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UDAYA KANDIKONDA

Product / Program Manager
Hyderabad

Summary

  • Highly skilled Technology Product / Program Manager with over 18 years of extensive experience in Fintech industry managing products and programs covering entire landscape of Asset and Wealth Management business and 6+ years into Product Management.
  • Customer focused and Success-oriented, with experience in creating a Product Vision, Strategy and Roadmap, development of KPIs, Feature Ideation, creating POCs / MVPs and taking them to successful implementation
  • Extensive experience working with global business teams, building a strong partnership, to provide solutions for short and long-term business strategy
  • Successfully delivered a strategic Digital Oversight Automation and Collaboration product covering 14+ business functions to bring better oversight, automation and efficiency in their business processes and saving costs up to 25%
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver large-scale, complex, multi-million-dollar transformational programs from inception to successful closure by creating high-performance teams, comprehensive planning, and agile execution.
  • Rich Business Domain knowledge and project experience in Client Onboarding, KYC, Trade Execution & Settlement, Custody, IBOR, ABOR, Reconciliations, Performance, Benchmarking, Attribution, Client Reporting, Risk and Analytics
  • Domain expert of the region conceptualizing, leading and delivering multiple domain training programs for leadership teams and new joiners

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Manager, Collaborative Workplace Platform

Invesco
Hyderabad
03.2018 - Current
  • The Collaboration Workplace Platform is a strategic inquiry management and collaboration platform designed for financial institutions. It centralizes and automates the recording, tracking, and management of inter-departmental and external inquiries.
  • Coordinated marketing events for showcasing products and service offerings to prospective business partners and onboarded 8 new business functions into the platform
  • Technologies used: Appian BPM for Workflow management, Symphony for Collaboration, Mulesoft APIs for data integration, AWS Comprehend for Natural Language processing and PowerBI for reporting
  • EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS - Create a compelling Product Vision and roadmap by anticipating business needs through surveys, client interviews, and focus group discussions. group discussions
  • Conceptualized and designed multiple new features such as Skill-based auto assignment, Acknowledgement & Escalation framework, Activity based Workflow, Global Search, Research functionality, etc.
  • SME for the platform providing Business Demos, capture feedback and ideate new features for the Product
  • Cost estimations for onboarding new departments, or developing new features into the platform.
  • Defined and tracked KPIs for the product to measure success
  • PRODUCT MANAGEMENT - Involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle initiation, such as conceptualization, planning, cost-benefit analysis, governance, presenting to executive leadership, and feature execution using Agile Scrum principles.
  • REQUIREMENTS DISCUSSIONS - Having a solid understanding of the domain, I mentored BAs and Product Owners to create a robust approach to gather requirements from different business teams and prepare a high-level BRD, and then break it down into epics and stories.
  • PROJECT DELIVERY / PRODUCT MANAGEMENT - Took up the role of a Product Owner to create a roadmap for the product, prioritize features to maximize impact, while meeting budget constraints.
  • VENDOR MANAGEMENT - Worked with multiple vendors to carry out development activities, and was involved in vendor selection, negotiations, SOWs, and ensuring vendor consultants are quickly onboarded, while tracking their work to ensure timely delivery.
  • RISK MANAGEMENT - Monitored, defined, and tracked mitigation/resolution plans for all risks and escalated issues, including defining and implementing strategies for cost savings, platform uplift, and people training for end-to-end delivery.
  • PEOPLE & CAPACITY MANAGEMENT - Optimized workforce and increased productivity of the workforce through focused performance management, training of resources, and managing competency risks and issues.
  • CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT - Defined and drove continuous improvements in terms of building efficiency in Agile execution, reduction of external spend, and creating backup strategies.

Workstream Manager - Merger / Acquisition

Invesco
Hyderabad
02.2017 - 02.2018
  • As part of the Merger Acquisition program, managed the Reconciliation workstream managing 2 projects to upgrade the existing Equity and FI Reconciliation system from On Premises solution to a SaaS based solution and to onboard new funds as part of the merger
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT - As a Project Manager, took the project from conceptualization, initiation, planning, cost-benefit analysis, Stakeholder management and approval
  • TRANSITION STRATEGY - Defined transition strategy plan and deliverables for transitioning the application from on-prem to SaaS solution and onboarding the accounts as part of the merger
  • BUSINESS ANALYSIS - Involved in analysis of historical data transition during the upgrade project and mapping of data from source system to target system during the merger project
  • STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION - Had constant collaboration with the Business and Technology Stakeholders to ensure transparency was built throughout the project
  • RISK AND ISSUE MANAGEMENT - Reduced risk by creating and managing risk register, issue register, transition reports and tracking transition deliverables vs plan by collaborating with stakeholders on risk and issue mitigations and impacts
  • VENDOR MANAGEMENT - Worked with 3rd party vendor to negotiate and draw up a contract for the SaaS solution and come up with scope, pricing, slab structure, SLAs, and processes for support
  • LEADERSHIP - Built high performance team by coaching and motivating when faced with transition challenges

Project Manager | Derivatives Reconciliation using TriResolve

Invesco
Hyderabad
07.2016 - 01.2017
  • Implementing 2 projects for onboarding OTC Derivatives and ETD products onto a new SaaS based Reconciliation platform called TriResolve
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT - As the Project Manager, took the project from conceptualization, initiation, planning, cost-benefit analysis, Stakeholder management and approval
  • BUSINESS ANALYSIS - Business Analysis to come up with BRDs for feed files for ETD and OTC Derivatives like IRS, TRS, CDS, Swaptions, Forwards, Futures, Options, etc
  • VENDOR MANAGEMENT - Worked with 3rd party vendor to come up with requirements for feeds to the tool
  • RISK MANAGEMENT - As there were dependent projects for NA Derivatives process, came up with a strategy to bifurcate the project into xNA and NA projects

