Pune Division, Maharashtra, India
Strategic consulting leader in Banking and Insurance, partnering with global financial institutions to define and execute their transformation and technology landscape journeys. Experienced in guiding clients through complex delivery programs that modernize platforms, optimize cost, accelerate innovation, and enhance customer engagement. Combines deep domain expertise with a consultative mindset to shape strategic roadmaps, influence key investment decisions, and deliver measurable business outcomes. As a P&L owner, focused on operational excellence, innovation, and building high-performing teams that help clients achieve sustainable growth and long-term competitiveness.
Senior leader overseeing the strategic direction and operational management of BFSI customers across the Middle East, ANZ, Africa, India, Southeast Asia and part of Europe. Focused on driving business transformation for leading financial institutions. Combines strategic foresight with consulting excellence to deliver measurable business outcomes. Proven capability in defining and executing GTM strategies, steering large-scale programs, enhancing client value, and driving revenue and margin growth. Recognized for building high-performing teams, strengthening client partnerships, and ensuring delivery excellence aligned with corporate objectives.
- Successfully managed Customer Delivery Charters - Global Accounts (with regionwide PnL targets), driving business, competency and alliance. - Setting up practice, define and implement measurable region wise growth plan - Developing in-house tools and deliver value propositions for customers. - Driving people transformation program - Defined YoY growth plan for revenue, people intake, skilling, build scale for effective deliveries
Dynamic Practice Head and Delivery Director driving transformation, innovation, and growth across global Banking and Insurance portfolios. Expert in shaping delivery strategy, building in-house competencies, and leading high-impact programs that enable clients to modernize their technology and business landscapes. Trusted advisor to leading financial institutions across Canada, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia—delivering measurable outcomes, strengthening client partnerships, and driving sustainable P&L growth through operational excellence and strategic foresight.
Managed multi-year large and complex transformation program for Core Banking – Tier 1 customers. Drive multi million dollar core banking engagements from inception to support, Translate business requirements into business. Driving and supporting new business opportunities from RFP initiation phase to successful "deal-close" phase. Assess and establish multiple estimation/sizing techniques and productivity measures Temenos (Core Banking) and Finastra (Trade Finance) area. Lead and Drive initiatives. Providing efficient delivery assurance (estimation, architecture, design and code review) of all engagements
Vrushal was responsible for setting up Temenos Core Banking practice for Cognizant. He was focused on Delivery, Business Planning and Execution, Market Making, Global Program management, Business development and Transformation programs.
- Managing Practice and Delivery for Insurance Products. Responsible for the following - - Managed product development & quality for four flagship products in core policy administration, accounting, underwriting, portfolio management domain. - Leading the change and delivery centre of excellence with close coordination with delivery & business teams. - Streamlining of the delivery process and continuous improvement through past learning and industry best practices - Effectively managed customer deliveries under professional services on parameters pertaining to defining scope, timelines of delivery, product quality and effort. - Building Product Partnership and Alliances -Insurance Product Business Growth