Digital Product Manager / Business Architect
Aktualisiert am 24.05.2024
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Geschäftsprozessanalyse
agiles Projektmanagement
Strategie
English
Muttersprache
Greek
Muttersprache
Russian
Fortgeschritten
German
Grundkenntnisse

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Schweiz
nicht möglich

Projekte

Projekte

2 years
2022-01 - 2023-12

Data Integration Products

Product Manager/Owner
Product Manager/Owner
Owner of the Data Integration Products, enabling ESG risk management use cases, including quantitative analysis, with proprietary time-series data covering 300,000+ entities, delivered via sFTP / RESTful APIs / Data Cloud.
  • Analysed internal and external stakeholders? business objectives, value metrics, processes and pain points
  • Defined personas and journeys, created the Client Maturity Matrix for product selection (incl. Web Apps)
  • Performed gap analysis, conceptualised new features, wrote User Story requirements & acceptance criteria
  • Liaised with IT architects to future-proof solutions for scalability, role-based access control and security
  • Sourced estimates, managed resource conflict, scoped Sprints and releases, planned roadmap milestones
  • Managed product backlogs, guided FE and BE development & testing, facilitated user reviews and training
  • Maintained internal & external documentation incl. marketing collateral, user guides, technical specifications
  • Modelled cross-functional roles & responsibilities and process flows incl. Sales, Client Services, Legal, IT
  • Led execution on cross-divisional initiatives incl. new operating models, product launches client migrations
  • Supported sales and client-side implementation as Pre-Sales Consultant, addressed issues and questions
  • Analysed industry ecosystems and value chains, modelled B2B2C services with Cloud marketplace partners
  • Consulted senior management on architecture changes to align data Products to user-centric value verticals
RepRisk AG
4 years 1 month
2017-12 - 2021-12

Finance IT

Senior Business Analyst (Associate Director)
Senior Business Analyst (Associate Director)
Owner of the IB General Ledger for the Securities, FX and Money Market instruments. Responsible for the ETL processes for multiple sources and designed booking models for controlling, reporting and risk management.
  • Led the Finance IT stream of multi-year regulatory & corporate restructuring programs (Brexit, RIGI)
  • Led data modelling for ELT flows from a new multi-tenant data lake for Finance IT?s Cloud migration
  • Performed requirements engineering, value proposition alignment and vision statement formulation
  • Liaised with functional SMEs, solution architects, BAs and developers in front-to-back change initiatives
  • Drafted technical specifications for the sourcing, staging and normalisation of multiple data flows
  • Prepared test cases and performed User Acceptance testing, led efforts to automate testing using BDD
  • Provided effort estimates, guided PMs in project planning and TMs in facilitating testing and sign-offs
UBS Business Solutions AG
Zürich
7 months
2017-05 - 2017-11

Delivered the minimum usable product

Valuation Governance Sr. Analyst (BA)
Valuation Governance Sr. Analyst (BA)
Started as Lead BA for the GolderSource Pricing project: a vendor application for the IPV of Hard-to-Price assets. Was promoted as the principal change analyst for the Asset Pricing and Valuation Governance team.
  • Delivered the minimum usable product thereby finalising a project that had been suspended 3 times prior
  • Collaborated with external developers to re-vamp GUIs and workflows to optimise analysts? processes
  • Performed data analysis for logical instrument grouping, business rule calibration and data quality checks
  • Performed due diligence and POCs for 3rd party software and vendor data products e.g. Bloomberg LQA
  • Redesigned the Pricing Committee?s valuation approval process enhancing transparency and timeliness
  • Prepared for external audit (SOX controls), was point-of-contact for data and application inquiries
M&G Ltd
London
1 year 5 months
2016-01 - 2017-05

Delivered the minimum usable product

Business Data Analyst
Business Data Analyst
Started as Lead BA for the GolderSource Pricing project: a vendor application for the IPV of Hard-to-Price assets. Was promoted as the principal change analyst for the Asset Pricing and Valuation Governance team.
  • Delivered the minimum usable product thereby finalising a project that had been suspended 3 times prior
  • Collaborated with external developers to re-vamp GUIs and workflows to optimise analysts? processes
  • Performed data analysis for logical instrument grouping, business rule calibration and data quality checks
  • Performed due diligence and POCs for 3rd party software and vendor data products e.g. Bloomberg LQA
  • Redesigned the Pricing Committee?s valuation approval process enhancing transparency and timeliness
  • Prepared for external audit (SOX controls), was point-of-contact for data and application inquiries
M&G Ltd
London
1 year 4 months
2014-10 - 2016-01

