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Sanjeev Palnitkar

Sanjeev Palnitkar

Head Operations
Pune

Summary

Assets Operations: Setting up of operations for the captive finance.

Accounts Payables & Accounts Receivables Management:

IT: Responsible for sharing the business requirements for development, Conduct integration testing and adaptability testing.

Audit & Compliance: Build Audit infrastructure within the operations department for internal sampling.

Operational Risk Management: Identifying process risk and coordinating with Internal Audit for strong control environment.

Organization Cost Centre Management: Develop Budgets (Capital & Revenue) for the operations organization.

Collection Operations: Sharing communication as per regulatory and compliance guidelines to ensure transparency to customer.

CKCY: Sending information to CERSAI after customer is onboarded.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Head of Operations

John Deere Financial India Private Limited
Pune
07.2012 - Current
  • Digitization (July’12 to July’17) Setting up & Managing Operations (Loan processing, Repayment management, Collection Support, Quality and Customer Support Organization) for Captive Finance Company
  • Digitalization: Aug’17 to Dec’21 (Moving from paper to paperless) 2017 to 2021 was the time when the things were moving fast. Volumes were increasing. There was choice to hire additional manpower. Alternative was to identify the processes which can be automated with perpetual impact. This emerged the concept of Digitalization.
  • Digital Transformation: Jan’22 onward (Do More with Less) Digital transformation is the adoption of technology which transforms an organization from existing manual non-digital products, services, or operational activities to system integration. This approach will give convenience to customer, reduce TAT, improves efficiency, and optimize cost.

Senior Manager

Dhanlaxmi Bank
Mumbai
12.2011 - 07.2012
  • Prepared reports on current findings and actions taken for accounts under investigation.
  • Reviewed files to select delinquent accounts for collection efforts.
  • Used wide variety of financial analysis tools to examine customers for potential risk via liquidity, leverage ratios and forecasting trends.
  • Performed monthly compliance checks.

Manager

Reliance Capital
Mumbai
07.2007 - 12.2011
  • Facilitating branches for Disposal of repossessed vehicles across India which includes empanelling the agencies / online service provider
  • Executing calculation of NPA and incremental provisioning as per the norms of the company and RBI guidelines. Preparing MIS on the basis of Days past due (DPD) data such as Roll Rates, Gross Bounce Data, incentive calculation, Lagged & Coincidental Delinquency.
  • Setting the process of billing to reduce bottlenecks in the existing process
  • Handling audit queries relating to all the activities. Participating in collection policy preparation.

Assistant Manager

ICICI Bank
Kolhapur
11.2002 - 07.2007


  • Significant contribution towards achieving branch rating: 8th rank from 170th within a span of 7 months.
  • Streamlined the system of small spoke locations where banks were reluctant to accept the cheques (EMI Banking) due to large volume through regular visits and relationship; thereby achieving the above goal.
  • From 2002 to 2006 i.e. before moving to Kolhapur was taking care of Disbursement and Banking for Nasik and Spokes (Jalgaon, Bhusawal, Dhule, Amalner, etc.).
  • Resolved open items worth Rs 4.50 Crores within just a span of 2 months; that were pending since long time.

Regional Auditor

Elbee Services Limited
Nagpur
04.2001 - 10.2002
  • Identified control gaps in processes, procedures and systems through in-depth research and assessment and suggested methods for improvement.
  • Developed audit policies, guiding administrative and technical functions.
  • Communicated with auditee staff to obtain necessary information for audits.

Education

B,Com

Dharampeth
Nagpur
07.1991 - 07.1994

Timeline

Head of Operations

John Deere Financial India Private Limited
07.2012 - Current

Senior Manager

Dhanlaxmi Bank
12.2011 - 07.2012

Manager

Reliance Capital
07.2007 - 12.2011

Assistant Manager

ICICI Bank
11.2002 - 07.2007

Regional Auditor

Elbee Services Limited
04.2001 - 10.2002

B,Com

Dharampeth
07.1991 - 07.1994
Sanjeev PalnitkarHead Operations