Rajat Kedia
Senior Product Manager
Summary
Strategic Sr. Product Manager with 12+ years of experience leading product-market strategy and supporting implementation of innovative products for unique niches. Creative strategic planner with product value and impact assessment prowess. End-to-end product leader successful bringing products from inception to rollout with efficiency and speed.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Product Manager (Vice President)
Citi N.A.
06.2021 - Current
- Played a key role in sharing the roadmap for developing a digital asset platform for deal execution, ensuring data privacy, security, redundancy, authentication and validation consideration
- Possess extensive expertise in Capital Markets Products and system knowledge in helping build products
- Collaborated with senior leaders across regions to shape the goals of the Capital Markets organization, define priorities, align resources, and foster a culture of execution and innovation
- Managed business planning in close collaboration with cross functional teams, translating strategic initiatives into actionable plans by working with global team members and business partners
- Recruited, mentored, and led a medium to large product team consistency delivering successful products and maintaining a well-balanced skill set across different product domains
- With this and my past assignments following Agile methodologies, I have a very rich experience of working through the principles – writing user stories in Jira, facilitating sprints, creating confluence pages for milestone tracker, traceability matrix, etc
- Working knowledge of the syndicate primary market execution strategy for bond issuance
- Consulted with product development teams to enhance products based on customer interest data.
Markets Lead Business Analyst
HSBC Global Banking
10.2019 - 06.2021
- Provided Business and Functional Inputs for the implementation of Trading Hub MAST solution for detecting potential market abuse (Front Running, Insider Trading, Ramping) by HSBC traders
- The aim of this project was to send Trade and Greek (sensitivity) data for multiple asset classes (Equity, Fixed Income, FX) to a surveillance tool, which could then run various market abuse metrics on top of this data to detect potential cases of misconduct or rogue trading
- As part of my day-to-day tasks, I analyze XMLs (FpML messages) for trade data received from multiple source systems (Sophis, Fidessa, Summit, etc) across products (cash and derivative) and then look to map them to a common pre-defined format which is accepted by the Surveillance tool
- Good working knowledge of SQL as the job role demands pulling historic trade data and studying the pattern to resolve UAT and production queries
- With this and my past assignments following Agile methodologies, I have a very rich experience of working through the principles – writing user stories in Jira, facilitating sprints, creating confluence pages for milestone tracker, traceability matrix, etc
- Handled a team of 10+ Business Analysts in delivering various aspects of the program
- Working knowledge of Market Abuse Surveillance
Product Manager (Associate Vice President)
Citi Corp
07.2017 - 10.2019
- Defining product vision while ensuring to provide leadership to take product to the next level
- Partner with respective business stakeholder to identify pain points and areas for improvements and offer innovative/strategic solutions while using the Agile methodology
- Provided business and functional inputs in building a trade monitoring and surveillance tool to meet global regulatory requirements effectively and proactively by providing comprehensive risk controls to detect anomalous and non-compliant activities
- The aim of this project was to receive trade data, reference data, control data from multiple upstream systems and then create alerts (on top of user defined thresholds) which would be routed to the Front Office users for action at their end
- Highly sensitive project as it required quick action by the FO users and their supervisors
- As part of my day of day tasks, I would work with the upstream systems for various asset classes on defining the appropriate message which would be received by our team in XML / JSON format
- The other primary job was to work with the asset class heads on preparing the routing, workflow and user interface for each alert class
- Good working knowledge of SQL as my job demanded studying the data which has been received by upstream or consumed by the tool
- Led a team of 4 Business Analysts operating across multiple geographies for different projects
Markets Senior Business Analyst
HSBC Global Banking
09.2016 - 07.2017
- Provided Business and Functional Inputs for the implementation of BAES Net Reveal Unauthorized Trading solution and Target Operating Model (TOM) for newly set up Inappropriate Trading Risk Unit
