Siddalingesh Zalaki

• Led a team of Business Analysts to gather business requirements, use cases, business logic, and guided business analysts to navigate through requirements management.
• Closely worked with customer's exec team to define and manage functional scope of projects and develop discovery/grooming calendar.
• Interfaced with the client and internal technology delivery teams in a functional leadership role, to support the design and delivery of large-scale mortgage and consumer lending solutions.
• Coordinated with internal production teams and external client teams to develop and document business requirements, operational processes and change management plans during roll-out of system enhancements.
• Contributed to product strategy and roadmap; recommended the nature and scope of present and future state of the systems.
• In collaboration with program management contributed to identify different tracks of work, prioritization of tracks of work and helped to resolve client requirement questions.
• Transitioned final deliverables to the technical team, participated in high level design of solutions in collaboration with technical architects.
• Part of panel responsible for hiring, training, and building business analysis competency/resources within the organization.
• Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.

• Role of Product Owner in scrum team. Spot', ‘Individual' and ‘Group Excellence' award winner for outstanding performance.
• Developed product backlog with MVP and other milestones, managed requirements, designed user experience and overall solution of 'New Business Onboarding' module of UK's leading wrap platform (wealth management).
• Liaised with business SMEs, BAU and department heads to conduct user journey and requirement discovery workshops, conducted secondary market research to prepare product roadmap and business requirements specifications for enterprise reporting, trading and settlement applications.
• Defined and drafted user stories, specs, wireframes; presented them to team during backlog refinement, sprint planning sessions and educated team about business domain and market dynamics.
• Closely worked with engineering team to proactively manage product development, resolved requirement dependencies with other vendor teams, reviewed test strategy and solution to ensure product meets definition of ‘Done'.
• Designed solutions and proposal requests received from financial services firms.

• Supported two funds - SIIP India Opportunities Fund (SIOF) and Sanlam African Frontier Markets Fund (SAFM) by performing fundamental research, financial modeling and portfolio management.

Investment Management

• Closely monitored 25 consumer staples companies listed in India and sub-Saharan Africa.
• Conducted financial due diligence, studied industry landscape, and formulated investment opinions; key recommendations have yielded ~40% returns for clients and internal funds.

Technology Leadership.

• Product Owner of web platform that supported asset management business operations of company, led solution concept, execution and launch to yield annual cost efficiencies of $50,000.
• Demonstrated high competency in translating business issues into solutions, requirements development, mentoring vendor development team.
• Built and launched stock screeners and portfolio allocation tool directly used by fund managers.

• Part of team that designed, developed, and supported a transactions approval system for one of world's leading banks.
• Identified an existing gap and improvised contingency and back-up operations for client to reduce disaster recovery operations time from 120 minutes to 50 minutes.