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Rahul Salvi

Rahul Salvi

Loan Servicing • Operations & Customer Service • Bank reconciliation

Summary

Accomplished Loan Servicing Specialist with a proven track record at Aditya Birla Finance Limited, showcasing exceptional leadership qualities and expertise in complaint resolution. Innovatively enhanced customer satisfaction and operational efficiency, achieving significant milestones in loan processing and servicing. Demonstrates a strong blend of teamwork, creativity, and analytical skills, driving seamless operations and stakeholder satisfaction.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages

Work History

Team Member (JB,11) -Operations-Loan Servicing

Aditya Birla Finance Limited
05.2022 - Current

Description :


Supervised Maker & Checker Process | Process Automation | Stakeholder Management


  • Managed Loan Servicing Operations: Supervised and ensured compliance with internal procedures for various loan servicing activities including closures, settlements, cancellations, waivers, refunds, rescheduling, part payments, structure adjustments, EMI date changes, and interest rate revisions.
  • MIS Reporting: Generated and published detailed MIS reports for internal and external stakeholders, showcasing successful task execution and highlighting exceptions for prompt corrective action.
  • CRM & Email Flow Management: Monitored daily CRM, email, and closure request flows, ensuring timely completion and strict adherence to quality and quantity SLAs.
  • Problem Resolution & Collaboration: Actively resolved complex loan servicing issues in collaboration with collections, grievance, and customer service teams, applying problem-solving methodologies for effective corrective actions.
  • Cross-Departmental Coordination: Partnered with business units and stakeholders to align requirements, offer support, and ensure seamless loan processing and enhanced customer satisfaction.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Accurately updated asset classification status (NPA & write-offs), ensuring strict compliance with regulatory and internal guidelines.
  • Timely Task Completion: Successfully accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes, contributing to operational efficiency.
  • Team Leadership & Performance Monitoring: Managed a team of 8 members, monitored daily activities, mentored staff, and maximized team performance.
  • Customer Satisfaction Enhancement: Resolved disputes promptly, ensuring transparent communication and high-quality service delivery, improving customer satisfaction levels.
  • Bank Reconciliation Support: Reconciled open items (WC, WD, TC, TD) by reviewing bank transactions and providing timely resolutions to the Bank reconciliation team.
  • Excess Balance Management: Managed the excess balance GL report for digital channel partners, identifying unadjusted funds and coordinating with stakeholders for prompt adjustments.
  • UAT Management: Handled UAT (User Acceptance Testing) for loan servicing processes with new channel partners, ensuring smooth implementation.
  • Audit Compliance: Supported and adhered to audit requirements for loan servicing processes, ensuring strict regulatory adherence.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Led daily cadence calls with both internal and external stakeholders to discuss issues, resolve discrepancies, and ensure effective collaboration.
  • Process Standardization: Contributed to the creation of updated SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for new processes, incorporating them after SMT approval and sharing with the QA team for consistency.
  • Operational Improvement & Automation: Actively worked on process automation and operational improvements, contributing to higher productivity. Wrote BRDs (Business Requirement Documents) for enhancing existing processes.
  • Single Point of Contact (SPOC): Served as the SPOC for all loan servicing-related queries from collections, customer service, and business teams, ensuring efficient communication and problem resolution.

Officer Operation

Fullerton India Credit Company
03.2020 - 05.2022

Description :


  • Quality Control (QC) Specialist in Loan Closure Process: Ensure strict adherence to compliance and operational standards throughout loan closure procedures.
  • Non-EMI Transaction Processing: Efficiently handle and process transactions such as foreclosure, part closure, settlement, and multi-shot payments, ensuring alignment with branch collection instructions.
  • Foreclosure Termination Management: Upload foreclosure termination files in FinnOne after reconciling and obtaining clearance for authorized foreclosure collection receipts.
  • Loan Adjustments & Requests Processing: Manage and process part payments, rate reschedules, EMI cycle changes, and loan downsizing requests, updating FinnOne in accordance with customer requests.
  • Branch Query Resolution: Address and resolve branch queries through the Sapphire application, providing timely and effective solutions to operational challenges.
  • Manual Receipt & Payment Entry Management: Process receipt and payment entries manually in FinnOne, ensuring all authorized entries are accurately recorded and processed.
  • EMI Bounced Entry Management: Handle EMI bounced entries as part of regular loan servicing activities, ensuring proper processing and resolution.
  • Data Analysis & Reporting: Utilize SQL queries to extract and analyze data, supporting operational reporting and informed decision-making.
  • Waivers & Adjustments Handling: Create manual receipts/payment advice, process waivers for charges, and manage excess amounts, including EMI knock-offs and reversals of adjusted entries.
  • Operational Reporting: Prepare daily branch exception and productivity MIS reports, tracking performance and ensuring prompt issue resolution.

