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Community Services
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Nitesh Kumar Jhanjee ( CFE, LLB)

Pune

Summary

Visionary Collections & Recovery leader recognized for transforming collections into a strategic growth engine through digital innovation, advance analytics & operational excellence. Expertise in driving recoveries , controlling credit losses & enhancing customer outcomes at scale.

Analytical mindset to interpret data & make data-driven decisions.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head Collections

IIFL Finance Ltd
Mumbai, India
01.2024 - Current
  • Heading Collections of Gold Loans, Unsecured , LAP & Supply Chain Finance.
  • Driving Digital, Data led , Customer centric collections at scale.
  • Built High Performance Recovery EcoSystem Across India.
  • Transformed Collections into a profitable centre by driving higher recovery rates, improving delay charge collections, and reducing portfolio delinquency.
  • Championed Agentic AI solutions to automate collecions workflows, accelerate decision making & enhance portfolio performance at scale.
  • Delivered sustainable cost optimization through process re-engineering, digital transformation, and disciplined resources management without compromising outcomes.

Head Of Collections

Clix Capital Services Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon, Delhi
12.2023 - 01.2024
  • Heading Collections of Business loans, Mortgages, Health Finance Equipment, School Finance, Consumer Loans
  • AOP Planning , Budgeting, Execution
  • Minimizing Losses & Cost Control
  • Designing Process & Implementation

Senior Vice President

Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd
Pune, India
04.2022 - 12.2023

Heading PAN India Collections of Tele calling, Unsecured and Mortgages Collections with a team size 300 on roll and agency vertical.

Responsibilities include

  • Digital Debt Collections- Unsecured , Mortgages , Medical Equipment
  • Compliance and Audit Management
  • Fraud Management
  • Revenue generation
  • Cost control
  • HR management ( hiring and attrition)
  • Training and Overall team's development
  • KPI and KRA designs
  • Designing and Improvising collections score card.
  • Interdepartmental Reviews and Credit policy feedbacks and decisions.
  • Customer Services

Vice-President

Magma Housing Finance Ltd
Mumbai, India
03.2019 - 03.2022
  • Handling PAN India Housing , SME Vertical and Field Investigations.
  • Discussing, negotiating and ensuring delivery of Service Contracts for Collections from Technical, and Legal angles.
  • Formulating effective debt collection mechanisms for ensuring timely receipt of money from customers & recovery of bad debts.
  • Identifying probable risks by conducting audits of existing revenue streams and implementing corrective measures to mitigate the same.
  • Creating & implementing workflows to facilitate structured support in all areas and issues.

Collections Head ( North & East)

Bajaj Finance Ltd
Delhi, India
01.2017 - 03.2019
  • Heading collections of Unsecured Vertical for self employed professionals

Associate Vice President

Magma Fincorp Ltd
Ahmedabad, India
10.2015 - 01.2017
  • Increased sales by 25% YOY for the Gujarat Zone.
  • Managed P&L Asset Based Finance business, led several teams & departments, and developed digital capabilities for the company.
  • Major responsibilities include delivering Number Targets of secured products, training, Customer Service, Employee Engagement, Recruitment, Assessment, and Performance Appraisals.
  • Also responsible for improving per dealer productivity by tracking important metrics such as lead generation, conversion rate, ticket size, premium collection mode, and product mix; and follow-up through rigorous sales reviews.
  • Process owner for Quality Interventions – Quality within our organization has three-fold objective; a) To ensure complete information sharing with the client prior to the sale of the product; b) To improve productivity per sales force by call barging and following up through feedback sessions; c) Tracking cross-sell penetration .

Zonal Collections & Verifications Head

Magma Fincorp Limited
New Delhi, India
01.2008 - 09.2015

Area Collections Manager

Axis Bank
Ludhiana, India
06.2007 - 01.2008

Field Risk Manager

Centurion Bank of Punjab
Ludhiana, India
01.2004 - 05.2007

Education

Master of Business Administration - Management

SGVU
2022

Certified Fraud Examiner -

ACFE
USA
2020

Bachelor's of Law - General Law

Delhi University
Faculty of Law
2005

Skills

  • Collections & Recovery Strategy
  • Digital & AI led Transformation
  • Leadership & Business transformation
  • Revenue Assurance & Cost Optimization
  • Portfolio Risk Management
  • Legal Management

Certification

  • Certified- Trainer- American Toesel Institute.
  • Risk Management- IIM Raipur
  • Strategic Management - IIM Kashipur
  • Financial Development and Financial Inclusion- IMF
  • Coaching Your Team to Manage Performance - FICCI
  • Business Continuity & Crisis Management - The Economic Times
  • Stressed Asset Management and Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code - CARE Advisory Research and Training Limited.

Accomplishments

  • Bull's Eye Achiever-2017
  • MD's Core team Member Award- The Ripples- 2015
  • Employee Of the Year- 2012

Community Services

  

Working with The Robin Hood Army (RHA), which is a zero funds, volunteer organization consisting of thousands of young professionals and citizens who dedicate their free time to collecting surplus food from restaurants and distributing it to those in need.

Languages

  • Hindi, Punjabi, Oriya , English

Timeline

Head Collections

IIFL Finance Ltd
01.2024 - Current

Head Of Collections

Clix Capital Services Pvt Ltd
12.2023 - 01.2024

Senior Vice President

Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd
04.2022 - 12.2023

Vice-President

Magma Housing Finance Ltd
03.2019 - 03.2022

Collections Head ( North & East)

Bajaj Finance Ltd
01.2017 - 03.2019

Associate Vice President

Magma Fincorp Ltd
10.2015 - 01.2017

Zonal Collections & Verifications Head

Magma Fincorp Limited
01.2008 - 09.2015

Area Collections Manager

Axis Bank
06.2007 - 01.2008

Field Risk Manager

Centurion Bank of Punjab
01.2004 - 05.2007

Master of Business Administration - Management

SGVU

Certified Fraud Examiner -

ACFE

Bachelor's of Law - General Law

Delhi University
Nitesh Kumar Jhanjee ( CFE, LLB)