Rajashekara Maiya - Group Lead-Product Strategy

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Rajashekara Maiya - Group Lead-Product Strategy
Rajashekara Maiya is a Group Lead with in the
Product Strategy Group of Finacle. He is an
accountant by profession, and has more than 13
years of industry experience. He started as an
auditor of government held banks, private banks
and multinational banks before joining Finacle in
1997. Since then he is been part of the Product
Management Group and now Product Strategy of
Finacle and has been instrumental and anchored
many releases of the Product. Maiya has special
interest in the area of risk management,
regulations and compliance aspects with in
banking vertical. He has published several
thought papers and research papers in the area of
Risk management, Delivery channels, retail
banking, compliance and regulations. Few of his
research papers are part of the reference library
of Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of
India (ICFAI). Others include The Banker,
Asian Banker Journal, Arabian Banking and
Finance, Finacle Connect. He is also on the
expert panel of McKinsey Quarterly.

• Relevant experience
• In Finacle, Maiya is responsible for Roadmap and
  Strategic direction of the product along with
  responsibilities for Alliance and Acquisitions.
  He is also responsible for tracking latest
  regulatory and compliance trends in banking
  industry and create awareness within and outside
  Finacle. Further, he is also responsible for
  incorporating some of those requirements into the
  product features. Maiya has researched
  extensively on US Banking regulation and
  practice, Asian Banking regulation and practices.
  He is also the resident expert on Islamic
  banking. He has conducted several workshops for
  Chartered Accountants across India and Sri-lanka
  covering topics such as Auditing in Computerized
  Environment, Finacle and Security, control and
  audit features.
• Maiya has anchored the benchmarking Finacle
  against CoBIT standards for security, control and
  audit feature. He has also anchored the Branch
  solution (offline functionalities) offering of
  Finacle. He anchored the Business Process Tool
  integration and Referral modules in Finacle.
• Maiya holds a master degree in commerce
  specializing in Banking, Costing and Taxation, he
  is also an Associate member of Institute of
  Chartered Accountants of India.