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Education
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B Karthikeyan

B Karthikeyan

Regional Head
Pondicherry,PY

Summary

23 years of Strong Business Acumen in Managing the Business, Product and Sales of Retail Banking - Branch Banking & Liabilities across Product Lines & supporting Retail Asset Financing of Commercial Vehicles, Construction Equipment’s, Working Capital Deals, Personal Loans, Housing Loans & Mortgages and Rich experience in Banking Operations. Adept in Sales, Business Development, Product Management, Consumer & Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Sales Process Training, Strategy and Execution, Channel Management with Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, solid financial acumen with a competence in P&L Management. Self-directed, proven track record of working efficiently with geographically dispersed teams. Strong execution and project leadership abilities.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Regional Head-Branch Banking

Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
10.2018 - 06.2025
  • Managing 12 branches in this Region and also recruiting, training and leading the team.
  • Responsible for all branches business.
  • Managing the P&L of the region.
  • Setting up the new branches.
  • Motivating and supporting the branches for achieving their targets.
  • Monitoring all branches operations in the region.
  • Recruitment of staff for various roles of the region.
  • Training all staff members on process and audit.
  • Involving in various brand awareness drives in region.
  • Staff activation in all products
  • Current CTC - 36 lacs

AVP & Branch Head

Axis Bank Ltd
04.2011 - 10.2018
  • Took a challenging profile of launching a new branch at Salem outskirts and also in Pondicherry city.
  • Core profile - identify the retail business and lending them along with regular branch banking business like CASA, TPP revenue, RL Fee Income etc and succeeded in all parameters.
  • Attained “AAA” rating both in business and in operations efficiency.
  • Lastly headed Pondicherry main branch, PAN topper in LI business for FY 2014-15 & 2015-16.
  • Circle topper in CASA incremental CDAB, MDAB, MEB.
  • Key contributor in the entire circle in core & allied business parameters.
  • Expertise in working with new & challenging team at different locations.
  • Proficient in government business, direct and indirect agri loans, SME, CRG, RAC Loans.
  • Consistent performer and top rated for CASA, IPG and advances performance. Received around 10 central office PAN India awards for FY 2017-18.

Regional Audit Manager and Branch Manager

ICICI Bank Ltd.
09.2006 - 04.2011
  • The primary objective of the job is to enhance the Relationship value of the customers, completion of Branch Targets for FD, RD, MF, Insurance, and Gold Coins in Sales purview.
  • In Operations - verification of cash receipts and payments, Clearing Instruments, Non-Financial Transactions, attend to customer queries, Cash opening and closing, Locker operations.
  • As an Audit Champion responsible for Branch’s Audit Performance & Rating. Presented with “Bank Assurance” award for aggressively marketing the Bank assurance product and was the top performer.
  • Presented with a “Gold Medal” for the top performer in Insurance and Gold sales in PAN India.
  • Call on Duty award, NRI carnival award, cross Selling of Mutual Funds and the Awards of MF raised my altitude. Increased the GL size in exclusively in CASA. Battle of CASA award got highest no of quality accounts sources.
  • REGIONAL RISK & AUDIT Manager and controlled the 22 branches in Audit and day to day operations.

Operations Manager

Centurion Bank of Punjab Ltd.
04.2005 - 08.2006
  • Headed the Branch Operations, managed a team of 6 executives and reported to the Branch Head.
  • Responsible for the smooth and effective day to day operations of the branch.
  • Effectively handled branch administrations. Handled Departments viz. Cash, Clearing, Deposits, CMS, Depository Process, ATM Maintenance, Mutual Funds and other third Party Products.
  • Responsible for verification of day end reports, other periodical reports and rectification of Audit Compliance.

Sales Officer

UTI Bank Ltd
05.2002 - 03.2005
  • Sourcing of Savings, Current, Deposit Accounts and other Banking Products. Customer service, handling front office, Leading and motivating the sales team.

Education

MCA - undefined

Bharathidasan University
Trichy
01.2002

BCOM - undefined

The American College
Madurai
01.1999

Skills

  • Team Leadership & Mentoring
  • End-to-End Banking process & Business Development Operations
  • Consumer Analytics
  • Profit & Sales Maximization
  • Operations & Service Delivery
  • Performance Management
  • Strategy and Execution
  • Business Intelligence & MIS
  • Portfolio & Risk Management
  • New Product implementation
  • Audit & Compliance
  • 23 years of experience in Finacle
  • Operating System: MS-DOS AND WINDOWS 95/98
  • Programming Language: Java, C, C and MS COBOL
  • GUI Front End: VB 60
  • Database Management: ORACLE 80
  • Packages Known: MS OFFICE

Certification

  • AMFI Mutual Fund (Advisors) Certification Course.
  • NCFM certification through NSDL.
  • First Accountant Course.

Accomplishments

  • Region topper in suggesting ideas for process improvement at ICICI Bank.
  • PAN India Best Branch Award
  • PAN India Topper in Service Score Card and Region Topper in Balance Score Card
  • Special Projects - Six Sigma, Five S, SOX, CRM, and Risk Based Audit.
  • PAN India topper in LI campaigns consistently won several domestic and foreign trip for LI contests. Trend setter and Game changes in MF & PMS deals.
  • Award winner for the best KYC adhering Branch, locker hall of fame and outstanding rating in the audit.

Functional Strengths

  • Strategic Management
  • Manage complete business operations with accountability for profitability & executing predesignated targets in given time frame.
  • Identify areas of opportunity through Market Research and Analysis and acquire new business.
  • Implement long and short-term strategy, pricing, policy, budget and targets. Establish regional sales objective for field force & ensure proper communication during meetings.
  • Coordinate budgets, forecasts and reports & accordingly effecting business plans to attain maximum sales and optimum revenue.
  • Perform competitor mapping, Brand Building, Product Management; develop Customized Business Solutions.
  • Key Account Management
  • Interact/ develop rapport with all external/internal constituents of client at all levels; for maximum client retention and achievement of service revenues.
  • Maintain excellent business contacts with regional Key Area based on accounts strategy for achievements of volume and revenue objectives.
  • People Management
  • Motivate, mentor, monitor & train teams for achieving sales volume within agreed timelines.
  • Identify & implement strategies for building team effectiveness by promoting a spirit of cooperation between team members.
  • Maintain close coordination with branch team and sales team to implement business plans and to ensure adequate adherence to customer service and process controls.
  • Use feedback as a tool for analyzing new opportunities for improvement.
  • Provide guidelines and set objectives to execute, control and evaluate results.
  • Coordinate with project management team in all commercial and marketing activities.
  • Handled trainings and self-development of sales personnel.
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