Selected to lead the Equity Fundamentals EMEA Helpdesk

Product Implementation Analyst (PO)
Product Implementation Analyst (PO)
Started as the owner of the sourcing, extraction and transformation of data from financial reports and web sources.
Was promoted to drive the design and implementation of a new data analytics product for Metals & Mining Assets.
  • Selected to lead the Equity Fundamentals EMEA Helpdesk for Bloomberg Global Data
  • Selected to co-lead the human labelling and training of an AI-based document data extraction solution
  • Advocated synergies between the M&A and Entity data teams to automate ownership hierarchy changes
  • Hired, trained and managed 2 on-shore data analysts and re-organised a team of 6
Bloomberg Global Data
London
1 year 6 months
2013-05 - 2014-10

Selected to co-lead the human labelling and training

Equity Fundamentals Data Analyst
Equity Fundamentals Data Analyst
Started as the owner of the sourcing, extraction and transformation of data from financial reports and web sources.
Was promoted to drive the design and implementation of a new data analytics product for Metals & Mining Assets.
  • Selected to lead the Equity Fundamentals EMEA Helpdesk for Bloomberg Global Data
  • Selected to co-lead the human labelling and training of an AI-based document data extraction solution
  • Advocated synergies between the M&A and Entity data teams to automate ownership hierarchy changes
  • Hired, trained and managed 2 on-shore data analysts and re-organised a team of 6
Bloomberg Global Data
London
5 months
2012-12 - 2013-04

Advocated synergies between the M&A and Entity data teams

Utilities Data Analyst (temp)
Utilities Data Analyst (temp)
Started as the owner of the sourcing, extraction and transformation of data from financial reports and web sources.
Was promoted to drive the design and implementation of a new data analytics product for Metals & Mining Assets.
  • Selected to lead the Equity Fundamentals EMEA Helpdesk for Bloomberg Global Data
  • Selected to co-lead the human labelling and training of an AI-based document data extraction solution
  • Advocated synergies between the M&A and Entity data teams to automate ownership hierarchy changes
  • Hired, trained and managed 2 on-shore data analysts and re-organised a team of 6
Bloomberg Global Data
London

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2024

The Open Group - TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner


2022

INSEAD Executive Education - Strategy in the Age of Digital Disruption


2022

CFA Institute ? CFA Charterholder


2020

Scrum.org - Professional Scrum Product Owner II


2020

Scrum.org - Professional Scrum Master I


2008

Royal Holloway, Uni. Of London - BSc Financial & Business Economics, First Class Honours


CERTIFICATIONS:

  • Continuous LinkedIn Learning and Data Camp certificates

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Geschäftsprozessanalyse agiles Projektmanagement Strategie

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

PROFILE:
  • A certified Scrum Product Owner (PSPO II, PSM I) leading digital products in financial services for 10+ years
  • A servant leader with ?natural authority and communication capabilities, [?] a motivational supervisor?
  • ?Calm and assured even under challenging conditions, adapting to changing circumstances with ease?
  • Intrinsically curious with ?excellent conceptual and analytical skills and exceptionally sound judgment?
  • Proficient in business analysis techniques, ?careful and diligent, [?] delivered work of impeccable quality?
  • A futurist immersed in WealthTech, mentoring at the Tenity accelerator and volunteering at the CFA Society


EARLY CAREER:

  • Upon graduation in 2008, I had to stay in Greece due to family circumstances (sickness)
  • Upon resolution, and completing my military obligations at a Special Forces unit, I moved to London to pursue my career in 2012


TECHNICAL SKILLS:

  • SQL 
  • Python 
  • SwaggerHub 
  • Postman 
  • AWS Cloud 
  • Snowflake 
  • MS Azure Cloud 
  • MS Power Platform
  • JIRA 
  • Confluence 
  • GitHub 
  • Dataiku 
  • Collibra 
  • ARIS 
  • Sparx EA 
  • BPMN 
  • UML 
  • TOGAF 
  • ITIL4 
  • Office365

