Deputy Manager
Axis Bank
Total years of experience :9 years, 11 Months
I lead a team of 10 members in Axis Bank Trade Finance Centre in our 780 people's office ( National Processing Centre). My role is to make the team input the data pertaining to different forex branches across India and verify that the entry is error free and compliant as per RBI Guidelines. My team is dedicated to Export proceeds realisation and their reporting in Finacle database and to Reserve Bank of India. I deal with authorisation of various products like export collections lodgement, documentary credit ( letter of credit), foreign bills free of payment, inward remittances, import collections lodgement, export bills lodge and realize etc. We process the trade finance and foreign exchange transactions that are routed to us from all over the country. Thus, we deal with very huge volumes every day.
The 2 year post graduate diploma encompasses various areas in finance like managerial economics, statistics, principles of bank lending, rural operations, treasury management, trade finance, research methodology, credit risk management, market risk management, derivatives market, equity market, foreign exchange etc. Also we have been trained in marketing, operations and human resourses. I have also qualified the Diploma in Banking and Finance course from Indian Institute of Banking and Finance that is equivalent to JAIIB in India. I have done my internship at Syndicate Bank ( A Public Sector Bank) for 6 weeks in corporate lending. My minor project was done at Bank of Maharashtra ( A Public Sector Bank) in branch banking operations. My major project was in credit risk scoring model that can be used by Indian Banks for assessing the Indian Corporates based on their financial parameters. It was simulated using a sample of 500 Indian Companies. I have also been a member of the core group for organising a student conclave for addressing the issue of financial inclusion in which many eminent persons from Indian Banking Sector had given their valuable inputs. I have volunteered in another conference for the Public Sector Bankers named "banking of the future" which threw light on the modern banking strategies that can be adopted in Indian Banks. I have attended "Bancon" 2012 & 2013, which is the biggest banking conference held in India and is addressed by most respected figures of Indian Banking like the Indian Finance minister, Governer of the Reserve Bank of India and the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India.