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New York, NY, US

Purchase, NY, US

• Mastercard Identity, Cyber & IntelligenceGlobal Product Manager: Account Identity Insights and Account Opening Suite of ProductsMastercard Identity empowers trusted connections in the digital economy, allowing.
• Delivering on Mastercard’s ‘Embracing the New Networks’ strategy by bringing unique identity solutions to the market that help our customers get insights to assess risk, streamline onboarding workflows and optimize.
• Leading Account Identity Insights (AII) synergy initiative, responsible for bringing identity and device insights together to tackle the synthetic/stolen identity and account take over (ATO) fraud throughout the.
• Executing ‘Studio’ product lifecycle framework – from concept to commercialization.
• Scaling existing products by pivoting on the partnership strategy, delivering on synergies such as open banking, direct access.
• Lead SME for product opportunity discussions with the customers, and key industry conferences.

Purchase, NY, US

• Global Product Manager: Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL), Mastercard Installments ProgramResponsibilities:
• Executed strategic commercial partnerships and synergies with fintech companies such as Afterpay, Splitit, and Jifiti.
• Led market research efforts to validate new concepts and create Mastercard product differentiation.
• Proactively managed new product or partnership idea pipeline that anticipated and/or responded to ecosystem stakeholder needs,market trends and competitive threats.
• Launched joint marketing campaigns with customers and partners that enabled Mastercard brand affinity at the checkout.
• Effectively led customer RFP process, sales pitches, demos to aid GTM strategy.

Purchase, NY, US

• Merchant Onboarding, Service Provider Registration, and Customer ComplianceResponsibilities:
• Worked with global and regional product managers to identify, define, and prioritize platform development initiatives, writing business requirements, leading cross-functional teams, and coordinating with multiple.
• Built strategic partnerships, align with multiple external partner teams such as D&B, Metricstream, and Brighterion.
• Executed Scaled Agile Framework – defined and owned the initiatives, features, groom and prioritize portfolio.
• Defined UX wireframes. Document process flows, identify bottlenecks, operational impact analysis, and proposed solutions.
• Program managed the ramp up of Mastercard O&T in the India tech hub.Notable Achievements:✓ President’s award for ‘Superior Performance & Outstanding Teamwork’ as program manager, India tech hub (2015) ✓ HEART and.

London, GB

• Global Payment SanctionsUS IRS FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act)Global KYC and Customer Due DiligenceResponsibilities:
• Spearheaded the complex regulatory tax, business requirements and rules analysis.
• Led the team of analysts responsible for providing guidance of multi-million $ regulatory compliance initiative. Conducted feasibilitystudy in-line with the technical capabilities, highlighting the MVP and phased.
• Developed and maintained various documentation deliverables like E2E data flow diagrams, managed global reference data document, business rules and state workflows.
• Supported all the phases of test life cycle. Impact assessing and delivering change requests along with solving critical business and tech roadblocks to LIVE implementation.
• Walkthroughs, presentations to senior stakeholders & executive committee.Notable Achievements:✓ Delivered FATCA solution for bank generating savings of ~$300 million by avoiding non-compliance fines. ✓ Received.

London, GB

Global payments sanctions and regulatory compliance business analyst supporting product development initiatives across the business lines.

Pune, Maharashtra, IN

• Client - Microsoft Corporation – Hyderabad, IndiaResponsibilities:
• Joined as Entry Level Trainee Programmer, got trained in.Net Technologies.
• Analysis of the functional specifications provided for development by the client.
• Gathered technical requirements and participated in design sessions.
• Worked on the bugs associated with the application on various environments. Coordinating with level-2 support team and the client.
• Worked on design, development & code review of CRs for the supported applications.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science & Technology

High School, Mathematics And Computer Science