Rahul Purvar

About Rahul Purvar

22+ years of Technology driven transformation experience in Financial Services, covering domains including digital transformation, operational risk & resilience, process re-engineering, new business build-outs and compliance with regulatory reforms.Expert in driving strategic organizational imperatives by setting-up large transformation programs grounds up, including creating business cases to secure funding, hiring talent, incubating capabilities, establishing operating models and building partnerships with leadership to prioritize, execute and govern underlying programs.Currently leading an Automation Center of Excellence engineering team (with skills in Digitization, NLP, Workflows, RPA, Python and Java) driving automation @ scale to deliver multi-million-dollar cost savings, enabling new revenue, significantly enhancing client experience, and reducing risks for the firm.Seasoned program manager with an excellent delivery record of building new trading capabilities and driving compliance with industry-wide regulations, by leading cross-divisional teams to build strategic system capabilities and operational infrastructure.

Experience

1. Vice President

   Goldman Sachs

   Jun 2010 — Present

   Set-up and scaled an Automation Center of Excellence team, to drive transformation through automation of critical business processes, delivering multi-million dollar operating efficiencies, enabling new revenue, reducing risks, uplifting employee productivity and significantly impacting client experience.Partnered with India divisional leadership, engineering teams, and product vendors to scale the impact of digital transformation, including driving adoption of low-code and pro-code automation tooling across both the citizen developer and engineering communities.Part of the leadership team that established the strategy for Digitization across the firm, curating the pipeline and setting up the infrastructure to scale digitization efforts across divisions.Established and led multiple programs to significantly improve ‘operational risk and resiliency’ of key business processes and production stability of core ‘run the back’ operations.Portfolio Lead for the firm’s preeminent change function. Drove franchise growth across the India and Korea businesses through the build-out of front-to-back system flows and operational infrastructure to launch multiple new businesses.Led transformation programs to enable compliance with some of the most significant Industry regulations across jurisdictions, including MIFID II (EMEA), GAAR (India), FMIA (Swiss).

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  B.Tech.

  1994 — 1998

• Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

  PGDM

  2001 — 2003

Skills

• Project Management
• Capital Markets
• Business Strategy
• Requirements Management
• Management Consulting
• Management
• IT Risk Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Derivatives
• Business Analysis
• Financial Modeling
• Program Management
• Pre-Sales
• Investment Banking
• Vendor Management
• Business Development
• IT Consulting
• Strategy
• Team Management
• IT Strategy
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Consulting