Passionate about product management in Fintech, disruptive innovation, personal and organizational growth. Customer oriented Product Manager with over 12 years of work experience in Conversational banking, Bot Building, capital markets/ wealth management. Aspiring to groom products into immense value creating engines for customers through effective product management.
Masters the art of orchestration between engineering, design, sales & marketing, business and leadership teams.
Enthusiastic in taking plunge in creating products from scratch
Unique Value Proposition
1. Articulates complex ideas in a simple way by putting efforts to identify key elements of the idea
2. Eagerness in solving unmet, overlooked and impact customer pains that are often hidden and undiscovered
3. Drawing alignment and consensus between all stakeholders with respect to the understanding of product aspects
4. Expert in assessing customer desires and requirements
Key Achievements
1. Built a conversational banking bot from scratch, entered into strategic partnerships with core banking platform providers, acquired new clients and ensured bot generated steady stream of revenue for the firm
2. Played a critical role in helping Bank of Julius Baer, Singapore go- live with Temenos' TAP product
3. In Denmark, rolled out the all important MiFID II project across Danske bank (all Nordic countries) to ensure compliance, that saved several million dollars for the bank from paying penalties to regulator for non compliance
4. Initiated, ideated, designed and rolled out 'sales- ready' Robo advisory prototype for CGI that brought lot of traction to the offering which later turned into sales revenue for the 5rm
4. In Canada, helped out leading banks like TD, BMO and RBC in running banks on their legacy wealth applications by participating in UAT, providing user training and coordinating with offshore team
1. By being Subject matter expert, developed product capabilities of Temenos wealth suite product- 'TAP' to meet unsolved product needs of leading North American and Asian banks like Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Julius Baer- Singapore etc
2. Worked to improve existing products based on customer evaluations and needs
3. Led collaboration meetings to develop key processes for creation of product enhancements
4. Successfully prioriti6ed product requirements and set realistic expectations in regards to development and timeline.
1. Successfully rolled out HMN D77 MiFID II project across all Nordic countries where bank has its presence
2. Product owner for a team of Q9, prepared product back log and prioritized requirements.
3. Feature owner for Investment Reporting System.
4. Carved out a holistic domain training plan to ensure technical team has meaningful business engagement
5. Recruited new members for business analysis team to support division growth and create strong and productive department, replacing underperforming staff.
1. Designed wealth management products, recommended product
enhancements, contributed to market research on products, gathered
requirements and designed functional speci5cation documents for various requirements with respect to wealth management domain for leading North American banks like RBC, CI Financials, BMO & TD.
2. Helped in development of Investment Policy statement application from scratch
3. Critical role in preparing PoC for Robo Advisor to enhance digital advice experience of bank
4. Directed business analysts in executing and delivering various tactical and strategic plans.
Fintech Product Management
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