Vikas K T

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India25 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led transformation projects in Collateral Management.
Developed award-winning Global CRM solutions.
Managed diverse teams across multiple geographies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong leadership in project management and CRM solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Delivery ManagementProject ManagementCrm

Other Skills

DevOpsRelease ManagementInfrastructure ManagementBusiness ManagementCloud MigrationKubernetesPostgresRisk MitigationMigration ManagementBusiness As Usual (BAU) ManagementKYCCIFAML Risk RatingVendor ManagementClient Coordination

About

A budget-conscious and result-driven technology leader with rich experience in delivering complex programs/products through an effective combination of technology and processes. Extensive experience in working across multiple areas of Investment Banking and Private Banking. Motivated leader focused on encouraging a culture of collaboration and innovation within the team. Hands-on experience in executing transformation and cost saving projects. Leading a diverse, multi location team of project managers, developers, testers and production support engineers. Experience in working for multiple geographies such as Asia, Americas, European Union. In-depth knowledge of Collateral Management, CRM, Account opening, Customer Risk Rating, AML, Contact Activities, Portfolio Management & FATCA.

Experience

25 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

9 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Wells fargo

2 roles

India Head of Banking, Research, Sales and Surveillance Technology

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

India Head for Funding, Collateral & Security Finance Technology

Mar 2020 – Jun 2025 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Hsbc global banking and markets

6 roles

Head of Collateral IT (India)

Dec 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

As India head of Collateral IT, I am responsible for delivery management of projects executed from India. We have 3 devOps pods which manage all the important components of Collateral IT landscape. We have successfully increased our application ownership index within India center. Apart from Development, Test, Production support we also have some critical roles executed from India like Project management, Release management, Infrastructure management and Business management. We have transformed our Collateral India team which now focuses more on innovative technical solutions and participates in all major organization led technical events. Some of our focus groups are working on Cloud migration, adopting Kubernetes, migration to Postgres etc.

Delivery ManagementDevOpsProject ManagementRelease ManagementInfrastructure ManagementBusiness Management+3

Program/Project Manager Collateral IT

Promoted

Jan 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Collateral IT is a post trade service dealing with risk mitigation via managing Collateral for our clients.
We worked on an ambitious program to build an in-house platform loosely coupled with Smartstream Algo to meet our future state architecture. I managed the successful migration of the upgraded application to all global regions. I also managed the BAU stream for Collateral IT. I was also the Program Manager for HSBC UK Ring Fenced Bank Collateral Implementation program. Additionally I was responsible to lead Risk and Control function for Collateral Asset class.

Risk MitigationProject ManagementMigration ManagementBusiness As Usual (BAU) Management

Global Development Manager (Global CRM PBFOS)

Promoted

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr

Global CRM Solution Center is the biggest program under the key initiative umbrella of PBFOS.
This program aligns the Group Private Banking CRM model across regions.
Global CRM designed by us, is a combination of KYC & CIF (Accounts, Portfolios, Relationships). It also has capabilities of supporting Visitations (Also called as Contact Activity) & Trips.
The product was appreciated by the US Federal monitor as one of the best, robust CRM product he had seen in his career.
We also fulfilled compliance requirements like:- enhanced AML Risk Rating, UK RDR & FATCA.
Other than product delivery, I also got involved in
building up a location strategy for our team (We built a team in India and China)
client co-ordination
vendor management
facing audits