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Risha Khound

Risha Khound

Mumbai

Summary

5 + years of extensive professional expertise in the field of IT Strategy and product management with a strong emphasis on meeting and exceeding client expectations. Proficient in Agile methodology, and leading cross functional team, I possess a deep understanding of business needs, ensuring client priorities remain at the forefront. As a self-motivated individual, I excel in leadership roles, adept at managing group tasks and fostering productive collaborations with key stakeholders, functional teams, and project groups.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification

Work History

Business Architecture Specialist

Accenture
Mumbai
05.2022 - Current
  • Developed product roadmaps to help guide the development of new products for a US shipping company.
  • Responsible for understanding the business needs focusing on pain points around reducing the manual human dependencies and automating the HR processes for a US Insurance company.
  • Leveraging GenAI to create a tool for seamlessly creating learning content real time by using user provided inputs and documents for an US consumer goods company.
  • Worked across cross functional teams of engineers, UX/UI teams, developers, technical architects to develop offerings catering to client needs.
  • Produced detailed Functional Design document, HLD, visios & z-curves with specifications and guidelines.
  • Understood and detailed business requirements, engaged in business case development performing gap analysis to define As-Is & To-Be functionalities.
  • Defined business requirements as technical functions for the product to be developed and communicated the same to stakeholders in business terminology.
  • Carried comprehensive requirements analysis & crafted user stories while facilitating productive collaboration with development and testing teams.
  • Ensured a clear understanding of requirements and defined Done Criteria enabling teams to deliver in line with stakeholder expectations.
  • Led the creation of an application transformation roadmap and change traceability matrix.
  • Prioritized features in order to maximize impact while meeting budget constraints.
  • Drafted presentations for internal review meetings and external events & conferences.
  • Participated in design reviews to ensure usability standards are being met throughout the product development cycle(PDLC).
  • Worked closely with engineering teams to ensure feature specifications are understood and implemented correctly.
  • Led project planning sessions to map out timelines for feature releases.
  • Communicated progress updates at regular intervals with senior leadership.
  • Defined and analyzed product metrics to facilitate growth of product.
  • Created prototypes and visual mockups by liaising and collaborating with designers.
  • Helped coordinate testing ( UAT) to verify quality and usability of new product features.
  • Managed product backlogs for multiple projects, ensuring accurate tracking of work items and prioritization of tasks.
  • Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
  • Proven ability to develop and implement creative solutions to complex problems.

Analyst

Amazon India
Bangalore
03.2017 - 07.2020
  • Optimized existing channels to assist vendors, significantly reducing the time taken to address 90% of vendor issues.
  • Deep dived into big data sets to draw analytical and strategic insights into customer behavior for better demand forecasting of customer orders.
  • Implemented a streamlined flow to digitize payment procedures, resulting up to 33% reduction in system errors and improve performance by 25%.
  • Established repositories on SharePoint to facilitate data collaboration and ensure timely creation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
  • Drove team KPIs and regularly generated performance reports to track and improve team productivity resulting in 50% increase in positive client feedback.
  • Utilized BPMN to analyse and optimize the business processes dedicated to different domains of vendor management and streamlined the workflow
    reducing the lead time by 22%.
  • Analyzed vendor performance reports to extract insights and trends. Created visualization dashboards, enabling timely and insightful decision-making.
  • Managed the end-to-end of vendor invoice processing.
  • Conducted reconciliations and updated pricing agreements, maintaining consistency and compliance within vendor relations.
  • Utilized multiple accounting datasets to conduct thorough costing analysis, averting pricing discrepancies.

Education

MBA -

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Nagpur
03-2022

B. TECH (ECE) -

Tezpur University
06-2016

Skills

  • Data Analysis & Visualization
  • Agile & Scrum
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Business Analysis
  • Product Vision Definition
  • Feature Prioritization
  • User Story Creation
  • Business Model Innovation
  • Product Metrics Analysis
  • Power Automate
  • Power BI & Tableau
  • Jira & Jenkins
  • Devops & AWS
  • Planview & LeanIX
  • Wireframe Design
  • ROI Analysis
  • Financial Management

Certification

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Entry Certificate in Business Analysis
  • Bloomberg Market Concepts
  • Advanced Google Analytics
  • Tableau 2020 A-Z : Hands-on tableau training for data science

Accomplishments

  • Awarded Seller Experience Driver Certificate from Amazon
  • Awarded Speciality Mentor for Amazon EU Selling Partner Support Team.
  • Awarded Specialty trainer for Amazon EU Selling Partner Team.
  • National Runner-Up in Social Innovation Challenge at Indian Institute of
    Technology (IIT), BHU.
  • Secured 1st position in creative marketing competition organized by
    Marketing club of IIM, Nagpur.
  • Received client Recognition for valuable contribution

Timeline

Business Architecture Specialist

Accenture
05.2022 - Current

Analyst

Amazon India
03.2017 - 07.2020

MBA -

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Nagpur

B. TECH (ECE) -

Tezpur University

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