Assistant General Manager
Samba Financial Group
Total years of experience :31 years, 4 Months
Key Profile:
Samba Capital IT Head (November 2012 - Present)
• Responsible for the overall delivery and management of Samba’s Brokerage and Asset Management Systems.
Systems Support Division Head (November 2012 - Present)
• Responsible for maintaining all Samba’s applications(150+)
Projects Management Office and Admin Head (Feb 2010 - till date):
• Standardise and centralise all project plans.
• Ensure consistent and standardised management and control of external suppliers.
• Provide Business Analysis support to the IT Business Partners, Projects, IT Service Delivery teams.
• Provide PMO support services to Change programmes / projects.
• Project tracking and control.
• Project scheduling and prioritization.
• Overall Planning and tracking all activities related to the IT projects.
• Centralised change management (with rigid change control to avoid project disruption).
• Weekly & monthly MIS reporting, including early warning of any potential slippage.
• Project cost tracking.
• Resource Capacity Planning.
• Internal Audit of Project processes.
• Resource management of all Technology staff, follow up on all monthly invoices, etc. / Finance management.
• Coordinate Recruitment.
• Manage the budgeting activity for Technology and cost allocation for Businesses.
• Maintain and track all Technology Capital Expenditure Proposals, ensure closeout, etc. and ensure on time project liquidation.
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Development Head (Sept 1998 - Feb 2010):
Steering Program management & Project management with the help of 8 Project Managers and 75 IT manpower resources.
• Help in establishing the Technology Strategy of the Bank, ensuring delivery of technology solutions to Corporate & Consumer banking functionalities and architecting several e-Commerce applications.
• Defining the best practice guidelines & quality management processes for software development.
• Responsible for implementing a world-class multi-channel content management system, developing the company’s intranet system and establishing coding standards and best-practices.
Manager Office Automation (Dec 1997 - Sep 1998)
• Worked as Y2K Project Manager, led a team of 40-50 technical staff and steered operations of the department in compliance with assigned forecasts and business parameters.
• Identified new technologies, developed requisite capabilities in coordination in with partners & vendors.
Applications Managed: Accounting Packages; Trade Finance; Treasury; HRMS (PeopleSoft) and Retail & Corporate Banking Applications.
Manager - Year 2000 Project (Apr 1997 - Dec 1997)
• Prepared & monitored Year 2000 (Y2K) action plan for Year 2000 Project.
• Analyzed bank systems to identify amendments requirements and tested & certified all bank systems for Y2K.
• Coordinated with external suppliers to acquire compliance certification of hardware & software and liaised with Group Offices (HSBC) to procure Group’s compliant software.
Project Manager (Sep 1995 - Mar 1997)
• Steered programming, system & software development including planning & estimates.
• Responsible for updating latest IT systems, enhancing Bank’s technology and imparting training to programmers for skill enhancement.
IT Training Officer, Training Dept (Jan 1993 - Sep 1995)
• Worked as the In-charge of IT training and responsible for imparting IT Training to executives and clerical staff throughout the Bank.
• Prepared IT training plans, budgets & forecasts, conducted analysis of IT training requirements and monitored IT technical developments & customer requirements.
• Prepared training schedules and providing IT consultancy services to Dept. Heads.