Amit Banjara

Director | Payments Credit Strategy | Growth mindset | Analytics | Responsible AI

San Francisco Bay Area

About

The future is bright โ˜€๏ธ. Life is beautiful ๐ŸŒ. Letโ€™s Make it, Live it, Love it! ๐Ÿš€ Executive who fosters a fail early and often, growth mindset. Keen interest in AI solutions and responsible integration of AI. Strategic visionary that emphasizes data driven operational and analytics excellence around process, people, systems and controls. Drives automation, scalability, and repeatability. Builds, and leads global teams tackling finance transformation, digitalization, process optimization, data analytics, regulatory stress testing, product build, UI/UX design, and business analysis. Relationship builder with exceptional interpersonal skills.

Experience

  • Director - Payments and Credit Risk at Walmart Marketplace
    Jun 2025 - Present ยท 1 yr 2 mos

    Credit Strategy for 3rd party Marketplace sellers

  • BMO (2 yrs 4 mos)
    • Director, Regulatory Data and Systems
      Dec 2023 - May 2025 ยท 1 yr 6 mos

      ๐Ÿ”นBasel Capital Adequacy Reporting (BCAR) ๐Ÿ”นCredit Reporting ๐Ÿ”นPillar 3 Reporting

    • Director, Capital Management
      Feb 2023 - Dec 2023 ยท 11 mos

      ๐Ÿ”น Lead a highly motivated team united by a shared โ€œWe got this!โ€ mentality, and relentless drive to achieve results. ๐Ÿ”น Automation, and oversight of modeling, forecasting (models, non-models), data analysis of Loans $60Bn, Deposits $72Bn, Non-Interest Income (NIR), Non-Interest Expense (NIX), Risk Weighted Assets (RWA), and Capital $9Bn at Bank level ๐Ÿ”น Oversee aggregation and present the final $100Bn+ Balance Sheet, PnL, RWA, Capital to Capital and Board Risk Committees. ๐Ÿ”น Stewardship of data linkage, commentary in the Capital Plan (WDesk), reviewed by the Board and the Federal Reserve (FRB).

  • Bank of the West (9 yrs 2 mos)
    • Capital Mgmt Mgr, VP
      Dec 2019 - Jan 2023 ยท 3 yrs 2 mos

      ๐Ÿ”น Strategic vision and transformation of the CCAR process, 100+ people, 20+ teams globally. End-to-end processing time down from 45 days to just 10 days, 78% improvement and 3x increase in productivity. Tableau reports drove governance materials. ๐Ÿ”น Revitalized system build, agile approach, hyper aggressive timeline. Product design, development, testing, integration and use of the forecast aggregation platform. From 25% complete in the 3 years prior, to state of the art within 1.5 years. ๐Ÿ”น Accountable executive for Internal Controls, and Risk and Control Self Assessments (RCSAโ€™s) within Capital Management Risk Control Matrix. Strategize with 2nd LOD and Audit/Inspection on control design, testing, assessment, and remediation.

    • VP, CCAR - Lead Business Analyst and Product Owner
      Mar 2017 - Dec 2019 ยท 2 yrs 10 mos

      Camunda BPM product - UI design, UX optimization, process modeling and UAT of 1200+ step stress testing process. ๐Ÿ”น Automated system process orchestration, ability to capture run efficiency metrics in real time. JIRA for issue tracking. ๐Ÿ”น Showcase and quantify critical path, bottlenecks, efficiency gains, downstream impacts, resource usage, status ๐Ÿ”น Outlined key dependencies, issues, risks and major hand-off points between 20+ cross-functional business areas Impressed FRB/FDIC regulators with award winning process flows.

    • AVP, Sr Business Analyst, CCAR PMO
      Dec 2013 - Mar 2017 ยท 3 yrs 4 mos

      ๐Ÿ”น Program Management: Customized methodology (PMM) to fit the needs of the CCAR program, on boarding and roll out of BrightWork project management product. Lead SME on Business Requirements Document (BRD), Project Charter, MS Project Schedule, RACI, Tollgate Presentation, ARID Log, Resource Plan and Implementation plan. ๐Ÿ”น Led time-sensitive effort to gather, track, map, submit 450+ supporting docs to regulators. Success led to higher criticality facilitation of 225+ regulator requests, responses. Stepped up, filled critical resource gap. ๐Ÿ”น SharePoint Administrator: Designed, maintained program site, sub-sites, access, libraries, folder structures for 200+ users.

  • Senior Business Analyst at Capital One (Formerly HSBC)
    Jan 2011 - Dec 2013 ยท 3 yrs

    Innovation: Pioneered shift from fraud risk towards authentication risk, changed how fraud was understood, prioritized and captured. Built a roadmap, led project team of 4 business lines from ground up to a โ€˜production readyโ€™ strategy. Leadership, Process Improvement: Distinction, led, solved broken Fraud Ops process, 8 months, 16 groups, required Legal. Strategy and Analytics: Deep-dives, strategy development with strong positive Net Profit Value (NPV). ๐Ÿ”น $14MM Projected annual fraud capture. Email campaign for retail partners, A/B testing of fraud alert notifications. ๐Ÿ”น Fraud detection up 94%, False positives down 27% - Customer facing process, major retail partner ๐Ÿ”น 75+ targeted fraud defense strategies, balanced fraud loss mitigation and customer impact. ๐Ÿ”น Model performance evaluation, score adjustments for operational staffing levels, KPI reporting, industry trends

  • Reporting Specialist at Target Financial Services
    Aug 2007 - Jan 2011 ยท 3 yrs 6 mos

    Innovation: Out of the box concept - Statement credit for e-statements sign-up, verified online contact info. 37% projected postage expense reduction over 3 years, cost benefits from increased self-service, verified contact info for marketing and Ops. Collaboration, Research, Analytics and Strategy ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‘๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ: ๐Ÿ”น 1 year in prod, 2 new in-house models cross linked, managed vs auto-dial call, $50MM future write-off saved in 3 yrs. ๐Ÿ”น A/B testing, $5MM annual write-offs reduction. Cost per contact saving of 65% text, 95% email vs calling. Data driven cross-channel contact strategy, introduced text, email in addition to letter, call to contact delinquent customers. ๐Ÿ”น Monthly reporting on KPIโ€™s, trends and new initiatives. ๐…๐ซ๐š๐ฎ๐: ๐Ÿ”น Prevented $1MM+ of authorizations on bad payments. Combat fraudulent check pyramiding, payment hold strategy. ๐Ÿ”น 100% cost saving, on-par performance. In-house model built, replaced external model, modeling team partnership. ๐Ÿ”นCross-linked Visa Advanced Auth and Falcon scores, 28% better fraud capture rate, 17% better false positive ratio.