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GOPALAN PARTHASARATHY 
	103 PANCHAVATI APARTMENTS
18TH MAIN 5TH CROSS
HAL SECOND STAGE
INDIRA NAGAR
 BANGALORE, 560008  India  Mobile: +919945233189 	
gopalan.parthasarathy@gmail.com

Profile
	Culturally sensitive and internationally traveled leader. Strongly committed to team building and staff development Results-driven professional with extensive experience in financial services - banking, treasury and credit. Ability to grasp new ideas and integrate them into desired results and business development.  I have a diverse and all round exposure in financial services for 25 years of which more than 10 years in Senior Management. 

A member of ISACA, a  Certified Associate and life member of Indian Institute of Banking and Finance and a Diploma holder in Management (IGNOU) I have also earned the following : 
1. AMFI Certification in Mutual Fund Advisory 
2. NASD Professional Certificate in Capital Markets, Regulation and Compliance
3. MBA - Executive Educati

Culturally sensitive and internationally traveled leader. Strongly committed to team building and staff development Results-driven professional with extensive experience in financial services - banking, treasury and credit. Ability to grasp new ideas and integrate them into desired results and business development.  I have a diverse and all round exposure in financial services for 25 years of which more than 10 years in Senior Management. 

A member of ISACA, a  Certified Associate and life member of Indian Institute of Banking and Finance and a Diploma holder in Management (IGNOU) I have also earned the following : 
1. AMFI Certification in Mutual Fund Advisory 
2. NASD Professional Certificate in Capital Markets, Regulation and Compliance
3. MBA - Executive Education from Southern New Hampshire University, USA in association with Institute for Technology and Management, India 
4. Executive Education in Management on Innovative Strategies in a Dynamic Economy, with Stanford University
 Aiming to embrace fuller leadership opportunities through senior/top  management roles in BFSI
Experience
	MANAGEMENT : 10 YEARS PLUS IN SENIOR MANAGEMENT POSITIONS IN BFSI
STATE BANK OF INDIA – CHENNAI, FRANKFURT AND MUMBAI – Training in Financial Services, Chief Manager Personal Banking Branch, Vice President – Trade, Vice President – Back Office, Credit Analyst and Asst General Manager (Organizational Planning)
	HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD – Head – Trade Management Services; 
                                                Head – Enterprise Risk Management
	Present	Head – ERM, HCL Technologies Ltd – Financial Services LOB - Capital Market Services Division
	Operational Risk Management, Internal Consultant on Compliance, Performance Monitoring through BPO / Control Metrics, Quality Programmes/Certifications/Audits/Surveys and Risk Based Internal Audit, Single Point of Contact for all external Audits including SAS 70 and Co-ordination of Senior Management in Delivery, Solutions. Enablers and Engagements on various assignments including Task Forces.  
KEY ASSIGNMENTS IN DETAILS
Head (Enterprise Risk Management) (From February 2006 (Risk&Compliance) August 2006 (Internal Audit) Added responsibilities for RFP/RFI/Presale engagements/Quality / Business Continuity Plan / Information Security (Effective October 2006)/Senior Management Task Force on BPO Metrics The role encompasses risk management at each stage of its life-cycle process viz. identify, assess/measure, response and audit. I achieved significant milestones in terms of employee engagements involving the process-owners in process wise risk analysis, identifying risk, measuring risk and bringing out risk mitigation strategies with co-ownership from them. In this role, I have enabled various key functionaries to appreciate current trends in risk and compliance in a global perspective, my team acting as a catalyst in risk and compliance management in operations. In this role, I am responsible for risk event analysis and reporting, exception analysis and reporting, risk awareness / sensitization meetings for key operating functionaries, risk management group meetings for reviews and enterprise wide risk management group meetings. 
Head (Trade Management Services) –Capital Market Services Operations SBU (From June 2005-March 2006)  Trade Management Services vertical in operations of a leading BPO focused on capital market services – a leadership position reporting to the SBU Head focused on capital market services, with people management, delivery management, relationship management, business development, strategic planning and profit centre responsibilities. I recently brought out road map for Risk Management Strategy for the BPO. I achieved major advancements in my vertical in terms of resource utilization (from 63% to 81%), smart-sizing by maintaining optimal ratio of PL/PM to total resources, reducing attrition from 38.4% to 15.3%,(3 months of 0% attrition), KPI achievement at 100%, 99.99% and 99.98% levels in the key sub segments, revenue growth from USD 0.4 mio to 2 mio in the niche and difficult processes supporting FO and MO, Bills receivable reduced to 1 month level, employee morale/development, quality, risk management, relationship and business development, unthought-of before my taking over as the leader. ‘Face2Face’, ‘Polishing Diamond’, ‘Express Yourself’ and ‘Learning Curve’ are the names of some of the People Initiatives I took – these elicited tremendous response. These initiatives were strengthened by 2 team-building exercises one of which was off site. As an action point for the leadership team from the programme, I had an employee engagement through an ‘Aspirational Survey’, which helped the team rediscover learning aspirations and streamline training need assessment and fulfillment. 
