Ankur Bhattacharjee
Data driven Product Manager and IIM Bangalore graduate with ~7 years of experience in building product roadmap strategy, execution, and agile delivery; driving core cost savings £3.5Mn+ and delivering measurable outcomes – 50% drop in Click Depth, 20% drop in recon error and building 100% compliance in regulatory reporting in finance domain.
Core expertise gathered from CSPO certification and experience in data analysis to add actionable insights, product strategy from development to delivery, customer segmentation, user research, SWIFT (MT & MX) payments, cross-functional and stakeholder management .
Experience
Product Manager
NatWest Markets (Royal Bank of Scotland)
Bangalore, KA
Product Strategy & Digital Transformation
Tata Steel Ltd.
Kharagpur, WB
Education
IIM Bangalore
MBA
Top grader in 70% of the courses
NIT Durgapur
B.Tech
Top 20%ile of the batch
Skills
Product & Feature Development
Led Murex Product development
integrating it as a one settlement system for all capital market trades, by aligning cross-functional teams and data-driven decision making, reduced cost by £3.5 Mn/year
Engineered core product features
by building logical data flow using gRPC over API to enable netting & splitting of trades, awarded LoV for zero defect delivery, boosted Throughput (MB/sec) Rate by 50%
Built dashboard for identification of failed cash transactions
by integrating all requirements for the development over GCP, assisting ops to identify failed cash legs of worth £100Mn in first 3 months
Conceptualized matching of ledger to statement for AML assessment
to enable fraud detection in cross-border payment, integrated with Quantexa tool, improved AML Case Enrichment Rate by 50%
Directed product design of a SaaS platform
driving UI/UX improvements by leveraging user journey analysis, user persona assessment & prioritization, delivered a drop in Click Depth by 50%
Data Analytics & Payments
Led end-to-end requirement gathering, As-Is vs To-Be modelling, and Gap Analysis for Real time & Eod data reporting for GL reconciliation
delivering BRDs and aligning business & tech stakeholders
Improved ledger-to-statement reconciliation
by coordinating for the requirement generation, used DMAIC for process optimization for liquidity funding team, lowered reconciliation breaks by 20%
Analyzed cash break for swift payments
by performing RCA on incoming SWIFT messages, improved intra-day liquidity compliance by 10%
Analyzed SWIFT & ISO 20022 payment change requirements
prepared data mapping sheet for all blocks of MT to tags of MX (ISO) messages, tested changes, measured System Readiness Completion to 100%
Regulatory Reporting
Designed FMI regulatory reports for the Fin Crime team
leveraging counterparty data & FMI intermediary data to enhance data quality, strengthen liquidity risk exposure, compliance 100%
Optimized PRA regulatory reports
used data analysis and user requirement analysis, to comply with the liquidity, risk exposure and capital adequacy requirement, achieved Capital Adequacy of ~14%
Onboarded I-STAR settlement system for Cash & Security data of the Japanese entity
increased FMI compliance coverage to APAC region
Product Strategy & Digital Initiatives
Strategized new product development roadmap and built 4 new products
developed inbound supply-chain, curated new global markets for exports, expanded business development of ₹5 Mn
Spearheaded the implementation of Industry 4.0
integrating IoT, predictive analytics and MES, coordinated with cross-functional team, improved MTBR by 25% for key machinery
Led cross-functional execution of a ₹4B manufacturing capacity expansion program
embedding digital transformation, predictive data maintenance, and intelligent supply chain, pushed ROCE > 20%
Led product delivery of IoT-enabled predictive maintenance capability of industrial robots for machining operations
defined business requirements and collaborated with teams, improved MTBF by 25%