Jignesh Ashar Email & Phone Number

India

C-Suite, Leadership and Strategic Hiring. Business Consulting in all domains of BFSI.

India/Bangladesh

With the World Bank, I am currently working on multiple programmes for various organisations. The programmes include: 1. Helping banks in Myanmar to set up their Financial Crime Risk capabilities. 2. Helping banks in Bangladesh and Vietnam set up its Supply Chain Finance business, and creating a market for Supplier Finance and Distributor Finance. The key differentiator is enabling the SCF business using a Digital Platform - a first in the market. 3. Launch of Two Wheeler Loans in Bangladesh - a first in the country. 4. Creating a Customer Experience proposition for a Bank.5. Creating a multi-channel Liabilities Sales model for a Bank.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai Area, India

My journey here in HSBC India has been a rich and rewarding one wherein I have consistently been exposed to and gained expertise in the various facets of the banking business and industry. I joined the organization as an AVP for Branch Banking and over the years headed and managed various functions such as Mortgages, Liabilities/Retail Liabilities, Debit Cards, Customer Acquisition, Retail Banking, Wealth Management, Customer Relations, Global Change Delivery and the most current profile of Financial Crime Risk Remediation.My current profile is a new and evolving one designed to safeguard bank’s business interests from the various types of financial crimes being committed. I have been instrumental in setting up the entire function from scratch and am tasked with the responsibility of identifying, mapping and defining all types of financial risks, building a remedial action plan as a counter-measure and integrating the same in the current business environment and systems.As Head of Global Change Delivery, I led and facilitated various transformation/transition programs that occur due to the evolving and changing business/market needs. Here, the focus was on Group, Regulatory, De-risking and Growth program management and delivery.Prior to this, some of my key achievements/initiatives have been - Setting up of the Customer Relations team which involved centralization of customer complaints, establishment of a Grievance Redressal Mechanism and a COE at Chennai and turning around the performance of bank’s largest region, Mumbai Cluster, and ramping it to No. 1 position Pan India.Between 2005-11, I was heading Liabilities, in which I was involved right from its inception stage, Customer Acquisition, Debit Cards and Mortgages LOBs at different timelines. There are many success stories, achievements and learning’s for this timeline and the period before that.

Mumbai Area, India

My role here was to manage business relationships for multiple large and reputed corporate houses in terms of their cash management requirements. This was a target based profile wherein I was successfully achieving all set revenue and profitability targets.

Mumbai Area, India

This was a pre-MBA experience where In was the Project Lead and my role was primarily into the IT domain.

Master’S In Business Administration (Mba), Marketing

Bachelor’S In Engineering, Electronics