2002-2005 : MUMBAI      -  CORPORATE CREDIT AND ORGANISATIONAL PLANNING
(Senior Vice President position)
AGM, Organizational Planning, SBI Corporate Centre (October 2004-June 2005)
Strategic Planning/Senior Management and Top Management Roles, Structures, Organizational Restructuring/Redesign/Six Sigma/Media Plan/Brand Management/Corporate Communications Right sizing of Administrative Offices/Co-ordination between various departments. Coordinating major corporate initiatives in Organisational Restructuring and Business Process Reengineering involving, inter alia, Mc Kinsey, as consultants was a key aspect of this role. During my brief tenure in Organisational Planning, I was engaged in planning and co-coordinating major Corporate Communication exercises such as bicentennial celebrations and related activities. 
Chief Manager & Credit Analyst, Corporate Accounts Group, Mumbai (November 2002 till October 2004) (Vice President position) Responsible for Credit, Delivery across a net work of 3000 offices, Cross selling of Investment Banking products and Business Development
•	Relationship management of Top Corporate Accounts in the Energy sector. 
•	Scouting for new accounts in other sectors.
•	Support for marketing of credit and foreign exchange products for corporate segment based on market requirement analysis and developing customized lending products for specific clients. 
•	Contributing to the Account Management Team’s developing marketing plans to achieve sales growth of these products. 
•	Credit Rating Analysis, Evaluation of account for pricing and Credit monitoring
•	I was part of the team, headed by Ms N Kidwai, CEO, HSBC, India, which made presentation to the Govt of India, Ministry of Disinvestment, in connection with selection of Global Advisory for disinvestments in a PSU. 
•	I represented SBI in all the CDR exercises for Essar Oil Ltd, that were happening during my tenure.
•	Credit appraisal and presentation of Credit Proposals to Corporate Centre Credit Committee.
•	Appraisal of proposals for approval by Central Board.
•	Inputs for Credit Audit; Conducting Plant Visits; Structuring alternative credit 
1999-2002: FRANKFURT  - TREASURY AND TRADE FINANCE
Vice President (Back Office) , SBI, Frankfurt (April 2001 to October 2002)
Responsible for Treasury Operations as a whole
• Supervising the entire back office and ably supporting mid office functions of the branch
• Monitoring the treasury operations, money market and derivatives trading to enhance volumes and ensure a high margin of profitability (volumes : Over Euro 2.3 Trillion with an annual income of Euro 0.9 million)
• Daily monitoring of currency positions as obtaining in system vis-à-vis dealers’ books
• Ensuring timely processing and settlement of all cash and credit transactions and confirmations
• Monitoring the USD NOSTRO account of the branch for funds management and facilitating guidance provided to the concerned functionaries in respect of other currency nostro accounts. Coordinating with the functional heads to plan for liquidity, monitor exposure limits in currency positions and assisting in decision making to cut losses.
• Managing a special project consisting of team members from various functions at the branch,
to facilitate transition to a new dollar (nostro) account.
Vice President (Trade), SBI, Frankfurt (Sep.1999 to March 2001)
Responsible for Trade Finance Delivery and Business Development
• Understanding the local market and increasing corporate loans business by extending trade finance to India based organizations doing business in Germany/rest of Europe/UK/Asia/Australia and USA. Enhancing turnover from other products like Letters of Credit (LCs) and Bill Discounting. Conducting background checks on organizations availing finance to ensure safety of assets.
• Improving the systems and processes to facilitate ease of transactions and high degree of customer retention. Interfacing with auditors during Central Bank Examinations/Statutory Audit/Internal Audit
• Successfully developed a single window system for delivering trade finance services
• Handled a turnover of over USD 3 billion and increased the asset base from USD 0.2 billion to $ 0.3 billion. (short term assets which mature very fast) 
•	Maintained a record of no rejection 
•	Risk participation / Buyer’s credit
SME CREDIT / NPA MANAGEMENT / BRANCH MANAGEMENT/  TRAINING 1990-1999:
Chief Manager Designate (VP Position), Personal Banking Branch (PBB),SBI, Chennai (1999 April-September)
• Foundational work for timely and successful launching of the PBB in a Metro Centre level and ably handled ‘Survey to Inauguration’ ; acclaimed best in its category at All India level since inception. 
• PBB has matched in delivery and performance – surpassing most - the competing Banks in the area 
1995-1999: TRAINING IN FINANCIAL SERVICES :
Award winner as Trainer; Training Centre was adjudged the best out of 50 within the Organization; exceptional work in designing of new courses, transforming methodology mix, development of relationship with other eminent Institutions and aligning training with Quality initiatives
LANGUAGES:
	English, Hindi and Tamil 
Education
	2007
2005	Stanford University Executive Education Programme in India
MBA
	Southern New Hampshire University, USA in academic association with Institute for Technology & Management, India – Executive Education programme
	2006	Professional Certificate in Capital Markets, Regulation and Compliance 
	NASD and the Univesity of Reading. 
	2003	Certification in Mutual Funds (Advisory) 
	National Stock Exchange, India and Association of Mutual Funds, India - Mumbai, India. 
	1990	Diploma in Management  IGNOU
	Indira Gandhi National Open Univesity, New Delhi, India. 
	1986	Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Banking 
	Indian Institute of Banking & Finance, Mumbai, India.