Operation Executive

IDFC First Bank
07.2019 - 03.2020

Description :


  • Managed Daily Loan Closures: Oversaw daily loan closure activities across all products in the FinnOne system, ensuring 100% accuracy and compliance with the maker-checker concept.
  • Processed Loan Foreclosures: Handled the foreclosure of loans, ensuring all necessary documentation and system updates were completed on time, driving timely closures.
  • Matured Loan Closures: Administered matured loan closures, ensuring all end-of-term requirements were accurately met and updated in the system.
  • Re-booked Foreclosed Loans: Managed Foreclosure Re-booking (FCRB), re-booking foreclosed loans with meticulous attention to detail for seamless processing.


  • Manual Loan Foreclosure: Handled manual loan foreclosure calculations, ensuring accurate payoff amounts and prompt processing in the system.
  • Excess EMI Refunds: Processed excess EMI refund payments, ensuring timely and accurate transaction entries in the system.
  • Tranche Disbursement Payments: Managed Tranche (Dealer Funding) disbursement payments, ensuring accurate data entry and validation in the loan system.


Reconciliation and Adjustment:


  • Parked Excess Amounts: Efficiently parked excess amounts through receipt entries, ensuring reconciliation and adjustment in loan accounts as required.
  • Processed Manual Receipts: Created and processed manual receipts/payment advice, managed charge waivers, excess amounts, and EMI knock-offs.
  • Adjusted Loan Entries: Reversed adjusted entries as needed, ensuring loan accounts were correctly balanced.


Reporting and Process Improvement:


  • MIS Report Preparation: Prepared and tracked daily Management Information Systems (MIS) reports, including closure service trackers and Master Turnaround Time (TAT) reports, ensuring timely reporting.
  • Hold Case Analysis: Conducted in-depth analysis of hold cases, driving early resolutions to minimize delays in loan processing and improve overall efficiency.


Communication and Service Delivery:


  • Email and Query Management: Effectively managed email communication and follow-ups, addressing queries promptly and preventing potential escalations.
  • Customer Service Excellence: Ensured seamless service delivery by addressing issues in a timely manner and maintaining customer satisfaction.

Operation Executive

Reliance Commercial Finance
04.2017 - 07.2019

Description :


  • Managed End-to-End Loan Operations: Oversaw the entire loan lifecycle, including customer service issue resolution and ensuring timely and accurate loan servicing.
  • Processed Loan Foreclosures: Managed loan foreclosures, ensuring accurate documentation, calculations, and timely system execution in compliance with company policies.
  • Administered Loan Settlements: Coordinated accurate loan closures in line with company policies and customer agreements, ensuring proper execution and documentation.
  • Facilitated Loan Closures: Efficiently handled both normal and repo loan closures, ensuring compliance with closure terms and swift processing for customer satisfaction.
  • Handled Part-Payment Transactions: Processed part-payment transactions, establishing repayment structures in the system in alignment with sanction terms and customer requests.
  • Managed Loan Cancellations: Ensured proper execution of loan cancellations with full adherence to the necessary procedures and documentation.
  • Processed Refunds & Fund Transfers: Administered excess refunds via RTGS, FT, and cheque, ensuring precision and timely completion of fund transfers to meet customer expectations.
  • Allocated Excess Amounts: Transferred excess amounts to linked loans or applied adjustments against overdue payments, EMI bounce charges, and other applicable fees.
  • Accurately Booked Excess Income: Ensured proper allocation and system updates of excess income, maintaining accurate financial records.
  • Created and Processed Due Amounts: Generated and processed due amounts and waivers for charges, ensuring timely and accurate updates in customer accounts.
  • Updated Customer Demographics: Maintained and updated customer demographic details in the system, ensuring accuracy for communication and service delivery.
  • Published Daily MIS Reports: Produced and shared daily MIS reports related to loan closures, cancellations, and part-payments, offering stakeholders insights into operational performance.
  • Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborated with internal teams, external authorities, and customers to streamline processes and ensure the timely resolution of operational issues.
  • Team Leadership: Led and motivated a team to efficiently complete tasks, fostering a positive, collaborative environment to achieve high performance.
  • Audit and Compliance Support: Worked closely with audit teams, preparing and providing required data for compliance checks and internal audits to ensure adherence to regulatory standards.
  • Customer Query Resolution: Addressed and resolved customer queries through the CRM system, providing timely and satisfactory responses to ensure customer satisfaction.