Sr BA / PM | OVID Program (DTL Implementation)

Invesco
Hyderabad
09.2014 - 07.2016
  • OVID - Operating Vision Informed by Data is a large transformational program which involved migrating from a legacy IBOR used by Invesco NA business to Eagle STAR and creating a Data Transport Layer (DTL) to help the movement of Business data across multiple business functions
  • BUSINESS ANALYSIS - Was the only Business Analyst for the offshore development team attending all requirement discussions with business, creating BRDs, Epics and stories in Jira
  • SCRUM MASTER - Played the role of scrum master for the offshore development team ensuring that the team was focussed on the sprint activities
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Was involved in project planning, estimations and tracking of project activities

BA / PM, App Support & Maintenance

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Hyderabad
01.2013 - 12.2014

BA / PM

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Singapore
01.2010 - 12.2013

Sr. Business Analyst

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
United Kingdom
01.2007 - 12.2010

Business Analyst

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
United Kingdom
01.2005 - 12.2007

Developer

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Pune
01.2003 - 12.2005

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Instrumentation and Control

National Institute of Technology (NIT)
Jalandhar
04-2003

Skills

  • Client Onboarding & KYC
  • Equities
  • Fixed Income
  • Derivative
  • Asset and Wealth Management
  • Clearing and Settlement
  • Custody Reconciliation
  • Custom Benchmarks & Rebalancing
  • Performance & Attribution
  • Client Reporting
  • Product / Program Management
  • Planning & Cost Benefit Analysis
  • Product Vision / Roadmap
  • Backlog refinement / prioritization
  • Stakeholder Management
  • MIS Reporting
  • Resource / Vendor Mgmt
  • Agile
  • Waterfall
  • Hybrid
  • MS-Office
  • Project
  • Visio
  • Appian BPM
  • Power BI
  • Autosys
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • JIRA
  • Confluence

Certification

  • Executive Program in Product Management, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Currently pursuing
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), Completed
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Completed
  • CFA Level I, Passed
  • Investments Operations Certified, Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments (CISI, London), Completed, Introduction to Securities & Investments, IT in Investment Operations, Global Securities Operations

Accomplishments

  • Recipient of the Pinnacle Award, the highest recognition at Invesco Hyderabad, in 2021 at Invesco for conceptualizing and leading multiple efforts on Domain Trainings across Invesco•
  • Recipient 2 OneTech Awards in consecutive years (2022 and 2023), the highest Technology recognition at Invesco, for my contributions Collaborative Workplace product and conceptualizing & leading global Domain Training programs
  • Received 2 TechConnects awards (2016 and 2020) at Invesco for my contributions in projects and org-wide initiatives

Otherrelevantexperience

  • BA / PM, App Support & Maintenance, Charles Schwab, Hyderabad, India, 2013 - 2014
  • BA / PM, UBS, Singapore & United Kingdom, 2010 - 2013
  • Sr. Business Analyst, RBS, United Kingdom, 2007 - 2010
  • Business Analyst, ABN Amro, United Kingdom, 2005 - 2007
  • Developer, The Travel Corp, Pune, India, 2003 - 2005

Accolades

  • Pinnacle Award, Invesco, 2021, Recipient of the highest recognition at Invesco for conceptualizing and leading multiple efforts on Domain Trainings across Invesco.
  • OneTech Awards, Invesco, 2022, 2023, Recipient of the highest Technology recognition at Invesco for contributions to Collaborative Workplace product and leading global Domain Training programs.
  • TechConnects Awards, Invesco, 2016, 2020, Received for contributions in projects and org-wide initiatives.

Summary - Executivesummary

  • Highly skilled Technology Product / Program Manager with over 18 years of extensive experience in Fintech industry managing products and programs covering entire landscape of Asset and Wealth Management business.
  • Customer focussed and Success-oriented, with experience in creating a Product Vision, Strategy and Roadmap, development of KPIs, Feature Ideation, creating POCs / MVPs and taking them to successful implementation.
  • Extensive experience working with global business teams, building a strong partnership, to provide solutions for short and long-term business strategy.
  • Successfully delivered a strategic Digital Oversight Automation and Collaboration product covering 14+ business functions to bring better oversight, automation and efficiency in their business processes and saving costs up to 25%.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver large-scale, complex, multi-million-dollar transformational programs from inception to successful closure by creating high-performance teams, comprehensive planning, and agile execution.
  • Rich Business Domain knowledge and project experience in Client Onboarding, KYC, Trade Execution & Settlement, Custody, IBOR, ABOR, Reconciliations, Performance, Benchmarking, Attribution, Client Reporting, Risk and Analytics.
  • Domain expert of the region conceptualizing, leading and delivering multiple domain training programs for leadership teams and new joiners.

Timeline

Product Manager, Collaborative Workplace Platform

Invesco
03.2018 - Current

Workstream Manager - Merger / Acquisition

Invesco
02.2017 - 02.2018

Project Manager | Derivatives Reconciliation using TriResolve

Invesco
07.2016 - 01.2017

Sr BA / PM | OVID Program (DTL Implementation)

Invesco
09.2014 - 07.2016

BA / PM, App Support & Maintenance

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
01.2013 - 12.2014

BA / PM

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
01.2010 - 12.2013

Sr. Business Analyst

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
01.2007 - 12.2010

Business Analyst

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
01.2005 - 12.2007

Developer

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
01.2003 - 12.2005

Bachelor of Technology - Instrumentation and Control

National Institute of Technology (NIT)

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