Ashwin Kaklij

Sr Product Owner @IFC - International Finance Corporation

DC, US

Play a crucial role in driving product development and ensuring alignment with the project/program strategic objectives.• Define and communicate the product vision and strategy to all stakeholders including the development team.• Create and maintain a clear and prioritized product roadmap.• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals.• Lead the business analysis phase of complex and large size projects, often providing direction to more junior resources and directing vendors as appropriate.• Facilitate and lead requirements gathering (user story definitions in the case of agile projects) sessions with IFC business, subject matter experts and teams, producing basic documentation while addressing ongoing project needs. • Contribute to the development of project plans, identify key milestones, and raise critical project issues.• Conduct business process analysis meetings with business users and document in detail system processes in diagrammatic and textual format, as-is process maps etc. ensuring they are correctly documented to solve the needs of the business.• Engage with the development team to ensure requirements are fully understood and accurately delivered.• Manage the engagement with the business partners on the scope and regularly brief the business stakeholders on its progress.• Initiate and manage prioritization of requirements with business and vendor teams.• Track and report on project functional progress against defined requirements throughout the project life cycle• Create/verify user acceptance test cases and liaise between the client and the vendor during user acceptance testing• Collaborate with QA lead to ensure Testing Strategy covers all Business Requirements • Serve as an authoritative expert and senior resource in the organization for other senior professionals for all the processes and product