Sachin Kotian

Experience

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  Standard Chartered Bank

  May 1999 - Apr 2001

  Officer -Trade Finance

  Supervised trade operations involving import, export and local trade in adherence to ISO 9002Deputed to Bangalore to assist in setting up the very first Trade Finance branch office

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  Societe Generale

  May 2001 - Oct 2002

  Sr Officer-Trade Finance

  Supervised International and Domestic trade and handled information technology for the branch. Responsible for regulatory report filing and maintenance of record keeping and key business development reports

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  HDFC Bank Limited

  Nov 2002 - Jul 2008

  Sr Manager, Business Process Re-engineering Group (BPRG)

  Business Process Analysis & Re-engineering (BPR) using Six Sigma principals, Impact–Gap–Scope Analysis. Handling business improvement initiatives such as continuous change management.Project Management• Rolled out nearly 175-200 enhancements in Flexcube and executed key implementation projects such as:o International Flexcube version for 1st Foreign Branch of HDFC Bank at Bahraino Migration for all Trade Finance systems for HDFC Bank - CBOP Merger & centralized R-Returns Project (PAN India)o Implementation of R-Returns Pan India project, Auto-emailing System for Corporate Transactionso Trade Supply Chain Management (SCM) Projects Show less

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  Intelenet Global Services

  Aug 2008 - Sept 2010

  Asst. General Manager (Business Solutions)

  At Intelenet I was responsible for automation of projects at the different locations including Australia, Saudi Arabia; executed projects in multiple geographies for global MNC's (ANZ - Australia and New Zealand Bank), SAMBA (Saudi American Bank) and SBI Global. I also accomplished projects involving re-engineering analysis, technology assessment, process security to provide value-add and retain existing clients such as Barclays, UK. Led the automation one of their key requirements for developing a "quality check" QC workflow application, which helped them to roll-out the same to various other processes in quick timeSelected accomplishments of this role included Major BFSI projects:• ANZ Bank, Australia (onshore); assessed offshorability involving discovery and Implementation of non-voice processes to be migrated to their captive center in India, as a part of ANZ’s regional business strategy• ANZ, India; conducted a functional study to integrate the existing workflow systems across business segments/processes to a single FILENET based platform• State Bank of India (SBI) – International Branch Operations; implemented a customized Image-based solution (omniflow) to route the transactions from the overseas branches Show less

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  HDFC Bank

  Sept 2010 - now

  Vice President- Business Technology Group

  With HDFC Bank Limited, I have been recognized as a Member of working Solution Group (representing HDFC Bank) for SWIFT INDIA on Trade Finance. Functioning as the Unit Head for Trade Finance and supervised Trade Finance, Credit Administration, Bullion, NOSTRO Reconciliation, Imaging and other foreign branches at Hong Kong, Bahrain, Dubai.I also steered one of the biggest/complex migrations conducted in the country “Flexcube – Core Banking”, considering the number of customers/locations/product variants. Spearheaded the complete life cycle management of systems including software solution selection, business analysis, scope testing and provided user support for 15+ major and 120+ small banking applications. Steered the automation of trade finance operational areas by introducing workflow-based applications thereby reducing the manual and paper-driven processes. I directed a team of 30+ executives who managed automation projects and process transformation for trade financeSelected accomplishments of this role include:• Migration of HFDC’s Oracle Wholesale Core Banking system to Single Enterprise Platform in Nov 2017• Acknowledged as one of the most complex system migration by the Vendor (OFSS); with this migration, the bank is now on one single core banking platform servicing 35 Million Customers over 4800+ Branches across the Country• Introduction of the first web portal based solution offering customer for trade finance products; rolled out Trade on Net in 2015• Trade Digitization & Robotics: Introduced OCR, Robotics & Machine Learning capabilities in high volume transaction areas such as Trade Remittances and Supply Chain products. • Execution of TRRACS (Trade Regulatory Reporting & Compliance System); rollout of GST for all Trade Finance applications• Administration of RBI-ADF (Automated Data Flow) for trade finance related reporting Show less