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Schweiz
nicht möglich

Projekte

Projekte

2 years
2022-01 - 2023-12

Data Integration Products

Product Manager/Owner
Product Manager/Owner
Owner of the Data Integration Products, enabling ESG risk management use cases, including quantitative analysis, with proprietary time-series data covering 300,000+ entities, delivered via sFTP / RESTful APIs / Data Cloud.
  • Analysed internal and external stakeholders? business objectives, value metrics, processes and pain points
  • Defined personas and journeys, created the Client Maturity Matrix for product selection (incl. Web Apps)
  • Performed gap analysis, conceptualised new features, wrote User Story requirements & acceptance criteria
  • Liaised with IT architects to future-proof solutions for scalability, role-based access control and security
  • Sourced estimates, managed resource conflict, scoped Sprints and releases, planned roadmap milestones
  • Managed product backlogs, guided FE and BE development & testing, facilitated user reviews and training
  • Maintained internal & external documentation incl. marketing collateral, user guides, technical specifications
  • Modelled cross-functional roles & responsibilities and process flows incl. Sales, Client Services, Legal, IT
  • Led execution on cross-divisional initiatives incl. new operating models, product launches client migrations
  • Supported sales and client-side implementation as Pre-Sales Consultant, addressed issues and questions
  • Analysed industry ecosystems and value chains, modelled B2B2C services with Cloud marketplace partners
  • Consulted senior management on architecture changes to align data Products to user-centric value verticals
RepRisk AG
4 years 1 month
2017-12 - 2021-12

Finance IT

Senior Business Analyst (Associate Director)
Senior Business Analyst (Associate Director)
Owner of the IB General Ledger for the Securities, FX and Money Market instruments. Responsible for the ETL processes for multiple sources and designed booking models for controlling, reporting and risk management.
  • Led the Finance IT stream of multi-year regulatory & corporate restructuring programs (Brexit, RIGI)
  • Led data modelling for ELT flows from a new multi-tenant data lake for Finance IT?s Cloud migration
  • Performed requirements engineering, value proposition alignment and vision statement formulation
  • Liaised with functional SMEs, solution architects, BAs and developers in front-to-back change initiatives
  • Drafted technical specifications for the sourcing, staging and normalisation of multiple data flows
  • Prepared test cases and performed User Acceptance testing, led efforts to automate testing using BDD
  • Provided effort estimates, guided PMs in project planning and TMs in facilitating testing and sign-offs
UBS Business Solutions AG
Zürich
7 months
2017-05 - 2017-11

Delivered the minimum usable product

Valuation Governance Sr. Analyst (BA)
Valuation Governance Sr. Analyst (BA)
Started as Lead BA for the GolderSource Pricing project: a vendor application for the IPV of Hard-to-Price assets. Was promoted as the principal change analyst for the Asset Pricing and Valuation Governance team.
  • Delivered the minimum usable product thereby finalising a project that had been suspended 3 times prior
  • Collaborated with external developers to re-vamp GUIs and workflows to optimise analysts? processes
  • Performed data analysis for logical instrument grouping, business rule calibration and data quality checks
  • Performed due diligence and POCs for 3rd party software and vendor data products e.g. Bloomberg LQA
  • Redesigned the Pricing Committee?s valuation approval process enhancing transparency and timeliness
  • Prepared for external audit (SOX controls), was point-of-contact for data and application inquiries
M&G Ltd
London
1 year 5 months
2016-01 - 2017-05

Delivered the minimum usable product

Business Data Analyst
Business Data Analyst
Started as Lead BA for the GolderSource Pricing project: a vendor application for the IPV of Hard-to-Price assets. Was promoted as the principal change analyst for the Asset Pricing and Valuation Governance team.
  • Delivered the minimum usable product thereby finalising a project that had been suspended 3 times prior
  • Collaborated with external developers to re-vamp GUIs and workflows to optimise analysts? processes
  • Performed data analysis for logical instrument grouping, business rule calibration and data quality checks
  • Performed due diligence and POCs for 3rd party software and vendor data products e.g. Bloomberg LQA
  • Redesigned the Pricing Committee?s valuation approval process enhancing transparency and timeliness
  • Prepared for external audit (SOX controls), was point-of-contact for data and application inquiries
M&G Ltd
London
1 year 4 months
2014-10 - 2016-01

