Dhanlaxmi Bank not planning to fill vacant senior manager posts

“We have taken a branch based approach and thus central positions are now redundant. All our branch managers will report to regional heads, who will then report to zonal heads and these zonal heads will report directly to me,” said PG Jayakumar, the current managing director and chief executive officer, Dhanlaxmi Bank.

This is part of a business restructuring plan, which Jayakumar announced after taking over leadership in February. The bank has already reduced its staff number to 2,700 from 4,500 earlier and has managed to reduce its staff expenses by 34% annually, during the quarter ended September 30.

The bank is not looking at hiring many employees this year, as it looks at maintaining leaner operations, Jayakumar said.

In March, the bank had announced large cuts in salaries for current employees to 'rationalise' pay scales. The bank will now follow traditional banking methods, as it intends to grow the retail business by increasing gold loans and getting more retail deposits.

Recently, the bank also hired Sagar & Associates as its new auditor, on direction from the Reserve Bank of India.