Product Management Manager

Pawan Narasimhan

London, United Kingdom

+44-796******* – *******@*****.***

Change Leader

Over 15 years of experience as a Change Leader in the financial industry. Instrumental in achieving significant cost reductions and revenue improvements through strategic vision, process reengineering, restructuring and leadership expertise. Excelled in driving change in a bank as a part of operations, technology and business groups. Demonstrate solid business knowledge in wholesale, retail, private and investment banking. Direct the implementation of new IT systems in multi country, multi-regional and multi-cultural environments for financial institutions such as UBS, Citibank, Novo Bank, Barclays and Wells Fargo. Extensive experience in leading requirements analysis, specifications design, business process reengineering, product development, data migration, testing and production support as part of change in a bank. Display strong leadership and organizational skills including strategic planning, communication, and problem solving.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Change Management

Strategic Planning & Development

Team Building & Leadership

Design, Delivery & Implementation

Operations Management

Systems & Quality Assurance

Product Management

Continuous Process Improvement

Project/Program Management

Analysis & Critical Problem Solving

IT Governance

Global Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Wells Fargo, London Apr 2012 – Present

Product Management Manager

Expand the footprint of Wells Fargo in more than 20 international locations by a combination of organic growth and mergers & acquisitions. Spearhead the design and development of target operating model including building regional hubs for operations in APAC, EMEA and Americas. Lead the architecture, design, testing and production support functions related to the establishment of new IT systems to support global expansion. Develop country sequencing roadmap and implementation strategies based on industry best practices. Manage a global team of 80 resources and a yearly operating budget of $12 million.

Accomplishments

Built a centre of excellence team for global expansion program thereby helping various groups in reducing redundancies and achieving efficiencies in productivity

Championed $3 million cost savings by consolidating and restructuring the testing groups across operations and technology

Built a robust automation tool for testing and production validations that has saved thousands of hours of manual effort each quarter

Functionalities enabled by new IT solutions facilitated Wells Fargo to attract and acquire new clients and business worth $10 billion in its Canada, Cayman, Dublin and Singapore branches in the first 2 years after launch

Novo Bank, London 2008 – 2012

Implementation Manager

Replace the existing legacy application with a suite of new IT applications in the wholesale, commercial and Investment Banking domains. Manage all phases of systems implementation program from requirements analysis, specifications design, development, testing, and data migration to production support. Deliver complex business functionalities by reengineering archaic business processes to reflect industry’s best practices. Direct and consult a global team of 60 outsourced resources.

Accomplishments

New functionality enabled by the IT systems change facilitated novo bank to attract and acquire new business worth £6 billion during the first year of operations

Guided the business units in revamping their teams to align to the reengineered business processes, thereby decreasing headcount by about 20%

Union Bank of Switzerland, London 2007 – 2008

Business Analyst

Lead the design, development, testing, data migration and production support activities to set up general ledger and payments engine for wealth management and investment banking domains in UBS. Plan and strategise the delivery of functionality to align with real business needs. Lead a global team with 8 direct reports and a team of 30 outsourced resources.

Accomplishments

Consolidated multiple legacy applications across the globe into a single integrated application for cash management and payment solutions

Delivered performance enhancements in the payments solution to increase throughput to 2 million payments a day

Established UBS as a self-clearer for sterling that helped save UBS about £3.2 million a year in fees

Oracle Financial Services 2002 – 2006

Multiple locations in Asia, Africa and Europe

Product Consultant

Manage all phases of large scale, multi country core banking implementations from requirements analysis, specifications design, development, testing, and data migration to production support. Lead strategy formulation for activities such as testing, data migration and rollout roadmap. Lead the business process reengineering effort in various departments of the bank.

Accomplishments

Implemented core banking solutions in various financial institutions like Barclays, Citibank, ABSA, Union Bank and Ecobank

Implementations highly acclaimed by both the clients and oracle management and received best performer awards throughout my career at Oracle

Implemented systems change in record time and within budget in Barclays

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Master of Business Administration - Warwick Business School, UK 2015

Master of Computer Applications - Regional Engineering College, India 2002

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