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Prashant Singh

Vice President | Digital Transformation | Retail Banking Digitech
Bengaluru

Summary

  • ~11 Years of experience as a change leader , business transformation executive & agile practitioner, responsible & accountable for driving strategic change and transformation projects with a global footprint
  • Currently leading Digital Transformation, from ideation to value, as Product Owner - Principal Engineer for Retail Banking Intelligent Automation Program.
  • Spearheaded planning and delivery of multiple projects, simplifications and transformations covering a wide range of technologies and customer facing capabilities for retail banking, with effective oversight across changing requirements, planning, resourcing, budgets, vendor management, priorities, risks, dependencies and impediments.
  • Demonstrated ability to articulate clear and compelling use cases for new customer solutions, propositions, and technologies, with strong preference for applying a customer centric lens.
  • Expert communication skills, with strong analytical, presentation and reporting skills, comfortable engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, conveying complex information and ideas in a clear and compelling manner.
  • Track-record of continuous learning and development, with active interest and understanding of new and emerging technologies and evolving financial technology landscape
  • Expert in leading and building high performing teams

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Vice President | Product Owner/Principal Engineer

NatWest Group
12.2021 - Current
  • Leading cross functional team of Scrum Leads, Business Analysts, Developers, Technical Architects, customer experience leads to deliver cost effective, scalable and sustainable solutions
  • Responsible for end to end design and delivery of solutions aligned to digital strategy for key customer business areas, working with technology Centres of Excellences and platforms across Retail Banking
  • Develop and implement strategic roadmap for Intelligent Automation program with focus to test and Build new AI driven capabilities such as low code workflow, communications and process mining

Key Achievements

  • Led the development and implementation of a low-code smart forms platform, transforming legacy systems serving 14 million requests into a streamlined solution that now processes over 4 million submissions monthly with 99% resilience. Delivered significant business value through enhanced straight-through processing (STP) and improved user experience.
  • Enabled Ulster Withdrawal program to exit relationships with c400K customers as part of bank closure, by delivering multiple solutions across te customer journey lifecycle.
  • Delivered wide scaled transformation projects delivering > 15 MN GBP worth of benefits while impacting over 1500 colleagues and 3 MN customers

AVP | Scrum Master | Intelligent Automation

NatWest
11.2018 - 11.2021
  • Delivered over 10 Transformation, Automation and Customer Journey Digitization projects across Personal Banking functions, using RPA integrated with Machine Learning, Chatbots and Other emerging technologies.
  • Lead Discovery and Assessment of automation opportunities across various Retail banking functions
  • Utilized Agile and Scrum framework for end to end project delivery
  • Worked with various set of stakeholders (Technology, business, controls, etc.) to ensure seamless solution delivery inline with agreed outcomes and customer expectations
  • Delivered first use case for an agent assist solution, for NatWest FH&S Telephony teams, reducing call handling times for over 600 agents by 3min per call.
  • MasterCard charge-back process transformed and automated for faster resolution of customer disputes, reducing GBP 20 Mil exposure to fraud loss
  • Worked with Sopra, Citrix, RPA COE, UiPath & Mortgage technology to enable automation on Citrix based applications, paving the path for c2 Mil worth automation projects to progress
  • Stood up Automated solution within 3 weeks (from inception to Delivery) with 100+ Bots to automate payment breaks and loan repayment deferrals for Secured and Unsecured loan customers, enabling the bank to service > 1 Mil customers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic .
  • Created target operating model for testing and infrastructure support, change and incident management for Retail Banking Automation Program, collaborating with business and technology change

Senior Manager | Mortgage Operations

Royal Bank of Scotland
01.2016 - 10.2018
  • Managed team of 50 banking professionals, across teams, carrying out mortgage underwriting, valuation assessment and issuance of Offer for NatWest and RBS customers
  • Implemented robust underwriting standards to safeguard company assets and ensure conformity with industry standards
  • Managed Mortgage Operations India transformation program delivering 15% YoY efficiency target
  • Same Day Offers: Redesigned customer journeys to issue offers within 24 hours to ~5% of mortgage customers
  • Paperless Mortgages: Contributed to proof of concept for digital transformation of mortgage journey, enabling NW to become first bank to offer paperless mortgages
  • Customer Life-cycle Simplification:- Led project spanning across India and UK, removing duplication of controls and streamlining process flow across mortgage journey – 30% improvement in speed to offer.

Manager | Fraud & Charge-back Operations

Royal Bank of Scotland
07.2014 - 01.2016
  • Managed team of 91 banking professionals spanning across 13 processes
  • Ensured> 99.9% compliance to Payment Service Directive Standards
  • Delivered FCO transformation improving interactions for 1.1 Million customers at 20% less cost
  • Digital transformation of journey by introducing 2 way communication with customers for faster recovery of funds through a reduction of 21 days in receipt of customer signed declarations
  • Led 2 migration projects thus resulting in the unit growing by 60% YoY in India
  • Designed and put in play FCO Risk Roadmap for strengthening of controls
  • Fraud Life cycle redesigned to recover GBP 1 million 14 Days faster for the bank

Engineer | Projects and Maintenance

Hindware
07.2010 - 04.2012
  • Worked for the plant engineering department for Hindware for operation and maintenance of Critical and High end revenue generating units
  • Implemented preventive maintenance schedules to minimize downtime and maximize output.- c20% Reduction in annual downtime achieved

Education

MBA -

Narsee Monjee Institute Of Management Studies
Mumbai
05.2012 - 04.2014

Bachelor of Technology -

Uttar Pradesh Technical University
Mathura
06.2006 - 05.2010

Skills

Digital Transformation, Innovation & Automation

Design Thinking, Analysis & Strategic Planning

Stakeholder Management

People Management & Leadership

Risk Management

Scrum and Agile Product Development

Agile Certifications

Certified Scrum Master

Certified Scaled Agile Framework Practitioner

Certified SAFe Product Owner - Product Manager

Accomplishments

  • Enabled Retail Banking to be the first franchise to adopt E-forms as a platform
  • First Agent assist solution developed for frontline staff (telephony & personal bankers), supporting c600 Staff
  • Fastest RPA Deployment in the bank for applying Payment Holidays for Home Buying and Ownership
  • Deployed 180+ RPA Bots in Retail Banking
  • Project Bolt- Customer journey re-engineered to enable same day offers to 5% customer and improve Speed to Offer by 30%
  • Managed Transformation programs for Mortgage and Fraud Operations India, delivering 20% YoY Cost reduction, while improving service standards

Accolades

  • Gold , Silver and Bronze ovations (multiple) for business transformation and automation
  • Winner of Living our Values Awards for exceptional contribution towards customer journey improvement
  • Runner-up for Paperless Hackathon conducted by NatWest Bank

Timeline

Vice President | Product Owner/Principal Engineer

NatWest Group
12.2021 - Current

AVP | Scrum Master | Intelligent Automation

NatWest
11.2018 - 11.2021

Senior Manager | Mortgage Operations

Royal Bank of Scotland
01.2016 - 10.2018

Manager | Fraud & Charge-back Operations

Royal Bank of Scotland
07.2014 - 01.2016

MBA -

Narsee Monjee Institute Of Management Studies
05.2012 - 04.2014

Engineer | Projects and Maintenance

Hindware
07.2010 - 04.2012

Bachelor of Technology -

Uttar Pradesh Technical University
06.2006 - 05.2010
Prashant SinghVice President | Digital Transformation | Retail Banking Digitech