Gurugram, Haryana, India, July 2025 – Amit Jain has joined Hero FinCorp as the Head of Risk & Policy, bringing with him over two decades of extensive experience across financial services, consumer lending, credit policy, risk strategy, and digital lending. In his new role, he will be responsible for leading the company’s risk management framework and policy function, ensuring robust governance and sustainable business growth.
Prior to joining Hero FinCorp, Amit served as Head of Risk & Data Science at CARS24, where he led risk modeling and analytics to support the organization’s tech-driven lending business. Before that, he was SVP – Lending Risk at Paytm, focusing on risk control and credit strategy for their lending vertical.
Previously, Amit held a significant leadership role as Chief Risk Officer at BharatPe, where he led credit policy, underwriting, collections, and lender partnerships across merchant and consumer digital lending businesses. His contributions were instrumental in building scalable and agile risk functions aligned with business growth.
Amit spent over 9 years at Bajaj Finserv, taking on multiple leadership roles including Chief Risk Officer – Consumer Lending, Senior Business Head – EMI Card Portfolio, and Risk Head – EMI Card & Payments. During this time, he played a key role in driving product innovation, portfolio expansion, credit performance, and digital capabilities for the EMI Card platform and payments business.
His earlier roles include strategic risk leadership at SBI Card, Standard Chartered Bank, and GE Capital, where he was deeply involved in setting credit policy, driving analytics, and supporting new acquisition initiatives across retail lending products.
About Hero FinCorp
Hero FinCorp Limited (HFCL) is a leading non-banking financial company in India, operating in both corporate and retail lending domains. Incorporated in 1991 and headquartered in Gurugram, the company is a part of the Hero MotoCorp Group. Under the leadership of CEO Mr. Abhimanyu Munjal, Hero FinCorp aims to be India’s next-generation ultra-lean credit champion. With over 2000 touchpoints nationwide, its services range from two-wheeler financing to SME and MME business loans, working capital, bill discounting, and structured financing solutions. With its customer-first approach, the company lives by the motto ‘Finance Made Easy.’
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