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Saravanan Ramaswamy

Manager
Chennai

Summary

Goal-oriented Team Manager dedicated to meet team performance objectives and achieving set targets. Offering 11 years of extensive leadership experience in back office processing. Committed individual and well-versed in providing thorough training, setting team goals and developing innovative strategies. Superb oral and written communication skills paired with excellent time management and leadership abilities. Skillful in redesigning processes for efficiency gains, mentoring and guiding employees in performing assigned duties.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Team Manager

Barclays Global Service Center of India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
06.2022 - Current
  • Handling 10 team members from three different processes from a customer journey of a loan product.
  • Handling 4 KYC analyst who performs investigation on trigger events and red flags alert to understand the true and false matches and eliminate or investigate accordingly.
  • Team predominantly work on periodic CDD review for standard and high risk customers who holds UK retail products in Barclays.
  • 6 teams members who works on customer onboarding, disbursement and quality control which is another of the customer journey.
  • Ensure all process works were worked in line with SL and no breaches reported by the team.
  • Responsibility to complete sampling on cases completed by team members to ensure completed trigger based alerts are accurate and up to the SOP.
  • Any flags raised by team members on trigger alerts are being re-verified and reported to fin crime team daily for further approval.
  • Responsible for evaluating teams performance, providing feedbacks, looking for opportunities to develop colleagues and by setting new bench mark aligning to their goals.
  • Ensure process controls are checked and recorded on daily basis to satisfy RCSA.
  • Monthly report are published to Fin Crime team on SL, process challenges, success stories of teams.
  • Evaluation team members process knowledge by examine their understanding through different levels of tests.
  • Ensure all periodic completion of process knowledge is checked and recorded as per requirement.

Team Manager

Barclays Global Service Center of India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
10.2020 - 07.2021
  • Driven team of 15 Fraud analysts who worked on onboarding US retail customers
  • Tracking performance of team members in line with the performance metrics by to achieve their goals by mentoring, coaching, recognizing and also providing positive work atmosphere at remote working.
  • Regular internal audit performed to ensure controls in place and improved quality of the process.
  • Ensuring the capacity level are as per requirements by planning cross trainings in sub process whenever there is excess capacity
  • Administered monthly and Quarterly reviews to direct reports and set clear and measurable goals, action plans and follow-up procedures.
  • Driven the Team's quality from 82% to 93% for quarter - II by reviewing process and fixing controls in place to eliminate defects.
  • Setting bi-weekly review with the team to ensure effectiveness of existing controls and eliminating NVA steps to enhance process efficiency.
  • Identified and corrected deficient performance and behaviors to achieve maximum productivity.
  • Facilitated Weekly meetings to communicate team performance goals and results.
  • Creating and sustaining dynamic environment that fosters development opportunities and motivates
    high performance amongst team members.

Senior Process Expert

Barclays Global Services Centre India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
03.2012 - 10.2020

Proficiency in Banking Domain

  • Handful experience in Account Maintenance and Servicing (team size - 10 -18 members) which includes onboarding, Individual tax evaluation and declaration, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, transaction reconciliation for personal and Business account holders.
  • Performing process training, accreditation and building positive working atmosphere for newly joining employees
  • Handling Client escalations, complex query solving, error analyzing and providing quality feedbacks to team members to improve quality level.
  • Ensuring all business related documents are up to date and approved.
  • Performance tracking and building improvement plans for lower & bottom quartile agents in team
  • Analyzing and ensuing all risk controls are in place as per Risk Standards
  • Maintaining MTD & YTD data of team members for incentive and year end appraisals
  • Tracking Workflow management as per plan and initiate work around plans on high volume days to ensure business meets SLA.
  • Weekly error feedback to team / individuals to ensure agreed quality frame is achieved.
  • Analyzing cases based on risk level and scheduling to team members for investigation.
  • Flag on doubtful transaction to get confirmation from client through respective Relationship managers.

Process Advisor

Barclays Global Services India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
02.2010 - 02.2012
  • Processing of Individual savings account transfer based on customer's request.
  • Handled team of 18 new joiners for 4 months when TL was not assigned to process
  • Performed and delivered good quality and productivity along with additional responsibility and, given competitive performance to co-teams.

Education

B.Com - Commerce

Madras University
Chennai
07.2000 - 06.2003

Skills

    Staff Management

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Certification

Completed certification on Inclusive banking from IIBF to understand the basic KYC and banking procedure.

KYC & AML certification is in process from one of the India's leading AML & KYC training centre.

Timeline

Team Manager

Barclays Global Service Center of India Pvt Ltd
06.2022 - Current

Team Manager

Barclays Global Service Center of India Pvt Ltd
10.2020 - 07.2021

Senior Process Expert

Barclays Global Services Centre India Pvt Ltd
03.2012 - 10.2020

Process Advisor

Barclays Global Services India Pvt Ltd
02.2010 - 02.2012

B.Com - Commerce

Madras University
07.2000 - 06.2003
Saravanan RamaswamyManager