SBFC Finance

Job Description :

SBFC Finance Limited headquartered in Mumbai, is a new-age financial services institution focused on providing credit to small businesses and consumers. Founded in 2017, SBFC acquired the retail lending book along with the existing infrastructure, branch network and employee team of Karvy Financial Services Limited.

Backed by an equity infusion of - 845 crores ($ 130 million) from PE investors Lyra Partners and Arpwood Partners, SBFC aims grab the unique opportunity of financing 50 million small business through technology adoption. The company is led by former HDFC Bank senior executive Aseem Dhru as CEO and former Kotak Mahindra Bank senior executive Mahesh Dayani as Chief Business Officer. The company would leverage their experience in ramping up the retail loan book, maintaining strong underwriting practices and in technology adoption.

Job Responsibilities :

- Drives execution on defined projects or tasks in low to medium complexity environments

- Works within and across teams to track risks and impediments to project delivery and escalate accordingly

- Facilitates technical conversations and documents solutions

- Liaisons with product and engineering teams to build implementation roadmaps

- Provides and consolidates inputs for leadership updates on delivery status and key decisions needed to support project delivery

- Identifies and articulates opportunities for improvements to the delivery process; assists relevant teams in redesigning process flows

- Tracks relevant OKR/KPIs

- Participates in PI planning meetings and other Agile ceremonies for team/team to pressure tests plans for feasibility, capacity, and risk

- Facilitates and supports coordination, collaboration, and alignment between Product Owners, Architects, and Engineers to meet regulatory and technical requirements

- Monitors and ensures compliance with SDLC standards

- Facilitates and plans change management and release management activities

- Identifies inter-team technical dependencies and gaps in technical management

- Follows and instills documentation best practices to ensure designs meet requirements

- Drives technical and regulatory consistency across workstreams; contributes documentation to ensure ongoing maintenance and development of technical and regulatory solutions

- Conduct all Agile ceremonies and participate in SOS (Scrum of Scrum) calls to support overall release train of the program

Qualifications :

- Technical knowledge sufficient to understand and discuss technical challenges and systems design

- Ability and aptitude to learn new technical skills quickly.

- Basic understanding of major coding languages to track delivery challenges and solutioning

- Adequate documentation skills across technical and non-technical requirements

- Ability to understand organizational, product, and industry standard metrics

- Ability to leverage metrics to diagnose problems and improve delivery

- Ability to collaborate across teams and bring different opinions to consensus

- Understanding of the full life cycle of product development, from concept to delivery, including Test Driven Development (TDD)

- Ability to manage the post-production processes, drive quality, and implement testing best practices

- Aptitude in technical problem solving and issue-resolution

- Ability to maintain a high attention to detail in a deadline-driven work environment

- Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging cross-functional stakeholders and business partners

- Understanding of project management process, project management software tools, templates, and management techniques

- Ability to coordinate change in a dynamic environment and influence others without direct authority

- Bachelor's Degree in technical discipline or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree preferred

- Certifications in project management methodologies a plus

- Prior experience in program delivery or project management experience is a plus

- Experience with Agile/ SAFe /Lean methodologies a plus