Avinash Lahase — CEO

Steering the technology direction at Virtusa, my role as "Consulting Director" of Technology focuses on the payments, cards, and mobile wallets sectors. With a substantial track record in IT operations and business analysis, my expertise lies in orchestrating cutting-edge solutions and driving strategic initiatives in the financial services landscape. At Virtusa, my tenure is characterized by spearheading projects that integrate sophisticated payments systems while maintaining robust IT security policies. Thanks to a collaborative approach, our team has successfully enhanced service offerings, ensuring that we stay at the forefront of technological advances in the banking domain. Avinash has 19+ years of strong IT & business consulting experience in payments, cards & retail banking. He has been at various client sites and serviced clients across geographies ( US, UK & Asia Pacific) for requirement gathering, business analysis, Gap analysis, devising and providing end-to-end solutions. Good functional understanding of Payments domain and various clearing & settlement methods. Completed Global PAYplus SP training & certification conducted by Fundtech covering mainly payments functionalities supported by GPP-SP and technical orchestration of GPP covering front end (ESB, Java, XML based architecture), MQ, business logic ( BPEL, JSP) and backend. He is an experienced Vision Plus Consultant having strong functional and technical knowledge on payments , cards and vision plus system. Worked on various kinds of projects that involved conversion, new launch, system enhancement, applying government laws/regulations. Worked in various capacities as Business Analyst, Project lead, Onsite coordinator , Functional expert & Onsite Project lead. Competencies - Domain Skills Sound understanding of Payments (UK Domestic, European, and International payments) and Clearing and settlement domain. Sound understanding of Fundtech’s GPP & its functional usage. Deep knowledge of concepts of Gross & Net settlements, High Value & Low-Value Payments, European Payments, CHAPS, EBA, BACS, FPS, etc., Business Analysis - Requirements identification, gathering, analysis, and testing. Have deep knowledge of the latest trends in mobile banking. Research and development of training decks on areas like BACS, CHAPS, Faster Payments, RTGS, TARGET2, STEP2, SEPA, and SWIFT standards. SWIFT MT and MX Messaging Formats. Product Skills Payments: Fundtech’s GPP, Clear2Pay Cards: Vision plus Strong technical skills in Mainframe, Java and Microsoft technologies, SQL, Oracle, Android, AGILE

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in payments and banking technology.

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 19 yrs 10 mos