- The aim of this project was to read trade, control and reference data from multiple trading systems and there by associating scores to the trader based on different parameters on the lifecycle of trades executed by them
- My day-to-day tasks involved understanding the XMLs / FpMLs messages of trade data and mapping them in an expected format for the surveillance tool
- Conducted As-Is study of Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) used by the Integrated Trade Risk Unit and proposed refinement of KRIs to reduce false positives
- Conducted operational Strategy to expand the existing FX Unauthorized Trading Surveillance solution to multiple asset classes
- Proposed data rationalization solutions for Trade (from Summit, Bloomberg etc.) and Controls data
- Working knowledge of Market Abuse Surveillance
Business Analyst
iNautix Technologies, BNY Mellon
05.2015 - 09.2016
- Interacted with traders, business users, product teams, dependent application teams to come up with the actual needs of the project and desired changes in the system
- Provided walkthrough of the requirements to business and IT teams, completed BA validation and coordinated during UAT testing for the project
- Worked with third party systems outside and inside BNYM to automate the system as part of iHedge FXALL Migration project
- As per the Volcker Rule, BNYM cannot price its own funds and a third bank has to perform the pricing
- Also completed live tests in production with IT and business to make sure all the ACKS and NAKs are working as designed
- Actively participated in the transition of the Reporting system from a BNYM third party vendor to in-house
- This change is estimated to provide the organization with an annual cost savings of around $115000
- Working as a business analyst for the newly created shared services Reporting team in providing support to build reports for 7 applications within the Markets Group of BNYM
- Managed a team of around 30 DEV and QA members and resolved their queries/concerns via triage, status calls
- Also maintained enhancements logs to discuss with business and IT, which are then estimated and prioritized for future releases
- Provided knowledge transfer sessions to new BAs within the project/organization
- Completed iNautix certification in providing training on subjects like Equities and Mutual Funds to new batches in the organization.
Software Developer (Team Lead)
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
09.2010 - 04.2014
- Development and maintenance of Document Management Service module using the style-sheet language XSLT over XML documents and Batch Processing module using JAVA, PL/SQL &UNIX for CRM system of a UK based Media &Entertainment client adhering to a portfolio of 10 million subscribers
- Worked as BAU Release Coordinator delivering incidents and change requests and responding to customers on their ad hoc requests using tools such as IBM Rational Clear Quest, Tortoise SVN, AgileZen, Jira and Spark
- Designed and delivered components of DMS module at zero defects for several consecutive releases and received appreciation from clients & management
- Developed automated report generation template to enhance the return on investment of man hours in the release process resulting in monthly cost savings of 20-man hours
- Implemented the workforce metrics model to generate weekly metrics on team's productivity and efficiency
- Mentored a team of six people and developed process documents while conducting knowledge transition sessions on cross functional modules thereby reducing turn-around time during integration tests.
Education
PGPM - Finance, Business Analytics
Great Lakes Institute of Management
04.2014 - 04.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Seacom Engineering College
India 08.2006 - 07.2010
Skills
Product lifecycle management
undefinedAccomplishments
- Core Member of Branding and Public Relations Committee at Great Lakes Institute of Management
- Actively involved in Leadership experiential project, Karma-Yoga for the designated village, Nadduvakarai
- Led a team of 80 and provided computer education to weaker sections of the society as a part of the computer awareness program
- PERSONAL PROFILE
- Born on 05.1987
Additional Information
Completed FRM (Financial Risk Management, GARP) Level 1
Timeline
Senior Product Manager (Vice President)
Citi N.A.
06.2021 - Current
Markets Lead Business Analyst
HSBC Global Banking
10.2019 - 06.2021
Product Manager (Associate Vice President)
Citi Corp
07.2017 - 10.2019
Markets Senior Business Analyst
HSBC Global Banking
09.2016 - 07.2017
Business Analyst
iNautix Technologies, BNY Mellon
05.2015 - 09.2016
PGPM - Finance, Business Analytics
Great Lakes Institute of Management
04.2014 - 04.2015
Software Developer (Team Lead)
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
09.2010 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Seacom Engineering College
08.2006 - 07.2010
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