the analytics team, training staff on metadata, data security, quality, governance, master and critical data management, and system integration.
- Completed a year of statutory analytics across state-owned enterprises and local municipalities.
- Standard Bank: sub-team lead establishing the bank's governance capability. Delivered Africa's first Collibra implementation; captured the enterprise landscape in PowerDesigner; integrated Collibra with IBM's Data Governance Centre via Mulesoft. Reported to C-suite.
- Capitec: delivered Africa's second Collibra implementation, providing enterprise lineage and impact assessment, integrated with the Manta Lineage Scanner.
- Dark Fibre Africa: SAGE-to-SAP migration with end-to-end data quality, real-time monitoring, and cleansing.
- Standard Bank (sole assignment): led the analysis stream of an AML customer-data profiling and remediation programme. Analysed 11 million customers weekly, routing identified gaps to a 660-person remediation network across South Africa. Steered the solution through a multi-vendor evolution from SQL to SAS Base, DataFlux, and Ab Initio.
- Process and control analytics for external audit sign-off. Clients: Coca-Cola, Nampak, Investec, TransUnion.
- Led the revenue leakage analysis for MTN as a single-client role spanning eight operations: South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Botswana, Dubai, and Iran. Directed teams of three to six consultants per country.
- Analysed call records for correct routing, transaction billing, per-second charges, cross-country roaming, and promotion adherence. Detected cloned SIMs, validated high-usage accounts, and calculated unearned prepaid revenue to put back to book.
- SWIFT terrorism-financing detection (Barclays International): part of the team that built the first data filter analysing global SWIFT payments to identify terrorism-financing transactions, working across five years of transaction history. Built the data transfer and ETL pipeline and developed fuzzy-logic matching to detect flagged terminology within financial messages.
- JET: lead developer on Deloitte UK's proprietary journal entry testing tool, automating a core audit procedure across the firm.
- Audit-support programming in ACL, SAS, SQL, and Python. Clients: Royal Bank of Scotland, Egg Mortgage Bank, Blue Bean Credit Cards, Transport for London, and Barclays.
- Audit analytics and executive dashboard development in SAS across an 18-month engagement, establishing my international career from 2004.
- Winterthur Insurance → XL Capital: led the data migration following Credit Suisse's divestiture of Winterthur, a high-complexity financial services migration with no margin for data-integrity failure.
IAPP Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP)
The leading global credential in AI governance.
Collibra
Hands-on implementation across two enterprise deployments.
ACL Continuous Control Monitoring · SAS Base & Advanced
Earlier-career analytics certifications.
BCom, Information Systems
Majority of coursework completed. The depth of my capability has been built through 25 years of applied practice across Big 4 consulting and enterprise governance leadership.