Jaya Janardanan

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India23 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led digital transformation for multiple banking institutions.
  • Implemented RPA, saving significant operational costs.
  • Award-winning leader in banking technology and operations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with extensive experience in digital transformation and operational excellence.

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Skills

Core Skills

Operations ManagementDigital TransformationCustomer ServiceOperational Risk Management

Other Skills

Branch BankingBusiness TransformationCapital MarketsCommercial BankingContact CentersCore BankingCorporate FinanceCreditCredit AnalysisCredit CardsCredit RiskCross SellingCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Customer SatisfactionCustomer Service Operations

About

I am a successful and accomplished banking tech professional with 27 years experience in the banking industry . Last 5 years have been as a COO. Worked with varied bankss like private sector bank, Payments Bank , Small finance bank and MNC banks . My experience in Technology, Digital , customer service and banking operations over period of 27 years has led me to be an expert in this space. I have worked on strategy and execution of large scale strategic projects blended with technology for the banking industry . I was actively involved in digital transformation of the organisation by building digital solutioning of various kinds and helped implement large scaled digital projects for banking products and also for lending for NBFC. I was part of the core team that set up the payments bank which was completely digital . I have successfully implemented Robotic process automation in the payments space thereby transforming a completely manually led payments operations to a RPA led payment operations and enabling savings of around Rs 8 crore and also with no additional resources . Delivered a completely digital payment solutions for an NBFC which was earlier 100% cash driven. Passionate about customer service I help build a Call centre with a new model of it being managed by Back to work women and calls and resolution being handed by BOT . I have expertise in set ups of functions like ops, tech, digital and customer service. Last 10 years I have leadership positions across organisations and in the last 5 years have delivered the role of a chief operating officer. Have been in all major managment committes like the leadership committee, Mancom . Been an invitee of the board in the role of a COO. I have lead the IT strategy committee from the bank side and handled the various meetings of the board for IT strategy. Very innovative by nature I have been experimenting various innovative digital solutioning in various processes in the financial services . I won multiple awards in my career such Asian Banker award for the best bank project, CIO award for the most innovative process, CXO women achiever award, Gamechanger award , Trail blazer award to name a few. An alumni from Oxford I works extensively in the area of women empowerment and actively involved in a non profit organisation called Aspire for Her which works to build the diversity ratio in the country. I am an advisor for the tech and ops for aspire for Her organisation I am a speaker at major fintech forums.

Experience

Avasara finance ltd

Independent Director

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · India

Svasti microfinance

Independent Director

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Orp2b

PMO advisory

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Krayontek solutions private limited

Director

May 2023Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · India

  • Krayontek Solutions focusses on Built Operate Transfer (BOT) for delivery and execution of projects in the financial services. It partners with BFSI's in its early stage for execution and works on org structure , process and policies, tech development and support and implementation. Krayontek address the pain points during the execution phase for a BFSI.

Indostar capital finance ltd.

Chief Operating Officer

Aug 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Maharashtra, India

  • Mancom Member, the highest decision-making comiittee of Indostar capital finance limited ,Responsible for Strategy,Operations, Technology, and Customer Service. Shaping and leading execution across.
  • Was part of the Board and other Board Committees . Build strategy and executed high end tech enabled solutions for Lending, payments , Data on cloud and also RPA's. Build a Customer Care centre with back to work women for email solutioning and calls with BOT's thru the CRM.
  • Operations and Tech Strategy – 30% increase in productivity, reduction in Cost by over 20 %.
Contact CentersLeadershipTeam ManagementP&L ManagementIT StrategyDigital Strategy+8

Ujjivan small finance bank limited

Chief Operating Officer

Oct 2018Jun 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Karnataka, India

