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Paras Pahwa

Credit Specialist
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Senior Assistant Vice President specializing in credit analysis and underwriting. Demonstrated ability to lead teams and optimize operations, ensuring adherence to risk standards while improving efficiency and performance.

Work History

Senior Credit Analyst

Wells Fargo
Bangalore, Karnataka
06.2022 - Current
  • Underwriting and quality review for C&I and IRE credit proposals from Middle Market clients,
    ensuring compliance with institutional risk standards and policies.
  • Assessed borrower creditworthiness through the analysis of industry outlook, management
    quality, financial performance, and repayment capacity.
  • Investment Real Estate/CRE – Detailed analysis of properties like retail, office, industrial and multi-family properties. Annual review/Renewal encompasses detailed analysis like operating statements/tax return, market analysis, guarantor analysis, covenant calculations, and BQR/CQR rating to the borrower. Mortgage ability analysis of the property in order to determine risk and repayment capacity. Detailed analysis of Rent Roll, lease rollover analysis and perform thorough study of appraisal which includes Sales Comparison Approach, DCF
    Approach, Cost Comparison Approach, Direct Capitalization Method.
  • Commercial & Industrial Reviews: Annual review/Renewal encompasses detailed analysis on financial statement, guarantor analysis, industry outlook, covenant calculations, DSCR calculation, qualitative analysis and BQR/CQR rating to the borrower.
  • Mentoring team of 6 portfolio managers, overseeing workflow distribution, training, and performance management. Also, regularly providing training to new joiners. Conducted QC/QA reviews and delivered training sessions to junior team members.
  • Served as SPOC for policy updates and approver feedback, driving knowledge sharing and
    best practices.
  • Piloted the credit underwriting process at Wells India, enabling the transfer of complex tasks from the U.S. to Indian operations.
  • Streamlined operations through workflow trackers and pipeline management tools, enabling
    efficient task allocation and timely stakeholder communication.

Deputy Manager

WNS
Gurgaon, haryana
03.2016 - 05.2022
  • Supported a U.S. based bank with end-to-end credit appraisal for small and medium corporates/enterprise segment across Commercial and Industrial Reviews, Property Level/Mortgage Reviews.
  • Liaison with Quality Control team for the review team's performance assessment
  • Managed Team of 12 Members: Leading a team of credit reviews underwriting and managing end to end support to the client through weekly calls, deliverables management, staffing management, training of new team members, performing quality checks.
  • Credit Underwriting: Assigning the credit rating to the borrowers through Probability of default (PD) and Loss given Default (LGD) via cash flows and coverage analysis, collateral and guarantor analysis, covenant calculations, financial and a thorough qualitative analysis and report writing.
  • Credit Underwriting: Assigning the credit rating to the borrowers through Probability of default (PD) and Loss given Default (LGD) via cash flows and coverage analysis, collateral and guarantor analysis, covenant calculations, financial and a thorough qualitative analysis and report writing.
  • During my WNS journey, I got two promotions.
  • Travelled to US and worked with on-site team for training and future strategies of the project.

Analyst

EXL
EXL, Haryana
07.2014 - 06.2016
  • Supported U.S. based client with credit evaluation of its trading counter-parties for trading of various commodities by preparing in-depth credit proposals.
  • Evaluated the counter-party's financial performance using financial statements and via tools like Moody's Risk Calc, S&P Credit Pro, Capital IQ, Factiva, Bloomberg and Reuters for data
    sourcing, forecasting, and financial/industry development.
  • Prepared detailed credit underwriting reports in collaboration with client analysts and Credit Managers. Prepared brief industry overview to provide with recent industry trends and future outlook of the sector in which the counter-party operates.

Associate Analyst

ONICRA Credit Rating Agency Of India Limited
Gurgaon, Haryana
05.2013 - 06.2014
  • Credit Rating of SME's: Quantitative and Qualitative analyses of the SME business financial statements using various key financial ratios and based on that preparing the credit rating
    reports.
  • Handling the client site visits for the east and north-east region while coordinating with site visit analysts and maintaining tracker for the same.

Education

MBA - Finance

Apeejay School Of Management
New Delhi
07.2011 - 04.2013

Bachelor Of Commerce - Commerce

Sri Aurobindo College Of Commerce And Management
Ludhiana
07.2006 - 07.2010

Skills

  • Credit analysis and underwriting
  • Risk assessment and management
  • Team handling and work management
  • Proficient in tools like Capital IQ, Factiva, Bloomberg, Moody's Risk Analyst, etc
  • Credit rating evaluation

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

On-SiteHybridRemote

Languages

Hindi
Native language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2

Timeline

Senior Credit Analyst

Wells Fargo
06.2022 - Current

Deputy Manager

WNS
03.2016 - 05.2022

Analyst

EXL
07.2014 - 06.2016

Associate Analyst

ONICRA Credit Rating Agency Of India Limited
05.2013 - 06.2014

MBA - Finance

Apeejay School Of Management
07.2011 - 04.2013

Bachelor Of Commerce - Commerce

Sri Aurobindo College Of Commerce And Management
07.2006 - 07.2010
Paras PahwaCredit Specialist