MANEESH NARAYANAN
Munich
Summary
Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation. Excellent relationship-building, organizational and project management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product owner and Proxy Product Manager
Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty SE
- For Reporting and Analytics
- Product owner responsible for IFRS-17 implementation
- Support and execute financial closing in Global Reporting and Insurance Datawarehouse (GRID) perspective
- Provide data for audits and support quarterly audits
- Ensure data quality and support error handling
Senior Finance Expert and Product Owner
Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty
07.2021 - Current
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
- Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
Business Analyst / Agile Practitioner
Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty
07.2018 - 06.2021
- Cutover of strategic feeder systems to the new enterprise information management environment
- Support financial closing
- Agile Practitioner and Business Community of Practice member for EIM project
- Responsible for end to end feature testing
Business Analyst / Lead Business Analyst
Allianz
11.2014 - 06.2018
- Acted as the primary liaison between the Business Units, Information Technology (IT) and 3rd party vendors
- First point of contact as Lead for a team of business analysts fielding inquiries regarding system implementation and client policy/procedures, questions etc
- Support the Change Management process to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are followed all the way through the development and implementation of the IT solutions
- Facilitated project meetings, opening lines of communication and promoting cross team interaction
- Collaborated with the client SME to test and validate business procedures in the newly implemented system
- In addition, reported information that focused on streamlining business processes and improving quality assurance resulting in increased operational effectiveness
- Developed strong working relationship skills with other BA's and Business clients.
System Analyst
Allianz India for Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
05.2012 - 07.2014
- Design and Development of Technical solutions in Global Genius
- Documentation and Review of Functional Requirement Specification
- Provide technical support to the team as and when required
- Ensure deployment of the new features according to the release calendar
- Identify and track dependencies of the various program modules being maintained/developed
- Identify risks in development cycle and provide mitigation plans
- Make sure successful integration with other systems and services
- Have an oversight of work packages that have completed testing and ensure readiness for packaging into release bundles
Senior Software Engineer
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
11.2008 - 04.2012
- Migration of Data from Legacy systems ( AS400/ MAIANFRAMES/ORACLE/GENIUS II) into GENIUS
- Analysis of the source extract from legacy systems
- Designing, Coding and testing programs to migrate data
- Testing data uploaded to Global Genius and Support UAT
- Data Quality checks and Post implementation supports if necessary
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
Cochin University of Science And Technology
Kerala, India2005
DIPLOMA - Telecommunication Technology
State Board of Technical Education
Government Of Kerala, India2002
Skills
- Agile Framework
- Functional and Business Requirements
- Key Relationship Development
- Team Goals
- New Features Implementation
- Best Practices and Methodologies
- Project Management
Certification
Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner / Product Manager
Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner
ITIL Foundation Certified
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
OPEX Blue belt Certified - ALLIANZ Certification (Six sigma – Green belt equivalent )
Strong problem solving and decision making skills targeted at handling core project decisions such as time lines and Strategic planning
Strong Knowledge in Agile and Waterfall methodologies
Experienced in ISMS and QMS internal audits
Affiliations
April 2007 to 31-Oct-2008
Development Team Member, For Leading Insurance Company in EU.
Maintenance Team Member, For Leading Insurance Company in EU.
I-Series Development Team Member, For Leading Insurance Company in
US.
Timeline
Senior Finance Expert and Product Owner
Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty
07.2021 - Current
Business Analyst / Agile Practitioner
Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty
07.2018 - 06.2021
Business Analyst / Lead Business Analyst
Allianz
11.2014 - 06.2018
System Analyst
Allianz India for Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
05.2012 - 07.2014
Senior Software Engineer
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
11.2008 - 04.2012
Product owner and Proxy Product Manager
Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty SE
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
Cochin University of Science And Technology
DIPLOMA - Telecommunication Technology
State Board of Technical Education
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