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AIRTEL DIGITEL • 2026 · 3 min read

Every number existed. Finding one took hours.

Treasury, in one place

Airtel Digitel

As the only designer on Airtel Digitel's treasury app, from March to September 2026, I faced one problem: the numbers sat in Excel, Murex, Bloomberg and Crystal, and each director's question took hours. I designed an app that consolidates every source, down to the trade. Reporting went from 1–2 hours to under 10 minutes, and the yearly L1 report is one click.

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OVERVIEW

<10 min

Reporting, from 1–2 hours

1

Designer, working solo

1 click

Annual L1 report

For directors and stakeholders, every year.

1 app

For every source

Excel, Murex, Bloomberg, Crystal and the rest.

THE SITUATION

The answer was always somewhere. Never in one place.

  • The Group Treasurer runs Debt, Liquidity and FX, and answers the directors.
  • A director's question went to a team lead, who consolidated reports by hand. It took hours.
  • Every figure existed, across Excel, Murex, Bloomberg and Crystal.

The core challenge:

Answer a director while they wait — and keep every figure traceable to its source.

How a question travelled: GT → team lead → reports
How a question travelled: GT → team lead → reports

THE USERS

A treasury, top to bottom.

  • Group Treasurer (GT)
    Runs Debt, Liquidity and FX, and answers the directors.
  • Treasury Controller (TC)
    Works under the GT, senior to the team leads, and owns compliance.
  • Debt, Liquidity and FX teams
    Hold the numbers, and until now, consolidated them by hand.

PAIN POINTS

Everything scattered, everything by hand.

  • Scattered sources
    Excel, Murex, Bloomberg, Crystal and more — no single place to look.
  • Hours per question
    Every director's question went to a team lead, who built the answer by hand.
  • Compliance by hand
    The Treasury Controller must be sure every compliance holds. Checking each one was very hard.
  • Spikes without reasons
    When a number spiked, tracing why took a long time. Early detection was close to impossible.

WHY IT HAPPENED

The data existed. The access didn't.

  • Nothing was missing; it was spread across files, systems and teams.
  • Every question cost hours, and every compliance check carried risk.
Sources: Excel, Murex, Bloomberg, Crystal
Sources: Excel, Murex, Bloomberg, Crystal

DESIGN GOALS

Design goals

  • One place for every number
  • Answer while they wait
  • Catch compliance early
  • Trust every figure

SOLUTION

Core solution modules

  • Consolidated view
    Slice and dice across teams and sources in a few taps.
  • Detail and trade views
    From a total to the full detail, down to individual trades.
  • Send to self
    Any view becomes a report in your inbox.
  • One-click L1 report
    The report shared with directors and stakeholders every year, in one click.
  • Compliance tracking
    Compliance in one place for the Treasury Controller, with spikes surfaced early.
  • Bank contact directory
    The dedicated person at every bank, one tap from a call.
Compliance tracking and spike alerts
Compliance tracking and spike alerts

PROCESS

From discovery to handoff

  1. 01 · PRODUCT

    Consolidated, detail and trade views · Illustration

    Consolidated, detail and trade views · Illustration
    Consolidated, detail and trade views · Illustration
  2. 02 · DIRECTORY

    Bank contact directory

    Bank contact directory
    Bank contact directory
  3. 03 · PROTOTYPE

    Send to self, and the L1 report

    Send to self, and the L1 report
    Send to self, and the L1 report

DECISIONS & TRADE-OFFS

Key decisions and trade-offs

  • Backed by the source
    Every figure is backed by its own Excel or Murex file, so any number in the app can be checked against the source it came from.
  • Reports as a button
    The annual L1 report and ad-hoc reports became actions — one click, or send to self — instead of a team lead's afternoon.
  • Bottom sheets, not cards up top
    Stakeholders asked for cards at the top of the screen and a popover for filters. I showed them mobile-first alternatives built around the thumb zone, and filters and deep dives moved into bottom sheets.Trade-off: Rejected: cards up top and a popover. The top of a phone is the hardest place to reach; a bottom sheet opens at the thumb (Fitts's Law).

OUTCOMES

From hours to minutes

1–2 hrs → <10 min

REPORTING TIME

THE TEAM

The team

The only designer on it. Engineering built it.

  • Adesh Singh

    Product Designer

REFLECTION

What it taught me

In a treasury, speed only matters if the number is trusted. Every view had to trace back to the file behind it before a faster answer was worth anything.