Internship Report Bank of Punjab: Submitted by
Internship Report Bank of Punjab: Submitted by
BANK OF PUNJAB
Submitted By
Reg # 18-Arid-883
Supervisor
Lecturer
Year
2021
INTRODUCTION
I have done the internship to complete the academic requirement of BBA (Bachelor of Business
Administration) at “Gujrat Institute of Management Sciences” (GIMS) and to have the gather
practical experience by working professionally. This experience helps me to know how to the
deals which are related to practical job responsibilities. Internees are generally placed for
internships according to their major or specialized subject. As a student of finance, I got a chance
to complete my internship in the “Bank of Punjab” (Nishan-e-Haider Chowk Branch, Gujrat). I
have been started my internship from 9th August 2021 to 20th September 2021. Reportedly, the
topic of this program was the internship program. I was endowed with the authority to make a
report on the “General Banking Activities” of the Bank of Punjab. It was a good and a great
experience for me to work as an internee at the Bank of Punjab.
The internship report is the fundamental part of the BBA Program at “Gujrat Institute of
Management Sciences” (GIMS). This is the second field of academic knowledge and practical
field. This internship report is prepared for the sake of the completion of the BBA program which
is conducted by the department of “Gujrat Institute of Management Sciences”. I have completed
my internship report to fulfill my academic curriculum purpose. The objective of the report is to
combine into one our academic knowledge with that of practical ones and the internship report
gives us an insight into the management of the organization into the real-life situation. The
implication of practical knowledge helps to achieve the perfection of theoretical knowledge. To
be established in the corporate world professional experienced is very important. For established
in the corporate world, I got a bit of practical experience by analyzing the overall banking
activities of “Bank of Punjab”.
BOP is a banking and financial services provider. The bank's product portfolio consists of savings
accounts, current accounts, commercial loans, customer loans, agriculture loans, debit cards, and
deposit products. It additionally presents offerings including cash management, trade services,
home remittance, financing, leasing, e-banking, and ATM offerings.
Secondary Objectives:
My report is based on my practical work experience with the “Bank of Punjab”. The practical
experience is helpful for me to reduce the distinction between realistic and hypothetical
knowledge. This report extremely helped me a lot to understand the weather and environment of
the organization. As an internee in “Bank of Punjab”, I have to access many different
departments i.e. account opening department, ATM issuance procedure, Cheque Book issuance
procedure, the procedure to activate the dormant account, how to fill the UBO’s, fill UC, and
CDR form, billing the cheques, etc. I couldn't learn about all banking sectors without practical
experience as it was a large financial sector with limited time.
The internship report is divided into five (5) chapters. The detail of these chapters is given below;
In chapter 1 Introduction of the Study will be discussed which includes objectives, limitations,
merits, methodology, and scheme of study.
In chapter 2 Overview of the Organization which includes the background and history of banking
in Pakistan, historical background of Bank of Punjab, SWOT Analysis of BOP, BCG Matrix of
BOP, PESTEL Analysis of BOP, and Competitors Analysis of BOP.
In chapter 3 Organizational Structure which includes the hierarchy chart of the BOP, the
introduction of all departments of BOP, and also discussed the components of the BOP.
In chapter 4 Plan of your Internship which includes the discussion of the introduction of BOP,
starting and ending dates of internship at BOP, name of departments where I got the training
during internship, activities which learn from the internship (Training Program), detailed
description of a training program.
In chapter 5 Summary of learning are discussed and in chapter 6 financial analysis of BOP is
included and in the last chapter conclusions and recommendations.
CHAPTER 02
The “Bank of Punjab” changed into given the fame of scheduled financial institution in 1994. The
builder of the financial institution Mr. Nawaz Sharif then, the Chief Minister of Punjab,
achieved the inauguration. Tajammul Hussein propelled this bank. and it is presently working as
a commercial bank having an organization of six hundred and twenty-five (625) branches in
Pakistan. Six thousand and ninety-two (6092) employees work at BOP at this time. BOP earned
Rs. 12.0 Billion operating income in the year 2020 and in the year 2021 its operating income is
23.3 Billion. It encourages its clients through a broad extend of banking administration such as
settlements, stores within the local currency and progresses to agriculture, and trade. Zafar
Masud is heading the bank; Zafar joined BOP as CEO & President on 16 th April 2020.
In December 2020, the Prime Minister of Pakistan granted a trophy to the “Bank of Punjab” for
being the best performing bank in Prime Minister’s Kamyab Jawan Program (Youth Work Plot)
Dispensing.
