1) Tell us about your career journey within BNP Paribas:
I started my career with BNP Paribas India Solutions Pvt Ltd in July 2012 and was part of a project in which we migrated ITO cost allocation activities for APAC Region (HK, Singapore & India) from Singapore. After a year and a half, I was appointed for migrating cost and headcount reporting activities for Corporate Banking from Paris. SInce January 2016, I was part of cost accounting team for North America where I was responsible for overall activities of financial reports for North America and team management. In March 2018, I got an opportunity to work with Gulf PM Team (Bahrain) where I was responsible for reporting, budgeting and providing ad-hoc reports to the Senior management and Head of Territory. Since February 2020 I am working with India Branch in the Finance department.

2) What were some of your considerations during your mobility move? Key considerations for me were

• Will I be a good fit for the role considering my experience and skills.
• The opportunity is in line with my career goals.

3) What is one highlight and challenge that you have faced during the move?
Highlight was certainly the experience of working with different people, cultures, environments which gave me an opportunity to learn new things. Challenge was to settle into the new work in a very short period of time and performing from day one.

4) Having to adapt to a new environment, what have been some of the opportunities that have arose?
Working in a new environment gave me the opportunity to share and learn new things. It provides a platform for one to shine through their experience, knowledge and ability to perform in a challenging environment.

5) What is your one piece of advice to anyone considering mobility?
Opportunity can knock at your door at any time so be prepared, face challenges that come your way and you will find success.

1) Tell us about your career journey within BNP Paribas:
It has been an incredible 16-year journey ranging across geographies, right from Pune, Chennai, Paris and Mumbai, with short-term assignments in Frankfurt, Milan, Singapore, Hong Kong & Sydney offices of BNP Paribas.

2006 - 2009: I started my journey in Pune as an IT consultant on the AceTP project, to be implemented for BNP Paribas Securities Services Milan, Frankfurt, Poland & Hungary. This early exposure in my career helped me develop strong functional knowledge into securities services domain working directly with operations users in Europe.
2009 - 2013: I moved to BNPP ISPL Chennai as part of the inception team working for the CIO’s office and responsible for managing the IT business analyst’s team for BP2S expansion in Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai & Sydney offices for Local custody product line. This experience gave me direct industry experience dealing with business stakeholders, regulators & market intermediaries across our key APAC locations. Looking back, I feel it was this experience which eventually led me to move from IT to business in the years to come. In 2013, I spent a year in Paris working again on AceTP Euronext markets implementation which provided me the experience to work in the most volatile & sought-after markets of securities services.
2014 - 2018: After returning from Paris, I moved from IT to Operations at BNP Paribas India branch to take over the custody operations of BP2S India and eventually becoming the Client Delivery Head (COO) for the business line. During this experience, I was exposed to the other business lines of CIB specifically global markets.
2018 - 2020: in my continued pursuit to seek newer challenges, I made a cross business line move to Global Markets as the COO for Securities India. Coming from a securities services background, I got an exceptional exposure working in Global Markets, which further enhanced my management and leadership skills.
2020 - Present: I moved back to BP2S heading the onshore business in India…. To sum up, my career journey at BNPP has been quite unique through several countries in Europe – APAC, cross domains starting with IT to Operations to Business & cross business lines.

2) What were some of your considerations during your mobility move?
One of the must have consideration for me is the learning aspect with every mobility. Second key consideration is being open-minded to any kind of domain and geographies, provided there is a new learning everyday. Career mobility is a step towards building expertise and personality. We should be willing to take risks and move out of our comfort zone consistently.

3) What is one highlight and challenge that you have faced during the move?
If there is one highlight then it has to be the guidance from my managers & mentors followed by the HR support I received in all my career moves. .To be honest, I have never faced any challenge during any of my career moves.

4) Having to adapt to a new environment, what have been some of the opportunities that have arose?
Looking back into my journey, I have taken mobility every 3 to 4 years, wherein mostly it was to a different city and team/business line, which gave me the opportunity to work with people from varied domains and backgrounds. This aspect makes me learn new things every day and push me to do better than yesterday on an ongoing basis.

5) What is your one piece of advice to anyone considering mobility?
Self-awareness & Patience.

1) Tell us about your career journey within BNP Paribas:
I joined BNP Paribas India Solutions as the Head of Compliance Hub in November 2013 to set up the department. I moved to the new role as Head of IG for India Territory from November 2019.

2) What were some of your considerations during your mobility move?
Given my role in setting up the Compliance Hub and having spent 12 years overall in the Compliance function, I was all set for exploring a challenging role. Also, at the time having newly become a mother, fleetingly so, a flicker of doubt did pass my mind of handling two new roles, personal and professional. With a strong family support I was able to pull off both!

3) What is one highlight and challenge that you have faced during the move?
Moving outside my comfort zone initially seemed daunting. Letting go of a department, one had set up wasn’t easy. But you realize you have to make the move, if you want to grow. It was also overall a great professional experience, with tremendous management and HR support right from well-structured interviews to timely updates, allowing me to prepare for this new phase in my career.

