MANJUNATH GANGARPU ASWATHNARAYANA
Tampa,FL
Summary
Strategic Senior Product Owner with 23+ years of experience shaping and delivering banking, payments, financial crime compliance, and enterprise technology transformation across global financial services. Owns transaction screening portfolio priorities and delivery across two Scrum teams, translating business strategy, regulatory obligations, and operational needs into product vision, roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, and measurable outcomes. Brings deep domain expertise across AML, KYC, sanctions screening, ISO 20022, digital banking, and AI-enabled investigations, including Agentic AI capabilities supported by governance, auditability, and control frameworks. Aligns senior stakeholders and technology teams to improve screening effectiveness, operational efficiency, payment integrity, and customer experience.
Overview
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Certification
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22
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Manager, Business Consulting | Senior Product Owner
VIRTUSA CONSULTING SERVICES
Tampa, FL
02.2022 - Current
- Product ownership for the Transaction Screening portfolio spanning AML, sanctions, payments, Financial Crime Compliance, and AI-enabled transformation; leads roadmap planning, prioritization, and delivery across two Scrum teams.
- Own portfolio product direction by translating business priorities, regulatory requirements, and operational needs into product vision, roadmap priorities, features, and actionable backlogs.
- Lead product planning and delivery across two Scrum teams, aligning business, compliance, operations, data, and engineering stakeholders on scope, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
- Drove AI-powered transaction screening transformation, enabling onboarding of 450+ applications across multiple regions and supporting a 65–80% reduction in false-positive alerts.
- Accelerated alert investigation and disposition by 2x through AI-enabled workflows, while improving true-risk detection and reducing manual intervention and human error.
- Delivered GenAI and Agentic AI investigation capabilities to streamline low-risk alert handling, supported by governance, auditability, quality assurance, reporting, and resilience controls.
- Conducted business analysis and identified strategic opportunities for enterprise operating model and AI transformation, supporting targets for 54% operating-cost reduction and 80% operational-volume reduction.
- Led ISO 20022 payments modernization initiatives that improved interoperability and reduced payment-processing errors by 35%.
Project Lead
SLK AMERICAS
Chicago, IL
05.2020 - 02.2022
- Directed a 15-member team through migration of 450+ enterprise applications from Windows 7 to Windows 10, completing the transition with zero critical incidents.
- Led enterprise application migration delivery, coordinating a 15-member team and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Coordinated application readiness, risk management, testing, and cutover activities, ensuring business continuity throughout migration portfolio.
- Oversaw UAT coverage across 450+ applications, enhancing stakeholder confidence through demonstrations and structured risk assessments.
- Developed real-time management dashboards to enhance delivery visibility and accelerate decision-making.
Senior Principal Consultant | Digital Banking Product Owner
ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE
Chicago, IL
04.2010 - 05.2020
- Led implementation and enhancement of Oracle FLEXCUBE ELCM and Deutsche Bank Direct Internet Portal capabilities across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Abu Dhabi, aligning platform delivery with regional banking needs.
- Supported global digital banking and financial services platforms, combining product backlog leadership, requirements strategy, and implementation delivery.
- Translated complex business requirements into detailed Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and functional design specifications for operational credit systems, creating clear direction for technology delivery.
- Conducted gap, SWOT, and data analyses to identify optimization opportunities in client reporting workflows and self-service platforms, enhancing operational effectiveness.
- Coordinated cross-functional delivery under Agile-Scrum, managing product artifacts, facilitating sprint ceremonies, and contributing to Program Increment (PI) planning.
- Facilitated requirement discovery and prioritization with global stakeholders, maintaining structured product and project documentation in SharePoint for improved traceability and alignment.
- Designed workflows, use cases, and business process diagrams in MS Visio, and reinforced data consistency through standardized static-data templates.
- Directed UAT strategy and test planning, coordinating release-management activities and using JIRA, ALM, and HP Quality Center to ensure execution readiness and defect management.
Module Lead | Senior Test Engineer
HCL TECHNOLOGIES
Bangalore
09.2008 - 04.2010
- Led functional and regression testing activities to validate application quality, strengthen defect detection, and support reliable releases.
- Conducted requirements and gap analysis to identify coverage weaknesses, enhancing test completeness.
- Developed and implemented structured knowledge transfer for new team members, expediting team readiness.
Senior Process Executive
INFOSYS BPO
Bangalore
10.2004 - 08.2008
- Executed functional and regression testing for platform rollouts, confirming business functionality and operational readiness.
- Managed defect tracking and resolution in HP Quality Center, enhancing issue visibility and contributing to overall product quality.
- Supported banking and insurance platform implementations, ensuring adherence to process quality and compliance standards.
Education
B.Sc. - Computer Science, Mathematics & Physics
Bangalore University
01-2004
Skills
- Regulatory Compliance Automation Management
- ISO 20022
- Data Governance
- Operational Excellence
- Operational metrics
- Customer Experience
- Jira
- Confluence
- SQL
- ISO 20022
- MS Visio
- Product strategy
- TCS BaNCS
- SWIFT
- Real-Time Payments (RTP)
- Agile delivery
- Executive Communication
- Release coordination
- Stakeholder alignment
- Risk management
- Cross-functional leadership
- Operational metrics
Accomplishments
- Transformed AI-powered transaction screening by onboarding 450+ applications across regions, reducing false positives by 65–80%, and accelerating alert disposition by 2x while improving true-risk detection and reducing manual error.
- Advanced GenAI and Agentic AI investigation capabilities with governance, quality assurance, auditability, reporting, and operational resilience controls.
- Identified enterprise Operating Model & Artificial Intelligence transformation opportunities aligned to targets of 54% lower operating costs and 80% lower operational volumes.
- Modernized payments through ISO 20022 initiatives that reduced payment-processing errors by 35% and improved interoperability.
- Strengthened sanctions screening by improving precision by 30% and reducing false positives by 18%.
- Supported banking platforms processing 8M+ transactions daily while maintaining 95% SLA adherence.
Certification
- SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Certified International Payment Systems Professional (CIPSP)
- Lean Six Sigma
- ISTQB Foundation & Agile Tester
- Finance program Foundation certification from Oracle Financial Services, Bangalore.
- Agile Tester Foundation extension certified
Timeline
Associate Manager, Business Consulting | Senior Product Owner
VIRTUSA CONSULTING SERVICES
02.2022 - Current
Project Lead
SLK AMERICAS
05.2020 - 02.2022
Senior Principal Consultant | Digital Banking Product Owner
ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE
04.2010 - 05.2020
Module Lead | Senior Test Engineer
HCL TECHNOLOGIES
09.2008 - 04.2010
Senior Process Executive
INFOSYS BPO
10.2004 - 08.2008
B.Sc. - Computer Science, Mathematics & Physics
Bangalore University