The Bank of Punjab has been granted Number One Bank by J.P. Morgan(John Pierpont Morgan)
Bank against the most elevated Straight Through Processing (STP) rate of 96.12% accomplished
against EUR installments handled within the year 2020.
The Central Board of Revenue presented an “Excellence Grant” to the Bank of Punjab in
acknowledgment of the commitment made by the Bank towards the Government exchequer.
Annual report of the Bank for the year 2005 won 5 th position for the “Most Excellent Participate
Report Award” for the monetary division, arbitrated mutually established of Chartered
Accountants of Pakistan and management accountants of Pakistan.
The Bank was granted Best Bank grant beneath 16th Bolan Excellence Award distributed in 2006.
Achievement Award
The Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) granted the Bank (LCCI) accomplishment
grant 2006.
2.2.2Vision Statement:
2.2.3Mission Statement:
“The mission of BOP has been observed To exceed the expectations of their stakeholders by
leveraging their relationship with the government of Punjab and delivering a complete range of
professional solutions with a focus on program-driven products and services in the agriculture
and middle tire markets through a motivated team.”
BOP (Commercial Bank) is engaged in borrowing, lending and prepaying, withdrawing, services,
discounting, buying, selling, collecting and negotiating bills of exchange, promissory notes, bills
of exchange, bills of lending, receipts, warrants, bonds, certificates, etc. Negotiation of shares,
funds, stocks, bonds, contracting loans and advances, acceptance of bonds of all kinds, valuables
for custody provision of safes, the collection and transfer of money and securities. The bank
provides all kinds of banking services such as deposits in local currency, customer deposits in
foreign currency, transfers and advances to companies, commerce, industry, and agriculture.
Since agriculture is the backbone of our economy, the Bank of Punjab introduced Kissan Dost
Agricultural Financing Scheme for small farmers. BOP earned dividend income for the
distribution of profit. Reserves are accessible to the bank out of normal deposits.
2.3 Business Volume (Minimum last 3 years)
The BOP is conducting its business in Punjab. And their main consumers are the government.
Most government employees are consumers of the Bank of Punjab. The fact and figures of the
business volume of the BOP are mentioned below. These facts and figures start from 2018 to
2020.
BOP products consist of all those services which consumers normally required for efficiently
managing their business. BOP offers the following financial product and services to its
customers.
2.4.1Product
Deposits
Current Account
Account Profit and Loss sharing Term Accounts offered by Bank of Punjab are:
Advances/ Loans
Aasaih Loan
Quick Cash
Car Loan
House Loan
2.4.2Services
The Bank of Punjab provides a quality banking experience to the customer through a range of
unique Banking Services.
Commercial Banking
Online Banking
Lockers
PESTEL Analysis stands for “Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and
Legal Analysis” and describes a structure of macro-environmental factors used in the
environmental scanning feature of management.
Political Factors
Political factors contain the government rules and official issues and describe both for
Government type and constancy:
Economic Factors
Economic factors influence the purchasing power of the potential customers and the firm's cost of
principal:
Social Factors
Social factors contain the demographic and societal aspects of the external macro-environment.
These factors influence the customer’s requirements and the size of possible marks:
Population growth rate and age profile.
Population health, education, and social mobility and attitudes to these.
Population employment patterns, job market freedom, and attitude to work.
Press attitudes, public opinion, social attitudes, and social taboos.
Lifestyle choices and attitude to these.
Technological Factor
Technological factors can lower the barrier to entry and consist of automation:
Environmental Factors
Many problems are addressed by using mobile applications and online bank services like
customers can apply for credit cards online, buy cheques online and answer most bank questions
online by phone. So, it reduced individual environmental footprints.
Legal Factors
The banking industry follows strict laws regarding privacy trade and consumer structures to
confirm the framework within the industry. Such structured are necessary for international
customers and users in the allocated country.
BOP is one of the greatest emergent banks in Pakistan. In the light of these situations, we make a
SWOT Analysis. SWOT Analysis is an overall evaluation of an organization’s strengths,
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S: Strength
The stability of a Bank is the strength of any bank. The Bank of Punjab has had stable
development since its establishment.
The main share of BOP is owned by the Government of Punjab, so it can build up a good
representation and conviction among customers.
The officer of BOP is considered very professional in their fields. They do their jobs
according to the sector of the target market. The major strength is to delight their customer as
a friend and talk about their troubles with them.
