Getachew Wakie Bulcha

Performance-driven Vice President with a demonstrated experience in projects financing for above 24 years and in making the bank successful in its operational and financial achievements. Passionate about applying strong leadership, decision making, risk management, credit and portfolio analysis and communication in managing and leading the second largest bank with critical development mission. Qualified and well-versed individual in customers handling, in project appraisal and risk analysis, in project monitoring and evaluation and in working in harmony with different people with diverse culture and backgrounds.

• Demonstrated strong leadership as executive management team to make the Bank successful in its credit operations, profitability by registering more than 100% achievements under each target along with sound compliance with regulatory directives and requirements.
• Achieved more than 100% loan approval and loan collection performances against planned targets in the past three years through effective customer relationship management and team work.
• Managed five departments with above 80 staff members mandated to carry out project appraisals, portfolio analysis and property valuation functions.
• Brought remarkable improvement in project appraisal quality with efficiency by coaching appraisal officers and undertaking in-depth review of appraisal reports.
• Played significant role in changing CAMELS rating of the bank by regulatory bank from "Deficient" (level 4) to "Satisfactory" (level 2) by improving compliance with regulations and standards through practicing comprehensive internal auditing and audit follow up.
• Assisted branches to improve their credit operations and financial achievements and to comply with regulations and standards.
• Developed comprehensive five year strategic plan of the bank in collaboration with other senior management member.

Trainings and Exposure

• Received several trainings in areas of risk management, governance and leadership, bank and strategic management, team building and change management, project appraisal and financial modeling, corruption prevention and strategies, core banking system and Microsoft Offices, etc.
• Visited different countries like Portugal, India (2x), China, Belgium, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Bangladesh, Germany for exposure and experiences sharing in areas of governance & leadership, risk management, bank management, development banking and project financing, strategic thinking, etc.

Additional Responsibilities

• Serves as member of the executive management team that leads the bank and passes corporate decisions on strategic and corporate issues.
• Delegated the president of the bank in his absence due to various reasons.
• Deliberated and decided on large scale loans as member of corporate loan approval committee.
• Assisted in implementation of core banking system, ERP and IFRS implementation projects as member of steering committee.
• Chaired business process reengineering and balanced score card studies designed to restructure credit process and performance measurement.