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Manoneet Singh

Toronto

Summary

13+ years of global financial experience in consumer and commercial (business) credit risk strategy, analytics, and entrepreneurship. Strong expertise in credit functions across the customer lifecycle: acquisition, customer management, lending, and collections. Recognized to be a strong people leader with the ability to inspire others, drive productivity, mentor juniors, and promote an inclusive and fun working environment.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Director and Chief Credit Officer (Commercial)

Amex Bank of Canada
01.2025 - Current
  • Leading a team of 5 to navigate the $1.5B AR corporate and small business credit portfolios through an uncertain tariffs environment
  • Created the recession readiness playbook by surgically identifying $230M vulnerable segments, taking low-regret credit actions on high-priority pockets, planning controls levers across credit functions, and enhancing monitoring reports to track emerging trends
  • Driving growth initiatives such as pre-approval campaigns, reactive limit increases, and digital capability launch in partnership with sales, account development, and product teams. On track to grow portfolio by 40% while reducing concentration risk
  • Mentoring direct reports and junior team-members to enhance productivity, while inspiring them to become the best versions of themselves

Senior Manager, Acquisition and Lending

Amex Bank of Canada
06.2021 - 12.2024
  • Proactively identified prospect segments with deteriorating profitability, high credit risk and low affordability. Crafted surgical underwriting solutions to mitigate exposure to these acquisitions. Won buy-in from leaders/partners and drove quick execution ($6.5M of profitability increase)
  • Envisioned, conceptualized, and enforced innovative top-of-funnel governance controls to drive consistent high-quality applicants across channels. Influenced and trained marketing partners to regularly self-monitor and escalate, thus driving healthier credit and marketing metrics. Made a business case to senior leaders for globalizing the framework across all international markets ($2.5M of expected profitability improvement)
  • Partnerships: Collaborated as credit risk SME with internal/external partners such as:

-Data Scientists: Improved risk models’ performance through incorporation of new data sources

-Compliance/Legal: Enhanced credit risk policies for regulatory compliance (C86, Bill 53)

-Marketing: Implemented new capabilities (pre-approval at acquisition, SSLR, Cross-Sell)

-Credit bureaus: Built relationships, optimized costs and increased process efficiencies

Senior Manager/Manager, Customer Management

American Express
01.2017 - 05.2021

(Promoted from Manager to Senior Manager in Mar 2020)

  • Built and mentored a 14-member team to improve collections performance for $90M High Balance Portfolio; defined data-backed procedures, led tracking of operational and credit metrics, partnered with alternate data vendors, and formulated obligor-level strategies resulting in savings of $8M annually
  • Actively monitored the external lending landscape and managed development of through-the-cycle analytical strategies around point-of-sale authorizations, case setups, collections, LTV forecasting, and spend assessment. Successfully led the High Balance Portfolio through the COVID-19 downturn ensuring industry-lowest loss rates of below 0.5%
  • Led a 2-member team and collaborated with operations, technology, and sales teams to launch Bank-Based underwriting capability, ensured 100% migration of triggers to new tech platform enabling obligor-level underwriting and created enhanced performance tracking reports; led to 11%+ increase in fundamental underwriting coverage and PTI benefit of $3.5M
  • Partnered with Chief Credit Officers across Amex international markets to prioritize, analyze and develop most pressing customer management strategies; launched abuse control PoS authorization strategies and early warning alert setups driving $1.5M potential loss savings while minimizing customer surprise across 25 countries
  • Created the economic downturn planning playbook for the international corporate portfolio and forecasted operational capacity in different economic scenarios; partnered with operations and finance teams in capacity planning to recommend hiring of 18 customer service specialists across 6 Markets

Other Relevant Experience

Various Companies
06.2009 - 05.2015

Fidelity Business Consulting (Management Consultant Intern)

  • Led strategic analyses for customer segmentation and competitor research; built financial model and implementation plan for new digital capability that saved $27M annually


Foreman Dynamics (Co-Founder):

  • Launched a technology startup aiming to bring big-data analytics to the construction industry


AXA (Actuarial Financial Reporting Analyst):

  • Managed forecasting of loss reserves for the insurance business. Conceptualized analytical models for incorporating claims into the capital allocation plans, leading to $6M reporting increase


Aon Corporation (Risk Analyst):

  • Provided decision support to insurance clients through analytical projects on portfolio management, risk management, and loss assessment. Received highest performance award

Education

Masters in Business Administration (MBA) - Strategy, Decision Sciences

Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
Durham, NC, USA
05.2016

Bachelors in Technology -

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
New Delhi, India
05.2009

Additional Information

Founder, Global Mentorship Program at American Express

Interests: Water Sports, Soccer, Cricket, Meditation, Yoga

Timeline

Director and Chief Credit Officer (Commercial)

Amex Bank of Canada
01.2025 - Current

Senior Manager, Acquisition and Lending

Amex Bank of Canada
06.2021 - 12.2024

Senior Manager/Manager, Customer Management

American Express
01.2017 - 05.2021

Other Relevant Experience

Various Companies
06.2009 - 05.2015

Masters in Business Administration (MBA) - Strategy, Decision Sciences

Duke University, Fuqua School of Business

Bachelors in Technology -

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Manoneet Singh