Lokeswara Reddy Chennuru

Resume   Amsterdam/India ยท +31 626506987 / +91-9619928733   clr.lokesh@gmail.com  

Experience

Associate Director, Corporate Sales

HSBC - Mumbai, India
  • Accountable for generating 9 Mn USD p.a of revenue by managing 200+ Corporate relationships across Global and Corporate Banking clients with oversight on SME business.
  • Successfully achieved over 10% y-o-y groth in USD revenues for the bank consecutively for the past 5 years.
  • Laising with Compliance, Legal, Credit and Operations teams for products and client documentation.
  • Colloborating with Relationship Managers, Trade and Cash Management for funding and trade bbacked opportunities.
  • Handled one of the largest FDI flows into the country and managed some of the largest MNC clients.
  • Developed custom risk management solutions compliant with all internal and external regulations.
  • providing insights to coporate treasuries on suitable forex strategies through expertise on products like FX Forwards, Options, Intrest Rate swaps and cross-currency swaps.
May 2013 - Present
Key Tech Products / Projects
UniTransact Global Markets Prodct Owner (2019- Present)
  • UniTransact - universal Transaction Banking System that provides F2B frictionless digital experiecne for cross-border payments by unifying the interactions of corporated with the bank.
  • Collaborated with multiple technology, business and operations teams in the agile delivery of this complex program spanning across multiple systems of the bank.
Digital champion for Global Markets

Education

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta

PGDCM (MBA)

GPA: 6.88/9

  • Placement Representative 2011-2012 and member of Student Council, elected by over 700 students and in-charge of all recruitment activities; Secured participation of over 50 first time recruiters and coordinated career counselling sessions.
  • Finalist in the Fintelligence competition for business valuation of beverage company in 2012.
  • Whitepaper on 'Development of FII flows sentimental index for Emerging markets', under Prof. Ashok Banerjee
  • 99.92 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) - 2011 for enrollment in IIM MBA program.
2011 - 2013

Indian Institute of Technology (IITM), Madras

BTech - Electrical Engineering

GPA: 8.46/10

  • Core Member, Saarang 2010; led a three-tier team of 160 students and successfully managed the footfall of 50,000.
  • Hostel General Secretary, 2008-09 elected by 232 students as sole Representative of the hostel in the student affairs council.
  • Third place amongst 90 teams in the National Level Robotics competition at Shaastra-the largest Technical Festival in India.
  • Certificate of Merit from IIT Madras awarded in 2007 to the Top 7% in the batch of 470 students.
2006 - 2010

Skills

Workflow
  • Agile Product Management
  • Business strategy and development
  • Influence without Authority
  • FX & intrest rates
  • Derivatives Sales & Trading
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Risk Management
  • Microsoft Excel (with VBA), JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow

Awards & Certifications

  • HSBC Champion (2020)

    Recieved the award for the contributions made as Global markets Product Owner for Universal Transaction Banking(UTB) project.

  • At Our Best - Dynamo Award (2019)

    Recieved the award in recognition of contributionsmade to the business as 'Digital for Global Markets Champion'

  • Special Recognition Awards (2016 - 2020)

    Recognised for more than 12 times in the past four years for leadership, customer centricity, effective collaboration and championing change.