Jayshree Kankani
Senior Product Owner
Summary
With experience across diverse domains like Banking & Insurance, Healthcare and Finance, currently working as a Product Owner at VMware, having the responsibility for defining, identifying, implementing optimization and automation opportunities for the front office and back office business processes used within Sales Ops/Renewal Ops. Build solutions on Cloud native applications, system integrations with up/downstream systems through APIs.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior Product Owner
VMware
10.2022 - Current
- Understand business strategy, goals, initiatives and align teams on product vision and roadmap.
- Perform key role in business enablement from perpetual product offering to subscription lifecycle commerce on CPQ platform (salesforce).
- Orchestrate cross-functionally with all areas of business, partnerships, and with senior stakeholders, process owners, architects, and team members.
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work
- Write epics/user stories, define acceptance criteria and definition of done.
- Participate in solution designing for complex workflows to ensure scalability.
- Work with Scrum Master and delivery team to track and remove impediments, address ambiguities, resolve defects.
- Lead and participate in agile cadences: sprint planning, sprint review, backlog grooming, sprint retrospective.
- Work with design team to craft customer journeys, as well as ensure UI flows are aligned with both business and technology requirement.
- Report and present progress to stakeholders and business units by driving system demo.
Product Owner
VMware
11.2019 - 10.2022
- Responsible for defining, identifying, implementing optimization and automation opportunities for front office and back-office business processes used within Sales Ops/Renewal Ops.
- Build solutions on cloud native applications for up/downstream system integrations via APIs.
- Co-developed configuration tool to enable SaaS transition for organization. Tool serves as source system for defining solution offers/products supporting direct or channel sales.
- Alongside, developed rule engine to manage constructs like business rules/constraints to validate configurations across all consuming systems.
- Work in an agile/scrum methodology, managing backlog, defining end-to-end business process (Order to Cash & CPQ - Salesforce).
- Responsible for defining, designing, and managing front and back-office system automation changes and implementation of projects to deliver business objectives with outcome-based approach.
- Extend process & solution design support to projects. Contribute to cross-functional teams, FRD/User story grooming, sprint planning & review etc.
- Participate in proof-of-concepts, fit-gap analysis, prototyping & business demonstrations.
Business Analyst
MSG Global Solutions India Pt. Ltd
04.2018 - 10.2019
- Document detailed requirements for new/upgraded system functionalities.
- Develop functional and technical user stories for enhancing product and system features. Document approach and expected outcome (including processing and validation rules).
- Liaise with development team for clarification of requirements, use cases and deliver solutions.
- Translate business scenarios into relevant unit/system/integration/interface testing scenarios.
- Create UMLs and other functional documentations to communicate design specifications.
Management Executive
Webport Media Pt. Ltd
07.2016 - 02.2018
- Formulating & defining modus-operandi for various business cycles including procurement to pay, accounts receivable cycle and human resource.
- Working as link between Management & Technical Team for designing and developing various applications & functionalities.
- Managing operations related to vendor payments, various expense disbursement, general ledger accounting and analyzing various tax & legal compliances for the company.
- Prepare pitch deck(s) for meetings with investors and B2B partnering.
Tax Analyst
Ernst & Young LLP
11.2015 - 05.2016
- Generate VAT, Intrastat, EUSL Return & Management Report on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis for EU countries.
- Manage major clients like TYCO, Goodyear, Levi Strauss & Co. etc.
- Interpret and comply with state, local & international statutes, regulations & legislations.
- Reconcile VAT related general ledger accounts and evaluate all account balances for company.
Accounts Executive
PK Industries
10.2014 - 11.2015
- Prepare accounting records & financial statements.
- Upgrade manual recording to digital accounting system.
- Perform reconciliation activities for accounting year and monitored company’s cash flow.
- Digitalize filing of Vat Return, Service Tax, TDS etc.
Business Analyst
ITC Infotech India Ltd
05.2013 - 09.2014
- Gather client requirements (Insurance & Healthcare). Bridge the gap between business requirements and system functionalities.
- Document business process workflows and other project artifacts.
- Coordinate with system development team to develop client requirements.
- Identify problem areas and provide solutions.
- Extend functional support during various phases of projects like preparation, requirement gathering, realization & testing.
Education
MBA - Finance & Banking Insurance
Mount Carmel Institute of Management
India 05.2011 - 07.2013
BBA - Finance
Ramaiaha College of Arts, Science & Commerce
India 04.2008 - 05.2011
Skills
Agile Methodologies
undefinedCertification
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Timeline
Executive Certificate Programme in Product Management - Indian School of Business
11-2022
Senior Product Owner
VMware
10.2022 - Current
Scaled Agile Framework - SAFE 5.1
06-2022
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
05-2021
Product Owner
VMware
11.2019 - 10.2022
Business Analyst
MSG Global Solutions India Pt. Ltd
04.2018 - 10.2019
Management Executive
Webport Media Pt. Ltd
07.2016 - 02.2018
Tax Analyst
Ernst & Young LLP
11.2015 - 05.2016
Accounts Executive
PK Industries
10.2014 - 11.2015
Business Analyst
ITC Infotech India Ltd
05.2013 - 09.2014
MBA - Finance & Banking Insurance
Mount Carmel Institute of Management
05.2011 - 07.2013
BBA - Finance
Ramaiaha College of Arts, Science & Commerce
04.2008 - 05.2011
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