4) Having to adapt to a new environment, what have been some of the opportunities that have arose?
I look forward to challenges and changes in my role.I like to be part of the action and this role has given me the opportunity to understand the entire Indian perimeter of our organization. It’s a huge expanse to understand, absorb and learn.

5) What is your one piece of advice to anyone considering mobility?
Take the plunge, no role is too big or too aspirational, you will learn along the way. Remember every new role allows you a fair learning curve.

1) Tell us about your career journey within BNP Paribas:
I joined BNPP ISPL as the Project Manager for Hedge Fund Trader platform in 2008 and built a team of 10 people in ISPL responsible for development, testing and working closely with the 30+ member IT team based in NY on the same IT platform (part of Global Equities and Commodity Derivatives business line)

2010 – Started managing additional platforms in the Securities lending and prime brokerage space since 2010 and the span of control increased to 25
2011 – 2015: I was involved in defining and executing the offshoring strategy of GECD. Also formed many new teams as part of the role.2014 – Head of Operations and Financing Pillar of ISPL under GECD IT, team size increased to 150
2015 – 2019: Head of prime solutions and financing, Global Markets IT in ISPL; team size increased to 250. I was responsible for many offshoring initiatives during this period while achieving aggressive cost saving timelines and instrumental for making corporate actions IT platform fully managed out of ISPL.
2019 – Joined Sharekhan IT team as the Chief Foundation Officer responsible for IT Production & Infrastructure, Architecture and Governance

2) What were some of your considerations during your mobility move?
The key drivers for me to look at mobility were new challenges of strategic nature and exposure to a diverse set of IT functions apart from application development area and involvement in the strategic work. My current role at Sharekhan, gives me exactly the exposure I was looking for.

3) What is one highlight and challenge that you have faced during the move?
The onboarding at Sharekhan was systematic and carefully planned to facilitate my introduction meeting with key stakeholders in the initial 2 to 3 weeks. The organization is very different culturally, however people are welcoming, which helped me transition into the new role seamlessly. Given my long association with BNPP, I have been able to leverage on my networking across entities and familiarity with process and systems, which acquainted me in the new role quickly.

4) Having to adapt to a new environment, what have been some of the opportunities that have arose?

• Exposure to new functional domain (Indian markets, domestic brokerage)
• End-to-end exposure to IT Production (right from data centers, servers and infra management to application production support for the retail customer platform)

5) What is your one piece of advice to anyone considering mobility?
Keep innovating and be open for new challenges, develop expertise (be it technical or functional)

1) Tell us about your career journey within BNP Paribas:
I have worked with BNPP for 12 years and looking forward to many more years. Have worked across different roles in operations, projects, account management and currently in risk ORC. Its probably the diversity of experiences that has kept me going so far and challenges to strive for more.

2) What were some of your considerations during your mobility move?
Transversal subjects, collaboration and a key role, which provides more interface with the senior management, were the key considerations, apart from zeal to learn more and to leverage on experience gained thus far.

3) What is one highlight and challenge that you have faced during the move?
The definite change in mindset from performing an operations role to risk was not an easy journey. Integrate, yet be independent was the motto of this role. It is a continuous need to build trust with both the Independent vertical line and Business in the risk role, which is constantly auditing and challenging processes. Guidance & mentoring from the hierarchical manager who chose me for this role, sponsorship from the Business and the nomination from my predecessor are some of my highlights.

4) Having to adapt to a new environment, what have been some of the opportunities that have arose?
Exposure to a range of topics across group functions & Business lines including the possibility to formulate themes that influence the entity’s decision on governance, framework and control environment is rewarding.

5) What is your one piece of advice to anyone considering mobility?
Give it a shot! You never know it may work.

1) Tell us about your career journey within BNP Paribas:
I joined the Group 10 years ago at the head office of BNP Paribas Securities Services in France (Paris). I started as an international mobility manager and was in charge of all type of international careers and mobilities. In 2013, I worked as a Global HR Project Manager on the various HR aspects of acquisition within the business. I managed the negotiations with the counterpart, coordinated with local HR, Corporate development, Legal (HR due diligence, benefits and policy gap analysis, lead and implement the HR communication plan). In 2015: I became a Global HR Business Partner providing advisory to the Global business head and the senior management team. I was in charge of the key populations and processes such as succession planning, talent identification, performance management practice, fostering a continuous feedback culture. In 2018: I moved to India as a Head of Human Resources for BNP Paribas GSO. From this year, I am leading the Center of Expertise (COE) on Mobility and co-leading the COE on Diversity & Inclusion with two other colleagues from ISPL and Sharekhan.

