Sunandha Karthik, Business Transformation - Champion

Sunandha Karthik

Business Transformation - Champion

NBAD

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Management
Experience
17 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 0 Months

Business Transformation - Champion at NBAD
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since May 2016

- Achieved 3mn AED cost saves for Card Centre Operations through process re-engineering using lean methodology.
- Implemented Nawat tools framework developed by Mc Kinsey to create a shared services culture within the bank through daily huddles, SOP’s, productivity, 5s and staff utilisation and team barometers.
- Introduced smart, high impact system led solutions for improving 16 processes within the back end operations. This along with process stapling and cell structure design resulted in 75% improvement in cycle - time, contributing to 20% FTE save
- Identified the automation journey with digitised workflow, eliminating middle-office and bringing efficiencies to deliver another 40% cost save in the future

Banking Product, Credit & Process trainer at Edventus
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2013 to December 2013

- Understand requirement of banks through training needs assessment. Provide banks with trained resources for employment.
- Train fresh graduates on banking products, credit and bank processes.
- Ensure 100% customer focus and satisfaction by providing excellent training.

AVP Business Transformation at HSBC
  • India - Mumbai
  • May 2008 to January 2010

- Review processes of Home Loan department (HL), Global purchase unit (GPU) and IT department.
- Streamline the processes for HL department to ensure efficient and quick TAT for HL disbursement
- Improve the usage of Global Purchasing Unit as the single contact point for any purchases in India
- Work on IT related Cost initiatives to improve costs through contract renegotiations.
- Facilitate and conduct training modules for Six Sigma Green Belt & Black belts

AVP Credit Underwriting at HSBC
  • India - Mumbai
  • September 2006 to May 2008

- Approve STPL loans, manage underwriter performance, improve underwriting processes within the risk policy framework
- Support business by ensuring applications are processed within a given TAT. Conduct meeting with sales, credit and operations to understand the market environment, risk and enable smooth processing of applications.
- Conduct credit risk and portfolio management training internally. Ensure underwriters understand credit policy in line with policy department circulars.
- Design & launch the credit certification program to benchmark underwriters against each other to monitor underwriter level performance and improve delinquencies.
- Streamline the verification process of validating customer information.

Senior Manager Credit Risk portfolio manager at HDFC Bank (erstwhile CBOP)
  • India - Mumbai
  • April 2005 to September 2006

- Develop and implement credit policy across products (Personal Loans, Upsell, TW loans, Education Loans & Auto) for the integrated bank. In charge of creating a culture of understanding risk.
- Manage the portfolio of the bank by analysing the performance of loans across key indicators like 30+%, 90+%, write off and recovery.
- Manage the credit cycle by being in charge of customer acquisition, feeding back collections input and scoring inputs into risk policy.
- Managing underwriters through underwriter review and audit post facto.
- Forecast provisions, budgets on a monthly basis.
- Set Up the MIS & analytics unit for studying portfolio movement. Enable the automation of MIS.

Assistant Manager Personal Loans Risk Policy at citibank.n.a
  • India - Mumbai
  • November 2003 to April 2005

- Manage risk policy for personal loans
- Analyse trends in portfolio and feedback into policy.
- Program manage risk of new types of lending inclusing income based and cross sell programs to existing customers
- Central point for risk related decision making with inputs from portfolio analysis, underwriter review and collection inputs.
- Provide inputs into development of scoring modules for risk assessment of new to bank customers

Assistant Manager database marketing at citibank.n.a
  • India - Mumbai
  • December 2001 to November 2003

- Highly customise marketing campaigns to customer through targetted campaigns by rigourously analysing customer spend pattern on credit cards.
- Reduce mailer costs by understanding mailer response and understanding targetted mailing campaigns
- Facilitate customer cross sell programs through in depth understanding of customer database.

Education

Master's degree, Management
  • at Bradford University (Tias NIMBAS school of Management)
  • September 2001

One of four students to graduate with distinction in MBA class

Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at Stella Maris college
  • May 2000

Graduated with distinction in degree program-top 2% of the class

High school or equivalent, Commerce
  • at Good Shepherd Higher secondary School
  • May 1997

Was awarded ‘The Best Outgoing Student’ for performance in 12th std

Specialties & Skills

SAS/SQL
Business Transformation
Six Sigma
Credit Risk
Microsoft Excel
Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
Certified PMP

Languages

English
Intermediate
Hindi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2016
Valid Until:
August 2019
Six sigma (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2005
NLP Practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013

Hobbies

  • ballet dancer