Seasoned professional with 18+ years of experience into BFSI
In depth understanding of domains such as Core banking (CASA, TD, Loans, RD), Liquidity Management/ Transaction Banking, Retail & Commercial lending originations/ management/ collections, Credit Bureau
Have worked on following applications Oracle FLEXCUBE Core Banking Product, Lending Suite by Indus (LOS, LMS & CMS), e-CBF (Commodity Based Financing), PLF (pennApps Lending Factory), CRIF Suite of Products (LOS, Collections, Credit Bureau)
Strong knowledge of accounting
Have played a pivotal role in developing successful products and delivered many successful large & medium scale projects
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President
Paytm
Pune
01.2023 - 06.2025
Define and execute the product vision, roadmap, and go-to-market strategy for lending SaaS offerings
Ensure products comply with RBI guidelines, credit risk norms, and lending regulations
Collaborate with C-suite, sales/ business, engineering, data science, and compliance to align product goals with business objectives
Managing New Lender Integration/ Partnership
Identification of Automation Areas on LMS side and Automating them using AI
Creation of Product SOPs
Management, Performance and Growth of the team
Create a highly effective organizational structure that improves workflow and productivity within lending ecosystem
Collaborate with cross-functional teams within and outside lending to identify and resolve organizational challenges and operational risks, resulting in improved efficiency
Establish a comprehensive strategic plan to increase revenue
Enabling teams (business, finance) to timely recognize revenue streams
Bring down recon delinquency within acceptable levels with the lenders
Recon Processes streamlining with AI
Senior Solution Architect
Zeta
Pune
06.2022 - 01.2023
Working as part of Product team along with Customer Success team/ client(s) to understand the feature requests related to Zeta's Core Accounting System and Core Savings and Deposits Platform
Analysis of the feature requests
Discussion with technical architects on the incoming feature asks to align on certain design aspects
Working on solution and preparing solution documents containing API specifications
Responsible for the success of end-to-end flow
Providing domain knowledge within the team as SME
Arranging walkthrough with required stakeholders to agree on the proposed solution
Timely communication with all stakeholders to keep them aware of the planned deliveries
Helping QA team with various user cases for a particular feature
Reviewing test plan/ scenarios prepared by QA team
AVP, Global Delivery
CRIF Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
11.2020 - 06.2022
Lead the functional & technical team across the projects associated
Mentor, direct, and monitor the work of Product Manager, IT Managers, Business Analyst, Developers, Testers, Infra and Support teams for a specified project
Work with Product Manager in prioritization and implementation of cost-effective business process and system solutions
Timely communication with all stakeholders to keep them aware of the planned deliveries
Assist in User Acceptance Testing
Understand and participate BU level Business Strategies and Operational Plans
Maintain the marginality in the projects handled as per the budget
Senior Consultant
Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
Pune
12.2017 - 11.2020
Product Walk Through/ Demo to clients
Manage products through the product development lifecycle
Work on product ideas that are focused on driving sales, acquiring new customers, retaining existing customers, building brand loyalty, and providing self-service tools to customers
Create solution design documentation - both internally and externally to the customers - which includes data flow diagrams, description of application components and ownership of the functional responses within the RFI/RFP documents
Identify impacts of change and facilitate prioritization
Collaborate with sales representatives throughout the lifecycle of the sales campaign, including exploratory meetings, consultative solution selling demonstrations and workshops, and gap analysis to ensure cross-team alignment in customer engagement and produce best-in-class winning solutions
Senior Manager IT
Bajaj Finance Ltd.
Pune
02.2017 - 12.2017
Headed implementation of LOS and LMS solutions in Retail (Consumer) and Commercial Lending - 1. PLF (pennApps Lending Factory) Application 2. e-CBF (Commodity Based Financing) Application
Responsible for project planning and defining process related to product implementation
Interpret business needs and translate them into requirements. Also, from other stakeholders such as Risk, Credit and Operations related to the application
Liaison between business and other stakeholders and vendor to get the requirements sign-off
Working closely with various other internal stakeholders such as integration team for CIBIL, Posidex, Banking, DataMart, SAP to get their requirements developed as well in the application for application to work seamlessly
Responsible for internal as well as external application audit
Managing change requests throughout the lifecycle of project coming from various sources and prioritizing the same basis the criticality of the same for Go Live
Collaborate with QA to get the application tested before the application is related to business users for UAT or before any deployments on Production
Sr. Functional Consultant - Projects
Indus Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
01.2015 - 02.2017
Respond to functional queries requiring product and domain knowledge in RFP/RFI/RFQ
System preparation and configuration for Demos/POC
Conduct Pre-Sales Demos and POC's
Gather business requirement, mapping the requirement with system, and preparing business requirements and functional specifications documents for Indus Suite of Product i.e. LOS and LMS
Gather requirements using interviews, document analysis, site visits, and task/process/workflow analysis
Interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
Liaison with the internal and external stakeholders
Manage change throughout the lifecycle of projects
Review of Functional Test Scripts
Sr. Product Manager - FLEXCUBE
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd.
Mumbai
05.2008 - 01.2015
Market research on domain and clients
System preparation and configuration for Demos/POC
Conduct Pre-Sales Demos and POC's
Requirement Analysis
Convert Business Requirements into Business Solutions
Preparing UML's for depicting business processes and solutions
BRD and FSD Documentation
Sales Collaterals Documentation
Review of Functional Test Plans
Providing User Interface Solutions
Product Implementation Support
Jr. Business Analyst
VSM Software Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
04.2007 - 05.2008
Understanding and Testing the Retail banking software - FLEXCUBE
Provide support to Product and Implementations teams in highlighting issues across various modules
Seasoned professional with 18+ years of experience into BFSI
In depth understanding of domains such as Core banking (CASA, TD, Loans, RD), Liquidity Management/ Transaction Banking, Retail & Commercial lending originations/ management/ collections, Credit Bureau
Have worked on following applications Oracle FLEXCUBE Core Banking Product, Lending Suite by Indus (LOS, LMS & CMS), e-CBF (Commodity Based Financing), PLF (pennApps Lending Factory), CRIF Suite of Products (LOS, Collections, Credit Bureau)
Strong knowledge of accounting
Have played a pivotal role in developing successful products and delivered many successful large & medium scale projects