Arka Basu

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About Arka Basu

Accomplished Finance professional with leadership qualities and expertise in areas of Corporate Finance, Financial analysis and modeling, Credit and Risk Management, and equipped with PGDM (Financial Management), CAIIB (Corporate Finance, IIBF) and Advanced Wealth Management Course (Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Advising, IIBF). I am always enthusiastic to face challenges and own responsibilities and apply critical thinking in problem solving to provide competitive edge to the organizations. Having successful stints in Managerial and specialist positions in reputed companies like Punjab National Bank, India (7.5 years), AGF Investments, Canada and BMO Financial Group, Canada, in a career of 10 years till present. Areas of expertise: Relationship Management and gaining trust with teams, investors and customers. Carrying out overall day to day banking operations. Credit Management and handling overall credit operations (including preparation of Credit proposals, Risk Rating, Retail Credit, Working Capital Management and Recovery Management). Corporate Banking, Commercial Banking and Credit & Financial Analysis. Handling Investment and Wealth products (mutual funds, insurance products etc.) Managing Corporate Companies, Large Conglomerate Groups and SMEs. Mortgage Underwriting and associated tasks. Dealing with High Net Worth and NRI clients. Identifying and generating leads and new business opportunities. Designing innovative client solutions and assisting in accelerating company growth. Carrying out due diligence and assisting auditors with banking audits. Key Accomplishments: Generated leads of US$15 million of new businesses and prospective clients for the bank (including major names in reputed industry groups in India). Developed and maintained excellent relationships with top management of various banking clients, which helped to generate additional retail business of US$1 million. Developed strategies to identify the possible ways of reducing the variance between the results of Internal Risk Rating of the bank and the External Rating done by panel agencies and this helped in better and informed decision making. Generated and accepted latest and new ideas and worked in a team environment providing guidance and encouraging active participation from team members. Excellent communicator with fluency in English, Hindi,Bengali and German. Proven leadership in presenting Projects with sole responsibility and assisting employees in training.