Description:

Location: Bangalore

Industry: Investment Banking / Financial Services Technology

Experience: 20+ years

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Director to lead delivery, execution, and risk governance for a mission-critical Loan IQ platform within a large global financial services environment. This role carries end-to-end accountability for product execution, operational resilience, audit readiness, and large-scale team leadership across India, with close collaboration with global stakeholders.

This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for stabilizing delivery, strengthening controls, and scaling execution across a complex lending ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

Platform Ownership & Delivery

- Own end-to-end execution of Loan IQ across loan accounting and loan delivery schedules.

- Ensure delivery continuity amid attrition, incidents, and capacity shocks.

- Eliminate single-threaded workflows and institutionalize makerchecker and validation models.

Production Risk & Controls (ABO / RCSA)

- Drive attestations, certifications, defect triage, and sustainability validations.

- Close audit gaps and strengthen systemic field-level controls.

- Ensure audit and compliance expectations are consistently met.

Release & Change Readiness

- Oversee readiness for ~2,800 high-risk features per release.

- Lead UAT governance, defect prioritization, and go-live confidence.

Integration & Conversion Readiness

- Partner with upstream and downstream platforms (originations, accounting, payments).

- Ensure STP stability and seamless conversion throughput without incident-driven delays.

Leadership & Workforce Strategy

- Lead and mentor a span of 6070+ resources across product, BA, UAT, and controls.

- Build bench strength and succession plans to mitigate human-capital risk.

- Enable cross-training, documentation, and knowledge capture.

Global Operating Model

- Strengthen USIndia delivery cadence and overlap windows.

- Standardize incident response, runbooks, and escalation models.

- Retire single-person dependencies through structured governance.

Required Skills & Experience

- 20+ years of experience in banking technology / lending platforms.

- Strong Business Analysis background with hands-on expertise in Loan IQ.

- Proven leadership of large, multi-disciplinary teams (50+ resources).

- Deep experience in:

Loan Accounting

Payments, GL / Tax

Audit, Attestations & Control Testing (ABO / RCSA)

UAT & Release Governance

Large-scale integrations and conversions

- Strong stakeholder management with senior global leaders.

- Experience operating in regulated, audit-intensive environments.

Why This Role Matters

- The platform is enterprise-critical, with scope beyond a single business line.

- This role directly mitigates delivery risk, audit exposure, and SLA breaches.

- You will play a key role in stabilizing production, protecting strategic timelines, and strengthening long-term platform resilience.

Whats on Offer

- Strategic leadership role with enterprise-wide visibility

- Opportunity to shape a global delivery and risk model

- High ownership, influence, and long-term impact