  • Joined the bank as the Chief Operating Officer with a strategic responsibility of running the operations and technology. A newly formed bank from being a micro finance institution, the responsibility was to set up the entire Ops and Tech in line and compliant with the regulatory bodies.
  • Increased Productivity by 50% , reducted cost by 70% ( Rs 8 cr to vendors for payments recon was brought down to zero as the entire process was changed to RPA with just Rs 3 lacs of set up costs and with zero increase in manpower and with more than 40% increase in volumes )
  • Build the Infra, security ops, Fintech capability , API banking, Robotic Process Automation with a completely digital based technology framework
  • Redesigned Operational set up in structure to handle voluminous transactions both on the digital as well as manual for Liabilities and Assets
  • Had consistent good rating from thei regulators
  • Member of the various strategic leadership team of the bank like the Executive committee , National leadership , ALCO, RMC of the board and also invitee to the Board meetings
New Business DevelopmentCustomer Service OperationsLeadershipTeam ManagementP&L ManagementDigital Strategy+5

Aditya birla payment bank

Chief Operations Officer

Nov 2016Sep 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai

  • Chief Operating Officer - Head of the Business operations , Training and Customer Service.
  • Part of the Management committee of the bank and responsible to the board .
  • Was part of the core team that set up the strategy and execution of the payments bank. Worked on Resourcing , Policy and Process and Tech exectuion for the whole bank. Set up a 100% digital centralised banking operations and was handling the transations of 3 lac retailers across the country. Set up the call centre and the solution centre to manage the customer experience and service. Build systems to handle training for local retailers and internal team.
LeadershipIT StrategyOperations ManagementInformation TechnologyDigital TransformationTraining & Development+3

Bank of america

Director - Head of ops Risk India

Sep 2013Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Head of Operational risk India . Set up the operational risk for India and developed the ops risk framework. Identifying the risks, working with functional teams to build controls and test the deployment of the controls. Was a Managment committee Member of the bank and was responsible to the regualatory body for the process and policy related to operational risk for India .
LeadershipOperational Risk Management

Jpmorgan chase

Head -client service and implementation .India and south east Asia

Sep 2012Sep 2013 · 1 yr · Mumbai

  • Headed the Client services and Implementation for India and South east Asia. Responsible to manage global client relations . Responsible for onboarding the corporate clients and ensuring a smooth transaction managment for them was a critical KRI. Interacting with the ops team and ensuring client requirement and delivery was the key responsibility . Was responsible for the Customer Satisfaction survey for the bank as a whole.
Customer SatisfactionCustomer ServiceCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)

Dhanalakshmi bank limited

Executive Vice President - Head Operations

May 2009Sep 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Head- Banking Operations. Build the centralised and regional operations from ground zero for 8 business verticals. (treasury, capital market, trade finance, centralisated and regionalised banking operations , operations of electronic channel and banch operations ). Set up the team, place, process and policies for operations and enabled a high end technology to make it completed automated.
  • The bank moved from processing 100 forms a month to 1000 forms a day. Increased producitvity by 80% .
  • Was regarded by RBI as one of the best run operations among the banks.
  • Won the Asian Banker award for the best banking branch project implemented
Employee TrainingOperations ManagementInformation TechnologyCustomer ServiceCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)

Ing vysya bank

Vice President

May 2005Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Head of Strategic Projects and implemented Centralisation, Automation and Vendorisation of Branch Activities towarnds enhancing Customer Service at branches.
  • Head - Customer Service Function of the Bank
  • Strategized and implemented Customer First with a complete revamp of top 10 processes of the bank . Won the CIO award for the customer first project

Icici bank

Chief Manager - II

Oct 1998Apr 2005 · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Handled several responsibilties across Corporate Banking to Retail Branch Banking and held diverse positions.
  • Was a part of the team that set up Demat Operations, Centralised Processing Centre in ICICI Bank from the Concept Stage to completion.
  • The set up became a million transactions a day outfit pretty soon
  • Also handled Strategic Projects that were landmark projects not just for the bank but also in the industry. e.g.
  • CRISP, Staffware, Fast Cash etc., all of which were meant for de congesting the branches and crowd management

Education

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Executive Education — Women in leadership

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS

Director certificate — Board

Sep 2021Nov 2021

Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs

Certificate program in corporate governance — School of Corporate governanace and public policy

Jan 2020Jan 2020

SOMAIYA COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT

Managaement in finance -MFM — FINANCE

Jan 1998Jan 2001

St Mary's Convent

M.Com — Commerce

Jan 1980Jan 1983

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