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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Work as a Scrum Product Owner for a mission critical application within the bank's financial markets business operations (FMBO) portfolio.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Work alongside Product Management to understand and define upcoming product updates/features
• Represent the target persona through from conception to delivery
• Inspire engineers to think about the customer experience as they craft the GoFor workflows
• Dissect larger, complex features to small workable user stories so they are digestible to multiple levels of the business
• Own the product backlog and work with R&D to maintain a healthy backlog of prioritized work items, ensuring the most valuable are being defined and addressed
• Identify tangible elements of value to end-users and deliver to market in a Continuous Delivery methodology

Sri Lanka

• Played the chief scrum product owner role for three major projects, viz., a treasury dealing platform, a mutual fund management system and a private wealth management system
• Performed in-depth research and analysis on government treasury and wealth management business domains to provide analytics and recommendations for product development and management decision-making process
• Took the lead ownership in requirements elicitation, backlog grooming, and prioritization, validating deliveries against the scope or acceptance criteria through ensuring adherence to Agile practices
• Dissected bigger complex requirements to workable user stories and business cases; transformed requirements into user interface mock-ups/specs, business requirements specifications (BRS)
• Chaired design discussions and engaged with engineering teams in architecture discussions and process designs
• Responsible for planning for risk mitigation strategies and participated in the project steering committee to report project progress and highlight project risks

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Played the senior business analyst/product owner role for following projects # National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange Surveillance, Mumbai# Indian Commodities Exchange Surveillance, Mumbai# Johannesburg Stock.
• Developed comprehensive algorithms to understand and detect financial market trading anomalies along with manipulative patterns and behaviors customized to multiple asset classes and geographical regions
• Facilitated working sessions and workshops with user community to understand the current system and gather new system requirements
• Evaluated technology options to provide technical solutions for existing system functions
• Effectively bridged the knowledge gap between clients and internal teams that significantly helped to minimize scope creep and issue escalations
• Actively engaged with new customer acquisitions including responding for request for proposals (RFP), pre-sales product demos, presentations, and sales follow-ups

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Led a team of analysts who conducted investment research on globally listed companies - built, structured and maintained detailed financial models for global asset managers
• Optimized business processes that led to significant improvement in the quality of delivery and delivery time, helping the client for better decision making
• Involved in special assignments such as building complex databases to assist financial forecasts and equity valuations
• Always maintained a healthy relationship with clients through active engagement and shared understanding
• Spearheaded in bringing live new technologies and methods introduced by management to automate financial modeling and enhance customer value
• Responsible for timely deliveries of financial modeling assignments whilst maintaining world-class quality

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Initiated career in Sri Lankan capital markets working for prominent investment brokerage in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sectors covered Diversified, Food & Beverages. Performed financial modelling, equity valuation, provided investment recommendations and published research reports.

Level Iii Candidate, Finance,Investments, Capital Markets And Financial Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology

Acma - Associate Member Of The Chartered Institute Of Management Accountants, Finance, Accounting And Business Management

Cgma - Chartered Global Management Accountant, Associate Member, Finance, Accounting And Business Management

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