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BUSHRA AKHTAR

BUSHRA AKHTAR

Mumbai

Summary

  • Responsible for providing customized and innovative payment solutions across modes/channels and services for banks
  • Supporting stakeholders in improvising processes by undertaking improvement projects and implementation of quality assurance
  • Daily interaction with merchants to support and analyze their issues and develop Business solutions for them.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate - Payment Strategy, Business Analyst- CIB

JP Morgan (India Corporate Centre, Mumbai)
Mumbai
04.2022 - Current
  • Real Time Payments enablement for SARIE IPS for credit transfers along with payment and receipt migration
  • Made UKFPS from 24 5 to 24 7 real time along with payment and receipt migration from old legacy platform iPay to new Graphite application for London and Euro Hub branches i.e Luxemburg, Dublin & Frankfurt
  • Experience of JP Morgan Cross currency solutions help to automate cross boarder payments
  • Defined model market requirements for all live RTP initiatives along with market specific Jira
  • Eliciting requirements on Online Banking wallet for Malaysia Retail Payment Platform.

Manager - Merchant Integration & Product Development (UPI/Digital Payments)

Axis Bank (Corporate Office, Mumbai)
Mumbai
12.2017 - 12.2021
  • Providing payment solutions to merchants & aggregators with UPI as payment method powered by Axis Bank
  • New product development for 1.0 & 2.0 UPI and creating new solutions and with merchant partners
  • Providing cash backs to the customers for our acquired merchant on UPI such as IRCTC, Amazon, Nykaa etc
  • Collaborating with internal teams such as IT, Ops on product enhancement and improving customer experience
  • Assisted merchants on-boarding on Axis UPI platform by resolving their technical & functional queries
  • Created Merchant Front End (MFE) portal for raising refund and tracking transaction status on daily basis
  • Introduced new use case merchant and aggregators such as pay by VPA, collect, QR bases payments by UPI
  • Expert in digital payment space like UPI, IMPS, and provided online refund via API base solutions
  • Product expert to handle merchants & aggregators queries - PayU, Ola, Amazon, Razorpay, GPay, Cred, etc
  • Resolve merchant refund issues & complaints within TAT with help of NPCI, internal IT/ops and member banks
  • Tracked daily call center volume and worked upon increasing CX and MX score for UPI
  • Drive business development activities with some key merchant opportunities.

Assistant Manager - Product Development (IMPS/UPI/BHIM/*99#)

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI, Mumbai)
Mumbai
06.2015 - 11.2017
  • Providing customized payment solutions to various entities to shift from cash to digital transactions
  • Prepared Product document & FAQ on BHIM / UPI / IMPS transaction
  • Expansion of UPI ecosystem to 55+ banks, BHIM to 52+ banks & IMPS to 239+ banks across all product variants
  • Updating all banks with UPI specification and procedural guidelines as per their use cases and requirements
  • BHIM up gradation of application last 14 Apr 2017 – new languages, blocking / unblocking features, etc
  • Assisted in making seamless payments experience through IMPS by standardizing account narration
  • Created IMPS IFSC-NBIN mapper for correct routing of sub-member transaction
  • Foreign Inwards Remittances through IMPS
  • Introduced new use case in IMPS: Credit Card payment through IMPS
  • Key role in product management, process management, pricing strategies & product portfolio development
  • Product campaign planning, costing and benefit for better customer education and customer awareness
  • Develop and maintain strong external (Banks, Switch, Corporate, Vendors) and internal (Business, Operations, Technology, Risk) partnerships for successful deployment of payment solutions
  • Serve as a product expert to resolve bank query, conduct workshop and training to support in business
  • Preparing MIS and presenting to senior management on the business visibility for complete financial year.

Education

B.Tech (CSE) + MBA (General Management) -

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar

B.S.S.N. Inter College, Aurangabad

St. Xavier's School, Sahibganj

Skills

  • Product Development
  • Process Management
  • Business Solutions
  • Transform Design & Delivery (TDD)

Certification

  • Open embedded software foundation certified android application (2013)
  • Database administration fundamentals from Microsoft technology associate (2012)
  • Java SE6 programming certified by Oracle (2012)

City

Prabhadevi, Mumbai

Street

Mumbai 400013

Personal Information

Real-Time Payments | Product Manager & Business Analyst

Timeline

Associate - Payment Strategy, Business Analyst- CIB

JP Morgan (India Corporate Centre, Mumbai)
04.2022 - Current

Manager - Merchant Integration & Product Development (UPI/Digital Payments)

Axis Bank (Corporate Office, Mumbai)
12.2017 - 12.2021

Assistant Manager - Product Development (IMPS/UPI/BHIM/*99#)

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI, Mumbai)
06.2015 - 11.2017

B.Tech (CSE) + MBA (General Management) -

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar

B.S.S.N. Inter College, Aurangabad

St. Xavier's School, Sahibganj
  • Open embedded software foundation certified android application (2013)
  • Database administration fundamentals from Microsoft technology associate (2012)
  • Java SE6 programming certified by Oracle (2012)
BUSHRA AKHTAR