BOP quickly opened their branches all over the country so that their customers can easily
excess to the bank. The bank of Punjab has a very good internal system. The records of
customers are held in a very secure way and easily accessible.
W: Weakness
The main weakness of BOP still mentioned by the Auditor is the lack of internal controls.
Despite BOP's several services and products, not even a single ad is published on
electronic media.
During my internship, I observed some of the employees burdened with overwork, which
I think should be distributed according to their posts and capabilities.
Favoritism of employees.
BOP has very little staff in this branch as compared to upper Punjab. This creates
problems employees have spent most of their time in the bank to complete their routine
work. For this reason, their normal life is distributed which creates irritation in the
behaviors of employees.
O: Opportunity
T: Threats
Businesses of all banks are rising day by day so BOP has to face strong competitors.
There are very difficult conditions in our country at this particular time, the banking
sector is facing a difficult situation, the BOP is making a higher profit the adverse
condition can be damage the bank financially.
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix is a simple tool to Access a company’s position in
terms of its product range. The company thinks about its product and services make decisions
about which it should keep, which it should let go of, and which it should invest in further. This
method can help to understand the portfolio management strategy of companies. As a result, the
question mark and Star will receive investment funds. This model is very simple to understand,
and it provides a base for management to take future actions for the company. The BCG model is
helpful for the manager to do balance in the company's current product portfolio of stars, cows,
question marks, and dogs.
1. Stars
The stars are business leaders and they show high growth and high market share as well. They
should also generate a large amount of cash for business and every company must hold a star
segment for the high growth of the business.
2. Cash Cows
Cash cows consist of low growth and high market share. Profit and cash generation should be
high and low growth due to less investment.
3. Question Mark
Question marks include high market growth and low market share. They have the worst cash
advantages because of high cash demand and they have generated less return because of their low
market share.
4. Dogs
The market share and market growth both have low in dogs segment, must ignored and minimize
the number of dogs in the company.
BOP falls in stars according to BCG Matrix. Because the market growth rate and market share
rate are high.
2.8 Competitors
BOP has its marketing value and worth no one is the direct competitor of BOP but some banks
are to some extent are competitors of the BOP. Following are the competitors of BOP;
More than eleven thousand five hundred (11500) employees work at Meezan Bank. 835 branches
work in Pakistan. Its revenue according to September 30, 2021, is Rs 19.6 billion as compared to
Rs 18.1 billion in the corresponding period last year reflecting a growth of 8%.
Three thousand ninety-seven (3097) employees worked in Soneri Bank. more than 300 branches
of Soneri Bank are worked in Pakistan. Its revenue according to 30 June 2021 is Rs 3027 million.
One thousand five hundred and fifty-one (1551) branches of MCB are worked in Pakistan. Ten
thousand (10,000) employees are working in MCB. And generates $604.57 million in sales.
Five hundred and five (550) branches in 200 cities are worked in Pakistan. Three thousand six
hundred and ten (3610) employees are worked in Faysal Bank.
More than seven thousand (7000+) employees are worked in Pakistan. According to June 30,
2021, its revenue is climbed up 24% to Rs 6.934 billion.
More than one thousand and six hundred fifty (1650+) branches are working in Pakistan. Twenty
thousand seven hundred and ninety-five (20,795) employees are worked in HBL.
CHAPTER -03
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Established in 1989
Geographical Location Pakistan
No. of Branches 625
Number of Employees 6092
3.2.1Cash department
Receiving departments
Verification
Posting
Payments
Position of cash
Register maintenance
Outward Clearing
The instrument collected or stored bank sensible and a schedule is arranged individually for each
bank mentioning the total number of instruments and the amount of the instruments. Then these
are recorded in a register called “Outward Clearing Register” then the main schedule is prepared
to view the total number of cheques and their total amount being presented in the clearing. The
cheque/instruments are handed over to the clearing branch. Central clearing branch issues “Credit
Advice” to the branch for passing credit to its client instantly. The branch on receiving credit
advice debits the clearing account and credit the respective customer accounts.
Inward Clearing
On receiving cheque/instruments from the central clearing branch, the in-charge checks the
number and amount of cheque received in clearing must tally with the main schedule received
from the central clearing branch. These cheques/instruments are entered in the “Inward Clearing
Register” for the cheque/instrument passed in the clearing is credit advice for the aggregate
amount of cheque passed in the clearing is prepared, drawn on central clearing branch.
