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Lijo George

Service Delivery Manager
West Drayton,Greater London
Lijo George

Summary

Decisive Service Delivery Manager competent in monitoring progress, tracking KPIs and managing budgets. Demonstrated history in building strong relationships with teams and stakeholders to enable dialogue between departments. Consistently leads both physical and virtual teams in achieving company goals.

Overview

20
years of professional experience

Work history

Tata Consultancy Services
Kochi, India

Service Delivery Manager
05.2024 - 06.2025

Job overview

  • Overall accountability of teams' and process performance
  • Ensuring business metrics/KPIs are met as per SOW
  • Evaluating business requirements and lead performance improvement initiatives
  • Training and competency development of the team
  • Coordination with interconnected departments on necessary issues
  • SOW / Contract management
  • Provide feedback, coaching, and improvement plans to team
  • Manage escalations where appropriate
  • Managing team size of 30 members (PAN India)

Tata Consultancy Services
Kochi, India

Business Analyst
11.2023 - 03.2024

Job overview

  • Collaborating with client for understanding requirements.
  • Documentation of requirement with acceptance criteria.
  • Experience of working in waterfall method.

Tata Consultancy Services
Kochi, India

Technical Lead
01.2018 - 10.2023

Job overview

  • L1 support - Monitoring multiple applications like Graphite, Dynatrace to detect abnormalities if any and reporting to L2/L3 team for troubleshooting.
  • Analysis of data as per customer requirements and working with development team for the changes.
  • Automation of possible daily activities and reports by working with developers.
  • Reviewing and publishing daily health check report.
  • Preparing Standard Operating Procedure user manuals for 'Business as Usual'
  • Managing the performance of automated application monitoring to maintain delivery goals while resolving conflicts and blockers.
  • Leading 16-member team and conducting timely performance appraisal of team members.
  • Conducting team meetings and resolving concerns / issues of team members.

Tata Consultancy Services
Mumbai/Chennai, India

Assistant Manager
06.2010 - 11.2018

Job overview

  • Worked as Assistant manager designation for Citibank back operation in Trade Finance export payments supporting EMEA and US regions.
  • Authorizing SWIFT payments MT103, MT202 through CHIPS, FEDWIRE, SEPA, EBA, CHAPS.
  • Gathered Business requirements through surveys and interacting with Project Managers.
  • Hands-on experience in conducting requirement validation, impact analysis and support user acceptance testing and go-live activities.
  • Prepare Business Continuity Plan, conduct timely performance appraisal of team members and mentoring new joiners.

Scope International Private Limited
Chennai, India

Senior Officer
10.2007 - 05.2010

Job overview

  • Worked as Senior Officer role for Standard Chartered Bank, back operation in Trade Finance export payments supporting US region.
  • Authorizing SWIFT payments MT103, MT202 through CHIPS, FEDWIRE.
  • Mentoring fresh trainees.

ABN AMRO Central Enterprise Services Ltd
Chennai, India

Officer
01.2005 - 10.2007

Job overview

  • Worked as an officer designation for ABN AMRO bank back operations.
  • Experienced in cross border payments investigation.
  • Investigating on cases related to Beneficiary Claim Non-Receipt of funds, Return of Payment, making back valuation/forward valuation of payments based on request from customers.

Articled Clerk
09.2000 - 09.2003

Job overview

  • Undergone training as an articled clerk as per CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS ACT from the period September 2000 – September 2003 which involved vouching, Verification of Bank Reconciliation, Preparation of Trial Balance, P&L A/C & Balance Sheet and Bank Audit.

Education

Calicut University

Bachelor of Commerce

Jain University

Master of Business Administration from Systems & Operations

Skills

  • Requirements Gathering
  • SQL query writing
  • Data analysis
  • Leadership
  • Power BI
  • People management
  • Customer negotiation
  • Decisive decision-making
  • Contractual agreement execution
  • IT infrastructure understanding

Custom

  • Requirements Gathering
  • SQL query writing
  • Data analysis
  • Leadership
  • Power BI
  • People management
  • Certification in Agile Way of Working Foundation
  • Certification in General Banking

Timeline

Service Delivery Manager

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2024 - 06.2025

Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2023 - 03.2024

Technical Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2018 - 10.2023

Assistant Manager

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2010 - 11.2018

Senior Officer

Scope International Private Limited
10.2007 - 05.2010

Officer

ABN AMRO Central Enterprise Services Ltd
01.2005 - 10.2007

Articled Clerk

09.2000 - 09.2003

Calicut University

Bachelor of Commerce

Jain University

Master of Business Administration from Systems & Operations
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