Vivek Poddar

About Vivek Poddar

Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of experience in Finance & Business management space in global multinational banks. Privileged to have worked with incredibly talented colleagues in meritocratic, client-centric, people-oriented organization, focused on operational excellence. Proven track record in Business management and Strategy execution, Operational risk and governance, Change and program management. Rich experience in migrating Controllership and P&A functions from global onshore centres into India capability centres and managing them successfully through the maturity curve. Acknowledged for empathetic leadership, diligence, eye for detail and execution capabilities. Delivered diverse projects spanning application rollouts, technology infrastructure change management, gamification of learning modules, cost efficiency saves, and metrics digitization. Accredited with the JPMorgan Asia Pacific CEO Partnership Award twice for superlative partnership and delivery. My foundational values of integrity, trust and respect define my work ethos, combined with positive attitude and focus on results.

Experience

1. Executive Director, Global Finance & Business Management, India

   JPMorganChase

   Jan 2015 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   GF & BM India is a strong organization and is a key partner to the global teams across functions including Regulatory Reporting, Planning & Analysis, Legal Entity Control, Valuation Control and Project Management, spanning across all lines of business.I am responsible for the Control & Program Management functions for GF & BM India, providing coverage for below:Control Management: Provide coverage on Operational Risk, Resiliency, Firmwide Control policies, Process Risk Reviews, Automation Tools Control Governance, Risk awareness & training. Act as a trusted advisor to business in the interpretation, compliance, and reporting of key risk parameters. Program Management: Lead implementation of strategic business and operational plans, projects, programs, and systems. Provide policy guidance and end-to-end life cycle management of migrations from onshore centres into India. Drive productivity, efficiency and control improvements through the strategic utilization of Intelligent Automation technologies, including Robotics, Alteryx, Xceptor, and Tableau.Finance and Business Management: Support Senior Executive/GF & BM-wide strategic agenda across diverse range of initiatives. Some examples are Location Strategy, Return to the Office strategy & implementation, CEO’s Office requests, GF & BM wide Communications and People engagement, Employee Experience initiatives, Leadership/Strategy events. This also includes Financial analysis, tracking of headcount, efficiency and growth to enable management decision making; and preparing Corporate and Visitor packs, Governance and Business review packs for senior leadership meetings.

Education

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Chartered Accountancy

  1991 — 1994

• G.S. College of Commerce & Economics, Nagpur University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Commerce

  1988 — 1991

• The Institute Of Cost Accountants Of India

  Cost Accountancy

  1988 — 1991