Canada
Dynamic Product Manager and Senior Business Consultant with 15+ years of experience driving product strategy, delivery, and innovation within Financial Services and Capital Markets. Proven ability to align complex business objectives with technology initiatives, manage product roadmaps, and lead high-performing Agile teams (Scrum & Kanban) to deliver scalable, high-impact solutions. Expert in end-to-end product ownership and business analysis, translating complex financial regulations (MiFID II) and domain knowledge (Equities, Derivatives, SWIFT processing) into functional specifications and robust technology platforms. Recognized for data-driven decision-making, process optimization, and managing major data warehousing and migration projects (Netezza to Hadoop). Adept at executive-level stakeholder engagement, coordinating cross-functional offshore/onshore teams, and ensuring timely, high-quality product delivery and user adoption. Domain Expertise: Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Equities, Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Repo/Reverse Repo, SWIFT processing, Payments, Corporate Actions. Technical Leadership: Data migration, Hadoop architecture, SQL/PLSQL, Core Java, UNIX. Tools: JIRA, Confluence, HPQC, Visio, Git, ServiceNow
Managed product backlog and prioritized deliverables to align with business goals. Led Scrum ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives) ensuring timely delivery. Coordinated production rollouts and collaborated with technical teams for smooth deployments. Delivered high-quality user stories and functional specifications to support development. Partnered with stakeholders to elicit requirements, assess capability gaps, and propose solutions. Created BRDs, FSDs, and detailed process flow diagrams for cross-functional teams. Conducted end-to-end UAT coordination and supported business stakeholders during testing. Translated complex business requirements into technical specifications for development teams. Led migration from legacy Netezza RDBMS to Hadoop platform, ensuring data completeness and quality. Performed data modeling in Hadoop and created mapping documents for migration. Analyzed stored procedures and shell scripts to understand business logic and optimize processes. Formulated SQL/PLSQL queries for reporting and business insights. Resolved post-migration data quality issues through root cause analysis and stakeholder coordination. Collaborated with business partners and project stakeholders to leverage deep domain and technology knowledge. Managed dependencies and risks across multiple teams to ensure successful delivery.
Client:-- Discover Financial Services (DFS). Managing BEST – BEACON team (Business Enterprise Solution Team – Business Engineering and Analytics Case Onboarding) • Coordinating with Business Stakeholders for scope of work and prioritizing requirements • Holding scrum ceremonies in team • Managing JIRA and user stories. • Creating reports and updates for higher management. • Interacting with different teams for technical work required and interacting with application team for planning in sprints. • Interacting with business for requirements clarification. • Interacting with business stakeholders to support UAT testing. • Interacting with Change Management team for scheduling releases. Coordinating with Offshore and Onshore development teams for in time delivery of estimated work.
Worked as a Lead Business analyst/Scrum Master for Olympus program – Equities and Finance Migration. Olympus is a next generation cross asset data fabric, which brings together disparate data sources for the Global Markets organization. Olympus provides an advanced platform for external and internal reporting and business analytics, and will support regulatory, compliance, surveillance, supervisory, operations, research and IT Applications for effective decision-making. Lead Business Analyst for System Migration: • Migrate the legacy RDBMS system based on Netezza to Hadoop platform • Data Modeling in the Hadoop platform for the entities to be migrated • Create the data mappings for the incoming data • Analyze the stored procedures and shell scripts to understand the business logic • Translate the business requirements to the technical requirements • Creating the mapping documents for users to migrate from the legacy system to the new platform • Ensuring the data completeness and quality in the new system • Coordinate with end users for any data quality issues faced and track them to resolution • Create the user stories for dev team and tracking them to production releases • Create the BRD and coordinating with business for approval • Create the FSD for technical teams including the design details and flow diagrams • Maintain the backlog and project plan • Use Agile Methodology. • Provide regular status updates to senior management and key stakeholders
SLIM (Sub Ledger Inventory Management) and OTIS/UES • Product Ownership & Transformation • Served as Product Owner for SLIM (Sub Ledger Inventory Management) and OTIS/UES platforms. • Delivered major system transformations including Murex Finance integration and MiFID II compliance. • Led the Darwin Credit migration project, achieving early delivery and recognition from senior leadership. • Business Analysis & Strategic Initiatives • Conducted gap analysis, stakeholder demos, and supported UAT and release management. • Collaborated with Financial Control and Product Control teams to implement accounting rules for Capital Market products. • Created BRDs, FSDs, and ER diagrams to model data across multiple source systems. • Presented analytical outcomes and dashboards to stakeholders for decision-making. • Capital Markets & Risk Management • Partnered with solution architects to adopt strategic approaches for onboarding standardized EODc format data. • Analyzed manual adjustments and proposed automation solutions for sub-ledger postings. • Implemented strategic finance architecture: Murex → EODc → Core → SLIM, replacing legacy flows for MTM postings. • Converted V2 feeds to EODc for source systems Gloss, RIBS and ACBS for consumer Finance for various Fungible and Non-Fungible products. • Analyzed source feeds using SQL / PLSQL with Trade, Position, Valuations, Cash Balances information and converted into standardized EODc model by performing data mapping. • Performed gap analysis against EODc model . • RBCML & UES Enhancements done for Sources : Rates Infinity , Credit • Infinity, RATS , Sophis ,Murex , OpenLink , GBOI , GLOSS , Rolfe and Nolan • Performed V2 data modeling using SQL / PLSQL • Full decommissioning of the Finance functionality within Credit Infinity. • Murex Finance functionality to replace Credit Infinity Finance functionality. • Murex to replace Credit Infinity for the source of data for the sub-ledgers.
Served as Product Owner for SLIM (Sub Ledger Inventory Management) and OTIS/UES platforms. Delivered major system transformations including Murex Finance integration and MiFID II compliance. Led the Darwin Credit migration project, achieving early delivery and recognition from senior leadership. Conducted gap analysis, stakeholder demos, and supported UAT and release management. Collaborated with Financial Control and Product Control teams to implement accounting rules for Capital Market products. Created BRDs, FSDs, and ER diagrams to model data across multiple source systems. Presented analytical outcomes and dashboards to stakeholders for decision-making. Partnered with solution architects to adopt strategic approaches for onboarding standardized EODc format data. Analyzed manual adjustments and proposed automation solutions for sub-ledger postings. Managed regulatory and compliance requirements for reporting to Head Office and Central Banks. Oversaw full decommissioning of Credit Infinity and migration to Murex Finance functionality. Implemented strategic finance architecture: Murex → EODc → Core → SLIM, replacing legacy flows for MTM postings. Coordinated cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and compliance with global standards.
Led end-to-end requirements elicitation, BRD/FSD creation, and solution modeling for banking and investment platforms. Facilitated full SDLC processes, including stakeholder workshops and documentation using tools like TopTeam. Delivered regulatory reporting initiatives for MiFID, MiFIR, and CCR compliance for European clients. Designed business and data models, conducted gap analysis, and ensured adherence to global financial regulations. Implemented and configured investment management solutions for U.S. banks, including Model Management and Back Office systems. Created product catalogs, use cases, and test documentation, trained clients on SWIFT messaging and corporate actions. Built and tested corporate action modules for banking clients; managed SIT, UAT, and production releases. Collaborated directly with clients to resolve issues and ensure successful delivery.