3.2.3Remittances Department
By proving this service to the clients the Bank of Punjab earns a lot of income in the form of
service charges. The Bank of Punjab deals with the following type of remittances:
Demand draft is a written order given by one branch of a bank on behalf of the customer to another branch
It is the transfer of money from one branch to another branch of the same bank through mail
service. In mail transfers, there is no need for advice as the amount is directly credited to the
receiver’s account.
This is the most urgent method of remitting the money from one place to another place. This
method is used when the sender desires to send urgently, in this case, the sender request the
manager of the branch to issue TT.
Opening a new account is like an agreement between the bank and client which is guided by the
people under the investigation section. The beginning function of this section is to open various
types of accounts, by allotting them their Account number and also in this account issuing cheque
book and solve the different problem of customer related to the account.
Category of Accounts
The customer can open their account in different categories:
Individual Account
Joint Account
Assan Account
Current Account
Saving Account
Salary Account
FTF Account
Foreign exchange is considered to be one of the most important pillars of the state. The foreign
department is considered to be one of the most important documents of the bank. Here all the
dealings in exports and imports outward and inward remittances from the countries are treated.
BOP acts as an importer bank as well as an exporter bank for different parties who are interested
in the business of export & import.
Import Means
All services are taken from other countries to the home country.
Export Means
All goods and services are sent from home country to country.
3.2.6Billing Department
The bank collects all kinds of utility Bills including Electricity, Gas, and Telephone from the
client. All Branches of the Bank collect Utility Bills during banking hours which are paid through
cash and cross cheques in the billing department following functions are performed by the bank
of Punjab Nishan-e-Haider Chowk Branch, Gujrat. i.e.Collection of bills (Electricity, Sui Gas,
PTCL), Transfer of bills, Collect dues of different colleges, Balancing on cash, etc.
An Organizational structure that describes how positive actions are directed to fulfill an
organization's goals is known as an organizational structure. Rules, roles, and obligations are
examples of these activities. The structure of the BOP is hierarchal. Because there are certain
layers of the management team as upper, middle, and lower. Although there exists the pyramid
structure there is coordination, collaboration among the organization’s members and there is a
good atmosphere.
CHAPTER -04
I joined the Bank of Punjab for an internship. I worked at BOP Nishan-e-Haider Chowk Branch,
Gujrat. The branch code is 0204. It is the type of Conventional Banking. The Nishan-e-Haider
chowk branch is one of the largest branches of the BOP in Gujrat. The branch timing is 9:00 AM
to 5:00 PM from Monday to Wednesday without any break. The branch timing of Friday is 9:00
AM to 5:00 PM with the break of 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM.
I joined the bank of Punjab for an internship. I worked at BOP Nishan-e-Haider Chowk Branch,
Gujrat. My internship duration was of 6 weeks, from 09th August 2021 to 20th September 2021.
4.3 Name of departments in which I got training and the duration of training
I got training in different departments of the BOP. The departments from where I got training are;
I worked in the account opening department with Sir Iftikhar Ahmed Officer of Grade
RM(Relationship Manager) for two (02) weeks from 09th August 2021 to 20th August 2021.
4.3.2Sales department
I worked in the sales department with Ma’am Tazeen Aslam Officer of Grade CSO(Customer
Sales Officer) for two (02) weeks from 23rd August 2021 to 03rd September 2021.
I worked in the clearing and collection department with Sir Amir Awais Officer of Grade
GBO(General Banking Officer) for two (02) weeks from 06th September 2021 to 17th September
2021.
The officer verifies the form whether is filled correctly or not and then the form will be signed by
the branch manager in the presence of the account holder and the account number is issued to the
account holder.
At Sales Department
I taught how to fill deposit slips for the customer. What are the bank requirements for
depositing money by the customer? I filled deposit slips for regular deposits by customers
in their accounts.
After filling the deposit slips my next work was on the filling of a cheque. What are the
requirements of the bank? And what type of cheque is not acceptable by the bank?
I taught how to receive requisition of cheque book from customers and what are the
requirements of the bank had to place a stamp of signature verified stamp and received a
stamp on the slip.
I filled many cheque book requisition slips for new cheque books requests. In slips, I had
to write down the date, account number, name of the account holder, and the number of
leaves of cheque book.
It was told me how to fill the ATM form and what is the requirement given by the bank.
Requirements by the bank are the following:
1. Name of the customer
2. Date of birth
3. Mailing address.
4. Copy of CNIC of customer
I have to place signature verified stamps on the ATM form.
