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SHAILESH BHARDWAJ
Hyderabad
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Summary
Product Manager with 15+ years in enterprise audit technology. Led the Global Audit Platform roadmap from early definition to global rollout, aligning capabilities to regulatory requirements and day-to-day auditor workflows. Partner with business, engineering, and design to deliver predictable releases. Use product instrumentation to guide prioritization and track outcomes such as adoption, reliability, and timeliness. Experienced in building and coaching cross-functional teams and supporting consistent practices across regions.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Product Manager
Deloitte Support Services India Limited
Hyderabad
03.2019 - Current
- Co-created and executed MAT strategy and roadmap; scaled to global adoption, standardizing auditor workflows and strengthening consistency and timeliness of regulatory filings across regions.
- Translated strategic objectives (Storefront) and regulatory requirements (ISQM1, PCAOB) into prioritized capabilities aligned to Omnia’s seamless-auditor-experience principle, improving product fit and usability.
- Implemented App Insights instrumentation to establish a KPI backbone (usage, reliability, load), enabling data-backed invest/sunset decisions and continuous optimization of key workflows.
- Launched 'Project Renaissance' to overhaul regression testing; increased automation coverage 20% → 60%, cutting manual regression effort and boosting deployment confidence for global releases.
- Built and coached cross-functional squads ground up (product, design, engineering), instituted outcome-based rituals and decision frameworks, and improved predictability and stakeholder confidence in delivery.
- Fostered stakeholder alignment across business, technology, and regions to accelerate adoption and impact of high-value capabilities.
- Spearheaded the transformation of Deloitte’s Global audit engagement enablement to enable a consistent, simple Deloitte Way of – creating and managing the Client’s book of business, tracking of issuances, driving Acceptance and Continuance decisions, and enabling regulatory compliance by timely filing of Form APs.
Lead ITPO MAT On Prem Suite
Deloitte Services LP
Hermitage
10.2018 - 03.2019
- Collaborated closely with product owners and stakeholders to clarify business objectives, and design solutions for improving client-service delivery and operational efficiency.
- Established a reputation for bridging functional, technical, and regional teams to achieve shared goals in product innovation.
- Spearheaded the launch of MAT Redesign v1 and v2 that paved way for MAT global roadmap.
- Spearheaded the transformation of Deloitte’s Global audit engagement enablement to enable a consistent, simple Deloitte Way of – creating and managing the Client’s book of business, tracking of issuances, driving Acceptance and Continuance decisions, and enabling regulatory compliance by timely filing of Form APs.
Business Analyst, MAT On-Prem Suite of Applications
Deloitte Support Services
Hyderabad
09.2015 - 10.2018
- Gathered requirements, wrote user stories, and supported testing for features used by audit teams.
- Partnered with developers and QA to triage issues and prepare releases.
Lead Quality Engineer, AXIS
Deloitte Support Services
Hyderabad
10.2012 - 08.2013
Quality Engineer, AERS Pricing, DAP
Deloitte Support Services
Hyderabad
10.2012 - 08.2013
Test Engineer – Bank of America and State Farm
TATA Consultancy Services
Hyderabad
02.2010 - 09.2012
Education
Executive General Management Program - General Management
Indian Institute of Management
Kolkata 11.2017 - 11.2018
B. Tech - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology
Sikkim 07.2005 - 11.2009
Skills
- Product Vision & Roadmap
- Product Discovery
- Human Centered Design
- Cross-Functional facilitation
- KPI Modeling and Lean Value Delivery
- Audit Phases - Quality & Regulatory Alignment (ISQM1, PCAOB)
- Stakeholder Management
- Adaptability & Resilience
- Change Adoption
- Qualitative & Quantitative Research
- User experience design
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Vendor management
- Iterative development
- User experience optimization
- Data-driven decision making
Company
Deloitte Support Services India Limited
Personal Information
Title: Product Manager
Awards
- Letter of appreciation from Deloitte Global Audit CTO for excellent performance
- Game Changer
- Quality Cup Award
- Multiple Outstanding Awards
- Multiple Applause Awards
- Multiple Spot Awards
- Multiple Vantage Recognitions
Hobbies and Interests
- Reading & Writing
- Listening Podcasts & Audio Books
Firm And Capability Contributions
- Innovation and Talent Hub: Product Manager and Coach for the thread teams to FastTrack their journeys in moder software engineering ways of working.
- Spearheading the adoption and usage of the AI enablers across the teams translating to improved quality and efficiency gains.
- Co-Created PxE Communication Strategy: Helped the team in preparing the communication strategy which eventually adopted by communications team, curating and sharing information about PxE events and Transformation journey through approved channels.
- Hack-To-Hire: Co-created frameworks for H2H and participated extensively in Product Recruitment journey – first of its kind hiring events.
- Orchestrated MLT+ Showcase: Presented to DT-US leadership (MLT+) for the PxE Hackathon 2025, advocating for product initiatives at the executive level.
- Executed High-Impact Leadership Events: Co-created and executed IdeateX, Serengeti Sessions, and Digital Products Hackathon 2025.
- Author of several internal product articles and reflections.
Scale Indicator
Operate across 3 Geos (100+ Countries), managing ~41,000 records and supporting several thousand practitioners across globe.
Languages
Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Product Manager
Deloitte Support Services India Limited
03.2019 - Current
Lead ITPO MAT On Prem Suite
Deloitte Services LP
10.2018 - 03.2019
Executive General Management Program - General Management
Indian Institute of Management
11.2017 - 11.2018
Business Analyst, MAT On-Prem Suite of Applications
Deloitte Support Services
09.2015 - 10.2018
Lead Quality Engineer, AXIS
Deloitte Support Services
10.2012 - 08.2013
Quality Engineer, AERS Pricing, DAP
Deloitte Support Services
10.2012 - 08.2013
Test Engineer – Bank of America and State Farm
TATA Consultancy Services
02.2010 - 09.2012
B. Tech - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology
07.2005 - 11.2009