Reshan Samarasinghe
Senior Credit Risk Manager @Barclays
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Credit Risk Manager @Barclays
London, GB
Senior Credit Strategy Manager - Collections Strategy • Led the build of the COVID-19 Bounce Back Loan (BBLs) collections strategy, ensuring alignment with government guarantee eligibility while managing reputational, operational, and compliance risk.• Built a risk based customer contact strategy, leveraging segmentation and channel optimisation (dialler, SMS, letters), • Introduced a new forbearance toolkit to support financially vulnerable customers, embedding risk controls to align with FCA/MCOB/ CONC guidelines. • Played a key role in influencing the new Financial Difficulties Policy and building Minimum Risk Requirements and Affordability models. • Built and fostered strong working relationships with wider stakeholders within Product / Operations / WFM and Tech. Kensington Mortgages - Senior Portfolio Strategy Manager (Secondment)• Directed the Credit Risk integration of Kensington Mortgages\' portfolio into Barclays’ risk infrastructure, ensuring full regulatory compliance and dispensation closure.• Key facilitator between KMC and Barclays data management and risk infrastructure teams to enable accurate information flow into Barclays Capital models.
EDUCATION
King's College London
Master of Science (MS), Telecommunications Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT RESHAN SAMARASINGHE
Seasoned Credit Risk Analytics & Strategy Professional (1st and 2nd Lines of Defence) with over 20 years of experience, including more than 10 years in management roles, specialising in Collections and Recoveries Strategy across a diverse range of products, markets, and organisations.Proven track record of delivering transformational credit strategies, driving commercial growth through innovation, automation, and leading enterprise-wide change.Strategic leader with a successful track record influencing C-suite stakeholders, managing cross-border teams, and integrating risk functions post-M&A. Brings an innovative mind-set rooted in data science, customer-centricity, and agile execution.
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