2) What were some of your considerations during your mobility move?
During a mobility process, it is true that you can have many considerations but the main ones for me were:

• Acquiring knowledge about the local market, as I have always worked at global level
• Gaining good understanding and experience in people management
• Moving from development of processes to its execution

3) What is one highlight and challenge that you have faced during the move?
I will start with the challenge; the hardest thing was to leave a comfortable role and settled life to a new country, culture, role and team. I also had to re-adjust, unlearn and learn new ways of thinking, working. When the move was confirmed, I was doubtful on whether I should really go ahead. I am glad that I have decided to pursue and take on the opportunity. The highlight was the thrill of discovering a new country, working environment, team, responsibilities and accountability.

4) Having to adapt to a new environment, what have been some of the opportunities that have arose?
I feel that through this experience I have the opportunity to meet various teams across all our entities, better understand the operational business issues, meet clients during the due diligence process, working on concrete diversity and inclusion initiatives and see the impact, connect with local NGO’s and support them. It was also an opportunity to develop network and share HR practices with institutions like the Indo French Chamber of Commerce.

5) What is your one piece of advice to anyone considering mobility?
Seize every opportunities, as each one can open a new door.

1) Tell us about your career journey within BNP Paribas:
BNP Paribas enabled me to work in many diverse areas. I started as Head of Audit at Consors in the year 2000, when BNP Paribas acquired Consors in 2002. Seeing the global spread of operations of BNP Paribas I spoke with the Head of the Business Line Personal Investors and expressed my interest in taking up international mobility. In 2007, I was offered a job in India at Geojit taking over Management accounting, Legal, Compliance and quality management. After 3 years, in 2010 I returned to Germany and took over responsibility of Product management, Investment Strategy and Business Intelligence at Consors. In 2012, I was the role of Chief Sales Officer at Consors Bank. For an interim period of 2 years I took over the role of Head of Integration, here my responsibility was to merge Consors Bank with the newly acquired DAB Bank. I returned to the position of the Chief Sales Officer in 2016, post that took up the offer with Sharekhan to join them as a Director in 2017.

2) What were some of your considerations during your mobility move?
First question was always why I should move. I have a good job, which is interesting. In my case, curiosity for new ventures is always high on the priority scale.

• Whether in terms of getting a new job with totally new challenges.
• Working with an international Team
• Even going abroad or all of that.

3) What is one highlight and challenge that you have faced during the move?
Having the opportunity to live with the whole family in India is a highlight and challenge at the same time. On one hand, personal life is significantly different from Germany. It was challenging since the family had to adapt and adjust to new way of life and culture. On the other hand, this has been an enriching and a positive experience for the family as a whole

4) Having to adapt to a new environment, what have been some of the opportunities that have arose?
A new environment brings in a change in perspective of looking at things with a new lens – that facilitates a holistic understanding of situation .This has helped me make better decisions which is helpful for both the organization & individuals/team

5) What is your one piece of advice to anyone considering mobility?
When one is considering mobility - one should be very clear on what are the driving forces while making this important decision. If someone really wants to do so, he/she must step out of his/her comfort zone. Mobility is always related to change, either in terms of responsibilities and or culture (and culture could mean company culture or from the country), the old routines will not work anymore. To experience the new and interesting you need to take the first step and embrace the change. There may be times that the initial phases isn’t easy – but we need to assure ourselves that this would lead us to the right direction.

1) Tell us about your career journey within BNP Paribas:
My career journey in BNP Paribas has been very interesting and as well as challenging. Compliance is one of the most critical domains to integrate in the BNPP world. During the last 4 years we have overcome multiple challenges and constraints to ensure that there is unique way for Sharekhan. As Sharekhan was a completely different type of business in BNPP Group where we had to explain the problems faced to different reporting layers and convince each for an optimal solution. Projecting and communicating the new acquisition to the Group was very interesting. We were provided applaud for the efficient processes and scale of activities we perform for servicing our 2 million clients. There has been support and guidance at all levels in the organization which has been quite motivating and encouraging.

2) What were some of your considerations during your mobility move?
My primary consideration was that the challenges involved and criticality of the role. I knew that compliance role is a very challenging role. I had in my mind that my experience and understanding of local regulatory requirements would play a critical role in the compliance integration so that there would be optimum impact of global practices, policies and procedures of BNPP to the organization.

3) What is one highlight and challenge that you have faced during the move?
Highlight would be exposure to the structured Compliance world where the best practices are followed so as to ensure that interest of the organization is always taken care. Challenge was to understand the organizational structure across geographies and validating the process and documents.

4) Having to adapt to a new environment, what have been some of the opportunities that have arose?
The new role opened the horizon where I could learn on new regulations, policies and procedures. I could interact, learn and implement based on the various domains of BNPP across geographies. Understand best practices and tools which can be implemented in Sharekhan.

5) What is your one piece of advice to anyone considering mobility?
Mobility option should be opted by all. When any one gets the chance then one should do the homework of understanding the expectations, culture of the team, organization structure etc which would help each one to analyze and take a better decision. One should be open to change and BNPP offers necessary guidance and trainings for the role so that each one could perform their best.