Rupnarayan Bose was with the State Bank of India group for the major part of his professional career. He also served as managing director of Fina Bank Ltd., Nairobi (Kenya) and TransAfrica Bank Ltd., Kampala (Uganda) before returning to India to pursue his interests in academics. Presently, among his other assignments, he is associated with IIFT (Calcutta campus) as visiting faculty, is a member of the Board of Studies at Netaji Subhas Open University (Govt. of WB), and is on the governing body