Akanksha Neha
Product Manager| Senior Manager
Summary
Diligent Senior Product Manager offering 9+ years of success in product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration and product launch. Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation. Excellent relationship-building, organizational and project management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions. Dedicated IT & Finance professional with a history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. Diligent Senior Product Manager offering 9 years of success in product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration and product launch. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification
Work History
Product Manager (Payments & Compliance)
Infosys Pvt. Ltd
06.2022 - Current
- Defines and refines the product roadmap and collaborates with stakeholders to create release plans and backlogs
- Writes features and defines success criteria with key stakeholders and business leaders
- Makes final business decisions related to the product with input from business and technology stakeholders
- Collaborates with business stakeholders to identify and explore new opportunities (e.g., promotions, partnerships) to extend products to new customers, verticals, and late adopters
- Serves the organization as the subject matter expert with respect to competition, industry trends, technological advances, and changing customer needs
- Demonstrates thought leadership and champions the product vision across the company
- Supports business strategy by forming a backlog of features and user stories for use by the delivery team
- Articulates requirements Engineering for each user story with detailed acceptance criteria, Proficient in handling end-to-end planning and coordination
- Pursues incremental delivery constantly by looking for ways to meet business goals and learn from members and end users through frequent, measurable enhancements
- Ensures completed stories meet acceptance criteria by reviewing test plans, the output of automated testing or, where necessary, contributing to manual testing efforts
- Prioritize and collaborate in resolution of issues and defects
- Coordinates the development and maintenance of Security Risk and Compliance products through the collaboration and partnership with internal customers, vendors, and strategic partners; defines and prioritizes the features and epics which yield the highest benefit for the organization
- Leads activities to support the delivery of new functionality including definition of minimum viable product (MVP) or product enhancements, product launch communication, training materials, testing and post-deployment analysis
- Facilitates program ceremonies (e.g., product increment planning sessions, retrospectives, demos, Event ceremonies etc.)
- Anticipate issues and risks and act to mitigate these quickly in all different areas of product development and project management
- Managing team size of 15 including engineering manager, QA’s, SME’s, Business analysts.
Data Product Manager
JPM chase services Pvt. Ltd
02.2019 - 04.2022
- Lead dashboard & data visualization initiatives within the FDM Strategy, Metrics, & Executive Reporting team
- Manage dashboards in development & production, including oversight of refreshes of content & new features
- Work cross-functionally with engineers, designers, Architects, and product marketing to deliver a world class product
- Derive the product discovery together with the product triad
- Working with data to identify opportunities and drive measurable outcomes
- Build solutions and perform initial functional testing, and then address any items identified during User Acceptance Testing, Validating Axiom codes in many objects orientated programming languages
- Drive automation of data sourcing & reporting through Tableau & Alteryx creating an experimental mindset with the product teams to allow fast product knowledge generation
- Worked on Brexit project & regulatory project to analyze and document all requirements for EMIR, FinraG, Finrep & Corep, MIFIDII regulations closely to development team & Business
- Managing a team size of 8 Reporting SME’s, Developers, QA’s,Tech leads & Business analyst.
Senior Business Analyst
Fidelity information services
08.2018 - 07.2019
- Work on specific tasks within a dedicated project team, which will have responsibility to meet deliverables in domains such as Treasury workflows, Cash Management, Risk Management and Accounting Standards
- Undertake a detailed analysis of the functional & operational requirements of any interfaces with non-FIS applications e.g., FX All, 360T, Reuters (provide market rate data), SAP and Bloomberg
- Communicate analysis work with the core and custom development teams so that the functional & operational requirements can be translated into a technical requirements specification, allowing an accurate estimate of time and cost to deliver
- Worked on Analyzing, migrating Data, and integrating Data for various ERP & CRM & TMS systems like Workday Finance, Murex & Calypso and Oracle flex cube and improvising their functionality for our clients
- Validate Data exchange for business intelligence (BI) tools and ATS systems as needed
- Undertake testing of the preliminary solution delivery, generating management reports with SQL and Crystal Reporting tools(sap), providing feedback to the developers to allow iterative enhancements as required
- Training and testing with the client before seeking formal sign-off that the delivery meets all requirements that have been detailed with the specification documents and the client’s overall objective.
Senior Business Analyst
Citibank, CSC
03.2017 - 03.2018
- Identifying, investigating, and resolving discrepancies between Citi’s forecasting expectations and custodian deliveries
- Identify flaws and potential errors and developing solutions for each error pattern
- Searching for new methods for improving efficiency and productivity while maintain accuracy
- Define product strategy and roadmap
- Run Beta and Pilot Programs with early stages product and samples using qualitative and quantitative data to prioritize and derive decision making
- Reviewing and checking work prepared by other members of the team Handling process making sure to deliver business, customer and user value
- Training newly hired employees.
