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MARIAJOSE ARIAS

MARIAJOSE ARIAS

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIP
CIUDAD DE MEXICO

Summary

Dynamic Product Manager with a proven track record at Citibank, mastering product lifecycle management and fostering team collaboration. Excelled in driving product strategy and execution, achieving significant client migrations and enhancing product performance metrics. Skilled in negotiation and critical thinking, adept at turning data analytics into actionable insights for strategic decision-making.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Product Manager

Citibank
09.2022 - Current
  • Managed full product lifecycle, from ideation through post-launch support, ensuring consistent quality control measures were in place
  • Assured the accuracy of the data in migration project
  • Solved the stoppers during the process
  • Supported PMO in migration process
  • Coordinated more than 30 PMO's to get the migration of around 1,500 clients from one platform to other different platform
  • Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads
  • Thrived in fast-paced, highly-adept team to develop and prioritize product features and build product roadmap.
  • Communicated effectively with team members to deliver updates on project milestones and deadlines
  • Documented the evidences of clients that were migrated
  • Coordinated more than 6 migrations at the same time, reported the weekly advance of each one
  • Reviewed sales, customer concerns, and new opportunities to drive business strategy at weekly planning sessions
  • Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics
  • Reviewed new opportunities to drive business strategy at planning sessions
  • Analyzed metrics to measure product performance

Finance Manager

Grupo Salinas
10.2017 - 06.2022
  • Creating user histories under agile methodology
  • Conducted comprehensive risk assessments to safeguard assets and ensure regulatory compliance.
  • Created organizational structures to improve accounting and finance functions.
  • Coaching and doing the requirements with the Business Analyst
  • Updating the backlog with working team
  • Prioritizing the iteration and the business request in the backlog
  • Established robust financial controls and policies, significantly reducing risk of fraud and ensuring compliance with financial regulations.
  • Developed financial models for new business opportunities, supporting strategic expansion and portfolio diversification.
  • Improved forecasting accuracy, allowing company to make proactive adjustments with strategic initiatives.
  • Defining the roadmap based on stakeholders requirements
  • Heading everyday agile ceremonies that we call “daily meetings” to know what the team was working on and if they had issues to resolve
  • Work closely with the customers to define the new projects or the new goal
  • Being the voice of the customer providing the main request to the IT teams
  • Working closely with development teams to ensure the output and be aligned with the requirements
  • Collaborating with other product owners to align the program backlog and roadmap
  • Getting the agile courses to complete the knowledge as a product owner and how to create the user histories and tasks
  • Making the sprint planning, planning before start the development and translate features into user stories to the development team with the goal to estimate the time and effort of each project
  • Manage the solution development process
  • Acted as liaison between business, user experience team and development team.
  • Supporting the team removing the impediments
  • Measuring the risks and the issues of each development

Administrative Coordinator

TV Azteca
07.2015 - 09.2017
  • Responsible to manage the incomes, costs and expenses of the television shows
  • Prepared monthly reconciliation of bank accounts and took corrective actions on deviations.
  • Negotiated favorable terms with vendors, resulting in significant cost savings for the company.
  • Enhanced budget management by implementing expense tracking and cost reduction strategies.
  • Processed invoices and contacted appropriate parties for timely payment receipt.
  • Optimized cash flow with diligent monitoring of accounts receivable and payable.
  • Collaborated closely with department heads for strategic planning purposes while ensuring their alignment with overall organizational goals, making forecasts and budgets
  • Provided exceptional administrative support to executive staff members through meticulous organization skills and attention to detail.

Administrator

Secretaria De Relaciones Exteriores
04.2014 - 06.2015
  • Responsible to coordinate the administrative relations between LATAM and Mexico
  • Handled sensitive information discreetly, maintaining strict confidentiality at all times as required by company policy or legal regulations.


Education

Master of Arts - Communication in Human Rights And Gender Equity

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Mexico City, Mexico
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Arts - International Relationship Average 9.31/10

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Mexico City, Mexico
05.2001 -

Skills

Product lifecycle management

Product development

Project planning

Product vision and strategy

Teamwork and collaboration

Project management

Critical thinking

KPI tracking

Product metrics analysis

Negotiation

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

Software

Power BI

Microsoft excel

SQL

Timeline

Product Manager

Citibank
09.2022 - Current

Finance Manager

Grupo Salinas
10.2017 - 06.2022

Administrative Coordinator

TV Azteca
07.2015 - 09.2017

Administrator

Secretaria De Relaciones Exteriores
04.2014 - 06.2015

Master of Arts - Communication in Human Rights And Gender Equity

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Arts - International Relationship Average 9.31/10

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
05.2001 -
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