Rabindra Kumar Jena
Director- Strategy & Transformation
Pune,MH
Summary
With 17 years of diverse experience in delivery and transformation strategies, program management, data analytics, and consulting, I have successfully led large, complex, and cross-functional programs that made a significant impact on the P&L. Throughout my career, I have been a catalyst for critical change and regulatory programs, holding key roles such as COO, CoS, S&O, and Program Manager. My expertise lies in enhancing effectiveness and leading best-in-class simplification strategies through first principles and process re-engineering. I possess strong financial acumen, risk management skills, and excel in stakeholder engagement, business analysis, critical thinking, adaptability, data analytics, change management, regulatory compliance, program management, due diligence, and strategic planning. I am a fast learner with a knack for problem-solving and innovation. My cross-functional collaboration skills coupled with effective communication make me an asset to any organization. Currently serving as Vice President at Credit Suisse across multiple divisions in India and Switzerland since November 2016.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President
Credit Suisse
11.2016 - Current
- LEAP Role 1: Global PM for Edelweiss regulatory program: led the review, control and monitoring of multiple projects and programs and ensured timely & accurate updates to FINMA
- Assignments Role 2: Specialist, Global Inv
- & Cap steering: devised the transition techniques (funding based to capacity based steering model) from a program portfolio perspective
- Role 3: Specialist, CoS, CTOO: led multiple projects on KM, UBS onboarding, FINMA mandates, and employee engagements
- Program Manager, CIO strategy and initiatives: Steered several initiatives resulting in higher efficiency for the 25mCHF global TA program for early engineering talent
- Achieved cost savings in recruitment(30%), training(88%) and efforts savings in rotation process(90% reduction in TAT)
- Led global level branding strategies like Global Coding Challenge(GCC) with 30K+ participants across 6 continents
- Chief of Staff, Equities(IB): Led the strategy, operations and CoS team for 1500+ staff for equities IB technology
- Piloted the Captive Rebalance Program for Equities IT (505 staff) resulting in 107% increase in Employee HC and 3.86 mCHF cost savings during 2018-19
- Anchored the IT Infrastructure workstream for Global Markets Technology division (1555 staff) during the transformation program Udaan leading to EON2 move in 2019
Senior Manager
Capgemini
04.2011 - 11.2016
- Strategy & operations head, Banking Cap Mkts Business Unit(BU): Led a global team of 78 members for ~30K HC BU across 450+ banking and cap mkt clients incl
- HSBC, Barclays, Citi, DFS, AMEX
- Steered the BU through topline and bottom-line strategies helping it scale from €330 million to € 1.06 billion in revenues with 45% contribution margin and 12% gross operating profit
- Governed and built effective transition strategies during the external acquisition of IGATE ( $4 billion) by Capgemini and internal mergers of UK & APAC BU
- Program Manager, Structural Reforms Program, Barclays: Built the SRP team in London from scratch with an annual budget of £249 million and led the finance stream for the ring-fence program
Manager
ICICI
04.2005 - 06.2009
- Program manager for multiple strategic projects like Tahoe across India and the UK in core banking, insurance and anti-money laundering for special products like Orion, Premia, Castle & Amlock
Skills
Team leadership
Timeline
Vice President
Credit Suisse
11.2016 - Current
Senior Manager
Capgemini
04.2011 - 11.2016
Manager
ICICI
04.2005 - 06.2009
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