Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Websites
Known For
Honors And Awards
Transformation Projects
Metrics
Continuous Improvements
Timeline
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Sreenivas Venkatesh

Sreenivas Venkatesh

Bangalore

Summary

Experienced professional with 21 years in Banking operations and HR Shared Services. Skilled in customer service, credit cards new business, card fraud, HR administration, payroll, remuneration administration, policy design and implementation, process management and optimization, transition and migration, service delivery, and continuous improvement. Specialize in implementing transactional control frameworks for processes and effectively communicating business insights through writing and presentations.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Operations Manager

ANZ SSI
06.2023 - Current
  • Build a world class servicing centre of excellence to deliver ongoing improvements in outcomes for ANZ New Zealand’s Personal, Business and Institutional customers.
  • Deliver on operational excellence, improving stakeholder engagement and ensuring regulatory and organisational standards are met.
  • Deliver against all aspects of financial budget. This includes full utilisation of training and R and R budgets and control of discretionary spend.

Sr Operations Manager

ANZ SSI
02.2018 - 05.2023
  • Demonstrating excellence in partnering with global cross functional teams to identify process and/or system enhancements; thereby driving continuous improvement/automation that improves the employee experience.
  • Developing partnerships, collaborating and obtaining consensus with stakeholders, senior management, and Talent & Culture leadership.
  • Meticulously leading: Group internal audits (risk audits) for 2B ratings.
  • System design changes to make processes straight through leading to efficiency gains.

Operations Manager

ANZ SSI
02.2012 - 01.2018
  • Primarily focused on end-to-end execution of pre and post finalisation processes for any PeopleSoft payroll country.
  • Adroitly published business insights using data analysis with recommendations; thereby reducing incorrect/over payments.
  • Supporting NZ transformation and BAU initiatives impacting people data and payroll.
  • Engaging with NZ business, HR Heads, Business partners, HRSS leadership and extended team.

Team Lead

ANZ
08.2011 - 01.2012
  • Handled fraud monitoring and investigation for ANZ and National Bank Cards and Merchants.
  • Monitored card and merchant activity thereby protecting card holders and merchants or detecting fraudulent transactions/behaviour.
  • Ensured sustained and engaged relationship management with customers, frontline and other complaint management teams across the bank.

Team Lead

ANZ SSI
08.2009 - 07.2011
  • Adroitly managed the staff performance thus ensuring achievement of identified objectives by establishing and regularly reviewing team and individual performance plans.
  • Meticulously built customer experience into a competitive advantage & achieving stretch targets across key measures.

Education

PGDCRM - Customer Relationship Management

Symbiosis
01.2011

BCom - undefined

Bangalore University
01.2003

Skills

  • People Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Process Management
  • Service Delivery
  • Operational Risk
  • Compliance
  • Transition Management
  • Change Management
  • Project Management
  • Transformation
  • Process Automation
  • Process Excellence
  • Audit
  • Data Analytics
  • Quality Management
  • Training Management

Known For

  • Managing 10 successful Business transitions from Onshore
  • Excellent People management skills, delivering high engagement scores
  • Leading by example and showcasing Excellence in every role performed
  • Collaborating well with all business teams be it customer facing, technology or employees etc.
  • Managing multiple stakeholders in different countries simultaneously and delivering results

Honors And Awards

  • Recognized as an Out Performer which amongst the top 5 percent in organisation for 5 Financial years and Strong Performer for 11 Financial years
  • 5 Times Nominee and 2-time Winner of Take Charge and Standout reward programme
  • Awarded as Alchemy (Best Team Lead) 2 years in a row. Reward voted by the staff

Transformation Projects

  • Success Factors (SAP) HR tool implementation for the Bank, 33 countries globally
  • SNOW-Workflow Management tool implementation
  • Moving to new operating model-Agile ways of working

Metrics

  • Consistently meeting 99%+ customer SLA.
  • Achieving 10% productivity YOY.
  • Cost efficiency- Saving 10% FTE YOY.
  • Achieving 90% People Engagement score.

Continuous Improvements

  • Automation of 15+ processes with RPA initiatives
  • Processes made straight through with use of Technology
  • Publishing Business Insights to Exco members using Data to reduce over or under payments

Timeline

Sr Operations Manager

ANZ SSI
06.2023 - Current

Sr Operations Manager

ANZ SSI
02.2018 - 05.2023

Operations Manager

ANZ SSI
02.2012 - 01.2018

Team Lead

ANZ
08.2011 - 01.2012

Team Lead

ANZ SSI
08.2009 - 07.2011

BCom - undefined

Bangalore University

PGDCRM - Customer Relationship Management

Symbiosis
Sreenivas Venkatesh