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Narasimha Manja

Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Highly experienced banking professional with extensive expertise in back-office operations, project management, branch setup, managing large branches, credit appraisal and monitoring. Adept at handling trade finance operations, cash operations, and listed derivatives. Accomplished and motivated executive with a successful career history in business operations. Offering exceptional leadership and staff development skills, proven to build trust and communicate effectively across all organizational levels. Coordinated with board members and C-suite executives to initiate and execute strategic business plans that achieve key objectives.

Overview

41
41
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Assistant Vice President

Deutsche Bank
Bengaluru
10.2005 - Current
  • Managed a large team, supporting global operations serving the requirements of 25+ countries in Trade Finance, Cash Operations, and Listed Derivatives.
  • Extensive experience in project implementation, platform consolidation, building new platforms, and decommissioning applications.
  • Developed and implemented strategic plans to achieve company objectives.
  • Provided guidance, support and direction to subordinates in order to achieve organizational goals.
  • Supported senior leadership by reviewing and prioritizing strategic initiatives.

Chief Manager

ICICI Bank Ltd
10.1995 - 09.2005
  • Credit Marketing, Credit appraisal, Serving HNI clients
  • Regularly evaluated operations against industry best practices to identify areas for improvement or expansion opportunities.
  • Developed and implemented strategic business plans to drive growth and profitability.

Officer

Corporation Bank
08.1984 - 09.1995
  • Managed Branch Operations, Credit appraisal and supervision
  • Oversaw quality control to identify inconsistencies and malfunctions.
  • Responded promptly to customer inquiries or complaints in a polite manner.
  • Implemented risk management strategies to mitigate potential threats.
  • Organized client meetings to provide project updates.

Education

Master of Commerce - International Trade

Dharwad University
Dharwad
07.1984 - 05.1986

CAIIB - Banking

Indian Institute of Bankers
Mumbai

Skills

  • Derivatives operations
  • Project Management
  • Confluence
  • JIRA
  • Trade finance
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Production Support
  • Figma
  • Sales and consulting
  • Wholesale Banking

Projects Handled

  • Cash Operations - Platform Migration, Requirement Gathering, JIRA writing, Story writing, UAT testing.
  • Trade Finance - Soliciting the vendor tool, interacting with vendor management, demo review, conducted proof of concept (POC), placing requirements, conducted analysis on process automation, automation of rules governing UCP, ISP, URDG and implementing internal policy guidelines by the vendor, tracking all the defects, UAT testing, imparting knowledge to the operations staff on handling the new tool, and providing production support until the operations team is completely in control of the BAU
  • Listed Derivative Operations - Platform migration i.e., Ransys to GMI, instrument-level analysis carried out to understand the data flow from each exchange to Bank's booking system automated for trade capture, create instrument symbol - at each exchange level so that trade match happens automatically, deal report - both security and cash side, cash margin requirements and variable margin requirements, security plug-ins to ensure limit not exceeding the threshold, user entitlements and admin user profile creation, UAT testing and support in production rollout.

Work Preference

Work Type

Part TimeContract Work

Work Location

Remote

Important To Me

Flexible work hoursWork from home optionWork-life balancePersonal development programs

Software

Confluence

Microsoft 360

Languages

Kannanda
Native language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Interests

Travelling, Reading,

Timeline

Assistant Vice President

Deutsche Bank
10.2005 - Current

Chief Manager

ICICI Bank Ltd
10.1995 - 09.2005

Officer

Corporation Bank
08.1984 - 09.1995

Master of Commerce - International Trade

Dharwad University
07.1984 - 05.1986

CAIIB - Banking

Indian Institute of Bankers
Narasimha Manja