Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Methodologies
Timeline
ProjectManager
Yasmeen Banu

Yasmeen Banu

Project Manager
Bengaluru

Summary

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Service Delivery Manager

Cognizant India Pvt Ltd
08.2022 - Current
  • Handling 4 Projects (LinkedIn Data Quality, MSR, Intuit & Google – LASER TAG)
  • Current team size 450 team members plus 21 Leads and 4 Team managers
  • Day to Day Operations Call with respective stakeholders
  • Responsible for complete stakeholder management during entire pursuit cycle and maintain relationships with multiple entities within ecosystem involving
  • People Management/Team Building
  • Attend relevant training programs and assist in preparing emerging trends in domain/technology
  • Contribute to knowledge sharing sessions within and outside BD group
  • Provide mentoring and coaching support for team members
  • Handling Escalations and reviewing RCA
  • Working closely with Process Excellence team to set up controls on repetitive errors/escalations
  • Performance Management/SLA and KPI
  • Skip Meetings and 1-0-1 Connect
  • Review Forecast and manage monthly Billing
  • Process transition completed for Bangalore and Poland with Billable HC of 26 for each location
  • Review MBR/WBR/QBR
  • Leadership connects on current ongoing activities on process, people, and technology
  • Engaged on Quality dashboard, Focused groups, stratified random sampling method
  • Review of Client reports with PEX team and working on CSI
  • Focused learning on Udemy
  • Created Knowledge Base (SME) and Internal Risk & Compliance team
  • One-view dashboard for live performance is created
  • Daily attendance with MTD view is shared.

Operations Delivery Manager

Concentrix Daksh India Pvt Ltd.(Formerly IBM Daksh India Pvt. Ltd)
06.2006 - 08.2022
  • Currently handling 5 Projects (Westpac Bank, Pearson, Prima, IBM.com & Club House)
  • Handling 12 Assistant managers, leads along with team of 240 executives
  • Managing end to end project delivery and commercials
  • LOB’s like Collections (Secured, Unsecured Loans and Credit Cards), Mortgage (Securitization and Full/Partial Discharge) and Backend Process (Customer Administration, Estate Management, Indexing and Signbanking, Portfolio Loan Limit, Bank Reconciliation and Investment Banking
  • Handling the Service Desk project for Lloyds Bank – Collections & Back office
  • IBM.com ensuring client SLAs are met
  • Pearson & Prima – Managing Collections project for US & UK region
  • Club House – Content Moderation & Community Support globally
  • Project Management for RPA projects, done scheduling and planning Project
  • Day to Day interaction with Clients
  • Performance Reviews, Goal Setting
  • Escalation management Process improvement
  • Resource management
  • Working closely with the Service Desk teams to prioritize incidents based on the urgency and business impact
  • Transitions & Transformation Specialist, steered process transformation by streamlining existing process, curbed the tasks involved which resulted in significant saving in man hours and overall cost
  • Domain expertise entails directing operations and driving customer satisfaction scores by ensuring high quality delivery, reduction in overall complaints & adherence to SLAs
  • Expertise in establishing high -performance culture, built on strategic customer and partner engagements driving sustainable and profitable growth fueled by innovation.

Deputy Manager

St. George Bank (Australia)
01.2008 - 05.2015
  • Handled a team of max 110 process executives + 6 Team leads
  • Responsible for Operation Management, People Management, Client Management, Process Management, Performance Management, Hiring, training and process Transition
  • Engaged in People & Process Optimization
  • Engaged with Clients on process documentation (SOP, SOW etc) for a new process and provided multiple process improvements
  • Quality Improvement through RCA and structured audit methodology.

Process Executive

Lloyds Bank
06.2003 - 12.2007
  • Handling Outbound calls effectively and ensuring collection targets met and exceeded on month-on-month basis
  • Collecting arrears on secured and unsecured products (Credit cards, Personal Loans, Home Loans & Portfolio Loans)
  • Trained new joiners.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce -

MES College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Bangalore University)
01.2000 - 04.2003

Skills

Process Management

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Accomplishments

  • Multiple appreciations from Clients
  • Successfully done 6 process transition 3 in India & 3 in Manila
  • Customer Champion
  • Green Belt project for Quality improvement
  • Onsite transition successfully completed for reputed Bank in Australia (Mortgage & Banking Services)
  • Offsite transition – Collections & PD invoicing
  • Received Gold level appreciations from customer and multiple awards for best leader

Methodologies

  • Lean
  • Six Sigma

Timeline

Service Delivery Manager

Cognizant India Pvt Ltd
08.2022 - Current

Deputy Manager

St. George Bank (Australia)
01.2008 - 05.2015

Operations Delivery Manager

Concentrix Daksh India Pvt Ltd.(Formerly IBM Daksh India Pvt. Ltd)
06.2006 - 08.2022

Process Executive

Lloyds Bank
06.2003 - 12.2007

Bachelor of Commerce -

MES College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Bangalore University)
01.2000 - 04.2003
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