Senior Compliance officer
BNY Mellon, Pershing LLC
12.2015 - 10.2016
- Investigate on regulatory enquiries sent by Regulatory bodies resolving issues on blue sheet reports to FINRA and SEC
- Analyze transactions and financial data to prepare AML report for more than 60 countries
- Conduct enhanced due diligence investigations into global client activity
- Report unusual transactions that could relate to money laundering or terrorist finance activities
- Cooperate with internal and external audit and operational risk management “monthly business checklist” and deliver it on time
- Prepare review Suspicious Activity Reports for US (Fin Rep, SEC) and UK (SOCA)
- Performed Enhanced Due Diligence on customers deemed high risk, and suggested account restrictions and/or account closures based on risk to the institution.
Lead Financial Analyst
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
05.2014 - 10.2014
- Assists with manager in partnering with Field Operations and Financial, Planning and Analysis Teams in developing and maintaining annual Premium and Outlet budgets
- Assists in monitoring and accurately forecasting for segments and country wise
- Preparation of monthly performance reports, variance analysis on actual vs
- Forecasted amounts
- Monthly reporting of Actuals (Segment Reporting) for all the segments and sub-segments of business
- Identify discrepancies and out of balance conditions through a variety of balancing techniques and reconciliation software applications
- Identify and recommend improvements in reconciliation process and other processing areas for greater operational efficiency and risk mitigation.
Education
MA international business and law -
WSPIA
11.2018
MBA (Quantitative Economics & Finance with Strategic leadership) -
Anglia Ruskin University & UCL
01.2014
Bachelor’s Major: Quantitative Finance, Computer science Technology and Economics -
Madras university & UCL (Student exchange)
08.2011
Skills
- Competent with the sector specific software packages like Citrix, SAP FI/CO, Lexis & Nexis, Net X 360, Oracle, Oracle Flex Cube, ERP’s Salesforce, and Workday Finance, TMS Calypso, Murex, B2B SaaS platforms, BaaS, API’s services, and products (Backend API, SDKs, OEM) PLSQL, MYSQL, Power-BI, HTML, Java, C#, and JavaScript, Object oriented programming language, Big data, and Sage, Google BI, Tableau
- Proficient with Microsoft Office programs, Outlook, Internet Explorer, and Project - Graphics designer (working knowledge)
- Advance excels
- Worked on Apache Kafka, Mango DB, and Static data projects, High trading platforms including Machine learning and AI Based
- Attention to Detail
- Organizational Skills
- Verbal Communication
- Calm Under Pressure
- Relationship Building
- Time Management
- Critical Thinking
- Active Listening
- Analytical and Critical Thinking
- Customer Relations
- Cultural Awareness
- Quality Assurance
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 15 staff members.
Languages
English (Professional)
Hindi (Mother tongue)
German (Basic)
Polish (Basic)
Personal Experience
Highly driven Product manager and Business analysis professional with experience in Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), Waterfall Methodologies. Expertise in IT, Banking and Finance for 9 years interacted with external and internal clients for various aspects and needs of business including all kinds of Business and functional analysis. Efficiently managing Requirement Engineering documents and specifications (BRD, FRD, NFRD, DDA), Test cases, ETL, DWH/BI tools, Informatica, Tableau, Alteryx, Datamart Design specifications based on feature requirements. Have Track records in managing and delivery Product based on Domain such as Payments & Compliance(Swift, Payment safe, GTX, FX Trading flow including pricing and OTC market, SEPA), corporate action events, Trade and Capital markets, Risk, IT Audit and assessments (ISO 27001, SOX, GDPR, PCI DSS),, and compliance (AML& KYC), including Regulatory Reporting (MIFID, FinraG, EMIR, SEC, FINRA& Basel Regulations), Treasury management, and change management.
Residence Permit
Holding EU permanent residency Poland
Licenses Certificates
- J.P Morgan, OCFO Digital Accelerator Green & Black belt (Alteryx Automation)
- Product HQ, Technical Product Manager
- Product HQ, AI & ML Product Manager
- Generative AI Landscape
Hobbies and Interests
- Fitness
- Cooking
- Home decoration
- Travelling
Disclaimer
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Certification
- Altrex Automation, JP MORGAN Chase
- Technical Product Manager & AI Product Manager certification- 1 year
- Certified Product Manager , Infosys
- Certified in Genarative AI Landscape
Timeline
Product Manager (Payments & Compliance)
Infosys Pvt. Ltd
06.2022 - Current
Data Product Manager
JPM chase services Pvt. Ltd
02.2019 - 04.2022
Senior Business Analyst
Fidelity information services
08.2018 - 07.2019
Senior Business Analyst
Citibank, CSC
03.2017 - 03.2018
Senior Compliance officer
BNY Mellon, Pershing LLC
12.2015 - 10.2016
Lead Financial Analyst
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
05.2014 - 10.2014
MA international business and law -
WSPIA
MBA (Quantitative Economics & Finance with Strategic leadership) -
Anglia Ruskin University & UCL
Bachelor’s Major: Quantitative Finance, Computer science Technology and Economics -
Madras university & UCL (Student exchange)
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