Education

B.com

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar College
04.2001 -

Skills

Teamwork and collaboration

Complaint resolution

Positive attitude

Creativity and innovation

Goal setting and achievement

Leadership qualities

Software

A3S LMS

Finnone LMS

SFDC

Microsoft Excel & outlook

ChatGPT

Additional Information

  • significantly improved efficiency this year by automating bulk processes such as foreclosure, waiver, refund, part payment, and maturity closure. This automation led to a substantial increase in closures, allowing us to reduce our workforce by 7 Full-FTEs. As a result, achieved lower operational costs and significantly boosted productivity by 8X.


  • Proactive closure experiment with Propelld and Eduvanz partners has achieved a 100% success rate. Through bulk closures and automated processes, we consistently meet closure deadlines, ensuring customer satisfaction and adherence to TAT commitments. This approach has allowed us to maintain fresh closures and eliminate the need for FTEs, thereby enhancing efficiency and service delivery.


  • implemented a feature in our process, the CRM SR assignment bulk closure functionality. Consequently, all SRs began to close in bulk uploads, which previously required an additional one-hour daily task for one FTE


  • Complete the Yellow Belt Lean Six Sigma certification to spearhead the automation of the bulk part payment processing project within the designated timeframe. This initiative not only resulted in saving 2 full-time equivalents (FTEs) but also reduced the Turnaround Time (TAT) by 5 minutes per case.


  • On 31-May-23 an excess in the ESB loans was 58 Cr, now it has been reduced to 15 Cr in . This is due to proactive initiatives implemented thru cadence calls with the partner, broadcasting weekly reports to stakeholders with a dedicated emphasis on addressing unattended request cases.


  • By closely monitoring API failure cases and promptly resolving them in collaboration with our partners, we ensure smooth operations. Additionally, we publish error details via SMT to assist partners in resolving any issues they encounter while using the API. As a result of this proactive approach, significant improvements have been achieved in API performance. Previously operating at a 30% success rate, it has now surged to 80%.


  • implemented a new loan settlement process and initiated closure procedures. Training sessions were conducted for vendor employees on calculations, approval matrices, and proper waiver procedures. Additionally, we efficiently processed maturity closures, using bulk waivers functionality, to closing cases in bulk upload.

Accomplishments

  • Complete the Yellow Belt Lean Six Sigma certification to spearhead the automation of the bulk part payment processing project.
  • Complete the Green Belt Lean Six Sigma project by automation of the bulk EDI refund processing project.
  • Awarded Stellar Performer award in ABFL at SIRIUS Quarter 2 Awards 2023-2024.

Certification

Lean six sigma yellow belt certified

Interests

Process automation

Resolving work-related issues and discrepancy through collaboration and teamwork

Learning ideas from current market and implementing them effectively within existing workflows

Thinking outside the box to find creative solutions

Timeline

Lean six sigma yellow belt certified

11-2023

Team Member (JB,11) -Operations-Loan Servicing

Aditya Birla Finance Limited
05.2022 - Current

Officer Operation

Fullerton India Credit Company
03.2020 - 05.2022

Operation Executive

IDFC First Bank
07.2019 - 03.2020

Operation Executive

Reliance Commercial Finance
04.2017 - 07.2019

B.com

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar College
04.2001 -
Rahul SalviLoan Servicing • Operations & Customer Service • Bank reconciliation