At Clearing and Collection Department
I worked on vouchers. He taught me how to separate the vouchers of different types and
are criteria for matching the vouchers and cheques with statements are.
I also worked on locker operation. My supervisor told me the procedure of the locker.
He assigned me the work;
When any customer come to operate his/her locker, my duty was to enter the date and time of that
customer in the Locker record register and take the signature of that customer.
4.4.2 A detailed description of the task/project assigned
Week #01
Day #01: The task which I performed on the first day of internship at the account opening
department is to fill the account opening form.
Day #02: The task which I performed on the second day of my internship is to write the account
number of the customers in their account opening form.
Day #03: On the third day the task assigned to me is to separate the cheque book requisition from
the booklet of the account opening department.
Day #04: On the fourth day he assigned me the task to put the right stamps at the right place on
the account opening form.
Day #05: On the last day of the day he assigned me the task to dispatch the accounts and paste
the address of the place where these accounts are dispatched.
Week #02
At Account Opening Department
Day #01: On the first day he taught me how to fill the SS Card(Specimen Signature Card)? Then,
he assigned me the work to fill the SS Card and take the signature of the customer at SS Card.
Day #02: On the second day he taught me to fill the UBO’s (Ultimate Beneficial Owner’s) then
assigned me the work to fill the UBO’s.
Day #05: On the last day of the second week he taught me how to fill the Annexure-A and KYC
(Know Your Customer)? Then, he assigned me the work to fill the Annexure-A and KYC (Know
Your Customer).
Week #03
At Sales Department
Day #01
On the first day of week three, she taught me how to fill the multipurpose form? The basic
purpose to fill this form is to have the complete information of the customer. And then she
assigned me the work to fill the multipurpose form.
Day #02
On this day, she taught me how to change the number or block the number, how to activate SMS
alerts, how to change the CNIC number? To change or block the number, SMS alerts, change the
CNIC number multipurpose form is used.
Day #03
On that day she taught me scanning and uploading of ODD(Operational Due Diligence) and
EDD(Enhanced Due Diligence). And then assigned me the task to scan the ODD and EDD.
Day #04
This day she taught me how to fill the cheque and deposits slips? Then assigned the work to fill
the cheque and deposits slips.
Day #05
On the last day of the weekend, she taught me how to fill the cross cheque? Then assigned the
work to fill the cross cheque.
Week #04
At Sales Department
Day #01
On this day she taught me how to fill the requisition of issuance of cheque book applying? Then
assigned me the work to fill the requisition of issuance of cheque book.
Day #02
At the weekend she taught me how to fill the cheque book activation requests? Then assigned the
work to fill the cheque book activation requests.
Day #03
This day she taught me how to fill the requisition of issuance of ATM(Automated Tailor
Machine) card applying? Then assigned the work to fill the ATM card requisition.
Day #04
On day four I helped her in balancing the ATM card and cheque book balancing.
Day #05
Week #05
Day #01
On that day he taught me how to fill the CDR(Khushali Call Deposit Receipt)?
Day #02
On that day he assigned me the task to fill the CDR(Khushali Call Deposit Receipt).
Day #03
Day #04
Day #05
On the last day of the fifth week, he taught me how to fill the cross cheque? And then assigned
me the work to fill the cross cheque.
Week #06
Day #01
Day #02
Day #03
On the third day of my last week, I helped him in billing the voucher for file.
Day #04
On the forth day of my last week, I helped him in billing the voucher for file.
Day #05
On the last day of my internship, he taught me how to fill the UC(Universal Cheque) and for what
purpose bank makes UC.
At Sales Department
SUMMARY OF LEARNING
5.1 What skills and qualifications I have gained from the internship
The skills which I gained from my internship are how to work at a professional place? How to
behave professionally? And also I learned that how to implement theoretical knowledge
practically. I taught that how to fill the account opening form, what documents are required for
the account opening form, how to fill the UBO’s, how to fill the Anexxure-A, for what purpose a
multi-purpose form is used? etc. I gained all these skills and qualifications from my internship.
5.3 How do I think the internship will influence my future career plan
I think the internship will influence my future career plan because it may help me to work at a
professional place and also help me to implement my theoretical knowledge practically.
5.4 How do I think the internship activities that I carried are correlated with my
classroom knowledge
The internship activities which I carried are correlated with my classroom knowledge because
many parts of my classroom knowledge are implemented practically during the internship.