Selected to lead the Equity Fundamentals EMEA Helpdesk

Product Implementation Analyst (PO)
Product Implementation Analyst (PO)
Started as the owner of the sourcing, extraction and transformation of data from financial reports and web sources.
Was promoted to drive the design and implementation of a new data analytics product for Metals & Mining Assets.
  • Selected to lead the Equity Fundamentals EMEA Helpdesk for Bloomberg Global Data
  • Selected to co-lead the human labelling and training of an AI-based document data extraction solution
  • Advocated synergies between the M&A and Entity data teams to automate ownership hierarchy changes
  • Hired, trained and managed 2 on-shore data analysts and re-organised a team of 6
Bloomberg Global Data
London
1 year 6 months
2013-05 - 2014-10

Selected to co-lead the human labelling and training

Equity Fundamentals Data Analyst
Equity Fundamentals Data Analyst
Started as the owner of the sourcing, extraction and transformation of data from financial reports and web sources.
Was promoted to drive the design and implementation of a new data analytics product for Metals & Mining Assets.
  • Selected to lead the Equity Fundamentals EMEA Helpdesk for Bloomberg Global Data
  • Selected to co-lead the human labelling and training of an AI-based document data extraction solution
  • Advocated synergies between the M&A and Entity data teams to automate ownership hierarchy changes
  • Hired, trained and managed 2 on-shore data analysts and re-organised a team of 6
Bloomberg Global Data
London
5 months
2012-12 - 2013-04

Advocated synergies between the M&A and Entity data teams

Utilities Data Analyst (temp)
Utilities Data Analyst (temp)
Started as the owner of the sourcing, extraction and transformation of data from financial reports and web sources.
Was promoted to drive the design and implementation of a new data analytics product for Metals & Mining Assets.
  • Selected to lead the Equity Fundamentals EMEA Helpdesk for Bloomberg Global Data
  • Selected to co-lead the human labelling and training of an AI-based document data extraction solution
  • Advocated synergies between the M&A and Entity data teams to automate ownership hierarchy changes
  • Hired, trained and managed 2 on-shore data analysts and re-organised a team of 6
Bloomberg Global Data
London

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2024

The Open Group - TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner


2022

INSEAD Executive Education - Strategy in the Age of Digital Disruption


2022

CFA Institute ? CFA Charterholder


2020

Scrum.org - Professional Scrum Product Owner II


2020

Scrum.org - Professional Scrum Master I


2008

Royal Holloway, Uni. Of London - BSc Financial & Business Economics, First Class Honours


CERTIFICATIONS:

  • Continuous LinkedIn Learning and Data Camp certificates

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Geschäftsprozessanalyse agiles Projektmanagement Strategie

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

PROFILE:
  • A certified Scrum Product Owner (PSPO II, PSM I) leading digital products in financial services for 10+ years
  • A servant leader with ?natural authority and communication capabilities, [?] a motivational supervisor?
  • ?Calm and assured even under challenging conditions, adapting to changing circumstances with ease?
  • Intrinsically curious with ?excellent conceptual and analytical skills and exceptionally sound judgment?
  • Proficient in business analysis techniques, ?careful and diligent, [?] delivered work of impeccable quality?
  • A futurist immersed in WealthTech, mentoring at the Tenity accelerator and volunteering at the CFA Society


EARLY CAREER:

  • Upon graduation in 2008, I had to stay in Greece due to family circumstances (sickness)
  • Upon resolution, and completing my military obligations at a Special Forces unit, I moved to London to pursue my career in 2012


TECHNICAL SKILLS:

  • SQL 
  • Python 
  • SwaggerHub 
  • Postman 
  • AWS Cloud 
  • Snowflake 
  • MS Azure Cloud 
  • MS Power Platform
  • JIRA 
  • Confluence 
  • GitHub 
  • Dataiku 
  • Collibra 
  • ARIS 
  • Sparx EA 
  • BPMN 
  • UML 
  • TOGAF 
  • ITIL4 
  • Office365

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