Senior Director

Senior Director Loan IQ Platform, Delivery & Controls

Location: Bangalore

Industry: Investment Banking / Financial Services Technology

Experience: 20+ years

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Director to lead delivery, execution, and risk governance for a mission-critical Loan IQ platform within a large global financial services environment. This role carries end-to-end accountability for product execution, operational resilience, audit readiness, and large-scale team leadership across India, with close collaboration with global stakeholders.

This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for stabilizing delivery, strengthening controls, and scaling execution across a complex lending ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Ownership & Delivery

• Own end-to-end execution of Loan IQ across loan accounting and loan delivery schedules.
• Ensure delivery continuity amid attrition, incidents, and capacity shocks.
• Eliminate single-threaded workflows and institutionalize makerchecker and validation models.

Production Risk & Controls (ABO / RCSA)

• Drive attestations, certifications, defect triage, and sustainability validations.
• Close audit gaps and strengthen systemic field-level controls.
• Ensure audit and compliance expectations are consistently met.

Release & Change Readiness

• Oversee readiness for ~2,800 high-risk features per release.
• Lead UAT governance, defect prioritization, and go-live confidence.

Integration & Conversion Readiness

• Partner with upstream and downstream platforms (originations, accounting, payments).
• Ensure STP stability and seamless conversion throughput without incident-driven delays.

Leadership & Workforce Strategy

• Lead and mentor a span of 6070+ resources across product, BA, UAT, and controls.
• Build bench strength and succession plans to mitigate human-capital risk.
• Enable cross-training, documentation, and knowledge capture.

Global Operating Model

• Strengthen USIndia delivery cadence and overlap windows.
• Standardize incident response, runbooks, and escalation models.
• Retire single-person dependencies through structured governance.

Required Skills & Experience

• 20+ years of experience in banking technology / lending platforms.
• Strong Business Analysis background with hands-on expertise in Loan IQ.
• Proven leadership of large, multi-disciplinary teams (50+ resources).
• Deep experience in:
• Loan Accounting
• Payments, GL / Tax
• Audit, Attestations & Control Testing (ABO / RCSA)
• UAT & Release Governance
• Large-scale integrations and conversions
• Strong stakeholder management with senior global leaders.
• Experience operating in regulated, audit-intensive environments.

Why This Role Matters

• The platform is enterprise-critical, with scope beyond a single business line.
• This role directly mitigates delivery risk, audit exposure, and SLA breaches.
• You will play a key role in stabilizing production, protecting strategic timelines, and strengthening long-term platform resilience.

Whats on Offer

• Strategic leadership role with enterprise-wide visibility
• Opportunity to shape a global delivery and risk model
• High ownership, influence, and long-term impact

Interested candidates can apply directly