Vishal Bhatia

Senior Vice President and Team Leader - Digital Initiatives Technology at Kotak Mahindra Bank

I am a PMP certified with over 16+ years of overall work experience. I have experience of Retail, Corporate, Business, Investment Banking from clients side and also Product implementation/Application development from IT side. Currently working in IDFC Bank as Head of IT Consumer, Personal and Business Banking and managing key core applications on both Productions and Projects.Managing applications Core Banking TCS Bancs, WMS, MicroATM, Indus (Rsystem) Consumer asset LOS/LMS/Collection, Pricing engine, Global Limit, Corporate LOS, Indus MSME LOS etc. I earlier acted as Global Process Owner - GPO for Daily PnL and reconciliation process in SG. I have experience in - Finance functions, IT, Operations, Process and Management (Delivery/People). Managing client relationship, transitions, operations and IT delivery. In the past years I have significant experience in the financial services sector including IT Account manager for setting up Market risk team in Societe Generale, Bangalore. In addition, for over 10 years worked as Senior Program manager for Finacle Retail and Corporate Banking implementation WW. I hold B.E. in Electronic Engineering from Nagpur University, India and has an MBA from ICFAI, Hyderabad in Finance stream. Specialties: * Good knowledge on IT, Operations, Processes, Products, Program, Vendor management * Derivative Accounting for Financial instruments * Fixed Income products, Equity Derivative * Market risk, Profit and Loss, Value at Risk * IT Delivery management, Business gathering, Development, Implementation * People management, Development, Training and Retention * Have successfully implemented 10+ Finacle implementations worldwide *•Excellent Project Management capability, exposure to Project management tools.Strong skills in estimation, planning, schedule, Quality,Delivery,risk identification and mitigation, co-ordination. Able to manage complex projects across geographies. Have good customer interfacing skillsand Overseas experience.